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— Johnson is at once modest about his role, and also very aware of the organization’s international reputation for showing up in times of crisis. At the height of the global refugee crisis in 2015, Johnson was working for YouthCompass International to engage youth at international schools in humanitarian service projects in Romania, Serbia and Croatia. As approximately 1.6 million refugees came to Germany, he watched as refugees got off the train and went straight to a Red Cross tent. “And I just

investigating the major ideas and products in the history of computing and business. Our attention turned this week to the introduction of Apple’s breakthrough home-computing product, which emerged during the first surge of commercial PC innovation in the late 1970s. This era is also known for the release of the SOL-20 (1977), the Tandy TRS-80 (1977), the Commodore PET (1977), and (eventually) the IBM PC (1981). “To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive,” wrote

got me thinking about just the span of history that she lived through in the 20th century. A lot of very dramatic things happened during her lifetime. I became very curious about that juxtaposition between the small individual life against the background of large historical events. Obviously, that’s the case for any life, including ours, but for her, I started to wonder how her life was related to larger things like immigration, war and capitalism. So that really is what happened, that the

over the last 10,000 years due to long-term global factors, such as changes in the earth’s orbit. Providing a record of this long-term retreat will help us place more recent, decade-scale climate change into context. PLU geosciences student Vermeulen ’12, along with Todd and four other researchers, traveled by C-130 cargo plane to a location in the Pensacola Mountains 1,000 miles away from McMurdo Station, the home of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Ice sheets leave behind clues about its past, by

they even contradict.” Navkiran “Navi” Randhawa Chemistry and Biology Tacoma, Wash. Randhawa loves this – she sees it as a way to engage in ideas she might not otherwise encounter if she spent all her time in the science building. This is by design. Whereas many universities, have programs that focus on global issues, what makes PLU’s truly unique, is that such issues are looked at from multiple perspectives and multiple disciplines – course material is drawn from at least two countries with

or PhD to pursue youth advocacy and justice work in education Born in Nairobi, Kenya to a family of asylum-seekers from Mogadishu, Somalia, Aziza Ahmed moved to the US at five, and came to PLU from Auburn’s Mountainview High, with an associate’s degree in gender studies from Green River College already under her belt. A committed activist, Ahmed served as the founding Interfaith Coordinator at Campus Ministry, worked at the Center for Student Success, and was part of “the collective,” an

believe that there’s a point to this and that brings me joy and happiness.ROOTED IN RELATIONSHIPAngie: What about you, Maya? Did you have an “Aha”? Maya: I think it was less of a moment than it was just you-all and the Diversity Center, mentorship, the Center for Gender Equity, staff and faculty who were supporting students and building community… I think all my “Aha” moments had to do with community. I have less recall about what I was reading in classes and was more inspired by the relationships

addition, even as the economy collapsed around us, we were able to secure $1 million in matching gifts to qualify for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation challenge grant and endow our new Global Scholars Grant Program that will increase access to study abroad for all of our students.  When our remarkable chemists secured the NSF grant to acquire our ground breaking NMR Spectrometer, we turned to our science graduates who provided the $400 thousand  necessary to support the creation of this important new

million to PLU, making her the single largest benefactor in university history. The three-year, $20 million endeavor completed in two distinct phases will officially open with the production of Cole Porter’s Tony Award–winning “Kiss Me, Kate” on the rechristened Eastvold Auditorium Main Stage. Jeff Clapp, who has spent so many of his years in this building, both as a student and a professor, will direct production. From the exterior, it appears little has changed since the days of the Chapel-Music

, are voiced by an instructor outside the room, watching the scene unfold. “The experience provided some safety but still triggered strong emotions,” Bird says. “With this physical presence in front of you and the clock ticking, someone’s life is in your hands.”PLU School of NursingCommitment, Caring and LeadershipLearn about the mission, history and programs offered, as well as download application materials.Students often attend simulation labs in groups of eight, accompanied by their instructor