Topic: research
Ratte winner contributes to sciences and student life
30 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(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
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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
- 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, [...]
First SHEAR/Mellon fellow named from Lewis & Clark College
24 March 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(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 [...]
Lewis & Clark scientist’s gecko discoveries lead to medical innovation
21 February 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—What began as a simple question—“What makes geckos stick?”—has led Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, on a journey toward scientific discoveries with myriad applications. The result of more than 15 years of independent and collaborative research, Autumn’s discoveries about adhesion are inspiring innovative ideas and emerging technologies for products as diverse as rock [...]
Bentley sees big potential in microscopic particles
29 October 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Anne Bentley, assistant professor of chemistry, received a $30,000 Faculty Start-up Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to fund her nanoparticle research. The microscopic fluorescent particles Bentley will study are similar to the materials used in television screens and have potential applications throughout the electronics industry Though tens of thousands of nanoparticles could [...]
Undergraduate discovers Swiffer-like adaptation in two unrelated spiders
10 October 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—While working on an independent study project in a biology lab at Lewis & Clark College, Rebecca Duncan made a discovery that may someday find its way into kitchens and onto battlefields. Studying two groups of spiders that stick sand to themselves as a means of camouflage, Duncan discovered that they had developed the [...]
Provost Jane Monnig Atkinson to serve as Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling
11 September 2007
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- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—President Thomas Hochstettler has appointed Provost Jane Monnig Atkinson to serve as Acting Dean of the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling during the search for a new Dean for the School. “Jane is an outstanding and trusted leader,” said President Hochstettler. “For more than 25 years, she has demonstrated her commitment [...]