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Several people have joined our community recently, a few continuing employees have taken on new roles at Lewis & Clark, and a few said a fond farewell.

#4 Lewis & Clark College men’s basketball outscored #3 Whitman College 32-16 over the final 12:12 in regulation, to win the program’s first Northwest Conference Title since 2002. 

Ezra Billings and Caitlin DeNise are the first NWC Men’s Swimmer and Men’s Coach of the Year in program history.

Visiting Professor of Music John Cox has received a GRAMMY® nomination for his work on the album Clear Voices in the Dark. The album features Francois Poulenc’s Figure Humaine—one of the most powerful anti-fascist artistic expressions from the 20th century—a seven-movement secular cantata written in 1943 during the German occupation of France. 

For the ninth time in ten years, the Lewis & Clark speech/debate team has earned the Gold medal award from the Northwest Forensics conference for outstanding overall performance as a squad.

Congratulations to Reiko Hillyer whose book A WALL IS JUST A WALL: THE PERMEABILITY OF THE PRISON IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES (Duke University Press, 2024) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of General Nonfiction.

Congratulations to Marly Williams (BA’14) whose book NIGHT MOTHER: A PERSONAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EXORCIST (Mad Creek Books/ Ohio State University Press, 2023) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of Creative Nonfiction.

Several people have joined our community recently, a few continuing employees have taken on new roles at Lewis & Clark, and a few said a fond farewell.

Lewis & Clark’s Fall 2024 Theatre Department Newsletter is out! Read on to see all the Theatre happenings from the fall, including the MainStage Production of Into the Woods, The Student One Act Festival,Once Upon a Weekend, Dance Extravaganza, Notes from study abroad in London, an Alumni Spotlight and a preview of what’s coming up in Spring 2025!

Amy Baskin’s latest poetry book titled SKULL, was released by The Poetry Box last month with early praise.

On February 21, Lewis & Clark will honor 65 employees who have reached service milestones between January and December of 2024. See the full list of honorees and contribute your appreciation in the form of three words.

Jeremy Ranft, an established security professional, has been selected to serve as Lewis & Clark’s director of Campus Safety.

Learn more about the 2024 Nielson Innovation Grant recipients and the ways in which they enacted change for social justice and community wellbeing.

Faculty from across the institution were honored this month at the first Presidential Faculty Excellence Award ceremony.

Julia Unangst, who has been serving as the interim assistant vice president since May, has been appointed to the role in an ongoing capacity as of November 1.