Features
Nurses to the homeless :: Gypsy's camp is evidence of the harsh living conditions faced by a growing number of homeless in Spokane. It also doubles as a classroom, and a lesson in reality, for student nurses. By Andrea Vogt.
A campus full of wonders :: All over campus, curiosities emerged from closets to form one of the most popular and unusual shows ever to fill the art museum. By Tim Steury.
What don't we know? :: James Krueger wants to know why the average person will spend 219,000 hours asleep. By James Krueger and Tim Steury.
Memories are made of this :: Neuroscientists Jay Wright and Joe Harding can approximate Alzheimer's symptoms in a rat by injecting a certain protein into its hippocampus. What's more, they can reverse those symptoms. By Tim Steury.
Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for...Life in a small college town :: Catherine Friel has lived in Pullman nearly 100 years, and she has some stories to tell. By Pat Caraher.
Opening Day...a great way to reunite Cougars :: Cougars batten their hatches and hoist their mainsails. By Pat Caraher.
Fiction
The Peking Cowboy :: He wanted to tell the story in the third person, but it came out in the first; he wanted to tell it in the past, but it came out happening in the now; even if he wanted to, he could not change a word of it, its sequence and language clarifying its own shape and direction in his voice. A short story by Alex Kuo.
Panoramas
Departments
:: SEASONS|SPORTS: Track—Women's team strong, men's team well-balanced
:: SEASONS|SPORTS: Baseball—Mooney banking on improved pitching
:: THE ACADEMY: The liberal art of judgment
:: SEASONS|SPORTS: Football—The Cougars win their place in the sun
Tracking
:: Shanthi delivers 325-pound calf
:: Treatments for congestive heart failure focus of study
:: Maloney honored for contributions to wood materials engineering
:: Robert Bates named University provost
:: Alumni president Ed Little: "I always wanted to work with children"
Cover: Student Jennifer Schwarzer and Intercollegiate College of Nursing instructor Carol Allen. Read the story here. Photograph by Ira Gardner.
