News

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  Davies-Jackson Scholarship
  September 21
  Funds two years of study at University of Cambridge for first-generation college student.
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  Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
  September 18
  The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships attempt to increase diversity in college and university-level teaching while maximizing the educational benefits of diversity. Each year, the Ford Foundation offers approximately 60 predoctoral fellowships ($20,000 per year for up to three years), 35 dissertation fellowships ($21,000 for one year), and 20 postdoctoral fellowships ($40,000 for one year).
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  The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
  September 18
  The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest challenges college students to analyze current ethical issues in today’s world.
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  Teaching Pioneers
  October 30
  Lewis & Clark professors are renowned researchers and scholars.
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  Faculty in Focus
  January 8

  Meet three of our dynamic professors.

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  Shared Discovery
  June 26
  Grant-funded research by Lewis & Clark students and faculty is the focus of a new website.
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  Lewis & Clark to host first NEH-funded philosophy seminar
  June 2
  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.
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  Pioneer Pointers
  February 14
  Current students share their top Lewis & Clark course recommendations.
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  Faculty in Focus
  September 16
  Meet some of our outstanding professors.
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  Ratte award winner puts down roots in many fields
  July 23
  As a philosophy and mathematics double major, Benjamin Hoffman B.A. ’13 is used to going above and beyond. This passion for exceeding expectations earned Hoffman the 2013 Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college’s highest academic honor.
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  Faculty Profile: Rebecca “Becko” Copenhaver

  May 29
  Get to know Rebecca “Becko” Copenhaver
, professor of philosophy and 2013 Teacher of the Year.
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  Teacher of the Year
  May 29
  Students honor philosophy professor Rebecca Copenhaver.
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  A Wider View on the Humanities
  January 7
  Collaborative research takes an interdisciplinary approach.
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  Professor featured on upcoming Philosophy Talk episode
  August 20
  An episode of the nationally syndicated radio program Philosophy Talk that was recorded at Lewis & Clark will soon hit the airwaves.
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  Student blends philosophy studies, modeling career
  August 9
  Isaac Ekblad ’13 was sitting in a local coffee shop, cramming for a test when he was “discovered.” At the time, Ekblad declined the invitation to become a model. But now, three years later, he’s flying high for fashion house Givenchy while staying grounded as a philosophy major at Lewis & Clark.
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  Philosophy Prof Wins Teaching Award
  April 28
  Joel Martinez, assistant professor of philosophy, recently received the Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Award in recognition of his outstanding teaching in the humanities.
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  Philosophy professor recognized for humanities teaching excellence
  February 11

  Professor Joel Martinez received the Graves Award in recognition of his humanities teaching excellence.

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  Experimental field tries to unlock philosophical questions with quantitative methods
  June 17
  This fall Lewis & Clark will offer its first course in experimental philosophy, a new sub-field that has caused a stir in traditional philosophy circles. Learn more about the field in a Q&A with Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Bruno who will teach the new course.