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4 unusual facts about Reed College


Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian

He studied at Reed College undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University.

Lloyd J. Reynolds

Lloyd J. Reynolds (1902 - 1978) was a professor at Reed College (1929-1969) who taught classes on creative writing, and calligraphy.

Reed Research Reactor

The Reed Research Reactor (RRR) is a research nuclear reactor located on-campus at Reed College in Portland, OR.

The reactor has over 1,000 visitors each year and serves the Reed College departments of Physics, Chemistry, and others.


Mary Rosenblum

Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College in Oregon, earning a biology degree.

Michael Balls

After post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, and at Reed College, Portland, OR, from 1964 to 1966, he lectured in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, a job that he had got through his friend Ian Gibson.

Norton Simon

He accepted appointments to the University of California Board of Regents, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the boards of Reed College, the Los Angeles Music Center, the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Paul Knoepfler

Knoepfler received a B.A. in English Literature from Reed College in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in 1998 as a Lucille P. Markey Fellow.

Rachel Somerville

She holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Reed College, awarded in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked with Joel Primack.

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 – July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

Ski Lift No. 1

One of the first two guides hired was Swiss skiing champion André Roch, then studying at Reed College in Oregon.

SuperQuest

From 1991-1994, this program was expanded to include summer programs at other supercomputing centers (NCSA and University of Huntsville, Alabama in 1991; Reed College and the Oregon Graduate Institute, and Sandia National Laboratories in 1992).

Yoram Bauman

He grew up in San Francisco, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then attended graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, receiving a Ph.D. in Economics in 2003.


see also

Colin Diver

He was named the college's 14th president on October 5, 2002, replacing acting president Peter Steinberger, dean of Faculty, and succeeding Steven Koblik, who departed Reed College to run the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Peter Steinberger

He was the thirteenth president of Reed College, preceding Colin Diver.