Topic: volunteerism
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 [...]
Podcast: Students find job market advantage in liberal arts, global education experience
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- 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’ [...]
Senior to improve global health systems with mobile technology
4 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
Isaac Holeman ’09 is heading to Africa after graduation. Far from a safari vacation, Holeman will start work in Malawi with FrontlineSMS:Medic, a venture he co-founded to support community health workers in the developing world with mobile technology. A biochemistry and molecular biology major, Holeman has earned numerous academic honors in his time at Lewis & [...]
Video: Law student prepares for career in public service
3 September 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—After devoting a decade of her life to volunteering at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and libraries, Lewis & Clark law student Ginger Beck realized that practicing public interest law was the best possible expression of her commitment to community service. Toward that goal, Beck spent her summer researching legal cases for the Oregon Law Center [...]
Student group shares stories from Brazilian orphanage: Dispatch #5
27 August 2008
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- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—After being selected for a highly competitive grant from the Davis Projects for Peace program, four Lewis & Clark students are spending their summer at the Criamar orphanage in Ceilândia, Brazil. The students, Casey Nelson CAS ’08, James Cotton CAS ‘08 and sophomores Betto van Waarden and Claire Battaglia, are hard at work, improving the [...]
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 [...]
Students provide aid, promote peace for Brazilian orphans
30 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—The most fragile residents of an impoverished Brazilian community will receive an influx of support this summer from four Lewis & Clark students and grants totaling $12,500. Sixty children and adolescents, many of whom were abandoned out of economic desperation, inhabit the humble Criamar orphanage in Ceilândia, Brazil, where the Lewis & Clark students [...]
Student to hone leadership skills in Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute program
12 May 2008
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- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Dante Perez is one of 32 college students from across the country to earn an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute . The sophomore international affairs major will spend this summer in Washington, D.C., working in a congressional office and honing his public leadership skills. A native of Uruapan, in the state [...]
Junior to gain political insight as congressional intern
30 April 2008
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- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—A junior who aspires to improve conditions in Africa will be one step closer to his goal this summer, learning political processes from a seasoned leader on education and human rights issues. Jonathan Shectman, an international affairs major from Warrenton, Virginia, will work in the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer through a [...]
Students lead political discourse on campus
18 March 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
(Portland, Ore.)—As the nation trains its focus on the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and the remaining states on the primary calendar, Oregon readies itself what could be the most relevant primary in recent state history. Lewis & Clark students are among those preparing for the May 20th primary, as campus groups are engaged in [...]