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how to survive on the ice, and then setting out for their research location. On this particular day, Todd was not thinking about Antarctica, but relishing her team’s trips to Rainier. “We’re using Mount Rainier to learn about glaciers in other parts of the world,” she said. “You really couldn’t ask for a better lab to study glaciers than Mount Rainier.” The other five members of this summer’s team—Emily Knutsen ’16, Riley Swanson 15, Taylor Christensen ’15, Samantha Harrison ‘16 and Christina Gray

until I found success and received encouragement from my professors in the several writing courses I took while at PLU that I started thinking of writing as something more than an enjoyable hobby.” After graduating from PLU, Walton headed straight to graduate school at Portland State University where she would earn an MFA in Creative Writing. “I wrote The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender in grad school,” she says. “So, in a way, my writing career started at PLU.” Walton lives in Seattle

on our world. This year, the 10th Biennial Wang Symposium comes full circle, with a focus on “Healing: Pathways for Restoration and Renewal.”“Even as I was planning the 9th biennial symposium two years ago, I was already thinking that the next symposium would be on a topic that would bring forth ideas and practices about how to bridge polarization,” said Tamara Williams, Ph. D., executive director for the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education.  The topic of healing soon took on

, thinking about challenges directly related to things like mental health or substance abuse disorder treatment,” she says. “Then the other 70 percent is focussed on administration, infrastructure, systems, etc.” × Be it clinical care or management, Card says behavior health is a sector where caring is a prerequisite. “You shouldn’t get into the field if you don’t care about human beings,” she says. “It’s required for treating clients and it’s required for supervising clinicians.” “I believe in servant

stigma that “all Filipinos are nurses,” and I did not want to fall into that stereotype, in all honesty. At Washington State University, I was initially pursuing pre-pharmacy with the intent to become a pharmacist. I left after one semester thinking that college was not for me. So, I enlisted in the Navy, and while still serving today as a hospital corpsman, working with outstanding Navy nurses, I realized that I have a strong affinity for nursing and absolutely love this line of work. Tell us more

felt a calling, and as a person of faith, she needed to heed the voice telling her, “You’re supposed to be a nurse.” Right before COVID-19 began, she approached her husband and told him what she was thinking. “He said, ‘You’d be a terrific nurse! You should go for it,’” Rosenlund recalls. She didn’t have any illusions about the difficulties of nursing school, especially an accelerated program like PLU’s ABSN. Rosenlund said she drew encouragement from another difficult time in her life, when she