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July 2, 2010 PLU alum gets a ringside seat to history as U.S. plays in World Cup Last month By Barbara Clements PLU alumna Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson, ’08, accompanied her husband and U.S. soccer player, Clarence Goodson IV, to South Africa to represent the U.S. team at the World Cup Although the team lost to Ghana on June 26, Kelsey noted it was great being at the World Cup, rooting for the U.S. and blowing those darn horns until you were blue in the face. She recently described her experiences

complexity of how to do the most social good with the resources available.” – Susan Boyd ’90ROOTED IN THE RECESSIONThe current affordable housing emergency didn’t spring up overnight. It stems from the last time Americans lost their homes en masse — the subprime mortgage crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010. When the Great Recession struck, Nicole Harmon ’03 was working at a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit called NeighborWorks America where she assisted and advocated for families who had fallen

Sandström’s setting is a thoughtful reimagining of St. Matthew Passion that honors both the Bach setting that inspired it and the contemporary audiences for whom it is intended. Performed by the Choir of the West and Choral Union with University Symphony Orchestra. Day of Vocation April 5-6 | various times and locations across campus Your Deep Gladness. The World’s Great Hunger. Annual Lemkin Lecture and Essay Contest April 7 | 7-10 p.m. | Regency Room Earth Day Lecture: Dr. Alex Wilson from the

wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history…[The author,] Honey Meconi, draws on her own experience as a scholar and performer of Hildegard’s music to explore the life and work of this foundational figure.”–back cover Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (PS3545.I342Z6455 2017) Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls–the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote

Summer Undergraduate Research at Caltech Caltech's WAVE Fellows program is a 10-week undergraduate research program that provides robust programming in the areas of academic and professional development. Posted by: alemanem / November 15, 2023 November 15, 2023 Caltech’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is but one manifestation of our commitment to institutional excellence. Diversity is essential to achieving and maintaining scientific excellence. – excerpt from Caltech’s

Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and

distance hypothesis and syntactic distance hypothesis. The primary body of research focuses on the syntactic distance hypothesis whereas the results of this study point to an interaction of both, predominantly supporting linear distance. Laura McCloud, Ph.D., and Andrea Capere Department of Sociology Whither the Redneck:  Symbolic Violence in ‘Redneck Media’ Severtson Fellowship We show that “redneck media” is a cultural product of the Great Recession. Given that many formerly middle-class Americans

have to be on ventilators. My job is not only about the patients but also their families. I teach what I’ve learned so my patients and their families understand what they are going through and what they can do to keep on fighting. How did studying Nursing at PLU help prepare you to work in an ICU just a few years after graduation? PLU School of Nursing has taught me many great things about being a competent nurse. However, if I have to pick one, I would have to say “self-reflection.” I still

will be built up and tested. You will form intense and lasting friendships. You will also have great fun. We’re standing in the administration building, where we’ll begin the tour. It’s technically called Hauge Administration Building, but the only time you will call it that is when you are giving campus tours to prospective students and their families for your job at the admission office. You will lovingly refer to it, as all PLU students do, as simply “Admin.” To your right is the espresso cart

he’s passionate about educating people and giving people the opportunities that come with education. “It looks appealing and it speaks to me in so many ways,” Akuien said. He hopes to return to Sudan as an educator. He hopes to make his country great. “If you know where you’ve gone, you know where you’re going and you know where you’ve got to go.” His earliest memories are of being carried by a cousin with a group of refugees through thousands of miles of harsh wilderness and a homeland ravaged by