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Winter 2013
Cover Story
Tamily Weissman-Unni and the Amazing Technicolor Brain
Tamily Weissman-Unni uses colorful fluorescence to study neural circuitry.
Read the storyFeatured Stories
The Need to Succeed
Photo by Robert Reynolds Mollie Galloway, assistant professor of educational leadership, uncovers disturbing evidence of how some high school students equate achievement and success with cheating.
Earthrise Law Center: Big Name, Bigger Mission
A new name reflects the environmental law clinic’s broader mission and national environmental impact.
An Artful Collaboration
A student-professor research team and Watzek Library staff work together to create an exhibit of modernist art and documents from Special Collections.
Message from the President
Our Journey Forward
At Lewis & Clark, we have a proud tradition of moving ahead by building on our proven and rising strengths. We are now poised and ready to go even farther, this time guided by The Journey Forward:A Lewis & Clark Strategic Plan for 2020.
On Palatine Hill
Building a Malawian School
More than 300 primary students in Malawi now have a new school, thanks to the efforts of Lewis & Clark students.
Meet the New Forensics Director
This fall, Joe Gantt joined Lewis & Clark
as its new forensics director and an instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Media Studies (formerly the Department of Communication). He most recently headed the forensics program at Texas Tech University
in Lubbock.
Spring Events
What’s happening on Lewis & Clark’s campus this spring.
Letters
Letters from readers
Environment Across the Pacific
Last fall’s 15th annual Environmental Affairs Symposium, titled Environmental Entanglements Across the Pacific, combined two of Lewis & Clark’s interdisciplinary programs: Environmental Studies and East Asian Studies.
Going the Distance
The women’s cross country team advances to nationals for the first time in school history.
A Reprise: Portland Chamber Orchestra
Lewis & Clark has renewed its connection with the prestigious Portland Chamber Orchestra, bringing the group’s world-class music to campus once again. The orchestra is performing three concerts at Lewis & Clark throughout the academic year, making its music widely accessible to our students.
Overseas Study Program in National Spotlight
For the first time, U.S. News & World Report has recognized Lewis & Clark’s overseas and off-campus program as one of the best in the nation.
Multiculturalism and the Media
How does the Internet bring communities together—and divide them? In what ways might social media serve as an agent for change and reconstruction of our identities? How have marginalized communities found a digital voice?
Brown Honored for Community Service
Andrae Brown, associate pro-fessor of counseling psychology in the graduate school, was recently honored by the Portland Observer for his work “to engage community members and mental health providers to improve wellness.”
Top Fulbright Producer
Lewis & Clark is one of the top producers of Fulbright award winners in the country, with the third-highest acceptance rate among liberal arts colleges.
Alumni News
Homecoming and Family Weekend
A little rain can’t dampen the Pioneer spirit—especially when it comes to Homecoming. Nearly 1,000 alumni, parents, and friends donned their rain gear to cheer on the football team and attend Homecoming Weekend events in late October.
Births and Adoptions, Winter 2013
Births and Adoptions
Profiles
Friends of Lewis & Clark Remembered
Obo Addy, instructor in African music, Edward Stamm, life trustee, and Pano “Pete” Vlahos, a former staff member and an active alumnus of Lewis & Clark.
Empowering Native Americans
On a warm summer night in Oklahoma, members of the Seminole Nation gathered for a celebratory stomp dance. Men wore blue jeans and baseball or cowboy hats adorned with eagle, hawk, and crane feathers. A tribal elder began to sing, and the other men chanted the chorus in their native tongue. Women, dressed in skirts and blouses designed with Seminole patchwork, kept the rhythm with shell shakers fastened to their legs.
A Brother Lost—and Found
Kim Stafford writes a compassionate memoir exploring the life—and suicide—of his brother, Bret.
‘El Groupo’ Reunites 50 Years to the Day
On September 14, 1962, a Lewis & Clark professor and 23 students—along with a representative from the Experiment in International Living—boarded a bus heading for a four-month overseas study program in Mexico.
Behind the Scenes at the Academy
Andrew Bradburn BA ’85, Tessa Idlewine BA ’09, and Brian Drischell BA ’93: Crowds roar and cheer as celebrities walk the red carpet outside Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Cameras click staccato style and flashbulbs dazzle as reporters wrangle movie stars for live interviews at the annual Academy Awards ceremony.
Law Alumna Elected to U.S. Senate
Heidi Heitkamp JD ’80 is the first woman elected to represent North Dakota in either the U.S. Senate or House.
Teaching for Social Justice
Tim Swinehart, a social studies teacher at Lincoln High School in Portland, was disturbed by the monster storm. But as part of a growing movement of educators committed to environmental justice, he turned the weather event into a lesson about climate literacy.
Bookshelf
In Memoriam
Friends of Lewis & Clark Remembered
Obo Addy, instructor in African music, Edward Stamm, life trustee, and Pano “Pete” Vlahos, a former staff member and an active alumnus of Lewis & Clark.
Afterword
Women’s Rights: Thoughts from Afghanistan
By Anna Brones BA ’06
I was getting yet another opinion on my decision to travel to Afghanistan. The statement was said out of love, in an effort to remind me that I should be aware of my surroundings and behavior. Just because I was a strong, independent woman, I should be sure to remember to respect local culture. But it was also coming from someone who had never traveled to Afghanistan.
Read the storyI was getting yet another opinion on my decision to travel to Afghanistan. The statement was said out of love, in an effort to remind me that I should be aware of my surroundings and behavior. Just because I was a strong, independent woman, I should be sure to remember to respect local culture. But it was also coming from someone who had never traveled to Afghanistan.
