“Burn Your Draft” is a podcast exploring the year-long senior thesis experience at Reed College, an independent liberal arts and sciences college in Portland, Oregon. Each episode our host, student Frank Tangherlini, meets with a senior or alum to interview them about their thesis: what is it, why did they do it, and what comes next. This podcast is a joint production of Reed students, staff, and alumni, and was made possible by a gift from alumnus Seth Paskin '90. New episodes released every other week. Some episodes may contain swearing and may deal with sensitive topics.
Juno Kerelis '24 was the third student podcast producer on Burn Your Draft, and we're so happy to get to speak to them on the other side of their time at Reed. If you've been listening since Juno hosted the podcast, you may have noticed little musical interludes during some of the episodes. Most of those were composed by Juno! Thank you for your work on the podcast, and for coming to talk to us about your year studying the Invisible Man. Reed community members can read Juno's thesis, “Yams Extending Infinitely Across Time: A Blues Philology of Ellison's Invisible Man” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/38b592a4-61fb-4d2c-8235-6901a7ff1820 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Josie wrote a pharmaceutical development thesis about looking for a new way to develop antibiotics. She also tells us about her interest in biology and chemistry and looking for bridges between the disciplines, and how chemistry can be used to do things like examine snake poop to learn about snake evolution. Reed community members can read Josie's thesis, “A Codrug for Resistant Coinfection: The First Clinically Relevant Antimicrobial-Antiviral Ionic Cocrystal” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/e2a19aba-968a-4281-bd0b-bccc4dce68f5 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Jordan spent a year writing an analytical thesis on Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which Jordan calls a "psychosexual gothic romance novel" in the introduction of her thesis. She also talks to Avis about the surprising amount of time she spent learning about British estate taxes while studying this novel. Reed community members can read Jordan's thesis, “Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: The Poetics, Places, and Gender Politics of the Lesbian Gothic” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/bb4eb631-dbdc-49fd-b99c-e74e410ba891 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Aroon tells us a bit about airline economics under potential carbon taxes, wanting to become an entrepreneur, and deciding to come to Reed because it seemed mysterious. Reed community members can read Aroon's thesis, “Airline Profitability & Fleet Strategies in a Carbon-Tax Environment” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/3f32060b-6505-44c2-ab48-97984933931c Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Courtland talks about her thesis work on the federal law called the National American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the controversies surrounding it, and the new regulatory changes to the law that just went into effect in 2024. She also tells us how a high school teacher helped her find Reed. Reed community members can read Courtland's thesis, "Returning to Repatriation: An Examination of the Evolving Forces Behind the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act" online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/2723e27e-31e9-424c-b906-a849ff042ed8 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
He Bai '24 tells us about how she chose math and statistics as her fields at Reed, what drew her to Reed in the first place, and how the Squidward Constant came to be in her thesis. Reed community members can read He's thesis, "Extending Targeted Function Balancing to Models without Linear Representations," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/1cbbc623-aafc-4804-a88f-508edf824c69 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Burn Your Draft is back from summer break! Check out this interview with Nina Gopaldas '24, whose thesis involved translating poetry by a Russian refugee named Olga Skopichenko who lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines for a short time after World War II. Nina also tells Avis about her journey to Reed as a transfer student and about how she started college as an applied math major specializing in mathematical finance and became a comparative literature major at Reed. Reed community members can read Nina's thesis, "'Take a Hundred Lines for the Memory of Those who Lived on Tubabao': The Poetics of Exile and Displacement in Olga Skopichenko's Verse," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/519a8b2f-d4f6-4d6a-9ffc-99f295c51d78 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
We've got one last interview for summer and then we take a break until school starts back up in the fall. Check in with Tina about corporate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and unwinding with rock climbing. Reed community members can read Tina's thesis, “ESG Beyond Investing: Spillover Effects in Sustainability Signaling,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/80b0c796-2835-4f7f-a219-0ba77535bfe4 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Do you want to listen to this episode? Or do you want to want to listen to this episode? Ashley tells us a bit about first and second order desires in her thesis studying moral responsibility. She also shares with us how she selected her major and shares some of her own struggles with mental illness in her time at Reed. Reed community members can read Ashley's thesis, “How Mental Illness Impacts Moral Responsibility,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/57075318-72d1-4b40-a407-9a5231861249 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Joray tells us about the joy of digging into academic papers in their fall semester, and the fun of using the software in the linguistics lab to analyze the trove of interviews they were working with. There was also a kitten. We'd also like to welcome Avis Corea '27 to the team. Avis is our new student producer on the podcast, and this is the first episode she's produced for us. Welcome, Avis! Reed community members can read Joray's thesis, “Linguistic Erasure Hertz; a post-binary discussion of F0 performance in read speech,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/4c352c75-6c02-45c7-a556-e02c704c6fb1 Explore more interviews Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
