The story behind our admissions success.

In the recently released 2012 edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 376 Colleges, Lewis & Clark ranked second in the category of “most beautiful campus.” The rankings are based entirely on student surveys.

A law school clinic helps Oregon win its independence from in-state coal power.

Last spring, Lewis & Clark students and alumni claimed a bounty of national awards and honors in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to global service. Here’s a sampling.

“Find some time every day to do what your heart desires, not just what you have to do. And eventually these things will add up, and maybe the two will converge.”

When Molly Hetz B.A.’11 first volunteered in the rural village of Guarjila in northern El Salvador as a high school student, she immediately connected with the people there and knew she needed to return.

An outstanding writer and selfless peer, Riley Johnson B.A. ’11 nabbed this year’s Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest academic honor.

Each year, students from the College of Arts and Sciences and Lewis & Clark Law School reflect on the extraordinary teaching of their respective professors and select one for top teaching honors.

For the first time in more than two decades, Lewis & Clark’s men’s basketball team will be led by a new head coach, Dinari Foreman B.S. ’95. Foreman took over the post from Bob Gaillard, his former college coach and current mentor. Foreman is the first African American head basketball coach in Lewis & Clark history and the only African American men’s basketball coach currently in the Northwest Conference.

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Beginning this fall, Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling will offer a new certificate program in ecopsychology. This growing field explores the relationships between mental health, well-being, and the natural environment as well as the ways in which counselors can contribute to conservation and sustainability.