Topic: slideshow
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 [...]
Slideshow: Student draws connections between art and education
1 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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: 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: Students capture global experiences
25 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
For many Lewis & Clark students, moving to Portland, Oregon is just one more stop on a lifelong international journey. With one of the country’s most robust programs for Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and Global Nomads, Lewis & Clark takes pride in its commitment to international students. Today, approximately 120 international students from six continents [...]
Slideshow: Counseling Psychology Professor and PTSD expert Andraé Brown travels to Iraq
9 February 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
After years of researching the legacy and impact of violence on marginalized populations—and on black males in particular—Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology Andraé L. Brown readily accepted rapper David Banner’s invitation to join his USO tour of Iraq and Kuwait last month. Click to view photographsAs roommates in graduate school, Brown and Banner became friends upon [...]
Slideshow: Photographers of tomorrow at Hoffman Gallery
16 January 2009
- Engaging our World
The work of 50 up-and-coming photographers from around the world will be on display at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art this spring. reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow, which opens January 22, is comprised of 150 images that explore what young photographers are up to at the outset of the twenty-first century. Click to [...]
Slideshow: Lewis & Clark professor creates first master’s degree program in war-torn Afghanistan
25 November 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
Every year, Lewis & Clark Professor of Education Zaher Wahab leaves Portland to devote four months of service to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. Early this year, he worked with Kabul Education University to create Afghanistan’s first master’s degree program for teacher education faculty. The first cohort is made up of eleven men and eleven [...]
Slideshow: Collaboration reigns as “Urinetown” comes to Lewis & Clark
31 October 2008
- Living Portland
For the first time in 10 years, Lewis & Clark’s Fir Acres Theatre will be filled with the melodies of a main stage musical. Opening Nov. 6, “Urinetown, the Musical,” marks a major collaboration between the theatre and music departments, members of Portland’s creative community and close to sixty student actors, musicians, and crew members. Click [...]
Slideshow: Tracing the history of bookbinding in Special Collections exhibit
30 September 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—Despite the proverb, judging a book by its cover can illuminate the rich creative and cultural history in the art of bookbinding, as demonstrated by an exhibition at Aubrey R. Watzek Library. The exhibit examines 500 years of bookbinding history, from the era of vellum through contemporary handmade books, revealing some of the lesser-known [...]