Lewis & Clark adds a dance concentration, which will be led by Tiffany Mills, the college’s new director of dance.
Charlene Williams EdD ’15 leads the Oregon Department of Education as a “warm demander” of student, teacher, and educational system success.
Wolf Play, which opens March 8 on Lewis & Clark’s Main Stage, is directed by Suhaila Meera, assistant professor of theatre. With the help of a puppet, boxing moves, and wolf pack metaphors, the play explores issues of family, parenting, community, survival, and love.
This year’s Gender Studies Symposium will examine the ways in which digital technology, internet platforms, and online spaces have shaped and been shaped by understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality. The symposium runs from March 6 to 8.
Lewis & Clark’s 10th annual student-run Middle East and North African Studies Symposium will explore the relationship between language and politics in the region. The symposium, which takes place February 27 to 29, provides an opportunity for students to showcase their research and hear from outside speakers and scholars.
Lewis & Clark’s Mental Health Validation Program (MVP) brings counseling services, mental health workshops, student-athlete peer support groups, and more to the college’s student-athletes.
For the seventh time in 10 years, Lewis & Clark has been named one of the top producers of Fulbright Award winners in the country, according to the U.S. Department of State. With four Fulbright grants in 2023–24, Lewis & Clark is in the Top 50 baccalaureate producers of student Fulbrights in the nation.
In mid-January, the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership hosted its annual entrepreneurial workshop, known as Winterim. The event brought 29 students to campus prior to the start of spring semester for a week of learning, networking, and mentoring, which culminated in a pitch competition for $13,000 in prizes.
Lena Essak BA ’24 spent her summer as a paid community relations intern in the Portland office of EDP Renewables. Thanks to the Bates Center Summer Sustainability Internship course, she was able to learn, grow, and gain hands-on experience while working alongside two supportive Lewis & Clark alumni.
Lewis & Clark’s theatre department presented Dance Extravaganza, also known as Dance X, the annual showcase of student choreography and movement, on December 8 and 9.
As the calendar year draws to a close, we’ve compiled a sampling of top stories from the undergraduate college, the graduate school, and the law school.
In Nanomaterials Chemistry, a 300-level course, students’ microscopic musings become poster-worthy poetry and art.
Samantha Robison BA ’08 captures the passing of a uniquely American way of life in a documentary about her family’s fourth-generation cattle ranch. The film, 108 Max Lane, is available for viewing on the PBS website.
Lewis & Clark’s new Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest is a space where professors, students, and visiting artists can create sound walks, auditory experiences, storytelling, musical compositions, and more!
In an effort to grapple with the unfolding tragedy in Gaza and Israel, Lewis & Clark hosted a multidisciplinary forum, featuring a faculty panel followed by a Q&A.
Fortune and Glory, a collaborative faculty-student history exhibition, is on display in Watzek Library from now until March 2024.
This fall, Lewis & Clark launched the Aspiring Educators Living-Learning Community in Copeland Hall. The new community supports undergraduates who are interested in education careers via L&C’s five-year BA/MAT Teacher Pathways program.
Rene Amani, L&C’s 2022-23 Dallaire Scholar, was awarded a Projects for Peace grant to help address the generational trauma of families in his home country of Rwanda.
Two Meta employees, who are also Lewis & Clark alumni, welcomed students to Meta’s Seattle office and shared their career stories.
This year’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, slated for November 8-10, will explore race and personal identity through the theme of BIPOC futurism.
The L&C Rose Garden Restoration Club is undertaking the work of returning a hidden gem of the Lewis & Clark campus to its former glory.
Lewis & Clark ranked No. 37 in the Princeton Review’s list of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges and universities.
Henry IV, Part 1 opens November 3. Directed by Native Scholar-Artist in Residence Waylon Lenk BA ’08, the production features a modern translation by Native playwright Yvette Nolan, which aims to ease viewers into the powerful historical tale.
To foster a greater sense of belonging among first-year students, L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health is partnering with Write Around Portland to offer a series of writing workshops.
Over the summer, Lewis & Clark offers students paid, hands-on research experiences that rival those of graduate-level institutions.
Washington Monthly has ranked L&C in the top third of national liberal arts colleges, as well as No. 1 in service and No. 27 in research. The magazine ranks four-year institutions based on their contribution to the public good.
This year’s symposium, Life Within Capitalism: Reconsidering Market Consequences and the Earth System, will be held October 16–19, 2023. The symposium will feature keynote speakers Professor Yuko Aoyama and Clarence Edwards, as well as an art workshop and a game about carbon cap and trade. All events are free and open to the public.
This fall, Lewis & Clark reopened the Stewart-Odell residence halls after a sweeping renovation. In addition to many interior and exterior upgrades, Stewart-Odell now houses the Travel Lounge Living-Learning Community, the Student Counseling Center, and select Campus Living offices.
Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi’s newest novel, The Refugee Ocean, has been named one of Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Picks of the Month” for October. Toutonghi will discuss the book at Powell’s City of Books on Sunday, October 15, at 7 p.m.
Professional actors, in collaboration with faculty and students from Lewis & Clark, presented I Think of You, a variation on the final theatre project of students in the spring Inside-out Prison Exchange course.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $400,000 grant to Professor of Physics Bethe Scalettar at Lewis & Clark and Professor of Physics Ralph Widenhorn at Portland State University. The funding will be used to create biomedical imaging lab activities that will be used in undergraduate courses around the country in conjunction with their related textbook.
