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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?
September 28, 2022
Newly Tenured Faculty Bring Ideas and Innovation to Reed
Get to know ten professors making exceptional contributions to the college’s mission.
September 22, 2022
What is a Reedie, Anyway?
Meet twelve seniors from the class of ’22.
September 13, 2022
Fact-Checking the College Scorecard
An online database was supposed to make college more transparent. Instead, Reed students found, it’s sowing confusion.
September 8, 2022
Class of ’26 Enters the Stronghold
A record number of applicants makes the class of ’26 Reed’s most competitive in recent history.
September 6, 2022
Restored or Conquered?
In Russian Literature 371, students discover cultural messages in an 18th-century medallion that impact world events today.
September 2, 2022
Marginal Powers and Messages from the Divine
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens ’86 documents the unique power of female shamans in Bhutan.
September 13, 2022
Change Agents
Reed art professors and alumni explore biological flux in a new exhibit running concurrently with the Venice Biennale.
August 19, 2022
English Major Scores Unrue Award for Poetry Thesis
Kelly Wenzka ’22 synthesized theory from several disciplines to analyze tone of voice in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry.
August 9, 2022
