Lewis & ClarkCollege of Arts & Sciences

Environmental Studies

Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Studies Program is pleased to announce a three-year, $600,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation commencing June 1, 2011 to support its innovated curricular approach featuring interdisciplinary situated research in a variety of settings spanning the Portland area to international sites. The initiative follows up on successful completion of a prior Mellon award for $300,000 to lay the groundwork via faculty and student development, and a national scale Mellon scholars program.

The primary beneficiaries of this Mellon-funded initiative are our students at Lewis & Clark—the next generation of environmental leaders in academic and policy settings. Here is a recent story on the initiative, and one featuring student perspectives. Opportunities for students include:

Our Situating the Global Environment initiative is more fully explained, and Mellon-funded projects documented, on a new interactive research website we have created; go to sge.lclark.edu for full details. 

 

 

Recent Research Posts from sge.lclark.edu

  • June 16, 2013 at 2:59pm

    Week 4 was hardcore EHA administration, and it’s gotten better every day. We’re ahead of schedule on our way to the goal of 50 completions in each community. We have another full week to work, but could finish in just two days if we keep up our current

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  • June 16, 2013 at 2:23pm

    This week of teaching has been somewhat of a whirlwind, but among the chaos have been some really amazing moments. Monday was day three at the NCP, and I was slowly finding my way around the classroom and had learned most of the names. Instead of working with

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  • June 16, 2013 at 2:16pm

    We have reached the halfway mark of our time here and the fourth week has definitely been the most challenging and fulfilling for me. Volunteering at the NCP each morning and conducting the environmental health survey (EHA) has kept us very busy, provided many new experiences, and left

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  • June 16, 2013 at 10:04am

    This week I met with the man who runs the Malkerns irrigation canal. He gave me a great tour of Malkerns in his truck while he answered my questions because he had some errands to run around the area. It’s a busy time of year for him because

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  • June 16, 2013 at 9:49am

    Churches and cabins and hiking, oh my! Such was the life of our little LC group this past weekend at Mahamba Gorge. As most of our time is spent in the densely-populated, mostly-modern Ezulwini Valley, it’s easy to forget that much of Swaziland lies outside the inter-urban area

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