Second, NCVLI was awarded a 2 year grant of $150,000 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to focus on the rights of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or dating violence. This grant will allow NCVLI to provide training and legal technical assistance to OVW grantees across the nation. NCVLI will partner with the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence and the Victims Rights Law Center on many of the trainings.

NCVLI promotes balance and fairness in the justice system through crime-victim-centered legal advocacy, education, and resource sharing. NCVLI also provides legal technical assistance to attorneys and advocates of victims and educates lawyers, judges, law students, victims’ advocates, the law enforcement community, and the public about victims’ rights.

In June, McWilliams published an article in the Code4Lib Journal titled “Developing an Academic Image Collection with Flickr.” The article discusses technical aspects of the up-and-coming online collection of contemporary ceramics images, accessCeramics, founded by Assistant Director for Systems and Technical Services at the Watzek Library Mark Dahl and Assistant Professor of Art and Program Head of Ceramics Ted Vogel. Dahl and Vogel recently received a grant of $19,000 from the non-profit organization NITLE to help jumpstart this online collection, which will not only be used in classroom settings, but will be open to the general public as well.

Dahl and Vogel received a grant of $19,000 for their project “accessCeramics at Liberal Arts Colleges” from the non-profit organization NITLE. accessCeramics is an online collection of images of contemporary ceramics.

President Thomas Hochstettler opened the conference with remarks on science research and teaching in the context of the liberal arts. Dean of the College Julio de Paula opened the final day of the conference with a review of the history of science research at Lewis & Clark. Professor of Physics Herschel Snodgrass presented his paper titled “Large-Scale Convection and the Solar Activity Cycle.”

Graduating senior Christina Ketchum shared her paper on “Correlating Vertical Velocities of Ionized Interstellar Medium To Star Formation Rates In Nearby Face-On Spiral Galaxies,” which was a collaborative effort with Associate Professor of Physics Stephen Tufte. Tufte chaired the sessions on astrophysics and biophysics with Professor of Physics Bethe Scalettar. Scalettar presented a paper at the session titled “Elucidating Molecular Events Underlying Learning with Fluorescence Microscopy,” the product of joint research undertaken with graduating senior Mariya Chavarha and Janis Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of Science. Graduating senior Adam Kowalski and junior Shelley Zhao each presented a poster at the APS conference.

The WASFAA Ethnic Diversity Action Committee has awarded Kikukawa a scholarship to attend the Western Association of Student Financial Aid Administrator’s Sister Dale Brown Summer Institute in June. This week-long training program is offered each summer and is the premier training opportunity for financial aid professionals new to the profession.

Codron has been elected to serve as treasurer for the Western Region of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Codron has served as the treasurer of CUPA-HR’s Northwest Region for the past two years.

CUPA-HR provides global leadership to the higher education human resources profession and the higher education community by offering essential knowledge, resources and connections that enhance individual and institutional capacity and competitiveness. The Association serves over 1650 institutions and over 10,000 HR professionals.

In April, Tesner acted as head curator for the Cascade AIDS Project’s annual art auction. This year’s auction was composed of 275 works of art, with hopes to raise $600,000 for the HIV/AIDS prevention fundraiser.

Enriquez has been selected to serve on the Citizen’s Budget Review Committee of the Portland Public Schools Board of Education. The group is charged with the task of reviewing and making recommendations on the Superintendent’s proposed budget.

In February, Dougharty and Jones presented “Honoring, Embracing and Empowering Community Values to Transform your Student Conduct System” at the Twelfth Annual International Conference of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs in Clearwater Beach, Florida.

USA Today (Portland, Ore.) Is God silenced on college campuses?

The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.): Malice for Muslims

In November, Unsworth gave a presentation at the Student-Athlete College Night at Valley Catholic High School in Hillsboro, Oregon.

The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.): Reborn artist, newly seen

This fall, Earll was named a board member to both Girls Inc. NW Oregon and the Northwest Women in Educational Administration (NWEA).