Producer and current senior, Juno Kerelis, talks about organization, and how being responsible for writing a year-long thesis differs from more structured, assignment-driven courses. Juno talks to other thesising seniors about how they're dealing with organization as well. Explore more interviews on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/burnyourdraft/
Isaac graduated in fall 2023 as a spring/fall grad in the anthropology department. His thesis was titled "Aging in The Sun: An exploration of the Jewish Retirement Community in South Beach, Florida," and his work focused on how this community in Florida appeared and disappeared. He also talks about how he found anthropology, found his topic, and found Reed (he's from Australia). Explore more interviews on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
We're excited to welcome Francesca back to the podcast! Francesca was our first student producer, named the podcast, and was integral as we were still figuring out what we were going to be and how we were going to do it. The voice of this podcast is largely Francesca's voice (along with the voices of all the alumni we've interviewed) and it would have been something entirely different without her. Thanks Frank! (Francesca went by Frank back when she was working for the podcast.) Francesca's thesis examined Title IX implementations and student perceptions of these implementations at the level of the liberal arts college. Check out the episode to hear about institutional review boards, and why you should put your thesis into the library thesis template well before it's due. Reed community members can read Francesca's thesis, “The Small Liberal Arts Experience: Title IX and Student Perceptions of Sexual Misconduct,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/ee929d9c-b4de-4985-b923-baefd1b68685 Explore more interviews on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft
David studied archaeometry at Reed through an ad hoc major in the chemistry and classics departments (classics at Reed is now known as Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies). He was introduced to archaeometry, the application of scientific methods and technology to archaeological study, by a research mentor after his sophomore year, and then went about petitioning to form his ad hoc program at Reed (it's not an easy process). Reed community members can read David's thesis, “Hoping to Smash DNA with Rocks and Pickaxes,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/38fe0ef0-afa6-4cb8-b28a-2b988b231627 Explore past interviews on our website: https://blogs.reed.edu/burn-your-draft/
Peri Joy planned for the work of her thesis year to center on race, religion, and the history of Oregon, and her writing focused on archives related to a 19th century congregation in Salem, Oregon led by Reverend Obed Dickinson. Dickinson's decision to admit three formerly enslaved Black persons—Elizabeth Johnson and Robert and Polly Holmes—into his congregation marked the beginning of a six-year conflict between Dickinson, the white church members, and the broader Salem community over the issue of race. Her thesis was titled, “Bringing the Truth to Bear: Obed Dickinson and an Imagined Community of Racial Equality in Nineteenth-Century Salem, Oregon.” You can learn more about Obed Dickinson and Oregon's Black exclusion laws from the Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Encyclopedia. Obed Dickinson: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/dickinson-obed/ Oregon's Black exclusion laws: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/exclusion_laws/#.Y02IQlLMIbY
Sofie gets excited about the opportunity she had to write an ethnographic thesis which explored relationships between the Indigenous peoples of the Columbia River and salmon. Sofie also talks about what it took to produce her "multi-chapter document". Reed community members can read Sofie's thesis, "Salmon Pluralities: Nch'í Wána Pum, Traditional Fishing, and Indigenous Modernity," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/e28041bc-9ad1-41cc-b990-b6c38655a4f1
Betsy spent her thesis year thinking and unthinking what it's possible to know about science, and how science can be used and mis-used in the field of psychiatry. Reed community members can read Betsy's thesis, “Now Doc, Hear Me Out— Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry and a Case for Philosophy of Science as a Resource for Intervention,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/41ed3201-3ad3-42c6-939d-52cc8de17067
LiLi's thesis focused on the struggles that Chinese women faced in the U.S. after the Civil War, and the damage done to Asian American immigrants by the Page Act of 1875. Reed community members can read LiLi's thesis, "'For Lewd and Immoral Purposes': Chinese Women in the United States and the Page Act of 1875," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/c4ecba9a-61de-456f-8a3b-c3b23d5802aa
Henry discusses finding his thesis topic in the comics character of J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, and accomplishing the rare feat of turning in a thesis a little early. Tommy Schacht '25, our new producer for this year, interviewed Henry last May. Welcome, Tommy! Reed community members can read Henry's thesis, “My Favorite Martian (Manhunter): Alien Immigrants in Comics,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/dd3febd9-fcd3-4af8-bc5f-8d2cd35cc130
Burn Your Draft is on break for the summer. Our next season will begin in the fall with our new host and producer, Tommy Schacht '25. Thanks to Albert Kerelis '24 for all the work and conversations, and good luck with your thesis next year!
