Topic: grant
Video: Traditional storytelling workshop strengthens Native arts
20 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
This spring, Master Storyteller Ed Edmo and Lewis & Clark’s Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program (IWOK) collaborated to offer a traditional storytelling workshop. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style.display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player1","400","242","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","242"); s1.addVariable("width","400"); s1.addVariable("file","/media/workshop/workshop.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","/media/workshop/workshop.jpg"); s1.addVariable("fsbuttonlink","http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/fullscreen.php?f=/media/workshop/workshop.flv%26r=http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/2009/05/20/video-traditional-storytelling-workshop-strengthens-native-arts/"); s1.write("player1"); The participants, ranging in age [...]
Slideshow: Student creates artisan collective for India’s City of Widows
18 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
With support from a prestigious grant program, Katie Walter ’09 will devote her summer to promoting peace in a small community in India. The international affairs major, who has long revered Indian culture and Hindu philosophy, traveled to India independently and through a Lewis & Clark overseas program during the past few years. Inspired by [...]
Video: Greg Smith trains K-12 educators to teach sustainability issues
27 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Greg Smith, professor of teacher education, 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 [...]
President Hochstettler testifies before state committee for increased aid
27 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
President Thomas Hochstettler appeared before the Oregon Education and General Government Committee of the State Senate on March 25, 2009, in support of increased grant aid for low-income students. Senate Bill 478 proposes an increase in the amount of individual Oregon Opportunity Grants offered to lower income Oregonians to defray the cost of attending college. [...]
Video: Multi-institutional exchange model trains next generation of environmental leaders
12 November 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
As environmental issues and the demand for solutions grow, Jim Proctor, professor and director of Lewis & Clark’s environmental studies program, is working to create a national model for training the next generation of environmental policy makers. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and [...]
Grants totalling more than $4 million expand institute’s legal services for crime victims
11 November 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) has received two grants totaling more than $4.3 million from the U.S. Department of Justice to support crime victims. One grant will allow NCVLI to aid more crime victims by opening four new law clinics around the country and another grant will help the institute provide training and legal [...]
Loening’s protein research raises questions and explores opportunities
17 October 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Niko Loening’s research is casting new light on proteins, one of the basic elements of all living species. Loening, assistant professor of chemistry, is an expert in protein-structure determination, and his work is raising questions about how proteins are formed and how proteins from one species may affect another. This summer, Loening published a study [...]
Law School awarded grant for clinical law project on affordable housing
18 September 2008
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—The Collins Foundation has awarded a grant totaling $180,000 to support the Community Development, Nonprofit and Affordable Housing Practicum, a joint clinical law project of the Lewis & Clark Law School and the Community Development Law Center. The practicum project serves community development corporations and nonprofits focused on economic development and affordable housing issues [...]
Video: Law student prepares for career in public service
3 September 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—After devoting a decade of her life to volunteering at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and libraries, Lewis & Clark law student Ginger Beck realized that practicing public interest law was the best possible expression of her commitment to community service. Toward that goal, Beck spent her summer researching legal cases for the Oregon Law Center [...]
Student group shares stories from Brazilian orphanage: Dispatch #5
27 August 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—After being selected for a highly competitive grant from the Davis Projects for Peace program, four Lewis & Clark students are spending their summer at the Criamar orphanage in Ceilândia, Brazil. The students, Casey Nelson CAS ’08, James Cotton CAS ‘08 and sophomores Betto van Waarden and Claire Battaglia, are hard at work, improving the [...]