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May 10: Third-annual Camas Festival features pop-up restaurant, Indigenous Creator’s Market, panel on food sovereignty and more

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Cultural display at the 2023 Camas Festival

What began in 2022 with tours of the camas blossoms in the student-restored Cozine Creek natural area has grown significantly. The third-annual Camas Festival, runs 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Friday, May 10 on Linfield University’s McMinnville campus. It will include food from celebrated Portland pop-up Javelina, an Indigenous Creators’ Market, a panel on historic indigenous food and food sovereignty, a guided artist’s talk from 2024 Indigenous Place Keeping Artist Leland Butler and more.   Continue reading →

Gennie VanBeek honored by National Guard with Patriotic Employer Award

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Left to right: Greg Malkasian, Carrie Kondor and Gennie VanBeek.

There was a surprise in store for Gennie VanBeek, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, during Monday’s faculty meeting — Greg Malkasian, who works for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, presented her with the Patriotic Employer Award for her outstanding support of Carrie Kondor, director of the Department of Education, during her husband Andrew’s seven-month Qatar deployment in 2021. Continue reading →

Money magazine ranks Linfield among Oregon’s top colleges for affordability and outcomes

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Students walk by the W.M. Keck Science Complex.When Money magazine released their 2023 Best Colleges guide last week, it debuted a new system with star ratings focused on affordability and outcomes — and Linfield University was one of only two colleges in Oregon that received 4.5 or higher stars.    Continue reading →

May 24-28: 2023 Commencement activities and events

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Two students embrace during commencement; their caps are circled with floral wreaths.Linfield University will graduate 397 students during its official Commencement  10 a.m. Sunday, May 28 on the Commencement Green; there are multiple celebrations and ceremonies held in the run-up. Unless otherwise noted, all events are held on the McMinnville campus and open to the community; see the full list of 2023 Commencement events. Continue reading →

Neurosurgeon Seth Oliveria will serve as Linfield University’s 2023 Commencement speaker.

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Neurosurgeon Seth Oliveria in scrubsNeurosurgeon and Linfield alumnus Dr. Seth Oliveria ’01 will serve as Linfield University’s 2023 Commencement speaker.

Oliveria is director of functional neurosurgery for the Providence Brain and Spine Institute, located within Portland’s Providence St. Vincent Medical Center; he is also a neurosurgeon at The Oregon Clinic. Continue reading →

Pyxis Quartet joins Linfield’s Lacroute Music Mentorship Program with performances on May 9

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The Pyxis Quartet sits back-to-back with their instruments.The Linfield University Department of Music and the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program is partnering with Pyxis Quartet for a series of performances this semester. The string ensemble is part of the 45th Parallel Universe, which is a constellation of the Oregon Symphony.  Continue reading →

Second-annual Camas Festival will be held at Linfield University Friday, May 5

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A camas flower, with six delicate purple petals.Linfield University, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Greater Yamhill Watershed Council invite you to learn about the cultural, biological and artistic significance of the purple camas flower at the second-annual Camas Festival.

For generations, purple camas lilies have been cultivated, traded and consumed by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest including the Kalapuya, who were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in 1855. Though much sparser now than in the days it turned the Willamette Valley purple each spring, it remains a central piece of Kalapuyan lifeways.

The Camas Festival honors their enduring significance and is a chance to engage not only with camas flowers but learn more about the habitats — wet prairie, oak savannah and oak stand — of Linfield’s McMinnville campus. Continue reading →

Linfield University and AHIVOY host first-ever BIPOC Wine Symposium April 13

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Students during a wine tasting hosted by Marcus Johnson.Linfield University’s Evenstad Center for Wine Education, in partnership with Asociación Hispana de la Industria del Vino en Oregon y Comunidad (AHIVOY), is proud to present their first-ever BIPOC Wine Symposium Thursday, April 13 on Linfield’s McMinnville campus. 

The daylong event, designed both for Evenstad students and those who already work in the wine industry, features panel and roundtable discussions, workshops on how to create a more inclusive industry and a tasting featuring wines from Black and Latinx winemakers.

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Linfield hosts two celebrated writers in April

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We look over the shoulder of someone with shoulder-length brown hair who is reading a book of poetry.Linfield University will host lectures from two celebrated writers in April as part of the “Readings at the Nick” series. Memoirist Apricot Irving speaks on April 4, then creative writer Claire O’Connor speaks on April 11. Both events are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library’s Austin Reading Room. Readings at the Nick are free and open to the public. Continue reading →