Stephanie's thesis examines female-female love as depicted in Republican era Chinese fiction, and includes a full original translation of one of the stories she examines. Reed community members can read Stephanie's thesis, “Writing Love and Liminality: Female Homoeroticism in Early Republican Chinese Fiction,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/546e55bd-dc70-4f00-89d6-78c48ed9eddc
Montreal tells us about their study on the use of a particular phonetic feature of American English by a handful of genderfluid students at Reed, and also about how they became interested in linguistics. Reed community members can read Montreal's thesis, “/s/tylizing the /s/elf: A First Look into the Concurrent Fluidity of Gender and Language,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/567f7c74-b4b2-4c84-9305-2158e2f8d853
Anjali spoke with Albert about her year studying the epic tale of the Ramayana and related texts that examine the story through both gender and caste. Reed community members can read Anjali's thesis, “The Power of The Novel: Recognizing The Subaltern in The Ramayana,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/c314d6ca-5b08-4319-ae65-5b752cc2b5fb
Ben used his thesis to examine connections between aggressive sports and stress. Reed community members can read Ben's thesis, "Stress, Aggression, and Performance: The Effects of Daily Hassles on High-Aggression Athletics," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/6812806a-da94-42ff-9ea8-ca417f2cb8ff
Take a circular hair tie and set it on a table. That's an "unknot". Pick it up, cut it, twist it into a knot and then reconnect the cut ends, and now you've got the kind of knot that mathematicians study. Follow along as Erika takes us on a brief journey into her thesis focusing on knot theory. Reed community members can read Erika's thesis, “Khovanov Homology: Putting Pants on Knots,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/e4688b4e-d55b-46c4-a30e-0ebab9dd393c
Albert talked with Hannah about her thesis exploring how students with chronic illnesses manage their time while in college by studying Reed students. Reed community members can read Hannah's thesis, "'Resting time is not wasted time': Chronic Illness, Time Perspectives, and The Reed Student Experience," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/dcae56eb-a20f-4ba4-825d-e6568c39b0b1
Dive into comic book studies and some great advice on how to approach the thesis with Will in Albert's first interview for the podcast. Reed community members can read Will's thesis, “Extended Gutters: Sequencing Space and the Narrative Power of the Panel in Watchmen,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/8e6a6bc4-a8d9-4f02-85c1-7f5dbb5e6d34
This is a podcast, and that was an assertion. Joseph spent a year exploring the nature of assertions like this in his thesis (which was mostly written after midnight, apparently). This is also the last interview conducted by last year's student producer, Amelie. Thank you Amelie for all the work you did for the podcast, and for helping us get to where we are. Reed community members can read Joseph's thesis, “Asserting as Committing,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/9e17a67d-63a5-4b51-b128-a357ecc8ff9f
Natalya and Amelie talk about how Natalya found Reed and became a religion major. This is also our last episode of the semester. We'll be back after winter break with more interviews from the class of 2022. Reed community members can read Natalya's thesis, “The Ineffable Center: Islam in Borges's Intertextual Universes,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/75acb3ac-1447-437e-9631-0dab55a0a1ea
Why do two people look at the same graph and walk away with different interpretations? Rishi spent a year looking into some reasons for why this happens when people are looking at climate data. Reed community members can read Rishi's thesis, “Overt Attention and Cognitive Ability Explain Climate Graph Interpretation,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/38faede2-2f0a-4aee-82e3-12613409ef96
Seamus's thesis focuses on the fall of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party, and the impacts this party has had in Seamus's own family background. Reed community members can read Seamus's thesis, “The Blue Sky Falls, the White Sun Sets: a Study of the Decline of the Kuomintang,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/6fa7ed1b-3872-4bfe-b065-3ca03c110b2f
Louise talks about learning to accept criticism, and how an influential class got her interested in Aristotle. Reed community members can read Louise's thesis, “An Aristotelian Argument for Restorative Justice: How We Can Use Forgiveness Instead of Punitive Punishment to Heal from Wrongdoings,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/cc6db005-0de9-4fe6-8119-928f6433a604
When Kieran learned that high school chemistry teachers reportedly teach climate change at the lowest rate among STEM teachers, he decided to study this for his thesis. You won't learn much about climate change in this episode, but you will learn about Kieran's learning process as he discovered how education research is done (lots of analyzing of interview transcripts). Reed community members can read Kieran's thesis, “Incorporation of Climate Change Topics in High School Chemistry: Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Barriers to Implementation,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/71dbcb98-442d-4e09-95c9-1a28f5addc7f
