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March 19, 2025
Biology Professor Sam Fey Wins Swanson Promise Award
The award honors junior faculty members who display exceptional potential.
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 10, 2025
Nina Simone’s Gum
Religion 363 students seek to answer: How does a thing like, say, a piece of gum, transform into a religious artifact?
March 10, 2025
Life by 1,000 Tiny Pencil Strokes
Amy Reading ’98 highlights the remarkable life of The New Yorker's Katharine S. White in her book, The World She Edited.
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 11, 2025
Living Laboratory
Fall snapshots from Reed’s Environmental Humanities initiative where community, place, and scholarship converge to solve pressing issues of our time.
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.
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
