FALL 2012

Features

The China Connection

Engineers in the Making

Race, Class, and William Julius Wilson’s World of Opportunity

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Story: A “Monumental” Impact African American sociologists at WSU }

Life Histories: The Butterflies of Cascadia

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Story: Elusive butterfly of Cascadia }

Panoramas

:: Looking for life’s origins in the clouds of a moon

:: World vets

:: The perfect city

:: Unfiltered history

:: Come the big one, everyone becomes a Coug

:: Yet another existential mystery

:: Cherries in two dimensions

:: Chinooks and Powwows at your fingertips

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Gallery: Vineland }

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Stories: Excerpts from WSU oral histories }

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Report: The dangers of a big Cascadia earthquake }

Departments

:: First Words: The spirit of the land grant institution

:: Posts

:: Sports: A talk with Mike Leach

:: In Season: Summer Blues

:: Last Words: Mural, mural, on the wall

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Poem: Hanford Reservations by Graham Hutchins}

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Video: Press conferences with WSU football coach Mike Leach }

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Video: The making of Pat Siler’s downtown Pullman mural }

Tracking

:: Gene Callan ’76—A dream for today and tomorrow

:: Patrick Siler ’61—On the wall

:: Yessenia Picha ’12—Of alpacas and affection

:: Marcus Capers ’12—What it means to be a Coug

:: Alumni news: The Future’s So Bright—New WSUAA President Lisa Steele Haberly ’99

{ WEB EXCLUSIVE–Gallery: Highlights of Marcus Capers’ WSU basketball career }

New Media

:: Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War by Erika Kuhlman ’95 PhD

:: Finding the River by Jeff Crane ’04 PhD, ’98

:: Dove Creek by Paula Marie Coomer

:: The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States by Mark Fiege ’85 MA

:: New & Noteworthy: Images That Injure edited by Susan Dente Ross and Paul Martin Lester; Seaside Stories by S.R. Martin, Jr. ’74; Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies by David G. James and David Nunnallee