Lewis & Clark students as scholars

Our academic program is based on collaboration between students and faculty members, not only in the classroom but also in the studio, stage, laboratory, and the field. Much of the success described above is a direct result of our faculty, who are excellent teacher-scholars, training our students to become student-scholars. Much of this training happens during the academic year, but some of the most important teaching at the College happens during the summer, when students and faculty members collaborate on research projects. During the summer of 2008, 31 faculty members and 59 students participated in College-sponsored faculty-student collaborative research.

Examples of teams and projects include:

• Franya Berkman, assistant professor of music, and student Austin Moore ’10 – “Charanga Chops: Flute Virtuosity in Latin Jazz.”
• Andrew Cortell, associate professor of international affairs, and student Anne Swift ’09 – “Why Legalize International Trade? U.S. Support for Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.”
• John Fritzman, associate professor of philosophy and student Molly Gibson ’10 – “From Nature to Idea: Schelling’s Evolutionary Process of Hegel’s Conceptual Development.”
  Click here to download the pdf file of Professor Fritzman and Molly Gibson's article, featured in the Winter 2008 edition of Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Volume 29(2).
• Bethe Scalettar, professor of physics, and Janis Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of Science, and students Audrey Fulwiler ’09 and Conor Jacobs ’09 – “Synaptic Secretion of Neuromodulators Implicated in Long-Term Memory Formation.”
  In many instances collaborations between students and faculty lead to publication of the work in peer-reviewed academic outlets. For example, eighty undergraduates have published jointly with faculty members in national and international science, mathematics, and engineering journals since 2000.