Reed Arts Week is a week-long celebration of the arts at Reed. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Pasadena, California, station KPPC-FM. Overall, Reed offers five Humanities courses, twenty-six department majors, twelve interdisciplinary majors, six dual-degree programs with other colleges and universities, and programs for pre-medical and pre-veterinary students. Keep in touch on social media. Notable Reed alumni include Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum (1936), businessman John Sperling (1948), linguistic anthropologist Dell Hymes (1950), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder (1951), fantasy author David Eddings (1954), distance learning pioneer John Bear (1959), socialist and feminist activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich (1963), radio personality Dr. Demento (1963), programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist Peter Norton (1965), former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig (1965), alpinist and biophysical chemist Arlene Blum (1966), chemist Mary Jo Ondrechen (1974), computer engineer Daniel Kottke (1976), and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger (1991). He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.. Daniel Kottke () was a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento, was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. Join us for one of the many alumni events we have planned. Discrete cases of grievance, known as "Honor Cases", are adjudicated by a Judicial Board of twelve full-time students. Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist. [85], Loren Pope, former education editor for The New York Times, writes about Reed in Colleges That Change Lives, saying, "If you're a genuine intellectual, love the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. 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Kelly J. McCreary is an American actress, best known for her role on the ABC drama series Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Maggie Pierce, the half-sister of series protagonist Meredith Grey. He is also a co-founder of RTmark and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, granted for a project that used Global Positioning System (GPS) and other wireless technology to create a new medium with which to "view" his documentary Grounded, about an abandoned military base in Wendover, Utah. "[6], Since the 1960s, Reed has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among its students. The funding poll uses a voting system in which each organization provides a description that is ranked by each member of the student body with either 'top six,' 'approve,' 'no opinion,' 'disapprove.' Vanessa Veselka is an American writer best known for her 2020 novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award. Alafair S. Burke is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. Reed College (25) Liberty University (25) Colgate University (25) Binghamton University (24) Art Center College Of Design (24) 20. . Rather, the onus is on students individually and as a community to define which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio. 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He was an enthusiastic advocate for investment in downtown Portland, both private and public, and is widely credited for helping to reverse a decline in the area in the 1970s through acquiring and renovating derelict or aging buildings and encouraging others to invest in downtown and the central city. Ochoa was the Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education during the Obama Administration from 2010 to 2012. Longer term, the college anticipates that it may seek to develop the northern portion of the property for additional student housing".[108]. Reed's Cooley Gallery is an internationally recognized contemporary art space located at the entrance to the Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library. [76] For the 202223 academic year, the average financial aid package was $52,284. Hans Arthur Linde was a German Jewish American legal scholar and Oregon Supreme Court justice. Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics: includes the Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics Departments. The Reed archive of comic books and graphic novels, the MLLL (Comic Book Reading Room), is well into its fourth decade, and Beer Nation, the student group that organizes and manages various beer gardens throughout the year and during Renn Fayre, has existed for many years. C. Richards, 1938 poetDavid Romtvedt, 1972 poetMary Rosenblum, 1975 authorVern Rutsala, 1956 poet and writerTina Satter, 2004 playwrightLeslie Scalapino, 1966 poet, publisher, and playwright[11]Gary Snyder, 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner and poetSally Watson, 1950 writerPhilip Whalen, 1951 poetLew Welch, 1950 poetJournalism and mediaEd Cony, 1948 Editor of The Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961Robert Richter, 1951 documentary filmmaker and Academy Award winnerBarbara Ehrenreich, 1963 journalist, political activist, author of Nickel and DimedJim Compton, 1964 journalist at PBSHoward Rheingold, 1968 writer, critic, and virtual media theoristOz Hopkins Koglin, 1974 first African-American woman to be hired as reporter at the Oregonian.Sheila Rogers, 1980 columnist and TV producer for The Late Show With David LettermanGary Wolf, 1983 author and writer for Wired.Anya Schiffrin, 1984 business journalist and author of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the WorldAdam L. Penenberg, 1986 writer, professor of journalism at New York UniversityPeter S. Goodman, 1989 reporter for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American EconomyRobert Smith, 1989 journalist, host of Planet Money.Arun Rath, 1994 correspondent for NPR and WGBH, former weekend host of NPRs All Things ConsideredMichelle Nijhuis, 1996 journalistPeter Zuckerman, 2003 journalist and authorAdrian Chen, 2009 journalist and former staff writer at The New Yorker.Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, 2014 journalist and producer at NPRs Planet Money.Inventors and Innovators, Steve JobsC. It is unclear whether this high reporting rate arises from the college and student body fostering an environment that is more supportive of reporting sexual assault or due to a higher offending pattern by students. [145], Although some student organizations partnered with outside groups such as Oxfam or Planned Parenthood are more structured, most student organizations are highly informal. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art. [64], Reed is ranked as tied for the 72nd best liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 rankings, and tied for 16th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for 13th in "Most Innovative Schools", and tied for 185th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility". Was it a virtuous thing to do? The notable alumni from these famous colleges/universities inspire, entertain, lead, improve and challenge the world around them. Madonna called herself a "famed high-school dropout" in a 1983 "American Bandstand" interview with Dick Clark, but she's actually a college dropout: According to the University of Michigan, the. She is usually known as "Sistie", "Ellie" or "Eleanor". Discover the notable alumni of Reed College. [69] The episode features a project done by a Reed professor of statistics and her students to investigate the mechanics of the ranking algorithm, attempting to see if Reed's ranking had been purposefully devalued because the school refused to submit its information to U.S. [109], In Spring 2007, the college broke ground on the construction of a new quadrangle called the Grove, with four new Leed certified residence halls (Aspen, Sequoia, Sitka, Bidwell). Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata. Notable alumni include computer scientist and entrepreneur Larry Page, actor James Earl Jones, and President of the United States Gerald Ford . The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Famous alumni include director Kathyrn Bigelow, Casey Affleck, Timothe Chalamet (who attended for one year), James Franco, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jake did not graduate), Jenny Slate,. Event Schedule Thursday, June 8 [40], Reed categorizes its academic program into five Divisions and the Humanities program. 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Sanger coined the name and wrote much of Wikipedia's original governing policy. Zombified is an extension of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM), a biannual conference chaired by Aktipis. [110], The Reed College Canyon, a natural area and national wildlife preserve, bisects the campus, separating the academic buildings from many of the residence halls (the so-called cross-canyon halls). Peter J. Steinberger, Former Dean of the Faculty[38]. She is the co-founder of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco and author of two books: Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 19571962 and Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age. A large portion of the Student Council took the position that Oregon's liquor laws did not apply to Reed's campus. [102] Other protests separate from the Humanities course also included efforts to shout down speakers, including Kimberly Peirce after she was accused of profiting from transphobia while making the film Boys Don't Cry. [6], Reed alumni include 118 Fulbright Scholars, 67 Watson Fellows, and three Churchill Scholars. