News

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  Alumni Spotlight: Latisha Brown, M.A.
  Latisha Brown shares her recent journey, entering graduate school and learning to balance multiple life roles.  She shares her personal and professional growth throughout her graduate course work and internship. Unforeseen bonuses are the lifelong friendships she developed through her time at Lewis and Clark and at her internship.  An unplanned pregnancy presented some added challenges during her internship, but she received the necessary support from family and friends, from L&C, from her internship, and from her faith in God.  It is with great joy that she summarizes this year: completion of a Masters degree, a new baby boy and a new job that she loves (despite the tough economy).
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  Alumni Spotlight: Dave and Catie Dalton
  Dave Dalton describes his professional journey and includes news about Catie Dalton, an LC Education alum.  After graduating from Counseling Psychology in December 2010, Dave will join his wife who is already teaching in Nigeria. Also both have done long bicycling treks, including one 4,000 miles endeavor.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Gabriele Smith, M.A., LMHC, NCC
  Gabriele Smith describes her professional journey from growing up in a family of social service professionals to her current endeavors in her private practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Washington.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Heidi Jolson, MA, LPC
  Heidi Jolson describes her career and the path she took toward her current life as a professional counselor and as a mother of a toddler.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Karin Chuang, M.A.
  Alumni Karin Chuang shares her professional journey from her undergraduate years through her current life as a mother and as a therapist in private practice.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Kendra Morris-Jacobson, M.A.
  Kendra Morris-Jacobson, 1994 CPSY graduate, shares highlights of her career as a mental health professional. Her internship at an outpatient psychiatry clinic led to her 1st position offering individual, family & group counseling to depressed & suicidal youth. Following the birth of her children she shifted to a PT position with Boys and Girls Aid, a 125 year old social services agency. Kendra talks about her work in foster care adoption.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Jeff Christensen, M.A., CADC1
  The story of a recent graduate’s career path and future goals.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Holly Shumway
  Holly Shumway, a student in our Community Counseling program, shares what it’s like to be a graduate student who is also a wife and mother in a busy family of lifelong learners.  Her delightful narrative indicates what attitudes and qualities are important to her as she becomes a counseling professional.
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  Sarah Bret Nedeau, 2011
  Program Coordinator for Athena House, the Janus Youth Progra
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  Ellie Witwer, 2010
  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• Alumni and Faculty Support Student Scholarships
  Alumni and Faculty Support Student Scholarship in the Mathematical Sciences. Dozens of alumni, faculty and friends support the mathematical sciences programs each year with their gifts designated to the department. Donors play an integral role in the success of the mathematical sciences faculty and students.
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  Recent Alumni Spotlight: Chris Scheffler
  Chris, originally from Eureka, California, graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2010 with a degree in Physics and Computer Science / Mathematics. Currently working in the high-tech area of Silicon Valley, he still finds time for life outside work. He enjoys spending time with his friends and family, camping and being outdoors, and homebrewing in his spare time.
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  TONIGHT: Kate Mills, high school counselor
  Alumni Career Corps volunteer Kate Mills visits campus tonight from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Stacey Hatch, M.A., MFT, LPC, LMFT, CADCII
  Educational and professional background of a 2006 CPSY alumnus who is now in private practice full time offering mental health counseling and addiction treatment.  She offers advice for graduates who are working toward licensure as and Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor.
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  Alumni Spotlight: Cate Drinan, M.A.
  Cate Drinan, an alumna of the Counseling Psychology Department, shares her fond memories & rewarding career supporting & advocating for families, parents & children. 
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  Alumni Spotlight: Francesca Barnett
  Her first language? Sign! Fluent in sign language. Has a multiracial heritage. Is a mother & life partner. Works at two jobs. Also is an MCFT graduate student.
  CPSY Diversity Scholarship Recipient. She says others can do it, too!
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  Alumnus publishes NYT crossword drawing from math major
  Parker Lewis ’08 wrote Thursday’s crossword puzzle in the New York Times, drawing inspiration from his math degree and Peace Corps service.
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  Alumnus puts art history degree to work at Museum of Contemporary Craft
  Kyle Yoshioka ’13 puts his art history degree to work at Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft.
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  BCMB Alumnus Honored with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  BCMB Alumnus Receives NSF Grant
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  Recent Grad Success Story: Eli Fabens
  The folks in 3CE recently caught up with Eli Fabens to hear more about his experiences working at Oreninc, an independent financial services provider for companies, institutions, and investors in the junior commodities space. Eli, originally from Ithaca, New York, graduated from Lewis & Clark in May 2011 with a degree in Economics.
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  Oregon is the first state in the nation to declare its independence from in-state coal power
  Conservation groups, represented by PEAC, and Portland General Electric (PGE) announced an agreement that establishes a $2.5 million fund for environmental restoration and job-creating clean energy projects.
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  PEAC Class of 2011
  PEAC offers hands-on opportunities for law students to be involved in real-world practical advocacy at a level unmatched by clinical programs around the nation.
• NCVLI Launches Victims’ Rights Community Bulletin
  In an effort to regularly highlight the achievements of the amazing people in our victims’ rights community of alumni, advocates, students, attorneys, and more, and to ensure their work can continue to inspire all of us, NCVLI is launching the Victims’ Rights Community Bulletin.  Each Bulletin will spotlight members and their work, and identify ways you can get involved - from events, to internships, to educational opportunities.
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  Students’ article published in Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
  Counseling Psychology students have published an article in the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy about a training tool that helps family therapists understand the impact of social, political, and economic systems on individual and family life.
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  Colin Pierce, MAT ’11, comments in Seattle Times on school funding
  A Lewis & Clark alum chimes in on the topic of school funding in Washington State.
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  Alumnae pen new anthem for Rookie magazine
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities Marianna Ritchey B.A. ’99 recently collaborated with Katy Davidson B.A. ’99 to write a theme song for Rookie magazine that captures the publication’s mission of empowering teenage girls. The result is “Go Forth, Feminist Warriors,” a triumphant anthem that includes the talents of more than a dozen musicians.
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  Spotlight on five young alumni
  Spotlight on five young alumni: See how Lewis & Clark equipped them for life beyond college.
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  Alumnus’ work transforms Russian warheads into American electricity
  The idea of Thomas L. Neff B.A. ’65 evolved into the Megatons to Megawatts program, which has transformed 20,000 Russian warheads into roughly 10 percent of all electricity generated in the United States.
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  Spotlight on four entrepreneurial alumni
  A closer look at four entrepreneurial alumni who have forged their own paths in the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.