January 12, 2025 January comes each year, renewing the land of sunlight one minute more each day. Resolutions are made, new habits adopted, sprouting life begins to incubate below the rigid ice of midwinter. As students start conceptualizing their next endeavors for the new year, they may ask themselves “What […]
Riverwater At Summer’s End
By: Iggy Rey Cello Once upon a time in the 1980s there lived a car salesman who went to a conference about environmental science. This man lived in the Yelm school district, and talked up the idea of setting up a program to teach kids about the natural ecology of […]
Evergreen Eye on Science
Fungal Kingdom Spotlight Part I: Likin’ the Lichens The Fungal Kingdom has been a two quarter upper-division program in mycology and lichenology taught by Lalita Calabria and Paul Przybylowicz. Over winter quarter, students in this program have been doing independent projects in groups. Over the next few issues, I will […]
The Plant That Could Learn!
By Hero Winsor If you’ve ever been to the lab buildings on campus, you’ll know how much of a liminal space it is. Going down to the basement this is amplified. The long 70s corridors lead you down a hallway with hanging prints from the printmaking studio in lab II. […]