IRIS login | Reed College home Volume 95, No. 2: June 2016

Within Reach

By William Abernathy ’88

Jon Schull ’75 engineers a new solution for prosthetic hands

Showrunner

By DK Holm and Katie Pelletier ’03

How playright Eric Overmyer ’73 mastered the small screen

Outplanning Catastrophe

By Kieran Hanrahan ’15

Emma Stocker ’07 gets ready for the Big One

Editor's Note

• The Longest Hour

Features

• Within Reach
• Showrunner
• Outplanning Catastrophe
• The Age of Gunpowder
• Life Beyond Reed
• Happy Birthday, MALS!
• Summer Fellows Span the Globe

Reediana

• Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College
• Reediana Briefs

Web Special

• How Reed Responds to Sexual Assault

Eliot Circular

• Reed to Launch Computer Science Program
• Hell’s Bells!
• Zebrafish and “Driver” Genes
• Three Profs Get Tenure
• Fowl Play
• Ticking Away

Empire of the Griffin

• The World Bank finds its funny bone
• Calling Reed Writers
• Plug In

VIDEO: Econ Prof Unlocks Puzzles of Human Behavior

Can drought affect domestic violence? Is sex like driving? Does foreign aid actually benefit its intended recipients? These are the kinds of questions that Prof. Nick Wilson ’99 and his students wrestle with every day. And if this doesn’t exactly square up with your ideas about what economists are supposed to do, it’s time you took a fresh look at the discipline.