Topic: grant
Oregon Writing Project offers new strategies for K-12 teachers
4 August 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Throughout the Portland metropolitan area this summer, K-12 school teachers are gaining vital skills and strategies in curriculum camps administered by the Oregon Writing Project (OWP), a collaboration between Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling and area schools. “Writing is the gateway to success in school and beyond—it’s the currency of the [...]
Bentley receives NSF grant for nanoparticle work
15 July 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Anne Bentley, assistant professor of chemistry, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Development Award in Chemistry worth $100,000 to support her work with nanoparticles. Throughout the next year, Bentley will use the grant to integrate research, teaching, and service components of her work with microscopic fluorescent particles, which are similar to materials used [...]
Students provide aid, promote peace for Brazilian orphans
30 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—The most fragile residents of an impoverished Brazilian community will receive an influx of support this summer from four Lewis & Clark students and grants totaling $12,500. Sixty children and adolescents, many of whom were abandoned out of economic desperation, inhabit the humble Criamar orphanage in Ceilândia, Brazil, where the Lewis & Clark students [...]
Grad student leads Roosevelt freshmen to define their own community
16 May 2008
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—At a high school most often in the news for its record-breaking dropout rate and gang violence, students are redefining themselves and their neighborhood. With the help of Lewis & Clark graduate student Kristen Goessling, Roosevelt High School students have undertaken a photography project aimed at giving Portlanders a more authentic portrayal of their [...]
Grant brings opportunities for new professionals and tenured faculty
11 February 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—In a new program to bring fresh perspectives and new voices to campus, Lewis & Clark College will welcome the assistance of postdoctoral fellows over the course of the next few years, thanks to a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Beginning Fall 2008, the $450,000 grant will support two postdoctoral fellowships in the [...]
Jens Mache receives grant to advance computer science education
18 October 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, recently received an $85,355 grant from the National Science Foundation in order to explore how to bring the new field of wireless sensor networks into the undergraduate classroom. Until now, sensor network education has been primarily offered at the graduate or professional levels. Mache and his colleague [...]
Focus the Nation wins MySpace award for cultural impact
30 July 2007
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Focus the Nation, a national project housed at Lewis & Clark, won an Impact Award from MySpace for its efforts to build community engagement around the global warming crisis. The largest online community portal nominated the Focus the Nation Web site for its positive cultural impact, and MySpace members voted it the top environmental [...]
$400,000 in grants helps researchers investigate the biochemistry of learning
19 July 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Two professors at Lewis & Clark College are researching how chemical reactions in the brain help humans learn and form memories. Janis E. Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of Science, and Bethe Scalettar, professor of physics, have been involved in an interdisciplinary collaboration for 12 years and are currently working to uncover [...]