Features

The pull of rowing – Because rowing is more timing and rhythm than just strength, top athletes sometimes become frustrated. They must learn to be patient and accountable to their teammates. by Pat Caraher

WEB EXCLUSIVEGallery: Photographs of WSU crew by Robert Hubner

Is nothing sacred? – Never heard of C4 photosynthesis? Now you have. It’s rare, it’s cool, it could help feed the world. And WSU plant scientists just rewrote the textbook on it. by Mary Aegerter

Pants that fit…In search of a cure for misfits – "The more I sewed," says Carol Salusso, "the more I got frustrated with the fact that the patterns didn’t fit me." So she began designing her own. by Andrea Vogt

A Titan’s Tale – Bill Nollan didn’t like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it. by Bill Morelock

Field Notes

Ukraine: Witnesses to an Uncertain Revolution – How do you offer a reasonable criticism of America’s consumer culture to an audience waiting desperately for basic goods that we take for granted? by Paul Hirt

Ukraine: Mining Every Opportunity for Hope – There are many toasts, to friendship and Ukraine and its women, who maintain what is left of its social fabric. story & photos by Tim Steury

Panoramas

An instrument most rare

Olympic torchbearer

An untamed mind

Sure pigs play. But what does it mean?

Future teachers of color

Sex, food, & death

"Adapt, improvise, overcome"

Washington sets a record for home sales

An English import invades Puget Sound

Forcing students to think critically

Departments

OPINION: "You can’t just keep sweeping this stuff under the rug"

SPORTS: Six join hall of fame

RESEARCH: What does Pim-1 really do?

Tracking the Cougars

Kleene keeps "influenza watch" at CDC

School superintendent recognized on state, national levels

Early leader of WSU’s Native American students

Alumni Association honors past presidents

Ehlo inducted into Pac-10 Hall of Honor

Lt. Col. Stinemetz wanted to convey his condolences

Frances Penrose Owen dies March 9 at 102

CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

Books

Prostate Cancer with a Dose of Reality and a Slice of Humor

The Cayton Legacy: An African American Family/a>

The Restless Northwest

The Dynamics of Change: A History of the Washington State Library

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

 

On the cover: Washington State University varsity crew members Dorothea Hunter, Emily Raines, and Jaime Orth bend their backs to the oars on the Snake River. Read the story “The pull of rowing.”