News and Events

This year’s ENVX Symposium, Common Ground: How We Can Engage Across Difference With a Shared Love of Land, was held September 29 through October 3. The symposium united panelists and students in dialogue founded upon months of community conversation and outreach.

Lewis & Clark ranks No. 26 on Princeton Review’s 2026 list of Top 50 Green Colleges, earning national recognition for its strong culture of environmental responsibility and sustainability. The honor appears in the newly released Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition, which profiles 388 institutions that demonstrate an exceptional commitment to environmental stewardship.

A professor of educational leadership travels to the arctic circle on an environmental justice mission to defend a precarious way of life.

An update from Executive Council on the L&C Advantage priorities for the year, and establishing a reconstituted Strategic Imperatives Advisory Council.

Bike Posse is a low-key, convivial group of staff and faculty (CAS, GSEC, and Law) who leisurely ride to campus together over the Sellwood bridge and through Riverview Cemetery.

In June, Lewis & Clark partnered with the Energy Trust of Oregon to offer a one-week training course designed to prepare college students for internships in the energy efficiency sector.

Visiting Assistant Professor Devin Fitzpatrick designed his new course, Data for Good, to challenge students to get their hands dirty—both in messy datasets and in the soil—through a partnership with the Portland-based nonprofit Growing Gardens.

The new collaboration will build a hub for education and economic opportunity within Portland’s redeveloped Lower Albina district to foster learning as a core value of the community and provide opportunities for Albina residents and Lewis & Clark students, staff, and faculty.

Donate any good condition items to Copeland, Tamarack, Stewart, Holmes. Main swap area will be held at Roberts 112 (formerly known as Maggie’s). 

Lewis & Clark and the Energy Trust of Oregon are partnering to deliver an exciting new training program for high school seniors and college students to gain experience in the energy efficiency and strategic energy management field.

Lewis & Clark Law School’s Environmental Moot Court Team recently secured its ninth national championship at the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC) at Pace University, further solidifying its status as the most successful school in the competition’s history.

Join us for our Seventh Annual Moss Appreciation Week! Mossy events are happening all week.

Cara Tomlinson’s Art and Ecology class uses waste materials from around Portland to create beautiful and meaningful works of art. This course offers a fresh approach to creative practice, merging art and ecology to help students respond to the climate crisis, explore the agency of materials, and build connections to place.

As you prepare to leave for winter break, please donate your unwanted but good condition clothing, books, household items, bedding and food.