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Biology Professor Sam Fey Wins Swanson Promise Award

March 19, 2025

Biology Professor Sam Fey Wins Swanson Promise Award

The award honors junior faculty members who display exceptional potential.

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson

March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of Reed College

President Bilger and Reed library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.


March 12, 2025

Finding the Words

In 2024, Aidan Mokalla ’25 traveled to Tajikistan to study Persian as part of the Critical Language Scholarship program.


March 12, 2025

Going Beyond “Sink or Swim”

Martha Darling ’66 & husband Gilbert Omenn, MD, PhD, donate $10 million to reimagine student success for Reedies.


March 12, 2025

Peek into Paideia 2025

A game of Survivor and a deep-dive into James Joyce's explicit literary output were just a couple classes featured this year.

March 7, 2025

Water's Hand

Inside Art 350, where studying art history reveals insights about our changing climate.

March 7, 2025

How Bill Naito Reshaped Portland

As confidence in downtown crumbled, Naito stepped up as a civic leader and revived the city he called home.

March 6, 2025

A Repository of Human History

The D.C. alumni chapter recently visited head curator Leslie Overstreet ’71 at the Smithsonian’s Cullman rare book library to learn what clues lie within the materiality of books.

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.

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.