CHC Stories

Stories about the CHC community: Who we are, what we're doing, where we're going, and how we are making positive change in our space and all over the world.

mayor of scranton

Now the mayor of Scranton, PA, Paige Gebhardt Cognetti's passion for equity inspired by her time in CHC

 

Introducing New Faculty-in-Residence Corinne Bayerl

Brian McWhorter

We Are All Performing Artists

Brian McWhorter brings his talent, passion for music and love of teaching to CHC

Julia Lo

Mutant Worms, Melting Glaciers, and Philosophy For Kids: Nicole Mullen, Lucy Roberts, and Julia Lo awarded FYRE scholarships

Emily Fowler on the Oregon coast

Emily Fowler's research encourages civic engagement as her work is published

 

Professor Dare Baldwin finds community is strong in remote classes

Decisions, decisions; The change in CHC Curricula

Monique Balbuena's class project

Professor Balbuena turns passions into collaborative student project

Rennie Kendrick

Rennie Kendrick: The Impossible Quest of Understanding Everything
 

Steve Martin play

Picasso at Lapin Agile: A look at the performance (and the party afterwards)

 

The long-term future is "limitless" for Oregon Forensics

Karishma shaw, CHC alumna

Karishma Shah: The value of community instilled in a CHC alumna

Julie Tripp fellowship

The Tripp Fellowship: Follow your passion without boundaries

CHC students shine in Sons of the Prophet

Approaching Climate Change in an Integrated Way:
Three professors will co-teach "Arctic Icebergs" in Spring 2020 that comprehensively examines climate change with aspects of environmental research, literature, and natural science

 

Jeff whitty, Melissa McCarthy at BAFTAs

CHC alum Jeff Whitty finds his Oscar nomination nicely timed​​​​

susan Choi

Two contenders, one winner of the National Book Awards brought to campus by Professor Mai-Lin Cheng

 

Sean Killpatrick

Juggling study time and football practice, senior Sean Killpatrick proves it can be done

 

nelson Perez catalán

Perspective is Everything: For Nelson Perez Catalan, ’20, growing up in Chile emphasized the horizons and possibilities in CHC

 

Helia Megowan arabesque

Helia Megowan mixes ballet and biology for her first year at CHC

 

alex boxberger

Changing lanes in her junior year led Alex Boxberger to Yale

Jason lewis-berry

Braving combat and war zones, CHC alum Jason Lewis-Berry focuses on delivering humanitarian aid 

 

David Adams

Discomfort: Where Learning and Growth Converge
Alum David Adams takes the resilience he learned at CHC and brings it to medical school

 

Emily Niebergall headshot

Emily Niebergal:
A Passion for Service Motivates Research

 
Dare Baldwin baby research

Researchers Baldwin, Measelle, Pfeifer and Caouette Examine Youth and Teen Behavior

 

Studying Abroad: Often, Taking the Long Way is the Best Way

 

Kevin Frazier
CHC alum Kevin Frazier cultivates excellence by helping others succeed
 

CHC's Temerity Bauer lands prestigious Udall Fellowship

Graboyes girls in Italy

On a Balcony in Belluno, Overlooking a Pandemic

 

Nelly Nouboussi working in lab

Nelly Nouboussi found inspiration in her mother's effort to help those in need in Cameroon

 
Pens

Beginning next winter, the Clark Honors College will be one of four public honors colleges in the nation to offer the Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing

Francesca Fontana

Wall Street Journal internship turns into career for CHC alum Francesca Fontana

Story by Sarah Hovet, CHC Communications
A typical day for Francesca Fontana begins around 7:30 a.m., when she enters The Wall Street Journal offices in New York, two hours before the stock market opens...

2019 Scholarship and Thesis Research Grant Recipients

See all of the 2019 recipients here!

"Touching Archives" brings students back into the past

Photos and story by Dana Sparks, CHC Communications
Tucked inside the west side of the Knight Library on the second floor is the Special Collections and University Archives, or SCUA. There, an intimate Clark Honors College course, Touching Archives, gathers to dive into the collections and archive that reportedly holds more than a million items...

Melissa Graboyes on malaria, Africa, and the ways to right past mistakes in global health

Story by Isabella Garcia, CHC Communications
Interdisciplinary research is a hallmark of the Clark Honors College and a value that Dr. Melissa Graboyes exemplifies in her work...

Mackenzie Myers

Sophomore Mackenzie Myers organizes nomination for his mentor, Mark Carey, and wins a SURF fellowship himself

Story by Abbey McDonald, CHC Communications
When nominations were being accepted for the Faculty Research Mentor Award, Clark Honors College student Mackenzie Myers decided to organize a submission for his mentor, Professor Mark Carey.  Myers, a sophomore and the only undergraduate on Carey's Glacier Lab research team, assembled the other members — PhD and graduate students — to write a paragraph each earlier this year to nominate Carey for the coveted honor...

New Yorker columnist visits Chapman Hall to talk music, fantasy culture

Story by Abbey McDonald, CHC Communications 
Alex Ross has a job most people will only dream about, listening to music for a living...

Nulia

Revolutionary tech startup pulls from CHC to push forward

Story by Lucy Kleiner and Sarah Hovet, Photos by Lucy Kleiner, Video by Abbie Winn
In downtown Eugene, on the second floor of a faded brick building, lives Nulia, a problem-solving enterprise disguised as a tech company, joining a growing hub of tech-industry start-ups such as Palo Alto, InterVision Media and Emberex...

Wayne Morse Scholars

Every year, the University of Oregon Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics recognizes 25 UO students for their interest in politics and public service, their experience, and their leadership potential. These students take seminars on democratic dilemmas and democracy in practice, attend monthly luncheons with distinguished guest speakers, go on trips to watch politics in action and participate in hands-on in workshops...

Daphne Gallagher Anthropologist

Dr. Daphne Gallagher leads Mellon Grant-funded digitization project with JMSA and UO libraries

Story by Abbey McDonald, CHC Communications
In her cozy new office at Chapman Hall, with walls stacked with readings and often littered with artifacts, Dr. Daphne Gallagher welcomes students to chat with her about anything related to classes, travel, archeology, history or life in general. Whether it is a question about ancient burial practices, African Studies or Atlantis, Dr. Gallagher has the expertise to answer it...

Kim Stafford

Poet laureate Kim Stafford to hold campus reading 4/15

Story by Isabella Garcia, Clark Honors College
Think of Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, as a host. Not to a party or event, but as an ambassador to civic duties.​​​​​​..

Melissa Graboyes in Zanzibar

Graboyes is honored with NSF grant

Story by Isabella Garcia, Clark Honors College, Excerpt by Melissa Graboyes, professor of African & medical history, Clark Honors College
Clark Honors College professor Melissa Graboyes has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her on-going research on malaria elimination attempts in sub-Saharan Africa and on the island of Zanzibar...

Allison Buckmelter and husband Nicholas

CHC Alum Wins Coveted Screenwriting Fellowship

Story by Abbey McDonald, CHC Communications
When the most recent call for the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting went out, 6,895 screenplays were submitted. Out of that avalanche of entries, only four screenplays were selected for the fellowship...

Huemul deer

Patagonia For Sale

By Adam Spencer
Gilberto Chacano is a talented man with an insurmountable problem: he was born too late. His world is of the vast campos of Chile’s central Patagonia, in one of the least-densely populated of humanity’s frontiers, where he learned to raise sheep and build fences...

Aaron James

Nerds Rule

By Derek Maiolo
Building a business is no simple feat. Building one of Oregon’s most successful businesses poses an even greater challenge. It requires a highly motivated, intelligent staff who know how to think critically and creatively...