Topic: multimedia
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: Grad student seeks balance, skates through school
6 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
Erin Parker, now in her second year of graduate school, has been wearing several hats while studying community counseling to become a therapist. Parker is well known to Portland roller derby fans as November Pain. Throughout her intense graduate program, Parker has managed to practice three to four days a week at the roller derby track [...]
Video: Law school convenes leaders of renewable energy sector
6 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
On April 23-24, Lewis & Clark Law School and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program hosted legal and energy leaders from across the country at a conference, Greening the Grid: Building a Legal Framework for Carbon Neutrality. They met to discuss the laws needed to support the growth of low- or no-carbon energy sources [...]
Podcast: Students find job market advantage in liberal arts, global education experience
5 May 2009
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- 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’ [...]
Slideshow: Student draws connections between art and education
1 May 2009
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
An accomplished artist and world traveler, Ross Christy ’09 did not always picture himself becoming a teacher. After receiving honors for academic and artistic excellence and earning a degree in art from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, Christy moved to Portland and heard his calling. For the past year, he has worked as a student teacher [...]
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 [...]
Slideshow: Students, professor engage Carribean community in science research
15 April 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
It is not unusual for students at Lewis & Clark to participate in challenging, graduate-level scientific research. And it is not unusual for students to participate in study abroad programs and humanitarian aid projects; half of all students take advantage of opportunities to learn outside of the United States. Click to view photographs In March, senior Brendan [...]
Video: Senior Art Exhibit showcases fresh talent
3 April 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
This year’s Senior Art Exhibit showcases the works of 22 studio art majors working within the mediums of ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. To help students prepare for a career in art and help push their creative boundaries, student art majors are required to complete a senior project. They begin the process by working with [...]
Video: Students bring war pundits to campus for International Affairs Symposium
2 April 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
A small group of students set out on a quest to develop an conference to address a series of serious questions facing the international community about the rules of war, who participates in war and how war is covered. The International Affairs Symposium, A World of Warfare: Dynamics of Conflict, brings together well-known international affairs [...]