News

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  Portland 2019 Biennial features LC faculty
  August 22
  LC faculty participate in Disjecta’s 2019 Biennial
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  Inauguration Day Teach-In January 2017
  September 14
  Learn-Discuss-Act
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  Civil Disobedience Workshop Spring 2017
  September 14
  The course is organized around a variety of themes that will explore the philosophy of civil disobedience as well as examining historical examples from the US and around the world of liberation and civil rights movements.
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  NEDC by the Numbers
  January 28
  Here is a quick summary of some of the things we’ve achieved over the past five years, by the numbers.
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  Seeking Stronger Oversight for Permit Renewals
  January 15
  Reducing polluted runoff from industrial facilities continues to be one of NEDC’s highest priorities.
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  TONIGHT: Kate Mills, high school counselor
  March 29
  Alumni Career Corps volunteer Kate Mills visits campus tonight from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
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  Alexander String Quartet Returns to Palatine Hill
  February 10
  The Alexander String Quartet is returning to the Lewis & Clark campus for another eagerly anticipated performance on February 13, in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The quartet has performed in the major music capitals of five continents, and is best known for its interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich. Prior to the performance, the quartet will be on campus holding interdisciplinary workshops for undergraduate students.
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  Special Collections Acquires First Italian Illuminated Manuscript in the Portland Area
  February 7
  Watzek Library’s Special Collections and Archives has recently added another rare book, an Italian book of hours, to its growing collection of archival materials. The book, valued at more than $45,000, was acquired thanks to a highly competitive grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation. Starting next spring, students will have the opportunity to examine the text in depth in Professor Karen Gross’s manuscript analysis course.
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  Alumni-Founded Podcast Production Company Adds Another L&C Alumnus
  February 6
  Annie Fassler BA ’11 and Jonah Geil-Neufeld BA ’11 met at Lewis & Clark and began working together with the emerging medium of podcasting right after graduation. In 2017 they founded Puddle Creative LLC, and this past fall they hired Sam Peers Nitzberg BA ’19.
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  Hoffman Gallery Examines “Making a Better Painting”
  January 22

  From January 23 to March 15, Lewis & Clark’s Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery will host an exciting regional exhibit, titled Making a Better Painting. The collaborative exhibit, which is free and open to the public, features 18 artists from across the Pacific Northwest. It seeks to spark conversations about painting from a practitioner’s point of view.

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  Winterim Immerses Students in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
  January 22

  From January 12 to 17, 33 Lewis & Clark students from around the United States and across the globe immersed themselves in the study of entrepreneurship and leadership. A perennial favorite offering of the John E. and Susan S. Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Winterim is a weeklong experience bringing students, speakers, and mentors together to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur. 

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  International Affairs Professor Studies Ethical Consumerism in the Portland Cannabis Market
  December 9

  Associate Professor of International Affairs Elizabeth Bennett studies how the political/ethical consumerism movement can promote environmentally and socially responsible products. For the last three years, she has applied her research to the nascent Portland cannabis market. Bennett describes the ways in which consumer activism and sustainable supply chains have emerged in the context of the American and Canadian cannabis markets.

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  Physics Alumni Cofound a 3D Printing Startup
  December 2

  After building a 3D printer for a class during his senior year, John Kray BA ’17 enlisted the help of Zach Rose BA ’18 to build and sell innovative desktop 3D printers. Their most recent model is so easy to use that Lewis & Clark purchased one for the physics lab.

