Topic: research
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
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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 [...]
Lewis & Clark attracts distinguished fundraising executive
26 July 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Gregory A. Volk, one of the most distinguished fundraising executives in the liberal arts college sector, is joining Lewis & Clark College as the Portland institution’s new Vice President of Institutional Advancement. Beginning in September, Volk will oversee development, alumni relations and communications efforts at Lewis & Clark. Volk, who has more than 25 [...]
$400,000 in grants helps researchers investigate the biochemistry of learning
19 July 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Two professors at Lewis & Clark College are researching how chemical reactions in the brain help humans learn and form memories. Janis E. Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of Science, and Bethe Scalettar, professor of physics, have been involved in an interdisciplinary collaboration for 12 years and are currently working to uncover [...]
Rogers summer researchers present findings
8 June 2007
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Students at Lewis & Clark College are spending the summer conducting research in collaboration with faculty members as part of the John S. Rogers Science Research Program. Nearly 40 students will discuss their research in fields including physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics and computer science during a series of brown bag talks in June [...]