athletics, economics, Entrepreneurship Minor, entrepreneurship, international affairs, outcomes, Portland, psychology, student athletics, student-athlete, winterim
Matt on left, Ramez on right

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.
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Assistant Professor of Economics Anna Miromanova

Q&A with Anna Miromanova, Assistant Professor of Economics

Assistant Professor of Economics Anna Miromanova’s research focuses on issues in international trade with emphasis on the effects of non-tariff trade barriers on aggregate and micro-level trade.

community engagement, Portland, sustainability
Tiny House Club members

Tiny House Emerges From Big Vision

L&C’s student-led Tiny House Club is building a sustainable dwelling for a Portland-area nonprofit.
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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.
Aine McCarthy

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”.
career, climate change, computer science, economics, environment, environmental studies, golf, international education, student athletics, student, sustainability
Renewable energy intern and chair of the REFF committee Jane Almeida.

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.
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Sherlock Ortiz BA '20, Adriana Rogers BA '19, and Anna Schall BA '20

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.
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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!
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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.
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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.

Martin Dorciak (class of 2015) publishes research

Martin Dorciak, a member of the class of 2015, recently had his honors winning thesis accepted for publication.

Senior Signature

Student commencement speaker Yash Desai shares highlights of his time at Lewis & Clark. 

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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.

Zoe Abbott Boyd has op-ed published in The Oregonian

Zoe Abbott Boyd, a senior economics major, recently returned from studying abroad in Ireland. Her time in Dublin led to a lesson on tax avoidance & an Oregonian op-ed.

Congress must act on tax avoidance: Guest opinion

Katie Keith '15

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.
alumni

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.
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Tamma Carleton '09

Steps to success

Tamma Carleton ’09 shares her path to the Rhodes Scholarship.

Dean’s List for Fall 2011

Students who have been named to the Dean’s List for Fall 2011.
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Kiel Johnson B.A. '09 (Photo by Jonathan Maus, BikePortland.org)

Alumnus praised for award-winning cycling program in Portland

Cycling advocate Kiel Johnson B.A. ’09 tells The Oregonian how he reinvigorated ridership among the city’s youth.

Dean’s List Spring 2011

Students who have been named to the Dean’s List for spring 2011.

Professor encourages fuller understanding of current Korean conflict

Professor Hart-Landsberg asserts in the LA Times and on his blog that arbitrating a controversial maritime border could defuse the current Korean conflict.

Tamma Carleton, economics major (‘09), named Rhodes Scholar

Tamma Carleton, economics major (’09), has been named a Rhodes Scholar.  She is currently working as a researcher with the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., where she is using her research skills to study mergers and acquisitions and investigate price changes for possible monopoly violations. 

As a Rhodes Scholar, Carleton plans to pursue a master’s degree at University of Oxford in the economics of development and environmental change and then work on a doctorate in economics.