It is my pleasure to announce that eight (yes, eight!) Lewis & Clark graduates have received prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships, awarded by the National Science Foundation to graduate students who show promise as leaders in their fields.  As far as I can tell, this is a record for Lewis & Clark.  The students receiving fellowships are (with their fields and current graduate institutions also noted):

Marjorie Weber – Ecology – Cornell University
Amelia Still – Biochemistry – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Benjamin Ross – Evolutionary Biology – University of Washington
Charles Morgan – Chemical Biology – University of California, San Francisco
Conor Jacobs – Neuroscience – Stanford University
Katie Holzer – Ecology – University of California, Davis
Claire Fassio – Cell Biology – University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Bailey – Animal Behavior – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

In addition, Rebecca Duncan, currently studying genetics at the University of Miami, received an Honorable Mention.

To place these awards in perspective, I am happy to report that this year Lewis & Clark generated more NSF Graduate Fellowships than did Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Pomona, Davidson, Haverford, Vassar, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Smith, Colgate, Hamilton, Colby, Oberlin, Colorado, Bates, Reed, UPS, Whitman, University of Portland, and Willamette–too name only a few local and national peers. (My thanks to Gary Reiness for this piece of research.)

Our students deserve much credit for their achievements, and so do members of this excellent faculty who, time and again, prove to the rest of the world the value of a liberal arts education in the development of academic talent and leadership potential.

Please join me in congratulating these students and their faculty mentors.

Peace,

Julio

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