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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.

March 3, 2023

Shaping the Future Leaders of the Pacific Northwest

President Audrey Bilger and wife Cheryl Pawelski were among 25 influential leaders selected to share their wisdom at The Women's Summit.

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 22, 2023

Party With a Purpose

How Reed is partnering with the community to address root causes of inequity in education.

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.

February 1, 2023

Reed Welcomes Four New Trustees

Julie Cheng ’84, Ritankar “Ronti” Pal ’93, Carla Beam ’76, and Peter J. Bragdon join the board.

January 26, 2023

11 Fascinating Things We Learned at Paideia 2023

From springtails to '60s-era shenanigans, here's what we took away from Reed's annual festival of learning.

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.

January 3, 2023

Maxwell J.D. VanLandschoot '22 Named Schwarzman Scholar

The economics major will embark on one year of graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He’s the first Reedie to receive the honor.

January 6, 2023

Changing the Lens

Nili Yosha ’07 empowers houseless youth through filmmaking.

December 21, 2022

Royal Musical Association Awards Dent Medal to Prof. Mark Burford

The scholar has spent the past 10 years focused on Black popular music studies, from Sam Cooke to Mahalia Jackson.

December 6, 2022

Reed at the White House

President Bilger and Peri Joy Long '23 traveled to Washington to share the implications of a post-Roe society for college campuses.

November 18, 2022

Alumni Win Key Elections in 2022

Reedies head to Washington, regional government, and city councils.

November 7, 2022

The Western

English 261 investigates a history of US film culture through the lens of the cinematic Western.

October 20, 2022

The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

A new book by Gal Beckerman '98 explores the conditions required for revolutionary ideas to foment—or fester.

October 19, 2022

The Botany of Poetry

What does a 19th-century herbarium have to teach us about plants and politics?