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honors Coast Salish culture and architecture. She is very active in the region’s Native community. She is President of the Potlatch Fund organization and has served in an advisory capacity to the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation and the Northwest Folklife Festival Cultural Committee. Joshua CushmanWorking Title: Beauty in the Struggle: Empowering Communities Through Hope Who: Joshua Cushman, PLU Alum 2008, Teacher, Lincoln High School Bio: Born and raised in the city of Tacoma, Joshua Cushman

created an innovative new course in the PLU School of Business that allows students to earn internship credit and participate in a unique, global project. PLU Faculty ProfileIn this course, students experience and grow in the areas of community building and engagement, outreach and education (locally and globally), fundraising, crowdfunding, and international nonprofit projects. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach blending business, philosophy, Hispanic studies, communication, culture

, organizations, and communities. Content on working with diverse populations will be incorporated and students will be encouraged to use an anti-racist lens to look at social work theories that underlie mezzo and macro level practice. Prerequisite: SOCW 510. SOCW 525: Anti-Racism, Diversity, & Equity in Social Work Practice (4)In this course, human diversity is broadly explored and defined to include race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and

reserved.” Three themes were consistent across all interviews, Packard found. All of the subjects used gallows humor as a way of coping, all of them experienced deep sympathy when tragedy struck children and their families, and all of them experienced a culture of “learning as you go” to cope with emotional strain. “First responders have other lives outside of work. I think people sometimes forget that,” Packard said. “When these people are home, they have other struggles they are dealing with. They

through a lingering double-digit deficit against Linfield College. The Lutes never took the lead that night, and eventually fell to the Wildcats 80-72. But, despite the score and the frustrations that accompanied it, Lester proved to be the kind of player head coach Steve Dickerson expects first and foremost, basketball game or not. When an opposing player took a hard fall late in the second half, Lester offered a hand up without hesitation. That’s the culture Dickerson has built at PLU. Lester’s

you could forgive yourself for something, it would be… What is something you wish your support system would understand? What is something you wish your support system could help with? How has loss or death impacted your sense of what feels meaningful in life? How does your culture, community, or religious background understand death and grief? In what ways have these understandings and practices been helpful, contributing to a feeling of you being seen or held in your grief? In what ways have

creativity and meaning-making in the classroom through visual, musical, non-verbal/physical movement, and dramatic arts. (2) EDUC 565 : Elementary Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies Practice designing, implementing, and assessing lessons and units that integrate reading, language arts, and social studies content in K-8 classrooms. Introduces exemplary reading, language arts, and social studies classroom materials and examines what successful classroom managers in K-8 classrooms know and are able to

Biology Focuses on cellular organization and function, enzyme kinetics, membrane structure and function, energetics, signaling, and cell cycle. Laboratory employs modern techniques including animal cell culture, cell fractionation, molecular, genetic, and biochemical assays, and microscopy (light, phase contrast, fluorescence). Prerequisite: BIOL 330 and CHEM 331 with 333, or consent of instructor. (4) BIOL 443 : Plant Development and Genetic Engineering A study of how plant structures form and change