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Reedies Win Top Honors at OHSU Foundation Medical Research Awards

Faculty News

The Medical Research Awards are generally reserved for Oregon's most illustrious scientists and educators. (November 17, 2008) Read more...

Bernard Osher Foundation $1 Million Grant Endows Reentry Scholarship at Reed College

Campus News

"As an institution, we believe the pursuit of Reed's academic goals are advanced by ethnic, racial, and social diversity. This endowment will help us build on the advancements we have made in these areas in recent years." (October 03, 2008) Read more...

Obama's Lead Economic Adviser to Speak at Reed College

Campus News

Austan Goolsbee, "America's Economic Agenda," Thursday, September 25, 7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall (September 23, 2008) Read more...

Dr. B. Kenneth Koe Winner of the Prestigious Reed College Vollum Award

Campus News

The Vollum Award was created by Reed College and endowed in 1975 by a grant from the Millicent Foundation, now a part of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The winner receives $5,000 and a silver medal encased in a walnut triptych. (August 25, 2008) Read more...

Three Reed College Students Chosen for Prestigious Fulbright Awards

Campus News

Seventy-one Reed students have earned Fulbright awards since 1966. (July 28, 2008) Read more...

Reed College IT Adapting Technology to Help Teach the Classics

Campus News

The design group was a collaboration involving computing, the library, visual resources staff, and classics faculty that built a robust and versatile tool that could help faculty adjust to a dynamic classroom situation. (July 23, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Ranks Fourth in Preparing Future Ph.D.s in Engineering and the Sciences

Campus News

Since 1975, Reed has ranked in the top five among schools whose graduates go on to earn Ph.D.s in all fields. (July 16, 2008) Read more...

The Pew Charitable Trusts Renews Commitment to Pew's Make Voting Work Initiative

Faculty News

"The integrity of the voting process is essential to the health of our democracy," said Gronke. "People have to have faith that their vote will count and that it matters." (June 30, 2008) Read more...

Reed's Rejali wins 2007 Human Rights Book Award for Torture and Democracy

Faculty News

The human rights section of the American Political Science Association unanimously chose Torture and Democracy for this year's Human Rights Book Award . (June 26, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Announces New Vice President and Dean of Student Services

Campus News

Jerlena Griffin-Desta will join Reed College as vice president and dean of student services, effective August 4, 2008. (May 09, 2008) Read more...

Reed College's Cooley Gallery Hosts Retrospective of Beat Artist Jess

Campus News

Curator tours of the exhibit will be offered on Saturday, May 17, and Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m. (April 16, 2008) Read more...

Anthropologist is Reed College's Third Carnegie Scholar in Five Years

Faculty News

The project will contribute to a deeper understanding of the intersection of ethnic and religious politics within the Islamic world. (April 14, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Mourns Death of Student

Campus News

Reed College Mourns Death of Student (April 08, 2008) Read more...

Reed's Davis Projects for Peace Program Winner Planting Seeds of Hope in Ecuador

Student News

This summer, students from Reed College will work with schoolteachers in one of the poorest regions of Ecuador to help plant community gardens and construct greenhouses on school grounds. The rural province of Chimborazo is an agricultural region where 26 percent of the indigenous Quichua population under the age of five suffers from malnutrition. (April 03, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Class of 2012 Competitively Selected, Diverse Group

Campus News

Over the next few days, Reed College's acceptance envelopes will be landing in the mailboxes of anxious applicants in 46 U.S. states and 35 foreign countries. (March 27, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Senior Recipient of Prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

Student News

Strickland plans to use his award for travel to coastal villages in Madagascar, Morocco, French Guiana, and possibly Cameroon to investigate the effects of globalization and climate change on traditional subsistence fishing communities. (March 20, 2008) Read more...

Environmental Writer, Michelle Nijhuis, to Deliver Reed's Commencement Address

Campus News

Michelle Nijhuis, a 1996 Reed College graduate, will be the 94th commencement speaker for her Alma Mater during its graduation ceremonies on the south lawn of the Reed campus. Reed College President Colin Diver will join Nijhuis in leading the commencement procession at 11 a.m. on May 19. (March 17, 2008) Read more...

Reed College Addresses Issues of Democracy and Inequality Through Public Policy

Events

Reed's Public Policy Lecture Series begins on Tuesday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m. in the Eliot Hall chapel with "The Qualities and Inequalities of Care," by Nancy Folbre. Other speakers include; Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Linda McClain author of The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility; and Shamus Roller director of the Coalition on Regional Quality. (February 21, 2008) Read more...

Earliest-Known Recording of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Found in Reed College Archives

Campus News

A sampling of the recording will be played on Wednesday, February 13, at 7:30 p.m., in Reed's Eliot Hall chapel. Reed English professor Pancho Savery, who teaches courses on the Beats (including Reed alumni Lew Welch '50, Philip Whalen '51, and Gary Snyder '51) will read from the works of Ginsberg. (February 12, 2008) Read more...

Reed Political Scientist Publishes Torture and Democracy to Wide Acclaim

Campus News

The Reed College political science department will host a lecture by Rejali, along with a book signing, and reception for the author, on February 7, at 7 p.m., in Reed's Eliot Hall chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public. (January 30, 2008) Read more...

Reed Celebrates Black History Month: Politics, Activism, and Art

Campus News

Reed's theme in celebrating Black History Month is politics, activism, and art. (January 30, 2008) Read more...