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language during her seven years as the service coordinator for the Puyallup tribal language program. In 2012, Professor Bob began working with Dr. Troy Storfjell, Professor of Nordic Studies, and other members of the Native American and Indigenous Studies [NAIS] working group to design PLU’s NAIS Interdisciplinary Minor. Professor Storfjell, a dual citizen of Norway and the US and raised largely in Norway, is Sami. The Sami are an Indigenous people whose homeland is now part of the northern portion of

taught him to be a better listener. “I may have brought in a certain set of traits and skills 16 years ago that were somewhat appropriate for the job, but after the last 16 years of hundreds of town hall meetings and phone calls, elections and campaigns, I’ve had to change quite a bit,” Larsen said in his office in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. “There’s still the part of me that is gung-ho about the things I want to do and what I want to work on, but over the last several terms I’ve learned a

Brorby2023 Earth Day Speaker Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land “I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, “a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking.” In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent

.; Rolison, D.R. and Long, J.W. 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018. “Studying the kinetics of electrochemical reactions on ruthenia-coated carbon electrodes.” Lytle, J.C.; Kamm, G.E.*; McGovern, A.D.*; Parker, J.F.; Donakowski, M.D.; Rolison, D.R. and Long, J.W. 253rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017. “How does the surface area of metal-air anodes affect their rate of discharge?” McNally, M.T