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  President’s Letter: Dreaming and Daring Globally
  President’s Letter: Dreaming and Daring Globally
• Letters from Readers
  Letters from Readers
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  Nanoparticles, Worms, and Sensors Score Big
  Lewis & Clark’s reputation for providing graduate-level research opportunities to undergraduates continues as science faculty secure grants from prominent funding organizations.
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  Oregon Book Awards
  Kim Stafford, director of Lewis & Clark’s Northwest Writing Institute, recently received the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, one of two special awards that Portland-based Literary Arts bestows annually in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.
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  Catching the Wave
  Ocean wave technology could eventually power as much as 10 percent of the world’s electrical demand, but it is an alternative energy source that comes with little-understood legal, economic, and environmental impacts.
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  Templeton’s Extreme Makeover
  Lively colors, improved lighting, new carpet, and a host of other upgrades greeted students upon their return to Templeton Campus Center at the beginning of the fall term. Over the summer, workers completed a dramatic facelift of the central floor of Templeton.
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  Meet the New Head of Center for Career and Community Engagement
  Minda Heyman is the new director of the Center for Career and Community Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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  Fulbright Winner
  In Paderborn, Germany, a small city near Cologne, Lauren Edwards B.A. ‘07 is using her Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to provide basic instruction in business English, marketing, and banking.
• Cool Is the Rule (of Law)
  Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, took up the topic of climate change initiatives at colleges and universities in its “Coolest Schools” issue (November/December 2007). Lewis & Clark Law School topped the list of law schools to attend if you want to become an environmental attorney
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  West Meets East at Waseda
  Lewis & Clark and Waseda, one of Japan’s premier universities, have shared a mutually supportive relationship since the early 1990s. Previously, Waseda has sent dozens of its students to Lewis & Clark. But now, for the first time, Lewis & Clark is sending its own students to Waseda (specifically, Waseda University’s School of International Liberal Studies).
• Expressly Lewis & Clark
  The Pioneer Express shuttle bus, which transports Lewis & Clark students to and from campus and around Portland, sported a new look in the fall: Lewis & Clark’s logo and the school colors.
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  Pio Sports
  Pio Sports
• Innovator on YouTube
  Lewis & Clark senior Adan Vielma recently won a national video contest, culminating in a trip to Capitol Hill and a scholarship from the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation.
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  3 for American Law Institute

  Three Lewis & Clark Law School professors–Bill Funk, Jennifer Johnson, and Craig Johnston–have been elected members of the American Law Institute.

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  Beck’s Forte: Teaching
  Beck’s approach to music education earned her the distinction of Master Teacher by the American Musicological Society at its annual conference in November 2007. Beck is only the third teacher to earn such an honor from AMS.
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  On the Job for the Community
  Lewis & Clark spends 25 percent of its Federal Work-Study dollars off campus.
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  The New Environmentalism
  Lewis & Clark embraces a 21st-century vision of environmental studies that is holistic, interdisciplinary, and firmly rooted in a sense of place.
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  Crossing the Rio Grande to Study Overseas
  My reflections on the 1962 Mexico program and the launch of the overseas study program.
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  New Teachers Talk
  Lewis & Clark’s mentoring program offers a lifeline to new teachers.
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  When Life Becomes Art
  Five Lewis & Clark graduates make their mark as documentary filmmakers.