LIFE with LIFE installed in the South lobby of Cordley Hall

A native shorebird, the Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca), and a non-native invasive plant, the Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) from the Oregon State University Herbarium collection

LIFE with LIFE installed in the courtyard at Cordley Hall

Custom bricks were crafted, each with one letter of DNA code. The letters were installed to read as the DNA code for "LUCA" the last universal common ancestor. It is the string of DNA code all living things share.

The red pavers spell out a poem reinterpreted from William Emerson Ritter, the first biologist to propose a theory of systems