22 ForOregonState.org/Stater N EWS BOOK COVERS: COURTESY OF AUTHORS; DOLPHIN: ADOBESTOCK_454616053 IN PRINT B R I E F S 1. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories By Sindya Bhanoo, assistant professor, School of Writing, Literature, and Film Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, the stories of Seeking Fortune Elsewhere examine dislocation and dissonance as immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying home. From a professor accused of exploiting a graduate student, to a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting, to a widow waiting for her daughter to visit from America, Bhanoo finds symmetries in the lives of people growing apart. The book won both the 2023 Oregon Book Award for fiction and the 2022 New American Voices Award. Learn more: bit.ly/seekingfortune. 2. Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture By Jon Lewis, professor, School of Writing, Literature, and Film This is an entertaining account of 10 years of an out-of-touch Hollywood studio system and the counterculture workers — from Dennis Hopper to Jean Seberg — it would never understand. Learn more: bit.ly/roadtrip_nowhere. 3. The Lost Continent By David Alexander Baker, director of Oregon State Productions This poignant tribute to the beauty of coral reefs includes more than 60 photos of reefs around the world, shedding light on global reef destruction and the science behind efforts to save them. Learn more: bit.ly/lostcontinent. 4. You’re the Woods Too By Dennis James Sweeney, MFA ’15 Part documentary essay, part flash-fictional performance and part poems recited by moss, this unconventional book examines the act of the wilderness retreat, contemplating how “You go out in the woods to find yourself and find only what you brought with you.” Learn more: bit.ly/woods_too. 1 2 4 3 WORTH A WATCH: UNLIKELY Synchronized movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish are a common yet striking behavior that can be key to the animals’ survival. Synchronized behavior between species, like that between the Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins and the traditional net-casting fishers in Brazil, is much more rare. Researchers, led by Mauricio Cantor of OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute, have shown how by working together, dolphins and net-casting fishers both catch more fish. Watch this surprising 140-year partnership in action at bit.ly/unlikely-alliance. OSUCASCADES GETS NEW LEADER A geologist, Sherman Bloomer spent 11 years leading the OSU College of Science, followed by another 11 in charge of the university’s budget and resource planning office. This spring, he stepped into the role of chancellor and dean of OSU-Cascades. So, what do rocks, budgets and OSU’s Bend campus have in common? ¶ “I see everything through a lens of time,” said Bloomer. “As geologists, that’s what we do: look back millions of years to create a picture of how things came about.” ¶ As a financial modeler and a campus leader, he leans on that perspective, looking years — not millions, he admits — ahead to lay a foundation for the future. ¶ Bloomer earned a Ph.D. in earth science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He came to OSU in 1995 to serve as the chair of the Department of Geosciences after holding faculty positions at Boston University and Duke. As OSU-Cascades’ leader, he oversees a growing campus. Its footprint has expanded from 10 to 128 acres, and its enrollment has increased to around 1,300 students. OSUCascades offers undergraduate and master’s degrees and a doctorate in physical therapy. BOOKS BY BEAVERS ALLIANCE AN
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