Where the Wild Things Are

It’s all happening at the zoo—the Smithsonian National Zoo, that is—for alumna and director Lucy Spelman, D.V.M. ’90.

An African Son

An Ethopian in exile, Tilahun Yilma works to relieve
suffering in his native country.

’Do Tell

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted. Hair!

The Mighty Are Falling

Plant pathologist Dave Rizzo and colleagues stalk the killer of California’s oak trees.