Year in Review
Top Stories of 2025
As the calendar year draws to a close, we’ve compiled a sampling of top stories from the undergraduate college, the graduate school, and the law school.
Top Stories
Tech Saavy
AI Helps Students ‘Take the Hint’
Ishan Abraham BA ’26 and a team of collaborators are developing an AI-powered learning system that delivers hints during hands-on cybersecurity exercises. Their work will be presented at next year’s 21st International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Defending the Natural World
Justice for Animals and the Environment on a Global Scale
The law school’s Global Law Alliance is helping to advance environmental and wildlife protections across the globe while giving students hands-on experience in international law.
Faculty Honors
Spinning Spider Research Into a Notable Award
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has recognized Greta Binford, professor of biology, with the 2025 Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award. The honor celebrates her nationally recognized research on spider biodiversity and venom evolution—much of it conducted alongside undergraduate researchers.
4+1 Program
Five-Year Jumpstart to an Education Career
Lewis & Clark’s Teacher Pathways program supports undergraduate students who dream of becoming educators, offering a BA, MAT, and licensure in just five years.
Spotlight: Global Impact
In May, L&C undergraduate students headed to Puerto Rico and Oaxaca, Mexico, for service learning trips organized by the Center for Social Change and Community Involvement.
Caroline Gray BA ’17 spent a transformative year in Nairobi as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, forging academic partnerships and exploring the geopolitical forces shaping international trade. Now back in the U.S., she reflects on the experience that deepened her understanding of international relations.
With funds from a Projects for Peace grant, Latifatou “Lati” Savadogo BA ’24 spent the summer working to provide life-saving health screenings to displaced women in her home country of Burkina Faso.
Four graduates from the Class of 2025 will spend the next year teaching overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program.
On a new overseas study program to South Korea and Japan, students use the lenses of religion and art to explore questions of cultural identity.
Lewis & Clark has earned a spot on Study Abroad Aide’s list of top U.S. liberal arts colleges for international students, recognizing our commitment to global education and community.
Professor Bill Chin and Abbee Mortensen JD ’27 worked with Afghan Female Student Outreach to teach women pursuing education under extraordinary circumstances.
When Lewis & Clark Law student Danielle Morvan ’25 takes the stage at an international legal conference in South Africa, she’ll shine a spotlight on how forced arbitration quietly strips vulnerable consumers of their day in court.
A professor of educational leadership travels to the arctic circle on an environmental justice mission to defend a precarious way of life.
Lewis & Clark has climbed into the top 15 percent of the 2025 World University Rankings for International Students, according to Study Abroad Aide. The ranking highlights L&C’s appeal to international students and its strong academic reputation.
Lewis & Clark Law Professor Tabrez Ebrahim has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct comparative legal research in Jordan, studying similarities and differences in intellectual property law and business law between the United States and Jordan, and their corresponding impact on entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Karuna Foundation recently funded a new scholarship for students from the Himalayan region. The scholarship—the first of its kind for the environmental program—will provide significant funding for an international student with a passion for environmental law and climate change mitigation.
Freddy Vilches partners with Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence on the creation of a Latin America-focused chatGPT and an AI translator of Indigenous languages.
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From the Magazine
The Many Lives of Fuji
Andrew Bernstein, professor of history, pens a sweeping biography of Mount Fuji, one of the world’s most recognizable mountains.
Outside the Lines
Both fierce and vulnerable, the poetry of Corey Van Landingham BA ’08 balances societal issues with the timeless questions of love, loss, and home.
Democracy on the Defensive
From neoliberalism to natural hierarchies, from special economic zones to Elon Musk, Quinn Slobodian BA ’00 explains the many ways democracy is under threat.