Kavi wrote a thesis that centered around writing two case studies examining the fictional worlds of a 1994 Nintendo game called EarthBound, and a television series called Adventure Time. Reed community members can read Kavi's thesis, “World between Bits,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/0b9ad4ec-d439-46a4-92a1-ac7789b12a8e
Leila spent a pandemic year remotely studying the members and activities of a lab that had quickly pivoted to study COVID-19 at the beginning the pandemic. Reed community members can read Leila's thesis, “In Our Hands: How Biologists Negotiate Unpredictability to Make and Share Knowledge,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/205143b1-c33d-4912-89d2-4922bd91407c
Burn Your Draft is taking a break for the summer and will be back in fall 2022 with our new student producer and host, Albert Kerelis '24. We'll have a bunch of interviews with '22 grads to share, as well as a couple more from the class of 2020 and 2021. Infinite thank yous and appreciations go to Amelie; we'll miss you! While we're on break, check out these other podcasts which have Reedies working on them: Shel We Read a Poem? with Lauren Hudgins '06 https://shelwereadapoem.buzzsprout.com/ The Partially Examined Life with Seth Paskin '90 https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/ Planet Money with Robert Smith '89 and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi '14 https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money/ Boston Podcast Players with Greg Lam '96 https://www.bostonpodcastplayers.com/
Nearly all Reedies take Hum 110, the year-long humanities conference that serves as an introduction to the Reed education. Max decided to go back to Hum 110 to study how students engage with social justice for their linguistics thesis. Reed community members can read Max's thesis, “Just Saying(s): Discursive Practices and Social Justice in a Humanities 110 Conference,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/2ce2d010-461e-4d5a-9603-deb81a8086ca
Amelie and Demeter talk about Demeter's thesis on nationalism, gender, and culture in Kazakhstan. Reed community members can read Demeter's thesis, “Blossoming from the Steppe: Nationalism and Culture in Urban Kazakhstan,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/b0e04c31-c26d-4398-bc6e-720b9fa4b503
Evan Griggs '22 wrote a thesis in the math department, and talks about his path from community college to the math department at Reed. Reed community members can read Evan's thesis, “Cyclic Cones & Non-singular Refinements of Cyclic Fans,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/43a37e19-9ec1-40ec-8712-a13045d18a62
Ema Chomsky '21 wrote her thesis on the environmental history of Haiti by focusing on U.S. interventions in the country. Reed community members can read Ema's thesis, “Pigs and Plantations: US Environmental Interventions in Haiti in the Twentieth Century,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/11a2253e-c34c-4f69-8aee-4ee1bbe39a89
From dancing for nine hours to techno in Berlin to applying critical theory to bodies in movement, Soroa talks about her pandemic year of diving deeply into her thesis writing. Reed community members can read Soroa's thesis, “Assembled and Undone: Bodies Beyond Subjection,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/21d55ae1-47f7-47b4-bac8-4dafd1f83385
Join Misha and Amelie as they talk about Misha's thesis on Leon Trotsky's theory of revolutionary language and symbolism. You'll also learn a bit about Misha's thoughts on how the literary thesis experience is more of a reading project than a writing project. Reed community members can read Misha's thesis, “Trotsky Writes the Russian Revolution: The Symbol of the Explosion in Trotsky's My Life and The History of the Russian Revolution and its Meta-Symbolic Significance,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/5be3de50-8cbe-4e3f-9164-9b2b879f904d
Anesu spent his pandemic thesis year investigating Black conservative Republicans in the U.S., and examining how ideas of family connect Black conservatives and the Republican party. Reed community members can read Anesu's thesis, “Family Matters: Black Conservatives and Political Belonging in the Republican Party,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/3ce6c4c5-1e39-43dc-b42f-c569a36b800b
Madhav conducted a study of college students, staff, and faculty to learn about how accepting these groups were of accommodations in higher education for various kinds of disabilities. Reed community members can read Madhav's thesis, “How Appropriate is “Appropriate”? Views of Students, Faculty, and Staff on Disability Accommodations Based on Type of Disability,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/b7676805-bd5c-4cc9-8e7d-9266086c2eb6 This episode contains discussion of topics concerning mental health.
