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Bess Austin’s recent acquisition of ISTM certification makes abroad study safer and easier for LC students.

Paul S. Wright Professor and Director of Strategic Initiatives Robert Kugler has received Lewis & Clark’s David Savage Award.

The Honorable Judge Julie Frantz was elected president of the National Association of Women Judges.

Google’s CS Engagement Program supports Computer Science.

Paula Hayes B.S. ’92—a Board of Trustees member and upcoming recipient of the Pioneer Alumna Leadership Award—was recently featured in Portland Business Journal for her innovative cosmetics company.

In the closing to his historic fourth inaugural address, Governor Kitzhaber quotes Lewis & Clark professor Kim Stafford.

Robert Klonoff, Jordan D. Schnitzer professor of law and former dean, has been teaching short courses on U.S. law around the world.

Associate Professor of Music Katherine Fitzgibbon recently received an Artistic Focus Project Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC).

To teach the Lewis & Clark community about its history of engagement with social justice, the Department of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement (IME) has created a tour that highlights events in the college’s past.

Recap of IME’s fall semester accomplishments and a preview of spring!

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.

Susan Willis Tolle B.A. ’73—a Phi Beta Kappa member and former Distinguished Alumna Award winner—has been awarded $50,000 and the MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics for her pioneering work in end-of-life care. The award is the largest in the nation for clinical medical ethics.

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.

Sara McGowan M.A.T. ’01 combines her love of language and learning in the Spanish/English community school she founded in Costa Rica.

Lewis & Clark has been named one of the top 10 baccalaureate institutions for semester- and year-long overseas programs.

Independent candidate Bill Walker B.S. ’73 has won the Alaska governor’s race, after a contest that was too close to call until absentee and questioned voters were counted.

As the recipient of a prestigious fellowship at the International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, Associate Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi will spend four weeks in residency working on his next book, The Lost Ocean.

Graduate students launch a non-profit to support a counselor training center in Uganda.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Alex Young ’15 spent his summer immersed in the forests of eastern Kansas. 

Roger Ferland B.A. ’68 was recently named the 2014 Outstanding Disabled Veteran of the Year by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV).

In recognition of her outstanding commitment to educational equity, Charlene Williams—who is currently completing her doctorate work in educational leadership—was honored at the 2014 Equal Opportunity Awards Day Dinner.

Law Professor Lydia Loren and alumnus Sean Clancy are helping artists with low-cost legal counseling and educational workshops.

Dean of Students Anna Gonzalez was recently recognized as an outstanding member of the student affairs and higher education community by the NASPA (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators) Foundation—the leading association for the advancement, health, and sustainability of the student affairs profession.

The Washington Post recently highlighted the campaign’s focus on grassroots efforts, including those of Myles Creed B.A. ’11, an Alaska native who works out of a makeshift headquarters in his parents’ home.

In a recent commentary for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Lewis & Clark President Barry Glassner and Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro take on the doomsayers and their pessimism regarding everything from student debt to the “return on investment” of education.

Lewis & Clark College was given the 2014 Green Award for sustainability on campus.

Professor of Chemistry Louis Kuo has been awarded a $220,116 grant from the National Science Foundation in support of his research on the degradation of organophosphates, neurotoxins that are used pervasively as agricultural pesticides.

This fall, 36 students joined the Math Sciences professors for a day hike in the Mt. Hood wilderness. The day concluded with BBQ and games at a professor’s cabin.

Over the past two years, Jeremy Stanhope, ’16, has been working hard to get Lewis & Clark’s Beekeeper’s Club up and running.

Get to know Instructor and Co-Director of Academic English Studies Laura Shier, who joins the faculty this fall.