The solution: a gecko!

What's so compelling about geckos? We felt we had seen enough geckos to last us a life time, especially ones with English -sorry, Australian accents. Then we fell in love with this little geezer (means "guy" in Australian, right?) all over again. He lives at Lewis and Clark College and is one of the principals in the fundraising film Tribe produced. Let Vern loose in a lab with a good story and a film crew: he is in pig heaven.

At Lewis and Clark a great emphasis is placed on the collaboration between the teaching staff and students, and between the various scientific departments. Funds are needed for a building which can regroup all teams in order to foster this crosspollination. Tribe's communication solution: to tell the story of how Lewis and Clark College solved the mystery of the gecko, an animal (zoology) with mysterious sticking feet. Do the hair on its feet (physiology) adhere to surfaces through some kind of glue (chemistry) or electrostatic forces or suction cups (physics)? This question baffled scientists until a multidisciplinary team of students at Lewis and Clark cracked it. For the solution to this mystery, watch the clip below.