Topic: Award
11th Annual Joyce Ann Harpole Awards & Reception
Oregon Secretary of State (and Lewis & Clark Law School Graduate) Kate Brown was Guest Speaker at our annual Harpole Awards & Reception with a talk entitled “The Sanity Game: Balancing Your Life and the Law”. Sarah Troutt was presented with the Harpole Award, recognizing a lawyer who is dedicated to the pursuit of justice while maintaining a sense of balance among career, family, and community. The Harpole Scholarship was awarded to current law school student Natasha Richmond, for demonstrating those qualities along with a dedication to legal studies. More details of the event can be found here.
Strong showing from Lewis & Clark Alumni in Annual “Top Hispanic Lawyers Under 40″ Awards
The Hispanic National Bar Association announced its annual “Top Hispanic Lawyers Under 40“. Two of the seven named are from Oregon and both are Lewis & Clark Law School graduates- Peter Ricoy (‘05) and Jennifer Yruegas (‘99). These awards honor “lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence, integrity, leadership and commitment to the Latino community.” Find out more about the awards here (PDF).
Lewis & Clark Law School Associate Dean Receives Fulbright Award
Lisa LeSage, associate dean and director of Business Law Programs at Lewis & Clark Law School, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at one of Latin America’s top law schools, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile, for the 2009-2010 academic year. She will work with the school’s global law business program, teach a course to law faculty, and help the law school create the framework for a law faculty support and enrichment program. She is one of about 35 legal professionals selected to teach and perform research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program next year.
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell Is National Professor of the Year
Her commitment to teaching has earned Associate Professor of Psychology Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell praise since she arrived at Lewis & Clark in 2001. Now she is being honored nationally as the Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Read our story or others in the Oregonian and the Chronicle of Higher Education. You can also watch a portion of her acceptance speech.
Poet Stafford Wins Fellowship
Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute at the graduate school, was awarded a $20,000 fellowship from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Stafford will use the fellowship to explore and publish work on the walking life of Portland.
Principal of the Year
Sara Johnson, principal of Grandhaven Elementary School in McMinnville, Oregon, has been selected as Oregon’s 2007 National Distinguished Principal. Since Johnson became principal in 2003, Grandhaven has earned three consecutive “exceptional” ratings on the Oregon Report Card. Johnson did her coursework at Lewis & Clark Graduate School to earn her Basic Administrator License in 1998 and her Continuing Administrator License in 2001.
Teaching Excellence
“He’s a gifted teacher with a passion for sharing his knowledge,” says Interim Dean Lydia Loren of John R. Kroger, who has won his second Leo Levenson Award. Meet the associate professor of law voted best instructor by two graduating classes.
An Artist Emerges
She paints with photographic precision on unusual surfaces such as slate, wood, and fabric. The Oregon Ballet Theatre has commissioned her work, and she recently received the first Kimberly Gales Emerging Talent Scholarship award. Meet Becca Bernstein ‘00.
Chemistry Superstar
Lewis & Clark’s highest academic honor, the Rena J. Ratte award, goes to chemistry major Angela Blum ‘05. This Pamplin fellow, dean’s scholar, and champion cross country runner plans to share her passion for chemistry with future generations. Meet Angela Blum ‘05.
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