Category: Biological sciences
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Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows
Fall 2008
Spying on birds in the far northWarden's Grove is a tiny cluster of spruce trees in the generally treeless expanse of the north Canadian tundra, and Christopher Norment – who received his master's degree from WSU in 1982 – spent three long summer...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Birds
Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees
Summer 2008
Trees recall memories. Both thicken through the years, become storm-roughened, and may persist despite broken branches. We look at trees the way we look to memories as familiar waymarks in our personal landscapes. The new edition of Stephen Arno ('65...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Trees, Botany
Genes and DNA: A Beginner's Guide to Genetics and Its Applications
Summer 2005
Evelyn Fox Keller, a well-known social critic and professor of philosophy of science at MIT, termed the 20th century the "Century of the Gene." Five years into the 21st century, it can be easily argued that we are in for another century full of genet...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Genetics
