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• Winter 2007-08 •

Cover Story
Time will tell

by Cherie Winner

Climate change is nothing new to our planet. But this time it's different. The carbon dioxide we are putting into the air through industry, vehicle emissions, and deforestation is changing the way our soil works. That in turn affects plant, animal, and eventually human life. Through their research Washington State University scientists are challenging the conventional view that more plants and forests will solve our CO₂ problems.

Features
Into the woods by Hannelore Sudermann Unseen worlds live behind the bark and beneath the trees in Pacific Northwest forests. Scientists Jack Rogers and Lori Carris have made careers out of discovering these worlds and studying them. We go into the woods with them to glimpse the secret lives of fungi and their roles in nature.
The dark side of fungi
The fungal files
Secrets & spies by Hannelore Sudermann The Office of Strategic Services, our country's first centralized intelligence agency, was formed during the Second World War to train men and women in the arts of sabotage and espionage and then to send them around the world to protect our nation's interests. Among the many Washington State College students and alumni who served in that conflict, five friends and classmates trained together in the OSS, then went to North Africa, Italy, England, and China to help win the war.
Panoramas
Jazz down the middle
WSU’s rarest book? Frederick Meserve’s Historical Portraits
Language lessons
The Cougar wears Prada
History was made . . .
One hundred Apple Cups
Field camp 1957
In season Pears
Creatures from the dark lagoons
Tracking the Cougars
An Interview with community leader Mary Alyce Burleigh (’64 History)
Kathleen Flenniken You have to say what’s true

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Meet the scientist

In a series of four brief videos, WSU microbiologist Cynthia Haseltine talks about her research on DNA repair and the causes of cancer.

Apple Cup revisited

Vintage photos, film clips, and colorful program covers to commemorate the 100th game between WSU and the University of Washington--and the swinginest version of the Cougar Fight Song you’re ever likely to hear.

The Collectors

A number of the specimens in WSU’s mycological herbarium were collected and identified at the Pullman campus. View a photographic sampling of some of the more prominent local collectors and their contributions.

Field camp plus 50

A nostalgic look at the archaeological dig by Richard Daugherty and his students on the Snake River in 1957--and the group's reunion on the same site 50 years later, as photographed by John Snyder.

Well, I'd call her a poet

Ron McFarland reviews Famous, the prize-winning book of poems by Kathleen Flenniken '83.