News

• New Faculty Q & A with Brian Dombeck
  August 18
  Fall, 2017 sees the arrival of four new tenure-track members to the College of Arts & Sciences. To welcome our community’s newest members, our office sent them a brief questionnaire so that we may get to know them a little better.
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  New Faculty Q & A with Maria Hristova
  August 14
  Fall, 2017 sees the arrival of four new tenure-track members to the College of Arts & Sciences. To welcome our community’s newest members, our office sent them a brief questionnaire so that we may get to know them a little better.
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  E&D Colloquium Series. Unable to Attend? Watch the Video!
  September 7
  Video recordings of E&D events
• New Faculty Q & A with Sharon Torigoe
  August 22
  Fall, 2017 sees the arrival of four new tenure-track members to the College of Arts & Sciences. To welcome our community’s newest members, our office sent them a brief questionnaire so that we may get to know them a little better.
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  Steve Johansen
  July 29
  Director and Professor of Lawyering
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  James J. Kopp First-year Research Awards for Exploration and Discovery Students
  April 8
  The Aubrey R. Watzek Library and the Exploration and Discovery Program would like to bring your attention to a new opportunity designed to showcase the work of Lewis & Clark first-year students:  the James J. Kopp First-year Research Awards.
• New Faculty Q & A with Laura Thaut Vinson
  August 22
  Fall, 2017 sees the arrival of four new tenure-track members to the College of Arts & Sciences. To welcome our community’s newest members, our office sent them a brief questionnaire so that we may get to know them a little better.
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  Toni Berres-Paul
  July 29
  Professor of Lawyering
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  Bill Chin
  July 29
  Professor of Lawyering
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  Earthrise files brief with US Supreme Court over WOTUS
  April 28
  On behalf of our clients Waterkeeper Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, and several other organizations (“Waterkeeper”), Earthrise filed their opening merits brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on April 27, 2017, in the case captioned as National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, et al.
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  Reiko Hillyer Receives Award from Southern Historical Association
  October 4
  Professor Hillyer wins the Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award
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  Aliza Kaplan
  July 29
  Professor of Lawyering
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  Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past and Present
  April 5
  Working with interviews from founding company members and archival performance footage, filmmaker and dance instructor at Lewis & Clark College, Eric Nordstrom explores how today’s dancers stand on the shoulders of decades of perform
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  Bloomberg Law talks with Professor Dan Rohlf about climate change and threatened animals
  November 1
  Professor Dan Rohlf discusses a recent appeals court decision which allows animals to be considered “threatened” based on climate change models. He speaks with Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Law.”
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  Elliott Young Receives Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award Honorable Mention
  October 4
  The 2016 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award Committee awarded an honorable mention to Alien Nation:Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), by Professor of History and Director of Ethnic Studies, Elliott Young.
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  Professor Young’s op-ed piece on Syria published on The Huffington Post
  September 15
  Professor of History Elliott Young’s opinion piece, titled “We Can Do More for Syrian Refugees” appears in the September 15, 2015 edition of The Huffington Post.
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  Students name Rebecca Lingafelter as the 2015 Teacher of the Year
  April 16
  2015 Teacher of the Year
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  Professor Tomlinson showing at the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery
  October 29
  Adjacent Possibilities- New show by Cara Tomlinson
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  Judith Miller
  July 29
  Professor of Lawyering
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  Alumna Pens a Guide for Tomorrow’s Global Citizens
  September 26
  International affairs alumna Lyla Bashan has turned an expansive career in diplomacy into a handbook for those who want to change the world for the better. Now her lessons in foreign service from Tajikistan to Armenia are in the pocket of students everywhere with the release of her first book Global: An Extraordinary Guide for Ordinary Heroes.
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  Professors Boost Big Data Research With a New Computer Cluster
  September 19
  This summer Lewis & Clark acquired a computational server that will improve the speed and ease of research calculations. Researchers studying computational physics, genetic sequencing, and climate modeling have already begun to imagine how this powerful hardware will enhance their research.
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  U.S. News Recognizes Lewis & Clark’s Strengths in Overseas Study and Undergraduate Teaching
  September 12
  The new 2018 U.S News & World Report Best Colleges rankings identify Lewis & Clark’s Overseas and Off-Campus Programs as among the best in the nation. The peer rankings also feature Lewis & Clark on the “Best Undergraduate Teaching” list, a select group of 30 liberal arts colleges where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.
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  NSF Funds Physicist’s Approach to Research and Teaching
  August 16
  Just a year after joining Lewis & Clark, Assistant Professor Mohamed Anber is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant in support of his work in elementary particle physics. With colleagues and students from other departments, Anber is helping build new research capabilities for asking and answering very big questions.
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  Students Share Their Science Research Over Lunch
  August 10
  Each week in June and July, students in the John S. Rogers Research Program present their original findings in front of peers and faculty at the Science Brown Bags. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in science by facilitating student-faculty collaboration on research projects.
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  Sociology Professor Urges Migrants’ Rights in Cambodian Press
  July 7
  Assistant Professor of Sociology Maryann Bylander studies mobility and migration in the Global South. Currently in Cambodia leading a field research expedition with students, Bylander has just had a column published in the Phnom Penh Post. In it, she urges better treatment of migrant Cambodian workers in Thailand.
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  NSF Invests in Lewis & Clark to Diversify the Science Teacher Pipeline
  May 19
  Recruiting and preparing a workforce of K–12 science and math teachers for an increasingly diverse group of students is crucial to improving science education. A new $125,000 National Science Foundation grant to Lewis & Clark will help to fund its STEM Teacher Pathways Project.
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  Sociology Professor and Students Head to Cambodia for Fieldwork
  April 7
  Assistant Professor of Sociology Maryann Bylander will travel this summer to Cambodia with three Lewis & Clark students to investigate the use of microcredit—a finance model of providing small, affordable loans to new businesses in developing areas. The expedition is being funded by an ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows grant.
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  Watzek Special Collections Unveils New Exhibition
  March 27
  The Horror of Normalcy: Katherine Dunn, Geek Love, and Cult Literature opens to the public April 4. This exhibition provides a first look at the literary archive of the cult Portland author, who arranged to bequeath her collection to Lewis & Clark before her death in 2016.
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  Law Professor to Lead Center for Entrepreneurship
  March 22
  On June 1, Samir Parikh will take the reins as the new director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Lewis & Clark College. The center’s mix of academic and real-world offerings give students from all disciplines the chance to explore various subjects through an entrepreneurial lens.
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  MEET AND GREET
  August 29
  COME! MEET! LEARN!
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  Mon, Aug 29, 4:30pm
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