September/October 2010

Farm Report News
The Games People Played

Special Collections acquires vintage photographs of Bay Area arcades.
A New Era for Ethnic Studies
Stanford center brings in rising stars who can shake up their fields.
Remembering Leo
Curator praises a great creative soul.
It's All About the Brain
A neuroscientist looks at how his field intersects with almost everything else.
He Lived to Teach
Biology professor Stephen Schneider, 1945-2010.
So Close Yet So Far
For the Pasternaks, letters meant everything.
Iraqi Papers Update
Total Immersion Gets Results
Biased Buying
News Briefs
     
Photo credits
Left column, top to bottom: Ira Nowinski, Glenn Matsumura, Neil MacDonald, Jason Schneider
Right column, top to bottom: Peter DaSilva/The New York Times/Redux, Courtesy Jennifer Doleac and Luke Stein, Qi Qiu