Spring 2012

by Larry Clark

On Closer Inspection—The curiouser and curiouser world of the small

A Feast of Good Things

How do we Washingtonians eat? The author travels from farm to table to explore and explain Washington cuisine.

Lessons from the Forest—The anthropology of childhood

Anthropologist Barry Hewlett has spent the last 40 years gleaning lessons from the Aka, a people who personify hundreds of thousands of years of human history.

Living the right-sized life

Insects can do amazing things because they're small.

Time’s Warehouse

Ten years of stories we’ve been blessed to tell: of discovery, of people, of our history, of food and wine and cougars and microbes.

Video: The Amazing Leaproach

Micrographs from WSU’s Franceschi Microscopy and Imaging Center

Eat your broccoli or no cookie

Feeding styles and childhood obesity

Video: How Feeding Styles Work

A Hidden History

Frank Hirahara captured in photographs the life of Japanese Americans at the Heart Mountain internment camp.

Gallery: Life at Heart Mountain internment camp

The end of free will?

An old philosophical debate keeps popping up.

A delicious dilemma: Ingredients for a photographic still life

The Wire: Urban drama, gritty reality, and Soc 496 “textbook”

The critically acclaimed HBO series in a sociology class

Video: Creator of The Wire David Simon’s speech at WSU

Sacred Encounters

The Old Mission State Park in Cataldo, Idaho, tells Northwest history

A blighted Northwest icon

Hunting down the disease that's destroying madrone trees

Indaba Coffee

More than a coffeeshop, the Spokane venue strives to be a gathering spot.

Mulch ado about garden plastics

An organic and compostable approach to plastics

Recipe: Swiss Chard with Garlicky Chickpeas

A Cattle Drive

The Three Sisters Cattle Company raises fine grass-fed beef.

Let him swim: The Tom Jager story

The Olympic swimmer and WSU swim coach perseveres.

How to cook lean beef

Doug Forseth ’71—Snow business

The Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort vice presidents manages by skiing around.

Anna Ballard Wilson ’04—CSI: Cheney

A forensic scientist and the reality of her work

Orrin Pilkey ’57

A climate change provocateur

Hal Dengerink 1943-2011

A tribute to WSU Vancouver's first chancellor

John R. Gorham 1922-2011—Veterinary pathologist

The prominent animal disease researcher remembered

Reviews: Books by Orrin Pilkey ’57

Digital magazine for Spring 2012

The issue available in PDF formats

Thank you: Our 10-year event

Sponsors for the magazine's anniversary celebration

Renewing your plates

WSU Alumni Association News

New Cougar license plates hit the road

The Lowell Elm

The iconic tree by Bryan Hall was planted in 1893.

The Long Journey of the Nez Perce: A Battle History from Cottonwood to Bear Paw

By Kevin Carson '81

Good Science: The Pursuit of Truth and the Evolution of Reality

By Timothy McGettigan '95 PhD

The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline

By Orrin Pilkey '57

All You Can Eat

By Richard Harlan Miller