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Students Win Big at the Invent Oregon Collegiate Competition
Ramez Attia BA ’21 and Matthew Brown BA ’21 were named the winning team at the annual Invent Oregon Collegiate State Finals, earning $10,000, plus an additional $2,000 as People’s Choice winners. Their invention is a cost-effective and tech-savvy device programmed to stop drunk driving before it happens.
A Storyteller at the Top of His Game
Aron Phillips BA ’07 shapes athletes’ stories with the latest digital media tools. Read more about Aron’s journey in the newest issue of The Chronicle.
Food Security and Gender in Northern Tanzania
The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) has recently awarded supplemental funding to support the project, “Food Security and Gender in Maasai Households: An Application of Pro-WEAI (Project Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index) to Northern Tanzania”.
Students Power the College’s Larger Sustainability Efforts
When Lewis & Clark undergrads choose to pay the voluntary student “green fee,” the money goes into a fund that allows the college to buy renewable energy certificates and promote sustainability. The Renewable Energy Fee Fund Committee, comprised of students, is responsible for choosing the energy certificates, and awarding grants for student projects, internships, and research.
Students Return from Collaborative Project to Combat Gerrymandering
After spending the summer working with students and professors from around the country, three Lewis & Clark students return to campus with new skills and perspectives on how to use mathematics to create a solution to partisan gerrymandering. The six-week program is a collaboration of Tufts University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Student Expands Project to Bring Solar Energy to Malaysian Villages
In the summer of 2017, Ary Hashim BA ’20 put Lewis & Clark’s Renewable Energy Fee Fund to work in a rural village in Malaysia. He returned to Malaysia this past summer to double the number of lights and solar panels, and expand to an additional village in the area. For him, environmental activism complements the degree he’s pursuing in economics.
Dr. Bostian’s Second Fulbright Award Advances Swedish Collaboration
Associate Professor of Economics Moriah Bostian has been awarded a Fulbright Core Scholar Award for 2018-19.
Tamma Carleton
LC Alum Tamma Carleton ’09 is a current PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. She recently published a review of her research on climate change.
Tax Policies for Controlling Fertilizer Run-off
Michigan State University BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action’s (NSF) grant for Moriah Bostian’s project, “Agri-Environmental Government-Farmer Tax Policies for Controlling Fertilizer Run-off Using a Evolutionary Bi-level Framework.”
Mattersdorff-Steinhardt Lecture 2016- Unequal Chances or Unequal Abilities: What determines social mobility?
The lecturer was Dr. Gregory Clark a professor of Economics at UC Davis and a Research Associate at the Center for Poverty Research.
Conservation Practices for Agricultural Production
Assistant Professor of Economics Dr. Moriah Bostian received a grant from the Sylvia Lane Mentorship Fund of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
Fall 2015 Econ Poster Session
On December 8th 2015, economics majors presented their theses on topics ranging from fashion cycles to the value of snow!
Yash Desai
Yash Desai ’15 shares how his classroom experiences at Lewis & Clark helped him to obtain a position at a local firm. He explores how the values that he learned throughout his four years have allowed him to feel prepared in the the professional setting. Although his ‘assumptions of rationality’ can annoy his friends sometimes, Yash shares that he would not have achieved any of this without his economics degree.
Loren Naldoza
Loren Naldoza graduated in 2015 with a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant in Madrid, Spain. He wrote us from Spain to share how his post-grad life has been influenced by his degree in economics. Loren has been able to connect his diverse interests and goals to both his academic work and travel experience.
Interns in Action: Aaron Fellows ’16
Environmental Studies and Economics major Aaron Fellows ’16 talks about his summer internship with the International Economic Development Council.
Senior Signature
Student commencement speaker Yash Desai shares highlights of his time at Lewis & Clark.
Kate Barhydt
We caught up with Kate Barhydt to find out about her experiences at Lewis & Clark, what she is doing now, and her advice for current Lewis & Clark students. Kate graduated from Lewis & Clark in 2014 after earning the World Philosophy Award from the Economics Department. She currently is working at the Humphreys Group, a boutique wealth management firm in San Francisco.
