Simran Handa BA ’19 Awarded Healthline-NORD Scholarship

Healthline, in partnership with the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), has awarded scholarships to four undergraduates nationally who have demonstrated dedication to the advancement against a rare or chronic disease. Handa talks about her win and why she’s drawn to the field.
Student Named Finalist for Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Award

Max Clary ’18 has been using his education and skills to advocate for social change throughout his time at Lewis & Clark, and now he’s secured a nomination for the 2017 Wyatt Starnes Battle of the School Award. Given by the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, the prize recognizes young leaders committed to improving the world through entrepreneurship.
Kori Groenveld ’18 Announced as Truman Scholarship Finalist

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, which supports the graduate education and professional development of outstanding young people committed to public service leadership, has selected Kori Groenveld ’18 as a finalist for the Truman Scholarship. Winners will be announced in April.
National Science Foundation Invests (Again) in “Wormland”

Biology professor Greg Hermann has been awarded a nearly half-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, his third NSF grant since joining Lewis & Clark. His three-year project on the development of lysosome-related organelles in nematodes will engage between 25 and 55 undergraduates each year in mentored, investigative, and original research.
Award Winners

Lewis & Clark students and alumni receive prestigious awards and scholarships.
Eleven Students and Alumni Win Fulbright Awards

Five seniors and six recent alumni will spend the next year overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program. Lewis & Clark is one of the top producers of Fulbright award winners in the country.
Eve Lowenstein ’17 Wins Goldwater Scholarship

Eve Lowenstein B.A. ’17 is one of just 252 scholars selected from a field of 1,150 students nominated by 415 institutions nationwide. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships are widely considered the preeminent awards for undergraduates preparing for science careers. Irene Duba B.A. ’17 garnered an honorable mention.
Highlights of 2015

A look back at some of our biggest successes of the year.
Two student-athletes named finalists for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships

Angie Epifano ’16, a senior majoring in art history, and Katie Keith B.A. ’15, currently serving as a Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant in Taiwan, were both named as double finalists for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Fulbright winner Daniela Jimenez BA ’14 is Brazil-bound

From strengthening her foreign-language and professional skills, to practicing the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira, Daniela Jimenez BA ’14 is eager to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Brazil in 2016.
Deserved Distinctions

Lewis & Clark students and alumni win Fulbrights and other prestigious awards and scholarships.
Student receives prestigious graduate scholarship to the University of Cambridge

Alexander Kraemer ’15 is awarded the Davies-Jackson Scholarship for first-generation college students.
Lewis & Clark earns presidential honor for community service

For the third time, Lewis & Clark has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Lewis & Clark previously landed on the Honor Roll in 2010 and the Honor Roll with Distinction in 2013.
Student athletes pioneer recycling business

Football and baseball player Stein Retzlaff ’16, former football player Erich Roepke ’16, and their three business partners—Hunter Meece ’15, Kyle Roepke, and Trent Martin—were recently awarded an Incubator+Launch Seed Fund grant. They are now eligible for up to $20,000 to fund their venture.
Deserved Distinctions

Lewis & Clark students and alumni earn a record number of Fulbrights, among other prestigious awards.
Student team honored at Portland Startup Weekend

A team of seven Lewis & Clark students took home top honors at Portland Startup Weekend. The Spoke.Coffee team won best customer validation at the event, with their coffee delivery by bike business that’s facilitated by a simple web application.
Academic Excellence

Our students and young alumni earn international recognition for their award-winning academic work.
Students earn grant to promote global peace

For the eighth year in a row, Lewis & Clark students have earned a competitive grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis’s 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Over the summer, project leaders Nway Khine ’15 and Sam Shugart ’15, along with Katie Schirmer ’17 and Ira Yeap ’14, will teach English to orphans in Taunggyi, Myanmar.
Students take top honors in Japanese speech contest

Lewis & Clark students recently took top honors at the 2014 Toyama Cup Japanese Speech Contest, with third-year law student Lauren McDonald receiving the grand prize—an all-expense paid trip to Japan.
Junior earns Truman Scholarship for public service

Joyce Iwashita has earned the nation’s top prize for undergraduate leaders, a highly competitive Truman Scholarship. The junior economics major earned one of 59 scholarships awarded this year, an honor which brings up to $30,000 for graduate study and leadership training in preparation for a career in government or the nonprofit sector.
Record twelve honored with Fulbright awards

Six Lewis & Clark seniors and five alumni will spend the next year overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program. This is the largest number of Lewis & Clark students and alumni earning Fulbright honors in a single year.
Art student receives two significant awards

Nick Grasso ’14 has received two significant awards—the LeRoy Neiman Foundation Fellowship at Ox-Bow and an Intern Artist Residency at Franconia Sculpture Park.
Math students shine in international competitions

Each year, Lewis & Clark participates in two highly competitive international mathematical competitions—the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Three students honored with Goldwater science awards

Three Lewis & Clark students—Colin Gavin ’15, Sarah Lowenstein ’15, and Keira Roberts ’15—received Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this spring for their exceptional work in the sciences, the largest number of scholars from any school, public or private, in Oregon.
Students take home national debate championship

Fifty-six of the nation’s best parliamentary debate teams arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona, for the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE), but only one team left as national champions—Lewis & Clark’s McKay Campbell ’14 and Emily Halter ’14.
Lewis & Clark brings home top awards in moot court competitions

Law students have been bringing home top awards in Moot Court competitions.
Career Development Center named LGBTQ Certified Career Center

The Career Development Center is proud to be named to Out for Work’s list of Silver Level LGBTQ Certified Career Centers.
First-year students honored for outstanding research skills

Each spring, first-year students write research papers as they complete their final semester of Lewis & Clark’s core course, Exploration and Discovery. To honor the memory of former library director James J. Kopp—and to offer an incentive for these students to immerse themselves in scholarly sources—Watzek Library offers an award of $200 to two students who demonstrate excellent research techniques.
Student named top overall forensics competitor in Northwest

Lewis & Clark’s Ben Mann ’14 recently won the Northwest Forensics Conference’s top individual honor, the Coaches Commemorative Award.
Lewis & Clark debate team wins prestigious tournament

The debate team of McKay Campbell ’14 and Emily Halter ’14 recently won the prestigious Great Salt Lake Invitational, held at the University of Utah. Campbell and Halter placed first out of a field of 98 teams from 34 schools across the nation, defeating a team from William Jewell College in the final debate to win the title.
Students present research findings at Northwest conference

Lewis & Clark students presented a diverse array of research findings to an audience of more than 500 people at the Murdock College Science Research Program’s recent Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Diplomats of the future find success in Washington

Lewis & Clark’s Model United Nations club was awarded the title of “distinguished delegation” after attending a national conference in Washington, D.C. Only 10 percent of participating delegations were recommended for awards.

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