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“Race is the child of racism, not the father.” — Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who gave a thought-provoking talk on the history of racism in February for the Atkinson Lecture Series. His talk, part of the university’s annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, also coincided with the start of Willamette’s year-long 175th anniversary commemoration.
Oregon Supreme Court Visits Willamette Willamette law students didn’t have to cross State Street to see the Oregon Supreme Court in action in March — the court came to them. Each legislative session, the court hears cases at three Oregon law schools to give students and the public a chance to connect with the judicial system. Willamette students listened to justices and attorneys discuss two real-life cases related to Medicaid fraud and to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals. The event provided students a valuable opportunity to learn courtroom protocol and judicial processes, as well as to ask the justices questions.
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Griffith Receives Large Grant to Research Estrogen Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Griffith received a $325,157 National Science Foundation grant to research the formation and environmental impacts of a new form of estrogen. Griffith will investigate the chemical factors that
control halogenated estrogens, which are created during the disinfection stage of sewage treatment, and what happens when they are released into aquatic environments. High concentrations of halogenated estrogens are found in wastewater, yet the fate of this