Summer Student Research: Socially mobile peasants
Katie Keith ’15 has been working with Associate Professor of Economics Clifford Bekar to study social mobility among peasants of medieval England.
Intern Profile: Zoe Abbott Boyd ’15
Meet Zoe Abbott Boyd ’15, an economics major and intern with the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.
Intern Profile: Yash Desai ’15
Meet Yash Desai ’15, a economics major and intern at Aginsky Consulting.
Intern Profile: Bjorn Hansen ’15
Meet Bjorn Hansen ’15, an economics major and intern at Porterhouse Media/PH Recordings.
Junior earns Truman Scholarship for public service
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.
Fulbright to send Dr. Bostian to ideal location for economic research and teaching
Moriah Bostian, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar teaching and research award for the 2014-15 academic year.
Yurop Shrestha
Hailing from Kathmandu, Nepal, Yurop Shrestha graduated from Lewis & Clark with an Economics degree in 2011. He is currently a Senior Associate at Aginsky Consulting Group, a boutique investment and business advisory firm based in Portland, OR. Yurop is also one of the co-founders of Galt US Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm focused on Northwest-based companies with disruptive technologies. Yurop is planning to go back to Kathmandu soon to start his own non-banking finance company with the objective of introducing truly innovative financials products to the local market in his home country.
Hannah Louis
Hailing from California, Hannah Louis graduated from Lewis & Clark with a degree in Psychology and Economics. During her time at Lewis & Clark, Hannah was a member and the captain of the women’s Ultimate Frisbee team, served in the cognitive neuroscience lab, and worked in the Center for Career and Community Engagement as a Student Assistant. She also worked in the athletic department as the club sports administrator assistant. Hannah is currently a member of the Teach Thailand Corps and is teaching English in a rural village during this academic year.
Steps to success
Tamma Carleton ’09 shares her path to the Rhodes Scholarship.
Alumnus praised for award-winning cycling program in Portland
Cycling advocate Kiel Johnson BA ’09 tells The Oregonian how he reinvigorated ridership among the city’s youth.
Faculty Profile on Moriah Bellenger Bostian
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Past Events
US Congressman Earl Blumenauer on Trade Policy
US Congressman Earl Blumenauer, representative of Oregon’s 3rd District, will join the Lewis & Clark Community to discuss the past, current, and (potential) futures for US trade. Representative Blumenauer serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on Trade. This is a non-partisan event that intends to inform students about trade policy making and its consequences, from the perspective of one elected official. All perspectives are welcome.
OSPIRG Policy Fellow Virtual Info Session
Are you interested in protecting consumers and everyday citizens? How about a responsive, democratic government or social change? So is OSPIRG, a public interest nonprofit that advocates for common sense policy solutions to problems faced by every day people.
Peace Corps: Office Hours for Lewis & Clark Students
Peace Corps service is the opportunity of a lifetime. Schedule time with a local recruiter who can answer your questions about what it’s like to live, learn, and work with a community overseas.
“Benefit or beggar thy neighbor? The impacts of forced migration on hosts in North and East Africa.” by Jennifer Alix-Garcia
The most recent statistics show over 60 million people displaced by violence across the globe. 85% of these are hosted in low or very low income countries. What is the impact of hosting refugees on local populations? This talk will discuss the mechanisms by which refugee lives are intertwined with hosts, and show evidence of impacts from Darfur, Kenya, and Tanzania. The cases use a combination of satellite and household survey data to show that displaced populations can bestow substantial benefits on hosts by stimulating demand for local products, but that there may be negative effects for vulnerable groups.
Annual Mattersdorff - Steinhardt Lecture: Work of the Past, Work of the Future
David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, will present striking new evidence on the changing structure of work, wages, and demographics across cities, suburbs, and rural areas. His presentation will shed light on why Americans perceive a growing chasm of dynamism and opportunity between highly educated citizens living in thriving metropolitan areas and just about everyone else.Economics Meet Your Major
Join the Economics department in a casual meet-and-greet to answer any questions you may have about the major, as well as take the opportunity to get to know one another!
