Features
Nurses to the homeless — Gypsy’s camp is evidence of the harsh living conditions faced by a growing number of homeless in Spokane. It also doubles as a classroom, and a lesson in reality, for student nurses. by Andrea Vogt
A campus full of wonders — All over campus, curiosities emerged from closets to form one of the most popular and unusual shows ever to fill the art museum. by Tim Steury
What don’t we know? Why do we sleep? — James Krueger wants to know why the average person will spend 219,000 hours asleep. by James Krueger and Tim Steury
Memories are made of this — Neuroscientists Jay Wright and Joe Harding can approximate Alzheimer’s symptoms in a rat by injecting a certain protein into its hippocampus. What’s more, they can reverse those symptoms. by Tim Steury
Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for…Life in a small college town — Catherine Friel has lived in Pullman nearly 100 years, and she has some stories to tell. by Pat Caraher
Opening Day…a great way to reunite Cougars — Cougars batten their hatches and hoist their mainsails. by Pat Caraher
Fiction
The Peking Cowboy — He wanted to tell the story in the third person, but it came out in the first; he wanted to tell it in the past, but it came out happening in the now; even if he wanted to, he could not change a word of it, its sequence and language clarifying its own shape and direction in his voice. A short story by Alex Kuo
Panoramas
Departments
SEASONS | SPORTS: Track—Women’s team strong, men’s team well-balanced
SEASONS | SPORTS: Baseball—Mooney banking on improved pitching
THE ACADEMY: The liberal art of judgment
SEASONS | SPORTS: Football—The Cougars win their place in the sun
Tracking
Shanthi delivers 325-pound calf
Treatments for congestive heart failure focus of study
Maloney honored for contributions to wood materials engineering
Robert Bates named University provost
Alumni president Ed Little: “I always wanted to work with children”
Play-by-play announcer calls 500th football game
Coe earns Gibson Award for volunteer service
New graduates entering a different world
Actor succeeds in two worlds of performance
Books
Essentials of the American Constitution
On the cover: Student Jennifer Schwarzer and Intercollegiate College of Nursing instructor Carol Allen. Read the story “Nurses to the homeless.”