Academics

Looking Versus Seeing

A glimpse into Art 551: Theories of Visuality, taught by Prof. Dana Katz.

By Robin Tovey ’97

Getting the Dirt on Reed

Students excavate on Reed's campus in search of its lost history.

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’23.

In the Zebrafish Tank

Rapidly developing eggs and eyes offer unique insight into cell behaviors.

By Prof. Kara Cerveny [Biology]

April 7, 2023

Fields of Resistance

Anthropology professor LaShandra Sullivan investigates land rights movements and inspires a new generation of thinkers.

April 3, 2023

Prof. Kevin Holmes Wins Cattell Sabbatical Award

The associate professor of psychology will spend the upcoming academic year continuing his studies of linguistic framing.

March 16, 2023

Prof. Elizabeth Drumm Wins NEH Fellowship

With her project, the Spanish and humanities professor hopes to bring more attention to modernist author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

March 14, 2023

Prof. Sam Fey Wins NSF CAREER Award

The associate professor of biology will study thermal refuges amid climate warming.

March 8, 2023

Six Professors Named to Prestigious Chairs

The newly appointed faculty inspire as both scholars and teachers.

February 28, 2023

Reed Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Humanities

The $500,000 initiative will fund new scholarship as well as the creation of courses centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination.

February 17, 2023

Two Reed Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2022-23

Profs. Jamie Pommersheim [math] and Tom Landvatter [GLAM] each received grants to conduct research abroad.

February 8, 2023

The Blue Sky Falls; the White Sun Sets

The Burn Your Draft podcast talks Taiwanese politics with Seamus Boyle ’22.

January 20, 2023

Spiritual Ecstasy

Spanish 344 uses sculpture to explore paradoxes between religion and aesthetics.

December 21, 2022

Chemistry Prof. Kelly Chacón Named Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

The award honors young faculty and comes with an unrestricted research grant of $75,000, which Chacón will use toward their work in bioinorganic spectroscopy.