Fall 2006

Half boot camp, half playground, the Island Ecology Program turns students into scientists.

Sewanee magazine gives you the stories of three alumni scientists who are helping to unlock the secrets of the brain and bring healing for its diseases.

As a student at Oxford in 1966, Price regarded his research on the olfactory lobes of the rat brain as esoteric, without practical implications. He was wrong.

Today, Caldwell is helping to discover drugs that will treat intractable medical conditions such as Alzheimer's and depression. Ironically, his work is rooted in an infamous public health hazard: tobacco.

Harry Yeatman, professor emeritus of biology and lifetime student of nature, will turn your idea of work on its head.