The Lewis & Clark Chronicle
 

WINTER/SPRING 2001

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2

 
Front Page Campus News Faculty News Alumni News Graduate School News Law School News Features Archives

Math ContestCollege team wins top honors in international math contest

For the second year in a row, Lewis & Clark students won top honors in an international mathematical modeling competition, sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications.

A Lewis & Clark team was one of 83 that tackled the interdisciplinary problem. It was one of only three teams to receive the highest rating.

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Alexander, Jason smallerAlexander to teach at London School of Economics

As strange as it sounds, British citizens who don’t pay 100 pounds (about $140) to register their home television sets risk paying a fine 10 times that amount and spending some time behind bars.

Jason Alexander ’95 knows this because he’s moving to England this summer to become a tenure-track lecturer with the esteemed London School of Economics and Political Science. There, in the school’s Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, Alexander will continue his heralded research into the evolution of norms.

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$4.5-million gift gives graduate school a new home

The gift—the largest ever to a school of education in Oregon—enables the College to acquire, renovate and maintain a three-and-a-half-story facility, the largest building at the former Franciscan Renewal Center. The College will honor Mary Stuart Rogers by renaming it Rogers Hall. She was deeply committed to providing opportunities, particularly individuals who were motivated to succeed.

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Events

Upcoming events at Lewis & Clark College can be found on the Campus Calendar

Nobel Prize-winner Lech Walesa to speak

"One of the dominant figures of European history during the past two decades, Lech Walesa is celebrated universally for his contributions to freedom and democracy," states Michael Mooney, president of Lewis & Clark College. "We are honored to welcome him as our commencement speaker for 2001."

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Feature story: Questions drive professor's research

Anderson underwaterIt was 5:30 in the morning and still dark along the Panama coast, so Ken Clifton was snorkeling with a flashlight. He was gathering data for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute—as he had done every morning for two-and-a-half years—on the reproductive ecology of coral reef fish.

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Autographed beams celebrate landmark 'green' project

"When we began construction last summer, we decided to forego the traditional ground breaking," explains James Huffman, dean of the law school. "Instead, law school alumni, faculty, staff and students took out their silver-paint pens and autographed two steel I-beams. Those autographed beams, now a permanent part of the new building, symbolize our past and our future."

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