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Thinned Pine stand at the Catawba Nations Wildlife Preserve (Photo by Izzy Hernandez) As I move through my senior year at Davidson, I find myself reflecting on the experiences that have shaped my journey. One of the most cherished has been working alongside Dr. Kevin Smith at the Catawba Nation’s Wildlife Preserve. For two summers, and now as part of my senior Environmental Studies capstone, I’ve been involved in surveying various forest stand types. My work has centered around collecting data on trees, shrubs, and forest floor plants, with a focus on understanding how management practices, particularly loblolly pine thinning,...

Did you know that today, October 22nd, is National Color Day? Yes, there is a day for that, and yes, as an intern at the Van Every/Smith Galleries, I find it worth writing about. Davidson College has many pops of color around campus, from the Yinka Shonibare’s iconic Wind Scultpure (SG) I in front of Wall Academic Center to Vivian Beer’s metallic red Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9 bench. The galleries contain so many examples of color use that searching “colorful” on the collections website yields eleven pages of results. So for this very underrated holiday, I present to...