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is brightening the sales prospects for many local business owners,” the economists reported. The report noted that factors outside the region will contribute to downside risk, including the potential for a slowing Chinese economy, the uncertainty surrounding U.S. tax and budget policy, the potential for a slowdown in the U.S. housing recovery, and European economic and debt problems. Pierce County will benefit from stronger employment growth, stronger retail sales and slightly more robust real

Confucian ideas in Chinese culture, and students were assigned roles and positions to take. They wrote their cases, developed rebuttals to their opponents, and voted on a winner. In Professor Hammerstrom’s course, the Confucians won the debate, as they did in real life centuries ago. However, things were a little more split in the class, as the real Emperor Wuzong banned Buddhism outright, while the class only imposed a new tax and a restriction on temples.Tyler Travillian, Associate Professor of

can participate in the give and take of society. Here, wellness is understood to involve the whole person, encompassing physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. By considering a wide variety of healing traditions, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dine (Navajo) healing traditions, Jewish healing movements, Ayurvedic medicine, or the practice of Curanderismo within Hispanic communities in the United States, the course challenges classic biomedical assumptions that health and wellness are

religions in Honolulu, PLU students had the honor of experiencing a tradition far older and more meaningful. Photo by Erik Hammerstrom Long before Japanese, Chinese, Korean, European, and other sailors set foot on Hawaiʻi, Polynesian settlers made their home on the isolated islands. From the land and the water grew traditions and legends. One such tradition is the cultivation and consumption of kalo, or taro, which was once the most prevalent and important staples of the Native Hawaiʻian diet. This

sort of fell to the wayside.” As a high school student, Akerman set about pursuing a career in another field she was passionate about: teaching. She enrolled here at Pacific Lutheran University and earned a bachelor’s in English literature and a master’s in education. That was when she discovered a way to combine her passions. “While I was working on my master’s here I started volunteering at the zoo, and that opened up a whole new world,” Akerman says. “I realized that they have education

, including PLU faculty and staff, alumni, and students. Since its founding the choir has grown to a full membership of 60-70 singers, with a touring ensemble of approximately 30-40 singers. The choir meets one evening each week for rehearsal during the academic year and members are selected by annual audition. The choir performs three or four concerts each season. Programs are comprised of shorter choral works or major choral literature with orchestra or chamber instrumentation. The choir often

, Crom said. Books range in price from a few bucks, for a used paperback a student might use in a Literature class, to up to $200 for some business or nursing textbooks. Students who purchase used or new books can participate in the buyback program offered by the bookstore. Students that also purchase a set amount of books at the bookstore will receive gift cards to be used against future purchases. “It’s a new loyalty program for textbooks,” Crom said. Students will receive a “loyalty card” that