Topic: leadership
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 [...]
Law School to host Supreme Court justices, federal judges
26 August 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—On September 18-20, Lewis & Clark Law School will host a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), the research and education arm of the federal court system. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and will speak, along with leading academics [...]
Dean Klonoff collaborates on initiative to reform class-action lawsuits
15 July 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—For four years, Robert Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has been working with a handful of top legal scholars, judges and practitioners from across the country on a project designed to improve the legal process of class action lawsuits. When the project is finished, it could dramatically change the way class-action [...]
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 [...]
Law student leads universal health care movement on Facebook
30 November 2007
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)— An estimated one-third of young Americans are uninsured, which is unacceptable to Jeff Traylor, a Lewis & Clark Law School student from Kirkland, Washington. Traylor is part of a growing number of individuals turning to the social networking site Facebook to advocate for universal health care. Having confronted the choice facing many Americans [...]
Undergraduate wins American innovation contest held on YouTube
19 November 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Lewis & Clark senior Adan Vielma recently won a national video contest, culminating in a trip to Capitol Hill and a scholarship from the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation. The purpose of the contest, featured on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, was to show how federally funded research has changed [...]
Seven inducted into Pamplin Society
5 November 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Seven sophomores at Lewis & Clark College have been selected to join the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Society of Fellows. Pamplin Society members are chosen for an exceptional blend of intellectual talent, the habit of physical fitness, personal integrity and the willingness to shoulder the burdens of leadership. It is the highest honor bestowed [...]
Three Lewis & Clark Law School professors elected to American Law Institute
1 November 2007
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Three Lewis & Clark Law School professors—Bill Funk, Jennifer Johnson and Craig Johnston—have been elected members of the American Law Institute (ALI). Founded in 1923, the American Law Institute’s work to draft restatements and other law reform proposals has profoundly shaped the legal field. Membership to the American Law Institute is limited to judges, [...]
Doctoral candidate to head Portland Public Schools
4 October 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Carole Smith, a doctoral candidate at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, will serve as the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools. With more than 25 years experience working in Portland’s education sector, Smith is well known for her deep roots in the community. For 23 years, she led a non-profit [...]