The National Archives and Records Administration has awarded Lewis & Clark a $150,000 National Historical Publications and Records grant for Vietnamese Portland: History, Memory, Community. The project team, in collaboration with several community partners, is working to document the rich history of Vietnamese Americans in Portland.
The 2022 edition of the Lewis & Clark Literary Review, now called the Palatine Hill Review, earned the Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Program Directors’ Prize for Content.
Lewis & Clark recently met―and surpassed―the most ambitious fundraising goal in its history, marking a new era of growth and momentum. A reception is planned for October 19 to celebrate this achievement and the community that made it possible.
This fall, Lewis & Clark is welcoming first-year classes across its three colleges, totaling more than 1,000 students, including nearly 950 degree-seeking students.
Lewis & Clark received top marks from Niche as one of the best liberal arts colleges in Oregon (No. 2), one of the safest college campuses in Oregon (No. 3), and one of the best colleges with music performance degrees in Oregon (No. 3).
Lewis & Clark received top marks in Princeton Review’s new national rankings for most beautiful campus (No, 4), most politically active students (No. 12), and best college newspaper (No. 21).
This summer, L&C students gained hands-on work experience through paid internships in the green sector, thanks to L&C’s Career Center and the Bates Center Sustainability Internship course. Check out the experiences of some of these students!
Waylon Lenk BA ’08, a Shakespeare scholar and theatre artist, will join the college as its first Native Scholar-Artist in Residence this fall. Lenk will give a talk at New Student Orientation and direct the theatre department’s fall production of Henry IV, Part 1.
Associate Professor of Biology Tamily Weissman’s research, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), could shed light on new treatment pathways for Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders.
As the new academic year approaches, we asked incoming first-year and transfer students to share why they chose Lewis & Clark.
New research from Associate Professor of Law Lisa Benjamin explores the positive environmental justice impacts of electric vehicles while urging updates to land-use and mining regulations to protect Native communities.
In partnership with the City of Portland, Lewis & Clark helped develop recommendations for community engagement around several monuments that were toppled or removed during the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd. L&C also assisted in creating guidelines for considering new city monuments in the future.
Bacchus, one of two Ultimate Frisbee teams at Lewis & Clark, qualified for the 2023 Men’s D-III National Tournament as a favored Northwest competitor, playing hard-fought games against other colleges from coast to coast.
Two students curated Pacific Renaissance: The Legacy of Conscientious Objection During World War II. The exhibit is available to the public through November in Watzek Library.
Jennifer Hubbert, professor of anthropology and Asian studies, examines how liberals define democracy and citizenship through owning guns.
In 2023, L&C’s baseball team won its first Northwest Conference Championship since 1987 and advanced to its first-ever NCAA Tournament. In addition, third baseman Jack Thomson BA ’23 was named D3baseball.com National Player of the Year and a First Team All-American.
Women’s rowing dominated the Northwest Conference (NWC) en route to the program’s first NWC Title and the program’s first trip to the NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing Championship Regatta since 2006.
In May, West Linn, Oregon, residents resoundingly chose 23-year-old Rory Bialostosky BA ’22 as the city’s youngest-ever mayor. His election as mayor follows a series of “firsts,” including a term as West Linn’s youngest city council member while he was a full-time student at Lewis & Clark.
Three recent alums have served at Hygiene4All, a Portland-based nonprofit that works to ensure those who are unsheltered have equal access to basic resources like hot showers, trash disposal, and first aid.
Peter Drake, associate professor of computer science, teaches a 400-level capstone course that enables students to address real-world problems through software development.
Lewis & Clark is one of 12 schools that generated an economic impact of $3.5 billion to the state of Oregon during fiscal year 2020-21. An average bachelor’s degree graduate from the same time period is expected to see annual earnings that are $35,700 higher than those of an Oregon high school graduate.
In late April, 15 students from Lewis & Clark and 15 students from the Columbia River Correctional Institution performed an original theatre piece as the culmination of their Inside-Out history course, Crime and Punishment in the United States.
Paula Hayes BS ’92, Lewis & Clark’s new board chair, is an entrepreneurial cosmetics chemist and founder and CEO of Hue Noir.
Todd Lochner and Ellen Seljan of the political science department served as consultants to the City of Gresham’s Charter Review Committee. They focused mainly on city council elections, sharing their expertise on electoral systems and local political institutions.
As recipients of prestigious Fulbright awards, four members of the L&C community will work abroad as teachers and researchers next year: Grace Bird BA ’23 (Bulgaria), Caroline Gray BA ’17 (Kenya), Michael Mulrennan BA ’22 (Andorra), and Lucia Sheridan BA ’23 (Germany).
Gila Winefeld BA ’23, a biochemistry and molecular biology major, received this spring’s Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest honor. Named for an esteemed professor, the award recognizes a senior whose abilities and commitment have combined to produce work of the highest distinction.
Valerie White, L&C’s ombudsperson, shares her family’s history as Black abolitionists in an exhibit at Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia and in an upcoming book.
On April 14, the undergraduate campus took a break from classes to enjoy the Festival of Scholars and Artists, an annual event that includes research discussions, poster sessions, live music and theatre performances, and much more.
The ReUse Room, L&C’s sustainable thrift shop, enables students to donate goods and shop for free clothes, housing and school supplies, shelf-stable food, and more!