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, but I’m right there for everything that happens,” Foss said. “I know about every fossil that’s being discovered before it hits the news. I know who is working where and on what. That’s the excitement of it, being on the edge of everything going on in paleontology.” × Foss juggles a variety of hats in an average week at the office, ranging from policy expert to to public relations officer. “I spend a lot of time helping to develop policy as well as reviewing other proposed policy, thinking about
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carpenter of all things, and he didn’t preach, he said ‘this is what the Christian faith is.’” Blagg’s Christianity classes inspired her to take a fresh look at religion as a whole. She eventually returned to Catholicism years after her family stopped attending church. “Those two classes got me thinking more than anything else that I took,” Blagg said. After she graduated with her bachelor’s degree, Blagg’s graduate studies at PLU focused on how companies approach conflict resolution with their
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for undergrad trying to find ways to fund my education, let alone graduate school,” Dolan said. “I haven’t even been thinking about it really because I wanted to finish undergrad. But I knew that it would be tough, so to already be admitted with a full ride — it’s a very calming feeling to have.” Dolan also is excited to share opportunities with his fellow Lutes. Dolan made a list of summer fellowships and opportunities that he’s happy to share with other students. He’s eager to help his peers who
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ultimately go towards the organization’s operations abroad. We hope in the future to receive enough funding for students to have the opportunity to go out into communities like Honduras, Panama, etc., to gain hands-on exposure. PLU Pre-Health Sciences AdvisingWhat inspired you to start this club, in particular? Being a pre-med student, or a student thinking about any health science grad school, can be a lot. It can also be hard to get a feel for what preparing for medical school should look like, how
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front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by poverty, violence and abuse. Cushman was one of several speakers who discussed resilience, in the seventh biennial event at Pacific Lutheran University that aimed to stimulate serious thinking on the global challenge. Cushman told attendees that his negative experiences as a child prevented him from envisioning
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honors. After walking across a commencement stage for the second time, this time to retrieve a college diploma, the road to get where she is today has been weighing on her mind. “I’m thinking a lot about my high school graduation and how emotional that was,” Dawson said. “It’s just crazy thinking about how much further I’ve come. When I started college, I had no idea how it was going to go and if I was going to finish.” Something that’s truly flourished during her college years has been her art
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of a PLU education. Student Spotlight“Good evening, everyone. It’s a privilege to join you all for this special evening and share with you a bit of my experience at PLU. PLU was never on my radar when I started thinking about college. I didn’t even know about PLU until fall of my senior year of high school… until someone told me I’d be a good Lute… whatever that means, I thought. Nevertheless I found myself applying, visiting, interviewing for a President’s Scholarship, and ultimately jumping for
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two years, for most of you four, some a bit longer, . . . and, of course, it took me 20! But we have all made it, and tomorrow, MaryAnn and I, like so many of you will be packing the car and preparing to hit the road, and leaving daily life in the so called Lutedome for the last time! So, in a very special way, MaryAnn and have been thinking of this as our commencement day, and so we hope that it is O.K. with you if we claim for ourselves honorary membership in the class of 2012! And we are
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folks who commissioned this revolutionary Bible for the 21st century understand what I’ve always known PLU to understand: a commitment to a faith tradition that doesn’t leave anybody out, an understanding of the beauty behind faith and reason in one place — not in spite of each other, but in unison. The Rev. Michael Patella, who led the Committee on Illumination and Text that guided the theological thinking of the project, said it best on that hot summer day in Minnesota: “Faith and reason are not
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Alger ’95 Rigby Alger ’19 Bios: Dawn Alger BSN RN OCN is currently a per-diem RN at Peace Island Medical Center on San Juan Island, working in Oncology, PACU and OR. She moved to San Juan Island to help create the Cancer Center at this Critical Access Hospital that opened in November of 2012. In 2014 Dawn won the prestigious PeaceHealth Spirit of Healing Caregiver Award for Collaboration as the Program Coordinator in Cancer Support for Peacehealth’s Northwest Network. Dawn is a 1995 BSN Graduate
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