Results for keyword: teachers
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Seeds of atonement: an interview with writer Shann Ray
Shann Ray's short stories focus on the theme of redemption in the lives of ordinary Western families.
by Jenny Shank, Sep 27, 2011 -
Don't tell her she can't: a profile of author Mary Clearman Blew
Mary Clearman Blew struck out on her own, leaving rural Montana and a life as a housewife to become a professor and writer.
by Andrea Clark Mason, Sep 23, 2011 -
Teaching Whitney to cook
An environmental educator discovers a rewarding way to help the planet -- teaching a young woman how to cook.
by Julia Corbett, Jan 01, 2011 -
Loves, losses and utter disasters
In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
by Tanya Lee, Jun 23, 2008 -
Imagine
A teacher asks his students and the rest of us to imagine: What would the world be like if we had the courage to use our imaginations?
by David Oates, Apr 16, 2007 -
Getting out of the office, and into hot water
California geology professor Jeff Mount uses river trips as an educational tool
by Matt Jenkins, Oct 16, 2006 -
Loss and renewal in the Northwest
Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal.
by Annie Dawid, Aug 21, 2006 -
Dear friends
Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35 years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S. Geological Survey
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Allison Gerfin and Jodi Peterson, May 29, 2006 -
‘Death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life’
Writer and activist Michael Frome looks back on more than 80 years of a life filled concern for the environment and social justice
by Michael Frome, Nov 28, 2005 -
She builds new words in an ancient tongue
Reba Teran is painstakingly building an audio dictionary of spoken Shoshone, hoping to save both her language and her culture
by Kerry Brophy, Aug 08, 2005






