Please join the History Department in this exciting and entertaining event! Come strut your stuff (historical style), on the runway whether you are a major or non-major.  To compete in the designing competition, please email juliaduerst@lclark.edu with a team of 3 and submit the names of your team members as well as a team name.

The English department is delighted to welcome author Alexis Smith. Her first novel, Glaciers, was published by Tin House Books. Her second novel, Islands, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin.

Watzek screens Barnet’s 1928 production, The House on Trubnaya (the third flick in our Soviet film series) on Thursday, October 16 at 7 p.m. in Miller 105.

The 17th annual Environmental Affairs Symposium: “We the Athropos”, will hold its keynote event at Ecotrust in downtown Portland.  Speakers Lesley Head and Paul Robbins will be highlighted.

Exploration & Discovery presents William Deresiewicz, a prominent writer who will speak about his recent, high-profile book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.

Monday, October 13th, 3:30pm
Council Chambers in Templeton

This event is free and open the Lewis & Clark community.

Native Americans and Protected Areas: Translating Differences in Natural and Cultural Resource Management

This forum will focus on how legal clinics are transforming the education of the transactional business lawyer.

Watzek screens Eisenstien’s 1925 production, Battleship Potemkin (the second flick in our Soviet film series) on Thursday, October 2 at 7 p.m. in Miller 105.

Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American poet and writer, an activist and feminist, an editor and Professor of English. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms all over the world.  Marilyn Chin’s work is a frequent subject of academic research and literary criticism. She has read her poetry at the Library of Congress. In addition to teaching in the MFA program at San Diego State University, she serves as a mentor on the international faculty of the City University of Hong Kong’s low-residency MFA program, the first of its kind in Asia. Please join us in the Chapel for a special evening with Marilyn Chin!

Todd Schlenke from Reed College talks about parasitic wasp venom evolution.

Andrew Asher, Assessment Librarian at Indiana University, will present, “Discovering Information: Investigations Into How Students Search” Friday, September 19 at 3 p.m. in Smith Hall.

Watzek Screens kicks off Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m. in Miller 105. The first screening in our Soviet film series is Vertov’s 1929 production, Man with a Movie Camera.

Lewis & Clark College is pleased to announce the opening of our new Center for Entrepreneurship “eLab,” and invite you to visit the new space during our “Open House” on September 18th, 2014.

Post-Polarized: How the Liberal Mayor and Evangelical Leader Teamed up to Serve the City of Portland is a dialogue between former Portland Mayor Sam Adams (a gay liberal) and Evangelical Christian leader Kevin Palau.  They will discuss how they became “post-polarized” in order to serve the city of Portland together and get some very important community action accomplished.

Students present their summer work on topics as diverse as parallel computing and security, reaction-diffusion equations with applications in chemistry, social motivation and acoustic communication, and arachnids in the Caribbean.

In this interdisciplinary and interactive exhibition, Dana Lynn Louis will transform the Hoffman Gallery into an experiential environment that explores the varied meanings of “clearing.” She will lead guided meditations every Tuesday at 4 p.m. except Thanksgiving week.

Please join Professor Pauls Toutonghi for a conversation with publisher and Director of Columbia University Publishing Course Shay Areheart.

The Portland Chamber Orchestra starts its 2014/15 season with a very musically diverse all strings program entitled “Strings Attached” featuring Pianist Chad Heltzel and Percussionist Brett EE Paschal (Director of Bands and Percussion Studies at Lewis & Clark). Works range from Baroque to modern and features brilliant and accomplished soloists.