Summer Research Gives Biology Students a Close-up View of the Field

With the gaping mile-wide crater and expansive pumice plain left by Mount St. Helens’ violent 1980 eruption as a backdrop, Alex Barnes ’20 is at Sprit Lake, gathering samples for his summer research project on the lake's restoration and recovery.

Students and professors use summer to rethink the value of beavers

Under the microscope in neuroscience professor Siddharth Ramakrishnan’s lab, the tiny heart of a Japanese rice fish embryo was beating.

And the group of fifth-grade visitors from Tacoma’s McCarver Elementary School had questions. “When will they be born?” one student asked. “How long does it take for them to grow up?” asked another.

Ceramics instructor Jonathan Steele ’14 takes a hands-on approach to figurative portraits

During class students become ancient Athenians and Spartans, reliving—and rewriting—history