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planned is a summer research retreat. It will bring together Behrens, Todd, McKenna, their student researchers and other PLU faculty to work on projects together, such as the health of Puget Sound, Teska said. “We will demonstrate with evidence that we have the capacity to do these innovative, creative, interdisciplinary explorations,” Teska said. “It’s another piece that we can document that PLU is distinctive.”   Read Previous Two students killed in car accident Read Next Celebrate World Fair Trade

all of our old issues, too, at www.plu.edu/prism/documents. This issue will offer a sample of what you’ll can find there, re-publishing a selection of the voices, ideas, and projects that have been highlighted in Prism over the years. I am grateful to Jim Albrecht (former Dean, current Chair of English) who came up with the idea for this issue, and worked with the rest of the Humanities Chairs Council —Agnes Choi (Religion), Mike Schleeter (Philosophy), and Paul Manfredi (Languages and Literatures

was a pre-med major in college!). In middle school while waiting to go to orchestra class, I used to make fun of singers because they would make silly sounds and make crazy faces out in the hallway. Now I am a singer and have made silly noises while making funny faces warming up in taxis, public bathrooms, random stairways and even outside in the woods when no practice rooms were available. I bet innocent passersby thought I was a crazy lady. I am a lyric mezzo-soprano and have performed recitals

recalled how the 1992 election was quite like this one. “Quite frankly it was the candidate,” Eastman said about Bill Clinton. It was the first time that the issues of young voters were being addressed in a national election and they were being asked “What do you care about?,” Eastman said. This election brings that same sort of excitement from young people about being part of the process, he said. At PLU there have been several forums to discuss candidates and issues. Students have been engaged and

, but those are difficult to come by. I will probably spend some time on a medical/surgical or telemetry unit before applying for a critical care position as an internal applicant. Angela Pierce – Bachelor of Arts of social work, minor in sociology Angela Pierce ’12 is from Tacoma, Wash. Why PLU? I decided to attend PLU because of the great opportunity it presented me through the Act Six Scholarship. I felt called by the mission of Act Six and the call to be a leader on the PLU campus. As part of

, practice, he said. Quoting from Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Outliers,” Anderson said that very successful people don’t simply pop out of the box that way. But rather, they usually encounter a unique opportunity and work very hard at their craft. Before Bill Gates Jr. became a billionaire, he snuck out of his room to work at computers at his high school. The Beatles first booked gigs in dingy small clubs in Germany, for up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. He encouraged the students to find a topic

Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association and visited high schools to talk personally to the teachers. “Typically, with a week to go, not many people had signed up,” Blaha said. “So I’d send out another plea.” In 2012, following that same course of action, 40 students competed. In 2013, that rose to 58. And this year? This year—let’s call it version 4.0—was completely different. 2014 PLU High School Programming Contest Results Advanced Division First place: Roosevelt High School Second place

and service. Each chapter nationwide creates a cohort experience for students, who elect leadership positions and assume responsibility for ongoing programs and service. PLU Mortar Board dates Feb. 10: Nomination solicitations begin as the list of eligible students becomes available. Nominated students will be invited to submit an application. March 7: Application deadline. Week of April 14: Selected students will be informed—or, traditionally, “tapped”—by current Mortar Board members. Early May

been talks about expanding the restoration site, and said the investment in expansion of the site could potentially save the university money. He said the site could include parts of the current golf course, once that land is redeveloped. “I’m hoping that area becomes a part of the natural habitat restoration site,” he said. “It seems it’s in the best interest of the university.” The grant proposal approved by the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation outlined plans for the site to be dedicated as

vision of one day seeing her art in a museum. “I know that I’m going to manifest that for myself, because I know I’m worth that, and what I envision is worth that,” she says. Using mixed media ranging from denim and drapery textile samples to braiding hair and acrylic paint, Thompson envisions her work as a space to reimagine what the world could look like “if we accepted who we are beyond expectations and structures within society.”  One such space has been the University Gallery Annex, where