Topic: research
Researchers explore Oregonians’ connection to nature and concepts of utopia
29 September 2008
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Language and imagery used to convey nature generally project a dichotomy between two vastly differing futures: a dystopian land of total destruction due to climate change or a utopian world of humans living in harmony with nature. Both scenarios may be improbable but are possibly related as they capture some of our greatest hopes [...]
Video: Students share summer vacation with spiders
20 August 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Spending 40 hours a week with venomous spiders might not be an ideal summer vacation for most people, but for sophomore Tessa Marzulla and junior Micah Depper it’s been an incredible experience. The biology majors have spent their summer analyzing the evolution of the Loxosceles reclusa, or brown recluse spider as part of the [...]
Dean Klonoff collaborates on initiative to reform class-action lawsuits
15 July 2008
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(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 [...]
Bentley receives NSF grant for nanoparticle work
15 July 2008
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(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 [...]
Ratte winner contributes to sciences and student life
30 May 2008
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- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Frances Delaney B.A. ’08 believes there is an advantage to studying science at a small college. By the time she won Lewis & Clark’s highest academic honor this month, she had devoted countless hours to the study of chemistry and spent more than a year and a half in laboratories, engaging in research. “I think [...]
Six seniors set Lewis & Clark Fulbright record
27 May 2008
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(Portland, Ore.)—In an unprecedented achievement for Lewis & Clark students, six seniors earned prestigious honors from the Fulbright Program this spring. The awards include five international teaching assistantship positions and one research grant, which the students will complete in communities in Thailand, Russia, Germany, Indonesia, and Chile. Though the recipients represent diverse academic programs and [...]
Integrating science and art, senior speaker captivates campus
6 May 2008
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- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Meagan Nuss, an environmental studies major, with a concentration in art, will be this year’s senior speaker at the 2008 College of Arts and Sciences Commencement this weekend. Nuss says she hopes her speech will remind graduating seniors that, despite their diverse backgrounds and the innumerable journeys they will take in the future, their shared [...]
Autumn’s gecko research circles the globe
18 April 2008
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- 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, [...]
First SHEAR/Mellon fellow named from Lewis & Clark College
24 March 2008
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(Portland, Ore.)—Rory Sullivan, a junior history major, has been awarded one of ten highly competitive fellowships to participate in a summer seminar at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for the Study of Early America. As a SHEAR/Mellon (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) fellow, Sullivan will receive a $2,000 research stipend, complimentary [...]
Bringing immigration policy to life: Students document a Mexican migration experience
12 March 2008
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- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—While thousands of college students will spend their spring break at the beach, a group of students taking an immigration history course, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, will be exploring the migration route between the two countries, documenting Oaxacan immigration to Oregon. The alternative spring break project, from March 22 to March 29, was collaboratively developed by Associate [...]