Photographer Kevin Cooley BA '97 explores the symbolic and physical qualities of fire in his work. While he narrowly missed losing his ho...

Featured Stories

From left: Henry Ruano, Jermisha Hinton, Damaris Medina, Wesley Esparza Salazar, Erin Fails, Geroge Steene, and Sania Starnes.

Message from the President

Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan, PhD, President

On Palatine Hill

Ezra Billings and NWC Men's Swimming Coach of the Year Caitlin DeNise.
Brett Elliott
After a magical season of beating the odds, the men's basketball team won their first Northwest Conference title since 2002.
Andrew Saultz MAT '06
For decades, urban renewal policies decimated Lower Albina.
Students check out the Senior Art Exhibition in the Hoffman Gallery during the annual Festival of Scholars and Artists, a daylong celebra...

Profiles

Erich Roepke was part of the crew that located explorer Bradford Washburn's camera cache in the Yukon.
Katie McCarron with her poodle, Rosie, the inspiration for her thriving business, Portland Pet Food Company.
Larry Mellum outside Pike Place Chowder, the popular restaurant he founded in downtown Seattle.

Alumni News

President Robin Holmes-Sullivan celebrates with John Fergison BS '51 at the Golden Medallion Luncheon.
Denver alumni enjoy happy hour.
For six decades, the Lewis & Clark International Fair has been a vibrant celebration of global cultures. This year's weeklong se...

Leadership

The BSU Celebration of Black Excellence is an open event for anyone who would like to celebrate L&C's Black-identifying students...

Bookshelf

Asian American Identities, Relationships, and Post-Migration Legacies: Reflections From Marriage and Family Therapists

Lana Kim, associate professor and program director of the Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Program, coedits this groundbreaking text that brings together the personal and professional narratives of Asian American family therapists, offering insight into the Asian American experience through systemic theory and frameworks, individual and community stories, and clinical considerations.Routledge, 2024. 206 pages.

Basic Business Chinese, Better Business Chinese, and Best Business Chinese

Meiru Liu, instructor in Chinese, offers a three-book Chinese language series titled BBC Practical Business Chinese, which is aimed at learners who are engaged in commerce and trade, as well as expatriate employees of multinational corporations and self-learners. The books include exercises and task-based practical activities.Phoenix Tree Publishing, 2024. 

Heart Work

Kevin Wright MAT ’16 pens “a poetic rollercoaster” in which he explores the essence of unknown feelings and emotions, bringing clarity to the journey of healing. BooxAI, 2023. 128 pages.

Learning, Education, & Games: Vol. 4: 50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice

Diana Leonard, associate professor of psychology and department chair, coedits this text that asks, “How can educators, researchers, and designers use games to support inclusion, compassion, care, equity, and justice?” The book explores 50 different games, including commercial, indie, desktop, mobile, card, and board games.Lulu.com, 2024. 312 pages.

Lost Grand Resorts of Old Lake Tahoe

Paul Nelson BA ’71 tells the stories of the spectacular hotels that were built on Lake Tahoe in the early 20th century. The book, which includes more than 100 historical photos, traces the interrelated exploits of some of the most interesting and influential characters in the West, as well as some of its most infamous.The History Press, 2024. 224 pages.

My Mother’s Boyfriends

Samantha Schoech BA ’92 shares 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories, which are populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for the mess-ups, bad choices, and missteps humans make despite their best intentions.7.13 Books, 2025. 200 pages.

Singing of Arms and Men: Florence and the Balletto a Cavallo in the Seventeenth Century

Kelley Harness BM ’82, professor of music (musicology) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, undertakes the first comprehensive study of the 17th-century Florentine horse ballets. Oxford University Press, 2024. 344 pages.

Skeptical Augury

Evan Nichols BS ’84 tells a story of mysterious forces from another dimension threatening to invade the world and a group of ordinary people, brought together by the unexpected circumstances, who realize that they are Earth’s best hope to stop the invasion before it happens.Lulu.com, 2024. 180 pages.

Skull

Amy Baskin, administrative coordinator for the English and history departments, pens a collection of poetry that explores the themes of harm, trauma, pain, illness, and healing from brain injury sustained in the context of our collective, trying times.Poetry Box, 2024. 40 pages.

Slingers of the West

Allen Reel JD ’74 shares a selection of Western poems that he has presented at the Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The book also includes a true and compelling murder story from his days at Montana State. The event was a major influence in Reel attending Lewis & Clark Law School and becoming a lawyer. Gorham Printing, 2024. 76 pages.

Tales of Minoa and Apocalypse: From Athens to Ancient Japan

Toru Nakamura BA ’68 presents the facts and myths concerning Minoa; the catastrophic earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea; Greece before and after its Dark Ages; and their historical connection with Japan’s ancient society.Universal Publishers, 2024. 104 pages.

The Invisible World

Matt Daly BA ’93 offers a book of poems that strives to address the Puritan history of his ancestors, not to redress their wrongs, but at least to face them in the hope of making sense of how we might live beyond their influence.Unsolicited Press, 2024. 106 pages.

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

Peter Ames Carlin BA ’85 looks beyond the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends who formed the iconic rock band R.E.M. Doubleday, 2024. 464 pages.

The Trade-Offs of Legal Status: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debt in Southeast Asia

Maryann Bylander, associate professor of sociology, explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside migrant regularization in Southeast Asia. Based on multisited ethnography, and informed by a decade of experience researching migrant communities in Cambodia, the book describes the experiences of Cambodians confronting Thailand’s intensifying documentation regime.University of Hawaii Press, 2024. 258 pages.

In Memoriam

Back Talk

Big Picture

A stage performance, likely a play or a dance piece, is captured. Several individuals are positioned on a flat, bluish-toned surface.
BIG PICTURE: FOUL IS FAIR ... AND FUN: Drawing on folk horror, pagan traditions, and horror films, the theatre department presented Shakespeare’s Macbeth on the Main Stage this spring. In this scene, Hecate (Anna Kulbashny BA ’25) and the three witches (Jazz Buskin BA ’28, Angie Bennett BA ’28, and Debbie Mukuka BA ’27) conjure the apparition of a disembodied head to tell Macbeth (Percival Walter BA ’25) his fate. Owen Carey