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Kris Soebroto, cafe co-manager and development co-manager, and Cate Turner, ’16, get ready to serve up some delicious plums from the Lewis & Clark organic gardens at the Sisters of the Road cafe.

The Q&A is the fourth in a series produced by the Facilities Services department to spotlight and applaud its summer student employees.

Citing his academic achievement and leadership qualities, the American Library Association recently honored Sam Dodson B.A. ’13 with its 2014 Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media.

Brian Detweiler-Bedell, associate professor of psychology, was recently awarded the 2014 Outstanding Mentor Award in Psychology by the Council on Undergraduate Research. The award acknowledges faculty who exhibit exceptional mentorship to students and act as role models for those doing undergraduate research.

This Q&A is the third in a series produced by the Facilities Services department to spotlight and applaud its summer student employees.

As a teacher, counselor, and member of the editorial board for the journal Ecopsychology, Doherty explores the connection between human health and the health of the planet.

After a man catcalled her on the street, Samantha Peterson B.A. ’14 took to the stage of the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) to deliver a poem that might change the way Americans talk about fat bodies. The piece, “Dead Men Can’t Catcall,” earned her a Best of the Rest individual award and a story in the Huffington Post.

The Q&A is the second in a series produced by the Facilities Services department to spotlight and applaud its summer student employees.

Andrew Holder B.A. ’00 is a recipient of the 2014 Architectural League Prize, awarded to a select group of young architects whose designs have demonstrated “exemplary and provocative work.” Given by the Architectural League of New York, the annual award is one of North America’s most prestigious honors for early-career practitioners of architecture.

The Q&A is the first in a series produced by the Facilities Services department to spotlight and applaud its summer student employees.

Faculty pursue varied avocations for a healthy work-life balance. Here are a few examples from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Effective of June 1, 2014, Doug Erickson’s position at Watzek Library will be Associate Director for Special Collections and Archives.

Lewis & Clark Cappella Nova and Community Chorale will be featured on All Classical radio 89.9 FM on the episode of “Played in Oregon” airing on Sunday, June 15th, at 1 p.m. You may also listen from afar at allclassical.org.

Charlie Morgan B.A. ’08, a graduate student in the chemistry and chemical biology Ph.D. program at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), recently won one of the school’s public service awards for outstanding service to the community.

Jim Oleske is the 2014 recipient of the the Leo Levenson Teaching Excellence Award.

James F. Miller Professor of Humanities Nicholas D. Smith was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to direct a five-week philosophy seminar at Lewis & Clark this summer.

Erica Terpening-Romeo B.A. ’14 is a distinguished scholar, seasoned thespian, skilled writer, successful entrepreneur, and recipient of two of Lewis & Clark’s highest annual honors—the Rena J. Ratte Award and the Senior Woman Recognition Award, given by the American Association of University Women. Never before has a graduating student received both of these prestigious awards.

Goodwin Liu, associate justice of the California Supreme Court, will be the speaker at the commencement ceremony for the law school on Saturday, May 24.

Our faculty members are honored for their exceptional teaching and research.

 

Alumnus Thomas Hagerman has been named superintendent of schools in Scarsdale, New York.

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. 

Our students and young alumni earn international recognition for their award-winning academic work.

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.

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.

Good Magazine—a quarterly publication focused on global citizenry—has named Hunter Franks B.A. ’08 to its annual list of 100 individuals who employ creativity and innovation to drive the world forward.

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.

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.

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.

What will college look like in 2025? Dozens of college presidents and other higher education leaders from around the country descended on Lewis & Clark on April 10 for a candid exploration of that big question.

Mary Szybist, associate professor of English, is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of creative arts. Szybist’s fellowship will be devoted to work on her next volume of poetry, a follow-up to her award-winning collection Incarnadine.