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Congratulations to the 2025 Rev. Mark Duntley Award and Troy Ridenour Award student recipients!

Oregon ArtsWatch reviewed Tiffany Mills Dance Company’s Residency at Lewis & Clark in April 2025.

Lewis & Clark’s speech and debate program won a pair of championships at national tournaments. The team of Maltin Tocani BA ’25 and Isabella Moore BA ’26 won the Honors division at the YODL national British Parliamentary debate championships, while the Lewis & Clark contingent at the National Speech Tournament won the team title in the limited entry category.

Dr. Holmes-Sullivan was nominated for her exceptional leadership as a university administrator over her career to improve the lives of students.

Piros was presented with the award at a surprise assembly in front of a gym full of excited middle school students in the fall, and will be formally honored at COSA’s annual Seaside Conference in June 2025.

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.