Assistant Professor of Mathematics receives junior faculty fellowship

Naiomi Cameron, Assistant Professor of Mathematics:

Cameron received a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cameron’s fellowship will allow her to take one year,
starting in June 2009, to pursue her scholarly research and writing, travel to academic conferences and connect with a network of Career Enhancement Fellows and Mentors.

Cameron said the fellowship benefits her personally as well as her students. She pointed out that this will afford her time and resources to further her research, enrich her teaching, and engage in the mathematical community at Lewis & Clark.

20 March 2009

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• faculty
• fellowship
• mathematics
• mentorship

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Greg Smith awarded environmental education grant

Greg Smith, professor of teacher education:

Smith has received a $19,380 grant from the Gray Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to train teachers in the West Linn School District on environmental issues. The Environmental Education Program seeks to encourage a strong local land ethic, sustainable communities, and stewardship of the natural environment by citizens throughout Oregon. The Fund is committed long term to institutionalizing a series of age-appropriate experiences that build a sense of place and responsibility towards Oregon and the region.

The Sustainability Education Initiative is a program of professional development coursework and activities for K-12 teachers in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District. During three courses offered in 2009, Smith will prepare 50-60 teachers to incorporate sustainability issues into their classrooms and help them implement school or community projects that will enhance local natural and social environments. Participants will be eligible for small seed grants to fund start-up projects. The grant aims to increase the number of teachers implementing sustainability projects in schools, and increase student and educator awareness of local natural systems, ecologies, and social needs.

16 December 2008

• community
• education
• environment
• faculty
• grant
• teacher education

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Associate Dean Janet Bixby publishes book on her qualitative research

Janet Bixby, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling:

“Educating Democratic Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts” (SUNY Press, 2008), a new book by Bixby, will be published in November.  This book offers a groundbreaking examination of citizenship education programs that serve contemporary youth in schools and communities across the United States. These programs include social studies classes and curricula, school governance, and community-based education perspectives of educators and youth involved in these civic education efforts. The contributors offer rich analyses of how mainstream and alternative programs are envisioned and enacted, and the most important factors that shape them. A variety of theoretical lenses and qualitative methodologies are used, including ethnography, focus group interviews, and content analyses of textbooks.

15 October 2008

• community
• faculty
• publication
• research

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