Topic: audio
Podcast: Students find job market advantage in liberal arts, global education experience
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Given the dual forces of a tightening job market and increased performance expectations placed on entry-level positions, students entering the workforce this year will face a more challenging transition than any in recent years. As Lewis & Clark students enter the workforce, their focus on seeking global understanding and creating new knowledge aligns them with industries’ [...]
Podcast: Mozart’s spirit pervades students’ monumental performance of Requiem
22 April 2009
- Living Portland
In a musical collaboration unlike anything seen at Lewis & Clark in recent decades, two choirs and the orchestra will together perform a concert including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem, in two concerts this weekend. Following a year of tremendous choral growth, with student participation more than doubling, the Requiem performances will bring together [...]
Podcast: Poetry students write with an eye toward audience
20 April 2009
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Click to view poems Bringing their work out of the classroom and into the public realm, advanced poetry students will share their poems in a reading on campus on Tuesday, April 21. The culmination of an extensive writing and revision process, the public reading will feature 12 students who have worked closely with Assistant Professor of [...]
Video: Students capture global experiences
25 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
For many Lewis & Clark students, moving to Portland, Oregon is just one more stop on a lifelong international journey. With one of the country’s most robust programs for Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and Global Nomads, Lewis & Clark takes pride in its commitment to international students. Today, approximately 120 international students from six continents [...]
Podcast: Fair highlights cultural diversity through food, music, and art
4 March 2009
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
For more than 40 years, the International Fair has offered an opportunity for the campus and the general public to celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions of Lewis & Clark’s international student community. Hosted by International Students of Lewis and Clark (ISLC), the International Fair is a day-long event, featuring food, cultural displays, activities, and performances [...]
Podcast: Eco-Olympics encourage environmental awareness on campus
24 February 2009
- Living Portland
Lewis & Clark College’s inaugural Eco-Olympics competition is underway, challenging undergraduate students to decrease their energy consumption and participate in environmentally focused activities throughout the month. Launched on February 5, the Eco-Olympics has spurred competition between residence halls based on energy savings and attendance at various campus events. “One of the great things about the Eco-Olympics [...]
Podcast: Professor Szybist earns national acclaim for poetry
6 February 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
The winter has been kind to Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist. December brought news of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); February began with Poet Laureate Kay Ryan hand-selecting Szybist for one of two Witter Bynner Fellowships in Poetry from the Library of Congress. In just the past few [...]
Podcast: First-year student navigates intersections of faith, culture, and education
19 November 2008
- Engaging our World
Each year, Lewis & Clark enrolls more than 100 Third Culture Kids, or students who spent a significant amount of time living abroad because of their parents’ work. First-year student Louise Trueheart, a self-identified TCK, was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Toronto and then Paris, before she attended high school in Connecticut. Through all of [...]
Student to hone leadership skills in Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute program
12 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Dante Perez is one of 32 college students from across the country to earn an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute . The sophomore international affairs major will spend this summer in Washington, D.C., working in a congressional office and honing his public leadership skills. A native of Uruapan, in the state [...]
Junior earns Truman Scholarship for public service
15 April 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Ben Brysacz has earned the nation’s top prize for undergraduate leaders, a highly competitive Truman Scholarship. The junior political science major earned one of 65 scholarships awarded this year, an honor which brings up to $30,000 for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through [...]