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves is an American librarian, educator, historian, and editor. The Psychology Building, completed in 1949, was designed by Modernist architect Pietro Belluschi at the same time as his celebrated Equitable Building in downtown Portland. Brewster Smith, 1939 (did not graduate) professor of psychology, University of ChicagoJeanne Block, 1947 developmental psychologist, professor, Stanford UniversityRichard F. Thompson, 1953 professor of psychology, University of Southern CaliforniaDaryl Bem, 1960 professor of psychology, Cornell UniversityEleanor Rosch, 1960 professor of psychology, University of California, BerkeleyRobert Frager, 1961 social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal PsychologyMary Rothbart, 1962 educational and developmental psychologist, professor at University of OregonEleanor Rosch, 1962 cognitive psychologist, professor at UC BerkeleyPaul H. Taghert, 1975 neuroscientist, Washington University in St. LouisRoberto Malinow, 1979 neuroscientist, UC San DiegoCyma Van Petten, 1981 cognitive neuroscientist, professor at SUNY-BinghamptonGina G. Turrigiano, 1984 professor of vision science, Brandeis University; MacArthur FellowAthena Aktipis, 2002 director of the Human Generosity Project at Arizona State UniversityAllen Bergin (did not graduate) psychologistBiology and ChemistryJames Emory Eckenwalder, 1971 botanistArthur H. Livermore, 1940 biochemistAllah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, 1951 biologist, Rutgers UniversityBruce Voeller, 1956 biologist, AIDS researcher, gay-rights activist; coined the term AIDSDaniel S. Kemp, 1958 Professor of Chemistry, MITMark Ptashne, 1961 Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterDonald Engelman, 1962 biochemist at Yale University; Guggenheim fellowAnne Hiltner, 1963 polymer scientist and professor at Case Western ReserveKenneth Raymond, 1964 Professor of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyArlene Blum, 1966 mountaineer and chemistMichael Balls, 1966 zoologist and professor, University of NottinghamMary Jo Ondrechen, 1974 Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern UniversityAlison Butler, 1977 metallobiochemist at UC Santa Barbara, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesRachel E. Klevit, 1978 Professor of Biochemistry, University of WashingtonRoger Perlmutter, 1973 biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc.Victor Nizet, 1984 Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San DiegoKevan Shokat, 1986 Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigatorJohn Alroy, 1989 paleobiologistStephen C. Sillett, 1989 botanist, professor at Humboldt State UniversityPaul Knoepfler, 1989, stem-cell researcher, author, professor at UC Davis School of MedicineKent Kirshenbaum, 1994 Professor of Chemistry, New York UniversityScience, Mathematics, Computing, and EngineeringJohn Backus, 1932 Professor of Physics, University of Southern CaliforniaJohn Alexander Simpson, 1940 Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, and atomic scientist on the Manhattan ProjectClarence Allen, 1949 Professor of Geology, California Institute of TechnologyDaniel Bump, 1974 Professor of Mathematics, Stanford UniversityLarry Shaw, 1961 physicist and founder of Pi DayDavid B. Dusenbery, 1964 father of sensory ecologyDavid Flory, 1964 physicist; Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityArthur Ogus, 1968 Professor of Mathematics, University of California, BerkeleyThomas William Ferguson, 1965 physicianAlan H. Borning, 1971 Professor of Computer Science, University of WashingtonJonathan Grudin, 1972 computer scientistCatherine Otto, 1975 physicianDaniel Kottke, 1976 computer scientistLawrence Philips, 1976 software engineer; developer of the Metaphone family of phonetic encoding algorithmsNorman Packard, 1977 chaos theory physicistSteven McGeady, 1980 technologistTheodore James Courant, 1982 mathematicianSusan Subak, 1982 environmental and climate scientistKelly Falkner, 1983 oceanographer, Antarctic researcherPeter Shirley, 1985, computer scientistKeith Packard, 1986 software developer; known for his work on the X Window SystemShep Doeleman, 1986 astrophysicist, director of the Event Horizon Telescope projectIrena Swanson, 1987, mathematician and professor at Reed CollegeCraig DeForest, 1989 astrophysicist, director of the PUNCH missionEdward Ramberg (did not graduate) physicistOtherGreta Christina, 1983 bloggerMike Davis (did not graduate) activist and scholarRandall Giles (did not graduate) composerMax Gordon, 1924 owner of the Village VanguardMukunda Goswami, 1961 Hare Krishna guruChristopher Langan Americas smartest man; won a scholarship to Reed after earning a perfect SAT score, but dropped outMurray Leaf, 1961 anthropologistBen Manski (did not graduate) democracy activist, lawyer, sociologistTaliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 2016 human rights activist[14]Joann Osterud, 1968 aviator and stunt pilotHarry Wayland Randall, 1936 member of international brigades in Spanish Civil WarAaron Rhodes, 1971 human rights advocateHelen Sandoz lesbian activistGenny Smith publisherPeter Stafford (did not graduate) author and writerSumner Stone, 1967 typeface designerMichael Teitelbaum, 1966 program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan FoundationDonald Niven Wheeler, 1936 political activistFictional alumniErlich Bachmann, from HBOs Silicon ValleyJohn William Barry from David Gutersons 2008 novel The OtherBill McKay, portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1972 film The CandidateDonald Don Miller in his semi-autobiographical 2003 book Blue Like Jazz and (portrayed by Marshall Allman) in the 2012 Blue Like Jazz filmHarald Petersen, Reed 27 from Mary McCarthys 1963 novel The GroupJaphy Ryder from Jack Kerouacs 1958 novel The Dharma Bums (based on Reed alum Gary Snyder)Hunter Scangarelo (did not graduate), friend of Meadow Soprano in the 19992007 television series The SopranosSierra from Charmed Thirds, Megan McCaffertys 2006 novel in the Jessica Darling seriesLambert Sharkey Somers, from Judy Blumes 1998 novel Summer Sisters. Maurice Isserman, formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a long-time Professor of History at Hamilton College and important contributor to the "new history of American communism" that reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s. Getting to Reed Campus map Types of events include Reunions, Forum for Advancing Reed, Travel Study, the Alumni Holiday Party, and Westwind, just to name a few. [61] U.S. News maintains that their rankings are "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges. Bon Apptit has a monopoly on the food services at Reed as they are the only ones who accept board points; written into their contract is the prohibition of food carts on campus. She is a New York Times bestselling author of 18 crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, and The Better Sister, and two seriesone featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, and the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. Reed also has off-campus housing. Bergin is also noted for his interchanges with probabilistic atheist Albert Ellis. Solomon's weekly column, "Media Beat", was in national syndication from 1992 to 2009. A former 'deep six' was eliminated from the system in 2019. Each January, before the beginning of second-semester classes, the campus holds an interim period called Paideia (drawn from the Greek, meaning 'education'). [21], After World War II the college saw its enrollment numbers dramatically increase as veterans began enrolling in the college. The gallery is currently under the directorship of Stephanie Snyder,[121] who succeeded founding director Susan Fillin-Yeh in 2004. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer and filmmaker who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jonathan Grudin is a principal design researcher at Microsoft and affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. In the overall rankings we add non-academic prominence and alumni popularity indicators. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. Tim Green. [134] At the present time only one Owl is being shown.[135][136]. The new north-campus dorms, which opened in Fall 2008, feature yet another small cafe, originally dubbed "Cafe Paradiso", thereby providing three coffee shops within a 116-acre (0.47km2) campus. Reed College is 497th in the world, 191st in North America, and 177th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. [6] She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Reed College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. Academic Leaders John Bravman, Bucknell president Joseph Castro, California State University chancellor Sean Decatur, Kenyon College president Michael Drake, University of California president The Pennsylvania College of Technology chapters of two honor societies held induction ceremonies on April 20, recognizing more than 110 new members for their notable academic achievement. [20], During the 1930s, President Dexter Keezer was concerned about the fraternization among male and female students and the consumption of alcohol by students. [27] Many Reed students graduate without knowing their cumulative GPA or their grades in individual classes. Walter Berns was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. [15][16][17] Reed's first president (19101919) was William Trufant Foster, a former professor at Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine. [96][97] According to an article in the college's alumni magazine, "because of the decisive support expressed by Reed's faculty, students, and alumni for the three besieged teachers and for the principle of academic freedom, Reed College's experience with McCarthyism stands apart from that of most other American colleges and universities. Always check official university websites for the latest enrollment information. Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial . This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as writers, intellectuals & academics, singers, musicians and activists etc. Christina Athena Aktipis is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University.