What’s happening on Lewis & Clark’s campus this spring.

Students and spiders: together this unlikely duo fuels Greta Binford’s passion for teaching. Her gifts as an educator have not gone unnoticed. She was recently named the 2011 Oregon Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

This city is becoming one of Earth’s most important environments, yet it has commanded limited attention in traditional environmental discourse. Last fall’s 14th annual Environmental Affairs Symposium, titled Citisphere, sought to change that by exploring the diverse character, mechanisms, and roles of cities in biophysical and social systems at all scales.

Cloth banners and tagboard signs tout slogans like “Inequality hurts us all!” and “This is what democracy looks like.” Haggard citizens huddle in a square singing Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” If this seems more like a description of an Occupy rally than like the opening image of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, then you must have missed the theatre department’s Main Stage production this fall.

Lewis & Clark’s Board of Trustees recently welcomed two new members.

Cross Country, Volleyball, and Women’s Soccer updates.

In 2011, Lewis & Clark announced new holders of endowed professorships, which honor distinguished individuals and advance innovative teaching and research.

While others may have spent their summer playing video games, Julian Dale CAS ’12 and Nic Wilson cas ’CAS spent their time designing one at Microsoft.

From dogfighting and hoarding to pet custody battles, animal law issues are making headlines around the country. Now Lewis & Clark is creating the world’s first advanced degree in animal law, extending its leadership in this emerging field.

Last year, for the first time ever, two Lewis & Clark student groups earned competitive grants from 100 Projects for Peace, an initiative funded by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis. Now in its fifth year, the program encourages undergraduates to design grassroots projects to be undertaken around the world with the help of $10,000 grants. Lewis & Clark students have earned the coveted grants each year since the program’s inception.

What is multiculturalism? What is the place of this idea in U.S. education? And what did German Chancellor Angela Merkel mean when she said multiculturalism is dead?

A miscellany of the new, the intriguing, and the obscure.