Spring 2007
WSU welcomes a new president
Elson S. Floyd was named the 10th president of Washington State University in December. He and his wife, Carmento, will be moving to Washington from Missouri this spring.
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Spring 2007
Why Doubt? Skepticism as a basis for change and understanding
Skepticism can forestall a too-willing acquiescence to the-way-things-are; it can distance us from dogmatism and ward us away from zealotry; it can expose our mistakes.
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Zoology 61: Teaching eugenics at WSU
Eugenics was the dark side of our understanding of human evolution. American eugenicists were united by the idea that the human race was degenerating because inferior people were breeding more quickly than those who were "well born." Zoology 61, Genetics and Eugenics, was finally dropped from the course catalog at Washington State College in 1950.
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Continuous History
Spring 2007
Darwin was just the beginning: A sampler of evolutionary biology at WSU
All of modern biology and medicine is based on the theory of evolution, and every life scientist arguably is an evolutionary biologist. So where to start in exploring evolutionary biology at WSU? How about with dung beetles, African violets, and promiscuous wrens?
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With Eyes Wide Open
Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama is on the lookout for crooks, "really slimy crooks." » More ...
Summer 2003
“Problem” is a good word
There are no stars at Miller/Hull Partnership. » More ...
Spring 2007
Ray Troll: A story of fish, fossils, and funky art
Ray Troll '81 has a species of ratfish named after him, Hydrolagus trolli. He calls Darwin "Chuckie D" and paints pictures of him driving around in an Evolvo. This is a man who has embraced his past and paints it wildly and beautifully. » More ...
Summer 2003
Building the Perfect Bone
With a new baby as inspiration, and an interdisciplinary team to help,
husband and wife Amit Bandyopadhyay and Susmita Bose have set out to
solve the puzzle of how to imitate nature's growth of the human bone. » More ...
Spring 2007
Bright plumage against green foliage: the grandeur and beauty of evolution
Art can be considered as a behavior . . . like play, like food sharing, like howling, that is, something humans do because it helps them to survive, and to survive better than they would without it.”
—from Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why,Ellen Dissanayake ’57
I open my hand and the little wren, momentarily startled by its newfound freedom, flutters quickly to the nearest bush. I stand in the hot tropical Australian sun and watch as the tiny bird flits from branch to branch, a black- and red-feathered jewel. I have just captured this little bird, collected a page … » More …