Reed in the Media
Oregonian story about the Jess exhibition at Reed's Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.
Brian Kassof, Reed visiting assistant professor of history and humanities, contributes to an OPB story on the origins of May Day.
Former President Bill Clinton responding on ABC News to the questioning of Hilary Clinton's campaign strategy by Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor.
Oregonian columnist Susan Nielsen's April 27 follow-up article to "Drugs on Campus."
Marat Grinberg, Reed Russian literature professor, comments in the New York
Review of Books on the "problem of evil" in postwar Europe.
A public statement by Carlos Lluch and Louisa Callery about the death
of their son, Alejandro Lluch, printed in the Malibu Times.
Insider Higher Ed asks how Reed will change its drug and alcohol policy while remaining consistent with its cultural mores.
Darius Rejali, Reed professor of political science, interview with Democracy Now!.
Oregonian columnist Susan Nielsen's article,"Drugs on Campus."
Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor, is part of an OPB panel discussion on the Democratic primaries.
Reed student dies of apparent accidental drug overdose, as reported in
the Oregonian
President Colin Diver contributes to the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on public perception of politics in the classroom.
The Oregonian explores the successful Reed canyon restoration effort.
Kimberly Clausing, Reed professor of economics, contributes to a USA Today story questioning if the U.S. tax code is responsible for exporting jobs.
Darius Rejali, Reed professor of political science, takes part in the NPR Intelligence Squared debate, “Are Tough Interrogations Necessary?”
The Oregonian explores Tracing the "Untraceable." Reed’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery director, Stephanie Snyder, is featured as curator.
President Diver is featured in an Oregon Public Broadcasting story on the impact that changes in tuition policies of colleges such as Stanford and Harvard are having in Oregon.
Reed President Colin Diver contributes to The Insider Higher Ed story that questions the relevance a senior thesis should play in later life.
Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor, contributes to the Boston Herald story on early voting in the Texas primary.
The Oregonian reports on Reed's discovery of the earliest known recording of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." The “Howl” story has been picked up extensively throughout the US, and has spread to London’s Guardian Newspaper.
Darius Rejali, Reed professor of political science, is featured in Harper’s Magazine No Comment.
Paul Marthers, Reed Dean of Admission, writes on the rising cost of attending college for Inside Higher Ed.
TASHI’s historic musical reunion at ROMP! featured in the Los Angeles Times.
Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor, contributes to these New York Times and Washington Post stories on how early voting is changing Presidential campaign strategy.
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Reed College Biology Professor Receives $150,000 from the National Institutes of Health to Study Virus-Host Interactions
NIH grant supports Peter Russell’s genetics research on Barley yellow dwarf virus.
Portland, OR (December 15, 2006) – Reed College professor of biology Peter Russell has been awarded a three-year grant of $150,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his research on Barley yellow dwarf virus stop-codon readthrough in yeast.
Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) is a pathogenic plant virus with an RNA genome that causes extensive destruction of barley and other cereal crops.
Russell has developed a system to quantify the expression of a BYDV gene in yeast—a model organism that, unlike plants, is highly amenable to genetic and molecular manipulations. With this system, he is identifying yeast genes that, when overexpressed, increase the expression of the BYDV gene. The products of these yeast genes are candidates for being involved in viral gene expression, and it is likely that many of the identified yeast genes will have counterparts in plants. In the long term, the research aims to contribute to our understanding at the molecular level of the interactions between viruses and their hosts.
Peter Russell, a member of the Reed faculty since 1972, received his B.Sc. from the University of Sussex, England, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. In the past, Russell has supported his research with external grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense Research Foundation, the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, and the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust; internal grants have come from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the textbooks iGenetics: A Molecular Approach and iGenetics: A Mendelian Approach (Benjamin Cummings 2006). He is the co-author of a major biology textbook, to be published in 2007 (Brooks/Cole). Russell has also contributed to the Biology Place (http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/index.html), a web site that provides classroom activities and information for both high school and college biology courses, including interactive study guides and research articles.
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