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passion for environmental science and sustainability when he took Claire Todd’s introductory Geoscience class. “That’s when my eyes opened up to everything going on in the world,” Lorax said. “That was it. It stuck.” Lorax’s passion did not just help decide his career path; it also evolved into his last name. Each year, Lorax and his partner renew their commitment to one another. So, last summer, when she had their baby daughter—but not the same last name—they decided to create a new name for the

students, staff, faculty, and community members Wednesday evening. “Most scientists in the world today believe we’ve crossed the line of sustainability,” said Bellah. “The world of science and capitalism has removed the thermostat on global warming. It’s as if you have a furnace in your home that you can’t turn off, or that you need the cooperation of the world to turn off.” Bellah, who serves as the Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and has authored

Internships: Breana Downs ’24 spends the summer with native birds at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance Posted by: mhines / November 22, 2023 Image: Breana Downs ’24 is glove training one of Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance’s ambassadors, Kingston! Kingston is a Red-Tailed Hawk who was admitted as a patient just over a year ago after running into a second-story window on one of his very first flights. (All photos in this article are provided by Breana Downs.) November 22, 2023 PLU can connect

recording video of people tagging walls. The photos are equal parts inspiring, offensive, and entertaining. I recognize in this moment that the digital does not replace the human. Rather, it extends the human into a world made by human hands, a world that looks so much like our own; full of lightness and darkness, love and hate, joy and deep sorrow. It is a world that once represented our hope for an egalitarian utopia, a place where everyone would be equal. Now we know that the same seeds of discord

September 30, 2011 Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow of mercy and justice. A debate on water in today’s world By: By Barbara Clements Evidence of water as a force for destruction can be easily found, both in the headlines and the Bible. There are the floods

Emergency Food Network (EFN)—and, doubly fittingly, that Lute is a former PLU basketball star and Athletic Hall of Famer: Don Brown ’92. Brown, now vice president and senior relationship manager for KeyBank’s business banking department, said he came up with the idea during a Tacoma Chamber of Commerce Leadership class—taught by another Lute, Catherine Pratt, associate dean of the PLU  School of Business. “During the class we were separated into teams and challenged to come up with an event that can

September 29, 2008 The comic book final gets some respect as literature Harvard professor Hillary Chute took students and faculty alike into the world of graphic novels, from a woman’s point of view, last week. In a talk titled “Comics as Literature: Women’s Contemporary Graphic Narratives,” Chute spoke of how the issues in women’s lives, from significant others to sexual abuse, are explored in graphic novels, or narratives written on comic book form. Now teaching at Harvard University, Chute

,” said Meade. Angela Meade ’01 has become a rising star is the world of opera. This month she won the Beverly Sills Award. Meade, who graduated from PLU with a bachelor of music, was in her third year of studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia  when she signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s “Ernani.” Meade had signed on to serve a “cover” or understudy for star soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, in the role in Elivra, the female lead. On Wednesday, Meade was at the

Spend the Summer with the National Toxicological Research Center Posted by: nicolacs / January 6, 2017 January 6, 2017 Summer research opportunities are available at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Jefferson, Arkansas. Selected individuals will participate in research projects on the biological effect of potentially toxic chemicals and the solutions to toxicology problems that have a major impact on human health and the

PLU students present ‘The War of the Worlds’ Posted by: vcraker / November 2, 2022 November 2, 2022 Theatre major Zivia Rich ’24 loves a good story. She is especially fond of them in the form of a radio show or podcast. Growing up, the Seattle-area native spent much of her time listening to KUOW, their local National Public Radio station. “We have a radio in my kitchen, right above where we cook, so pretty much I’d wake up, come into the kitchen and KUOW would be on every single day,” Rich said