Healthline, in partnership with the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), has awarded scholarships to four undergraduates nationally who have demonstrated dedication to the advancement against a rare or chronic disease. Handa talks about her win and why she’s drawn to the field.
Max Clary ’18 has been using his education and skills to advocate for social change throughout his time at Lewis & Clark, and now he’s secured a nomination for the 2017 Wyatt Starnes Battle of the School Award. Given by the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, the prize recognizes young leaders committed to improving the world through entrepreneurship.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, which supports the graduate education and professional development of outstanding young people committed to public service leadership, has selected Kori Groenveld ’18 as a finalist for the Truman Scholarship. Winners will be announced in April.
Biology professor Greg Hermann has been awarded a nearly half-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, his third NSF grant since joining Lewis & Clark. His three-year project on the development of lysosome-related organelles in nematodes will engage between 25 and 55 undergraduates each year in mentored, investigative, and original research.
Five seniors and six recent alumni will spend the next year overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program. Lewis & Clark is one of the top producers of Fulbright award winners in the country.
Eve Lowenstein B.A. ’17 is one of just 252 scholars selected from a field of 1,150 students nominated by 415 institutions nationwide. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships are widely considered the preeminent awards for undergraduates preparing for science careers. Irene Duba B.A. ’17 garnered an honorable mention.
From strengthening her foreign-language and professional skills, to practicing the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira, Daniela Jimenez BA ’14 is eager to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Brazil in 2016.
For the third time, Lewis & Clark has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Lewis & Clark previously landed on the Honor Roll in 2010 and the Honor Roll with Distinction in 2013.
Football and baseball player Stein Retzlaff ’16, former football player Erich Roepke ’16, and their three business partners—Hunter Meece ’15, Kyle Roepke, and Trent Martin—were recently awarded an Incubator+Launch Seed Fund grant. They are now eligible for up to $20,000 to fund their venture.
A team of seven Lewis & Clark students took home top honors at Portland Startup Weekend. The Spoke.Coffee team won best customer validation at the event, with their coffee delivery by bike business that’s facilitated by a simple web application.
For the eighth year in a row, Lewis & Clark students have earned a competitive grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis’s 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Over the summer, project leaders Nway Khine ’15 and Sam Shugart ’15, along with Katie Schirmer ’17 and Ira Yeap ’14, will teach English to orphans in Taunggyi, Myanmar.
Lewis & Clark students recently took top honors at the 2014 Toyama Cup Japanese Speech Contest, with third-year law student Lauren McDonald receiving the grand prize—an all-expense paid trip to Japan.
Joyce Iwashita has earned the nation’s top prize for undergraduate leaders, a highly competitive Truman Scholarship. The junior economics major earned one of 59 scholarships awarded this year, an honor which brings up to $30,000 for graduate study and leadership training in preparation for a career in government or the nonprofit sector.
Six Lewis & Clark seniors and five alumni will spend the next year overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program. This is the largest number of Lewis & Clark students and alumni earning Fulbright honors in a single year.
Three Lewis & Clark students—Colin Gavin ’15, Sarah Lowenstein ’15, and Keira Roberts ’15—received Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this spring for their exceptional work in the sciences, the largest number of scholars from any school, public or private, in Oregon.
Fifty-six of the nation’s best parliamentary debate teams arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona, for the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE), but only one team left as national champions—Lewis & Clark’s McKay Campbell ’14 and Emily Halter ’14.
Each spring, first-year students write research papers as they complete their final semester of Lewis & Clark’s core course, Exploration and Discovery. To honor the memory of former library director James J. Kopp—and to offer an incentive for these students to immerse themselves in scholarly sources—Watzek Library offers an award of $200 to two students who demonstrate excellent research techniques.
The debate team of McKay Campbell ’14 and Emily Halter ’14 recently won the prestigious Great Salt Lake Invitational, held at the University of Utah. Campbell and Halter placed first out of a field of 98 teams from 34 schools across the nation, defeating a team from William Jewell College in the final debate to win the title.
Lewis & Clark students presented a diverse array of research findings to an audience of more than 500 people at the Murdock College Science Research Program’s recent Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Lewis & Clark’s Model United Nations club was awarded the title of “distinguished delegation” after attending a national conference in Washington, D.C. Only 10 percent of participating delegations were recommended for awards.
The Lewis & Clark forensics team continued a strong fall of 2013 with a series of excellent performances in October. Competing in tournaments in California, Washington and on its own campus, the Pioneers collected numerous individual and team awards and have established themselves as one of the top forensics squads nationally.
As an extension of his summer research on computer security education with Professor of Computer Science Jens Mache, Miles Crabill ’16 had the opportunity to attend an invitation-only computer security conference in Dayton, Ohio, from September 15 to 20. On the final day of the conference, Crabill and Mache (along with a student and faculty member from The Evergreen State College) competed against four other teams to win a hacking challenge.
As a philosophy and mathematics double major, Benjamin Hoffman B.A. ’13 is used to going above and beyond. This passion for exceeding expectations earned Hoffman the 2013 Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest academic honor.
This fall, exceptional students from across the country will make Lewis & Clark their home for the next four years. Among them will be Manuel Mattz and Adrian Velazquez, recipients of the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarships.
