Stanford Today
July/August 1996

“The most significant and long-lasting impact was on the students themselves, who realized what a life of discovery is all about.”
    David Epel
    Professor of Biological
    Sciences

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DIRECTOR Douglas Foster

EDITOR Alan Acosta

ART DIRECTOR David Armario

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Jack Hubbard

EDITOR, STANFORD REPORT Eileen Walsh

ADMINISTRATION Enelda Wade

WRITERS

SCIENCE Janet Basu & David Salisbury

UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE Marisa Cigarroa

ARTS AND HUMANITIES Diane Manuel

SOCIAL SCIENCES Kathy O’Toole

PHOTOGRAPHY Linda Cicero

COPY EDITOR Heidi Beck

PRODUCTION Grace Evans

LIBRARIAN Yae Ozaki

CENTRAL OFFICE Alicia Smith, Cynthia Lindsey

Front cover, inside front cover and photographs on p. 33, courtesy of Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford University; photo of Anna Deavere Smith on p. 29 provided by Deavere Smith; top photo on p. 35 by John Le Schofs; top photo on p. 37 by Laura Hester, bottom photo by Mark Byer; photos on pp. 49 and 51 by Lisa Share; photo on p. 50 by Robert Sapolsky; all other photos by Linda Cicero.