Winter 2005
Rewriting the Book on Photosynthesis
Thanks to David Kramer and his research group, plant physiologists can now explore what really goes on inside living leaves. » More ...
WSM Winter 2005
Winter 2005
Hanging on by a whisker
What geology hath put asunder, biologists are are trying to join back
together. So far it's working, although the effort requires a different
measure of success than what's usually appled. » More ...
Winter 2005
It’s Only a Model
Modelers don't always expect their models to be "right." But they do expect them to help explain our world. » More ...
Winter 2005
Not Your Normal Truffle
Head Cowgirl Marilyn Lysohir followed her muse West in search of Art and Chocolate. » More ...
Winter 2005
Living with Art
What happens when enjoyment becomes passion.
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Washington’s wine crush
From Whidbey Island to Woodinville to Walla Walla, Washington's wine industry is coming of age. » More ...
Winter 2005
Kill the Editor
A job warranting more assassination attempts than the president of the United States exists in cities around the world.
The job? Editing a newspaper.
John R. Irby, a WSU clinical associate professor of communication, wrote a new book, Kill the Editor: The Often Bizarre Relationship with Readers, that chronicles 25 years of newspaper experience from the editor’s chair.
Irby collected personal stories and letters from readers for the bulk of the book’s material. The book highlights the emotions of all humans from a perspective the public never experiences: That of a professional journalist.
Leticia Gomez, editor for American Book Publishing, Irby’s publisher, said the book … » More …
Winter 2005
Windfalls
To be a mother or an artist? Or both?
Anyone interested in women’s quest stories that explore these central questions will find Jean Hegland’s second novel, Windfalls, to be essential reading. Readers who know the Palouse will enjoy her vivid descriptions of Spokane and eastern Washington. Indeed the entire book seems to cast a golden-red glow on the lives of its struggling main characters, Cerise and Anna, like the “last ruddy light. . . , burnishing the fields and illuminating the roses, deepening the crimson” in a Palouse sunset.
Hegland (B.A. ’79) earns a solid place for Windfalls in the tradition of women’s quest novels … » More …
Winter 2005
Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country
In this year of 2005, the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, we are again reminded of the role Sacajawea played in that long journey westward. However, Sacajawea’s tribe of origin, the Lemhi, has gone largely ignored. Only recently have historians given any significance to what Native American history offers us past the late 19th century. It’s this oversight that John W.W. Mann (’01 Ph.D. Hist.) addresses regarding the Lemhi tribe’s heroic struggle to maintain its separate ancestry, cultural heritage, and identity during the 20th century in Sacajawea’s People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country.
It is, frankly, an excruciating and confusing … » More …
Winter 2005
Head Full of Traffic
If his two latest short story collections are indicative, Brian Ames ’85 is a prolific writer of unsettling talent. Releasing both Head Full of Traffic and Eighty-Sixed: A Compendium of the Hapless in 2004, Ames packs 22-plus pieces into each collection. Granted, many of the works run only a few pages long, but these are stories brief only in word length.
In Head Full of Traffic, ostensibly labeled a collection of horror pieces, Ames skillfully adds his own flair to the genre. In “Carnival,” a crazed carnie imagines an apocalyptic Midway. “Weeb staggers away from the Fun House, swivels that cornpone head when he hears … » More …