Each year, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) recognizes faculty, staff, and students whose tremendous contributions make Lewis & Clark a more welcoming community.
The Center for Career and Community Engagement is proud to announce this year’s recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service, an award given to a graduating senior who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to service and issues of social justice in the campus, Portland, and international communities.
President Glassner has announced the winners of the President’s Scholarship for Academic Engagement—Eva Ramey, Kelsey Kahn, Lily Clarke, and Jordan Anderson.
For the seventh year in a row, Lewis & Clark students have earned a competitive grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis’s 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Over the summer, students Miranda Benson ’13 and Hillary Patin ’14 will promote dance movement therapy and self-defense for women in Varanasi, India.
Kyla Hamling ’14 received a prestigious science scholarship for her exceptional work in biology. Hamling is one of 271 students to earn Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this spring, from a field of 1,107 applicants nationwide.
Jordan Buysse ’13 recently shared reflections on overseas experiences made possible by the Dixon Award, an annual honor granted to a junior English major.
Lewis & Clark debaters Joe Hykan ’13 and Benjamin Mann ’14 recently won the Pat Kennedy Memorial Tournament, hosted by University of the Pacific and the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission.
Lewis & Clark is one of the top producers of Fulbright award winners in the country, with the third-highest acceptance rate among liberal arts colleges.
Called a “true Renaissance man,” Ethan Allred ’12 is the winner of the 2012 Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest academic honor. The award recognizes excellence in scholastic, intellectual, and creative achievements, and is presented during the undergraduate Honors Convocation ceremony preceding commencement in May.
Tadhg Fendt ’14 has become the first student from Lewis & Clark’s Russian Program to receive a Boren Scholarship. The award will support Fendt’s language study abroad.
Kali Harper ’10 has been awarded a Pickering Fellowship for graduate study in international affairs. The history majorwill complete her master’s degree in international relations and security at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Three Lewis & Clark alumni received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for demonstrating promise as leaders in their fields.
For the sixth year in a row, Lewis & Clark students have earned a competitive grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis’ 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Over the summer, students Hannah McCain ’12 and Nima Mohamed ’15 will promote youth engagement for Somali girls living in Portland, Maine.
Madelyn Troiano ’12 has won the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color, created to recruit, support, and retain public school teachers in the United States.
For the second consecutive year, Lewis & Clark ranks in the top five on the Peace Corps Top Colleges list—the only school in Portland to receive this honor.
Millions of people watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 5, will see the work of Lewis & Clark student Remy Neymarc when they tune in to the big game.
Seven outstanding students joined the Pamplin Society of Fellows this fall, increasing the ranks of distinguished students, alumni, and endowed professors who comprise Lewis & Clark’s undergraduate honor society.
In an editorial for USA Today, Lewis & Clark President Barry Glassner questions whether colleges are doing enough to “couple action with real academics” when it comes to sustainability.
This spring, Lewis & Clark students are claiming a bounty of national awards and honors in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to global service.
Professor Greta Binford has received a $133,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the creation of a biodiversity hotspot in the Caribbean.
Through a distinctive community initiative, Jen Schildmeyer ’11 is collaborating with the local organization Outside In to assess the benefit of a tattoo-removal program for homeless and low-income Portlanders.
Lewis & Clark students are immersed in varied and vibrant pursuits in classrooms, laboratories, communities, and environs around the world. That work continues after graduation, with Lewis & Clark alumni in 50 states and 90 countries.
Each year, tens of thousands of website visitors read stories, watch videos, and flip through photo slideshows that highlight the success of our students, faculty, and alumni. Here are the top 10 biggest stories from Lewis & Clark College in 2010.
Lewis & Clark alumna Tamma Carleton has been named a Rhodes Scholar, considered by many to be the most prestigious international graduate scholarship program.
Five Lewis & Clark students traveled to Boston this month to participate in a national collegiate tournament of slam poetry, the competitive art of performance poetry.
This spring, awards and honors are streaming in from prestigious national organizations like the Fulbright Program and the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation. Learn more about the student recipients and how they hope to impact the world in the stories below.
Eight Lewis & Clark alumni received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for demonstrating promise as leaders in their fields.
With the help of Lewis & Clark’s student-led grant program, senior Betto van Waarden conducted research abroad this summer to support his thesis. The globetrotting history major, a native of Holland, explored themes of globalization and the exchange of ideas across cultures. Learn more.
The Northwest Conference has recognized student-athletes who have excelled in the classroom, in athletic competition and in the community. Read about this year’s winners, Tamma Carleton and Tyson Papenfuss.
Isaac Holeman ’09 is heading to Africa after graduation. Far from a safari vacation, Holeman will start work in Malawi with FrontlineSMS:Medic, a venture he co-founded to support community health workers in the developing world with mobile technology.
(Portland, Ore.)—In an unprecedented achievement for Lewis & Clark students, six seniors earned prestigious honors from the Fulbright Program this spring.
(Portland, Ore.)—A junior who aspires to improve conditions in Africa will be one step closer to his goal this summer, learning political processes from a seasoned leader on education and human rights issues.
Zach Yeager, a junior philosophy major, will participate in the Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy, which allows participants to explore and heighten their interest in philosophy before committing to a graduate program.