Topic: multimedia
Egypt trip delivers lessons in culturally sensitive counseling practices
14 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Lewis & Clark graduate students gained invaluable intercultural experience for future work in family therapy through a new partnership between the Graduate School of Education and Counseling and Menoufiya University (MU) in Shebin El-Kom, Egypt. Click to view photographs Traveling to Egypt in March, eight Lewis & Clark students participated in an immersion course at MU, [...]
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 [...]
Autumn’s gecko research circles the globe
18 April 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—The future of engineering, National Geographic’s April 2008 issue argues, lies in biology, where researchers like Kellar Autumn are discovering the incredible potential of biomimicry. Autumn—an associate professor of biology and world’s foremost authority on gecko adhesion—studies the mysteries of what he calls “evolutionary nanotechnology.” Spurred on by the potential of far-reaching, real-world biomimetic applications, [...]
Counseling Psychology students bring back lessons from Mumbai
18 April 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Ten students from the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling traveled to Mumbai, India in December as part of their coursework in the Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy (MCFT) and Community Counseling programs. Teresa McDowell, associate professor of counseling psychology and coordinator of the MCFT program, arranged the international collaboration with the [...]
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 [...]
Lewis & Clark takes center stage in faith-and-culture dialogue
31 March 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—In February, Lewis & Clark hosted the first college-campus screening of a forthcoming documentary exploring the collision of faith and culture in America, titled “Lord, Save Us from Your Followers.” Sponsored by the chapel office and the Christian student group Agape, the special event welcomed secular and religious students to a discussion with producer-director [...]
Senior concludes debate career with international challenge
25 March 2008
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Senior Eric Atcheson is one of three students nationwide who will represent the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) in an annual U.S./Irish debate. Alongside students from Colorado College and the University of Wyoming, Atcheson will take on Ireland’s top three debaters on March 27 at the opening assembly of the NPDA Nationals at the [...]
Students lead political discourse on campus
18 March 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—As the nation trains its focus on the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and the remaining states on the primary calendar, Oregon readies itself what could be the most relevant primary in recent state history. Lewis & Clark students are among those preparing for the May 20th primary, as campus groups are engaged in [...]
Goodstein delivers keynote address at Convocation
13 November 2007
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)— Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, delivered the keynote address at Opening Convocation for the College of Arts & Sciences. Goodstein, the project director for Focus the Nation, challenged the class of 2011 to join the effort to find new solutions to the global warming dilemma. With less than three months to go before [...]