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transform the world–or at least our corner of it. The hope is that students gain actual skills that employers are looking for, opening up new opportunities after graduation, and connecting your major to real life. Innovation Studies also promises to be fun–not a lot of boring lectures, but team-based projects that bring out the best of your major and developing skill set. The minor is a pretty visionary, too, providing a space for students to make unexpected, yet meaningful connections to the greater

the United States premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion) on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall. The ensembles will be joined by a group of notable alumni soloists, including Metropolitan Opera soprano Angela Meade ’01, New-York based tenor Anthony Webb ’05, Bass-Baritone Benjamin Harris ‘09, as well as recent graduates Annie Herzog ’15 (Mezzo-soprano) and Eric Olson ‘15 (Baritone). Renowned Swedish conductor Stefan Parkman

Presidents Climate Commitment last January and PLU’s master planning documents. “It’s been a focus of PLU even before we wrote it down,” Kohler said. “That’s the culture. It’s the best thing about PLU.” The construction of the Morken Center for Learning and Technology essentially launched the idea to purchase renewable energy, Kohler explained. PLU designed the environmentally friendly building based on the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The

health in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization based in the United States. His work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Lewis was deputy

said. With several K-12 schools and community colleges in the area, there is a ready supply of participants. Plus, locations with volcano, tsunami and mudflow deposits are within driving distance, she explained. Along with giving teachers valuable science experience, participants will develop exercises to bring their experiences and knowledge into the classroom. Since field trip money can be hard to come by, Whitman said Web-based learning tools will be developed to help engage students

14, Behrens wanted to do anything but follow in his father’s footsteps as a marine biologist. Then he took a marine biology class in high school, and the passion was reborn. He was an assistant for his teacher his senior year in high school and she made him rough out the final exam questions, based on what he could see on the beach. It taught the future professor the importance of getting his students out of the classroom and onto the natural environment. And, certainly, into the water. “I love

that future music students’ lives were touched in a similar way. In 2000, the estate of Agnes Berge Smith left $2.5 million to fund 16 music scholarships at PLU. These merit-based awards now enable the university to attract the most talented students to its music program. And in recognition of the importance to Smith of the Chicago choir tour, a portion of her gift supports music group travel. Now, with her help, students in the four major performing ensembles have the opportunity to travel and