Gabri's thesis focused on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and a response novel written two hundred years later by Jeanette Winterson called "FranKISStein." We also get to hear a bit about one of Gabri's favorite classes at Reed and why you might want to throw a blanket over your desk sometimes. Reed community members can read Gabri's thesis, “"What is your substance, whereof are you made?": Gender, Sex, Bodies, and Love in Frankenstein and FranKISStein,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/319c35f7-7721-4c21-97fb-fa1f524d1831
Abhi discusses how he came up with the idea of subservient citizens, and what led him to want to investigate state sponsored violence in his thesis year. He was also featured in Reed Magazine's 2021 "What is a Reedie, Anyway?" article: https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2021/what-is-a-reedie/abhi-rajshekar.html This is our last episode for the fall semester, but we'll be back in late January with more interviews from the class of 2021. We hope you have a happy holiday season. Reed community members can read Abhi's thesis, “Constructing Subservience: Theorizing Citizenship Under the Incidence of State- Sponsored Violence,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/1d1aa791-9829-4a49-a180-ccdef5c44472
Lauren and Amelie talk about Lauren's thesis on intersections between queerness and the wilderness in postwar war America. Lauren also created a Spotify playlist to go along with her thesis work. Here's the playlist link if you'd like to check it out: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4SMqmGJPTIUt0BTv6ErYjy?si=f2e7b3e1b4474699 Reed community members can read Lauren's thesis, “Out on the Trail: Queer Representations of Wilderness, Morality, and Fantasy, 1950-1979,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/bf831eae-0119-4c3f-8836-8ddde5f4d96b
Segovia wrote a cell biology thesis that focused on cell shapes and the spaces between them. She talks about the path she took to get her thesis, how it became a collaboration with work done at another institution, and the relationship between this thesis work and current cancer research. Reed community members can read Segovia's thesis, “Cytoskeletal Regulation by the Gap Junction Forming Proteins Innexins,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/8d43cd15-4dff-4d03-a320-642fe81abd4a
Precious and Amelie discuss Precious's thesis work, which included creating an original comic called "MOTH," and a written thesis exploring identity in superheroes and superhero comics. Reed community members can read Precious's thesis, “Framing Heroes In Crisis: Approaches to Identity in Superhero Comics,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/6064e54b-cc48-4c11-aee7-ae6e4fab4553
Our host, Amelie Andreas '24, speaks with Ethan Sandweiss '19 about his thesis on Afghanistan entitled "Highway to Hell: Afghanistan, America, and the Fragmented State." Since this episode concerned recent events, this interview focuses a little more on the content of the thesis, and a little less on the experience of writing the thesis, than our interviews usually do. It is also a little bit longer than than most episodes. Learn more: Find multiple perspectives on Afghanistan under the Taliban from scholars here: https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/18/afghanistan-under-taliban-pub-85168 Longer article from the New Yorker on the experience of Afghan women: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women Donate to the Afghanistan Emergency Fund by GlobalGiving: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/afghanistan-emergency-fund/
Frank Tangherlini '22 talks to Mahalia about her thesis on microplastics, macroinvertebrates, and fresh water river systems in the Pacific Northwest. Reed's Environmental Studies program is an interdisciplinary major which requires students to select a focus in one of five disciplines: biology, chemistry, economics, history, or political science. Reed community members can read Mahalia's thesis, “The Ubiquitous Pollutant: Measuring microplastics and ecosystem health along the Clackamas River, OR,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/b1b19b93-a3cc-4f01-a6f2-a180798437b0 Learn more about Reed's Environmental Studies program: https://www.reed.edu/es/