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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

Into The Wild: Acclaimed Nature Photographer Josh Miller ’01 Started at PLU’s ‘Mooring Mast’ Posted by: Sandy Dunham / December 4, 2014 Image: Photographer Josh Miller ’01 stands with a camera in Death Valley. (Photo courtesy of Josh Miller) December 4, 2014 Photographer Josh Miller ’01 stands with a camera in Death Valley. (Photo courtesy of Josh Miller) By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communication Student Worker TACOMA, Wash.—(Dec. 5, 2014)—Nature photographer Josh Miller ’01 has had

where the Pickles were down 8-0 late in the game, then scored eight runs and tied it up and forced extra innings. The game started at 7 p.m. and it hit midnight and people were like, “Oh my goodness, are the lights going to go off?” Lights ended up going off at 12:15, game still hadn’t ended, and all of the baseball players from both teams and the hundred or so fans that were remaining all rushed the field and it turned into a big party. They turned the disco lights on our party deck and it was just

March 2, 2014 Turning Numbers Into Words Tyler Ball ’13, left, and PLU Math Professor Tom Edgar conducted research over the summer of 2012 (with Daniel Juda ’13) that’s now published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Undergraduate Math Research Published in Prestigious Journal By Valery Jorgensen ’14 Two recent Pacific Lutheran University graduates have been published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, a prestigious peer

has affected his family personally, and he is frankly embarrassed and dismayed by recent headlines of the rising rate of rape and sexual assaults within all branches of the military. “Our institution is built on honor,” Keller said. “And it’s personally embarrassing to see these reports. No mother, sister, wife should have this happen to them. “We need to get out of the ‘man box’ that society has put us into, where we need to be controlling to be a man,” he said. The Take Back the Night event was

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March 12, 2012 ‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of world issues and makes them masterful storytellers. By Katie Scaff ’13 A detour to Joplin We stepped out of the car and were immediately hit with a hazy fog. We

Indigenizing the Academy Posted by: alex.reed / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Troy StorfjellOriginally published in 2014One of the things that studying Indigenous stories and situations has shown me is that knowledge isn’t neutral. Our systems of knowledge grow out of our ways of being in the world and are all culturally-specific—that is, they are all created by particular cultures. The modern university system, with its distinct disciplines and its emphasis on empiricism and objectivity, is a

February 21, 2012 Food Symposium addresses the many ways food impacts the world. The ethics of food By Katie Scaff ’13 The PLU Philosophy Department’s Food Symposium Feb. 21 will address the ethics revolving around food. Keynote speaker, Paul B. Thompson – the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics will speak at 7 p.m., Feb. 21 in the UC Regency Room. Thompson, who has published several works on the environmental and social significance of agriculture, will discuss three

Washington in 2017, organizing 20 site visits in 10 days, and then journeyed back over to Israel for more consulting. Training materials she’d authored were translated into Hebrew and being used throughout the country. Delayed by 16 years, her program was finally being adopted. “It was my greatest high and my greatest low, because I failed but I didn’t fail,” Moller said. “That’s a pretty big deal for a Nebraska farmer’s daughter.” Read Previous Lute paddles with fellow Samish tribal members for first