Community

Renovated Sports Center Is a Community Gathering Place

December 4, 2024

Renovated Sports Center Is a Community Gathering Place

President Bilger, Treasurer Lynn Valenter, Yasodha Gopal, MD, and Michael Lombardo reflect on the space.

By Sheena McFarland

December 4, 2024

Find the Synchronicity

In Chinese 311, Yijing hexagraphs are analyzed to explore Chinese text and tradition.


December 5, 2024

Discovery’s Edge

Reed scientists revolutionize our understanding of land, sea, space, and the human body.


December 5, 2024

Climbing to a New World

Could old-growth forest canopies hold the secret to keeping biodiversity, and our planet, intact? Botanist Steve Sillett ’89 has been researching up in the trees to find out.


December 5, 2024

Ghost Trees

Reed biology students have been scouring the Portland area for hybrid oak trees. Their journey could reshape the way we see our ecosystem.

December 5, 2024

In the Classroom and Out at Sea

Susan Rickards ’90 is a science teacher by day and a marine mammal researcher in any spare moment.

December 5, 2024

What Aerosols Can Tell Us About Climate

Trish Quinn ’82 examines sea spray, dust, and pollutants in our atmosphere to better understand their climate effects.

December 5, 2024

The Polar Pundit

Professor, public servant, and polar expert Kelly Falkner ’83 has a lot to show for her 40-year science career, including her very own Antarctic glacier.

December 5, 2024

Shoot for the Star

Craig DeForest ’89 is leading NASA’s PUNCH mission to make 3-D observations of an underexplored region of space: the sun and its atmosphere.

December 5, 2024

Zooming Out: The Cosmic Web

Farhan Hasan ’18 wants to untangle the mysteries of the distant universe.

December 5, 2024

Vantage Point

To see a black hole, Shep Doeleman ’86 needed a telescope the size of a planet. So he built one.

December 5, 2024

Zooming In: Stringing It All Together

Naomi Gendler ’16 is on her way to finding the most fundamental explanation of our universe.

December 5, 2024

Reed Legends at Los Alamos

Mark Galassi ’87 and Tess Light ’91 are on the frontlines of nuclear nonproliferation.

December 5, 2024

Laser Focused

Alison Saunders ’11 has the biggest laser in the world and a dream: to understand what occurs in the cores of planets and stars.