Each year, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) recognizes faculty, staff, and students whose tremendous contributions make Lewis & Clark a more welcoming community.

A Lewis & Clark senior and three alumnae will spend the next year teaching around the world after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program.

The Center for Career and Community Engagement is proud to announce this year’s recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service, an award given to a graduating senior who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to service and issues of social justice in the campus, Portland, and international communities.

Bon Appetit Fellow Claire Cummings ‘11, describes her experience visiting Urban Gleaners, a food donation warehouse for Title 1 schools.

Laurel Sager ’15, a rhetoric and media studies major, took home second place in the Medford Mail Tribune’s third annual Two-Minute Film Festival.

In early May, Lewis & Clark hosted the annual student-athlete recognition dessert, honoring outstanding athletes of the year and outgoing seniors.

Throughout the spring, students and young alumni from the CAS, law school, and graduate school, competed to receive seed money for entrepreneurial business plans. Five winning teams are now in the running to win funding totaling up to $30,000.

Students vote Rebecca “Becko” Copenhaver, professor of philosophy, Teacher of the Year. Watch her heartfelt acceptance speech in this short video.

Pioneers garner international recognition for academic excellence and service.

President Glassner has announced the winners of the President’s Scholarship for Academic Engagement—Eva Ramey, Kelsey Kahn, Lily Clarke, and Jordan Anderson.

The Advancement Services team spent some time at Loaves & Fishes last month during their team building day.

Lewis & Clark has received a partnership award from Friends of Tryon Creek for the school’s dedication to the success of the organization.

For the seventh 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, students Miranda Benson ’13 and Hillary Patin ’14 will promote dance movement therapy and self-defense for women in Varanasi, India.

Mollie Galloway, assistant professor of educational leadership, uncovers disturbing evidence of how some high school students equate achievement and success with cheating.

Two Lewis & Clark alumni received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for demonstrating promise as leaders in their fields.

Isaac Holeman B.A. ’09 is the first Lewis & Clark alumnus to receive a highly competitive, full-cost Gates Cambridge Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge.

Kyla Hamling ’14 received a prestigious science scholarship for her exceptional work in biology. Hamling is one of 271 students to earn Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships this spring, from a field of 1,107 applicants nationwide.

Lewis & Clark’s debate team concluded its 2012-2013 season with a sixth place school ranking and several strong individual performances.

On May 14, Lewis & Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff will be recognized by the Oregon Consular Corps (OCC) for his significant outreach to law firms and law schools overseas.

Assistant professor of biology Peter Kennedy has been awarded a $54,022 research grant by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Life Sciences Research Program.

New faces, new titles, a few farewells: Q&A with Director of Auxiliaries Wendy Washburn explains just how easy it is to enjoy working at Lewis & Clark for nearly three decades.

Lewis & Clark media studies professor Bryan Sebok has his students making a documentary called Cartlandia, about diversity in Portland’s food cart scene.

Anne Bentley, Heather Smith-Cannoy, Michael Johanson, Peter Kennedy, and Pauls Toutonghi have received tenure and promotion to the academic rank of associate professor effective September 1, 2013.

Kristina Williams ’13 has capped a stellar career with additional honors, earning a spot on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division III All-America Team and making the D3hoops.com All-America and All-West Region First Teams. The senior guard is also the Northwest Conference Player of the Year for the second time in her career.

Garrick Imatani, assistant professor of art, recently received significant funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and The Ford Family Foundation. Imatani and Tammy Jo Wilson, adjunct professor of art, also received Oregon Arts Commission career opportunity awards.

As part of a raffle drawing at the Philanthropy Booth at the recent L&C Wellness Fair, participants wrote why donating makes them happy and offered the name of their favorite charity in order to enter a raffle drawing.

For the second 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).

Portland has a rich contemporary music scene, and professor Michael Johanson strives to connect his students to it as often as possible. This spring, he has invited students and community members to attend several performances of his compositions throughout the city.

Megan Mills-Novoa B.A. ’09 has been named a Luce scholar—the first Lewis & Clark student or graduate to receive the honor.

Assistant Professor Tamily Weissman-Unni maps the neural circuitry within zebrafish. Her work is part of larger effort in labs around the world to build a detailed wiring diagram of the human brain.