Patti Duncan’s journey has been guided by deep, sometimes disturbing questions. How and why are the voices of birth mothers often erased from these stories? Why have so many women been silenced?
Year: 2016
Democracy by Smartphone
New technologies have expanded the number of channels for reaching voters and the capacity to evaluate the effectiveness of those messages.
Musical Openings
A flying disc may prompt a new form of therapy.
Fearless Faculty
My first and strongest impression from this past year on the job centers on our Oregon State faculty. Quite simply, they are fearless — fearless in tackling some of our planet’s most pressing problems.
Photo gallery: Flora Around Oregon
Despite punishing winds, temperature swings, drought and flood, seeds take root and plants thrive across the Northwest. Flora of Oregon, Volume 1, includes these and other images of some of the state’s most spectacular floral landscapes.
Photo gallery: TERREWODE in Uganda
In 2015, Portland photographer Joni Kabana traveled to Uganda where she documented a project to make goat-milk soap by survivors of obstetric fistula.