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| Karen Hille Phillips | More Information Dedicated to “ideas worth sharing,” TEDxTacoma provides a platform for the exchange of creative, earnest and often paradigm-challenging ideas about how we can change our city, region and world for the better. At TEDxTacoma 2016, local business, arts, education and nonprofit leaders will present essential ideas for a “healthy future” for our community and the world. “Gueros” Film Screening April 27 | 6:00 p.m. | Admin 101 Post film Q&A with award-winning

Library. Or prepare yourself to literally change the world just like William Foege, M.D., Class of 1956, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this May for devising the global strategy for the eradication of smallpox when he served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control. And among your own near contemporaries, four members of the Class of 2012 showed great promise for the future by winning Fulbright Scholarships, bringing to 91 the number of Fulbrights won by Lutes. These awards

between support and graduation rates for teens experiencing homelessness. “I found that implementing trauma-informed practices, developing awareness, attending to basic needs, creating a supportive environment, and having community partners can create a positive impact on homeless students,” Reyes said. This past spring, Reyes graduated with her B.A. in social work and is now enrolled in the University of Washington’s MSW Advanced Standing Program. Reyes has come a long way from her time drifting from

(versus 3 percent nationally) study away at some time in their academic career. “I always figured I’d study away,” he said. “Every year in high school I saw a different example of how it could make an impact on a person’s life. It’s why I came to PLU.” When Liz Pfaff ’10 came to PLU from her hometown of Bellevue, Wash., she had no plans to study away – she had other things she wanted to do. But she saw a math and Spanish focused study away trip to Honduras – well, that was too much to resist. She’s a

degrees of separation from one person. “You know a lot more people than you think, and can impact,” Waller said. The Third Annual Holocaust Conference was kicked off Thursday night by an examination of the slave labor camps the Germans set up around Poland and Germany to power their war machine. Prof. Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and a former PLU professor who taught in the university’s history department for 25

strategies filmed and showcased on their website."PLU is where I learned how to learn… It was in college that learning became authentic and meaningful. It felt like my learning had a purpose. In retrospect, it wasn’t the teaching concepts or philosophies that have gotten me to this point of my career, but the modeling of building relationships."- Jessica Anderson '07What is #MTedchat, your involvement with it, and what impact has it had on the education community in Montana? #MTedchat is a participant

who grow up in low-income families to enter the teaching field. That’s one reason Teach 253 programs are housed at two of Tacoma’s most diverse high schools: Mount Tahoma and Lincoln. But the program is open to any student at the schools. “Who better to teach Tacoma kids than Tacoma kids? We want them back,” said Lisa Egenes, instructor for Teach 253 at Lincoln. “We want to get kids excited to think about the impact they could have on teaching,” added Mary Jo Larsen, PLU’s assistant dean of

they feel healthy because it’s this constant state of unknown. It could be just cracking a couple of jokes (that) can honestly brighten people’s moods and it makes them feel more comfortable with you.” The opportunity to take part in a historic moment by administering life-changing vaccinations has certainly left an impact on the PLU community and students, like Hobbs, who are looking to pay it forward.  “You can tell when people come through that they’re nervous, they’re scared,” said Hobbs

Michelle Alexander, discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.”–Provided by publisher. Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise : the Golden Arches in Black America. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020. “From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food

organizations, like Night Ministry, who determine the particular kinds of support services they will be involved in. The climb, which is officially titled the Climb for Peace with Justice, is, as Stephens said, a step outside the ordinary for LVC service ventures. For the organization, which operates at a relatively low overhead, this fundraiser has the potential to bring in a substantial “chunk of change,” she says. Each respective member is expected to raise $4,300, netting the program nearly $40,000