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How to Thrive in Wild Times

According to cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis ’02, the one thing we really need? Each other.

Community

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

At the President’s Desk

Circle of Gratitude

President Audrey Bilger discusses the nurturing of student and faculty research at Reed.

Object of Study

An Immense World of Delight

English 220 students examine hand-colored etchings which represent both joy and struggle.

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Into the Infinite

How Bill Witherspoon ’65 immortalized his desert journeys.

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

In English 220, Professor Maureen Harkin invites her class to examine poet and painter William Blake’s illuminated texts—hand-colored etchings which represent both joy and struggle in 18th-century England.

Circle of Gratitude

President Audrey Bilger, Dean of the Faculty Kathy Oleson, and Associate Dean of the Faculty Suzy Renn discuss the nurturing of student and faculty research at Reed.

Arts & Humanities

November 24, 2025

Into the Infinite

How Bill Witherspoon ’65 immortalized his desert journeys.

November 24, 2025

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

November 24, 2025

An Immense World of Delight

December 01, 2025

How to Thrive in Wild Times

According to cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis ’02, the one thing we really need? Each other.

How Lydia Mead ’22 and Professor Barbara Tetenbaum built a book from a “long poem in prose.”

July 25, 2025

Form and Function

How Lydia Mead ’22 and Professor Barbara Tetenbaum built a book from a “long poem in prose.”

Math & Sciences

November 24, 2025

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

July 25, 2025

Desert Dreams

Professor Juniper Harrower and her students want to save Joshua trees from extinction. Will the world join them?

March 19, 2025

Biology Professor Sam Fey Wins Swanson Promise Award

The award honors junior faculty members who display exceptional potential.

December 05, 2024

Discovery’s Edge

Reed scientists revolutionize our understanding of land, sea, space, and the human body.

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 05, 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.

Social Sciences

November 24, 2025

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

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 12, 2025

Finding the Words

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

October 11, 2024

Eating a Moment

We visit a Bay Area Japanese izakaya, owned and operated by chef and author of the new Rintaro cookbook Sylvan Mishima Brackett ’98.

Prof. Kris Anderson [psychology] journeyed to Barcelona as part of Reed’s faculty research exchange. Her visit to a residential treatment facility there taught her about the universality of the struggle to overcome addiction.

October 11, 2024

Postcard: Barcelona Dreams

Prof. Kris Anderson [psychology] journeyed to Barcelona as part of Reed’s faculty research exchange. Her visit to a residential treatment facility there taught her about the universality of the struggle to overcome addiction.

Reed Community

November 24, 2025