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  Alumna Awarded EPA Award for Environmental Educators
  November 21
  Anne McHugh BA ’10 has been awarded the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2019 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators for her work as a science teacher at Portland’s Franklin High School. One of only 11 winners nationally of the highly competitive award and the only winner selected from the Pacific Northwest region, her teaching spans from arachnid biodiversity to aquaponics systems, allowing students to collaborate in innovative research with NASA.
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  Resonance Ensemble Awarded $100,000 Creative Heights Grant
  November 7
  The Oregon Community Foundation has awarded the Resonance Ensemble $100,000 to enable them to pursue an ambitious collaboration with the Oregon Symphony and several independent artists to put on the world premiere of Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem. Lewis & Clark’s Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities Katherine FitzGibbon serves as Resonance Ensemble’s Artistic Director.
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  German Studies Curates Retrospective Special Collections Exhibit on the Bauhaus
  October 30
  The Staatliches Bauhaus, an art school founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, was a pioneer in arts education. On the 100th anniversary of its founding, two German studies majors collaborated with faculty and Watzek Library’s Special Collections to curate a collection featuring replicas of iconic Bauhaus furniture, art, and photographs.
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  First TEDx Event Asks Audience to Deconstruct What They Know
  October 18
  Lewis & Clark’s first TEDx event gave three undergraduate students and three local speakers the opportunity to take the stage and “deconstruct” the topic of their choice. The success of the event can be credited to the student-run team of organizers, headed by coleaders Tuse Mahenya BA ’21 and Ariel McGee BA ’21.
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  Trustee Paula Hayes Profiled on OPB
  October 10
  Paula Hayes BS ’92—a Board of Trustees member and recipient of the Pioneer Alumna Leadership Award—was recently profiled by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) for her innovative cosmetics company. Hue Noir’s beauty products are designed for an underserved market of darker-skinned women whose skin colors and tones aren’t readily compatible with mainstream products.
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  Alumna Combines Entrepreneurship, Tech, and Equity to Win Biz Competition
  September 23
  Renee Allums BA ’18 won the fifth annual PitchBlack business competition with her idea #tag that aims to highlight and compensate digital content creators who have previously gone unrecognized and uncompensated.
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  Sculpture Professor Chosen as Hallie Ford Fellow
  July 11
  Associate Professor of Art and Studio Head of Sculpture Jess Perlitz was selected as one of just five Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts this year. The Ford Family Foundation awards $25,000 to Oregon artists at pivotal point in their careers through this fund.
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  LC Senior Art Recognized in the Wall Street Journal
  May 3
  Article from the WSJ recognizes the LC Senior Exhbit
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  22nd Environmental Affairs Symposium Tackles Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development
  October 17

  This year’s Environmental Affairs Symposium analyzes the environmental impact of uneven development with the help of environmental scholar and climate activist Sunita Narain. Her keynote address, titled “The New Green Deal for a Global Compact: Learning to Do Things Differently for Inclusive Futures,” will discuss solutions to combat global climate change. 

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  Professor Emerita’s Acclaimed Play To Premiere in New York
  October 2
  Phyllis Yes has worked as a multimedia artist for years, with materials ranging from jewelry to a hand-painted Porsche. Her first play, Good Morning, Miss America, is based on her own experiences caring for her aging parents. It made its New York premiere on October 2 at Theatre 80 St. Mark’s Place.
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  International Student launches Lewis & Clark’s first TEDx event
  September 27
  Tuse Mahenya BA ’21, an English major and political economy minor from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is organizing Lewis & Clark’s first TEDx event, “Deconstruct.” Scheduled for October 9, the event will give students a platform to share their ideas and hear from others about times their preconceived notions were challenged.
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  Kwibuka 25: Lewis & Clark Marks the Rwandan Genocide
  April 15
  Twenty-five years after the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, Lewis & Clark joined communities around the world in commemorating the tragedy, with Kwibuka 25. Fabrice Sibomana, the current L&C Roméo Dallaire Scholar and a survivor of the genocide, spoke at the event alongside fellow students and dignitaries.
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  President Wiewel Calls on Higher Ed to Lead Climate Change Battle
  February 26
  President Wim Wiewel attended the 2019 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, where he and fellow college and university leaders made a public pledge to work harder, faster, and smarter to drive climate action forward. In an op-ed in the Portland Business Journal, President Wim Wiewel discusses the work we’ve done and the work ahead.
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  Winterim Applies the Liberal Arts To Entrepreneurship
  January 25
  From January 13 to 18, 30 Lewis & Clark students from all corners of the globe took a deep dive into entrepreneurship and leadership. The flagship program of the John E. and Susan S. Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Winterim is a weeklong experience bringing students, speakers, and mentors together to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur.
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  New Biology Grant Provides for More Faculty-Student Research
  December 17

  Assistant Professor of Biology Norma Velazquez-Ulloa has been awarded a competitive New Investigator grant from the Medical Research Foundation, funded by OHSU. With the funding, she will continue her research: identifying genes that mediate the effects of developmental nicotine exposure.

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  History Professor Secures Grant to Expand “Inside-Out” Course
  December 13
  Assistant Professor of History Reiko Hillyer has been awarded a grant from the Whiting Foundation to support the expansion of her interdisciplinary project, “Theatre From the Inside-Out: Illuminating Mass Incarceration.” Specifically, the grant will enrich Hillyer’s course Crime and Punishment in U.S. History, which she teaches at the Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland.
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  Analyzing Public Diplomacy Through Portland’s Sister Cities
  November 26
  Following a worldwide competition, the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy has awarded Associate Professor Jennifer Hubbert one of three research fellowships. Her research will analyze the Sister Cities International program, including Portland’s vibrant sister city program.