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high heels,” Wold said with a laugh. After taking a brief hiatus from work to travel with her first husband for his job, she was re-hired to work for NASA in 1997. Wold began working with the research and development side of NASA to track milestones, develop software, narrow the focus of research, and monitor expenditures. She became a vital part of the systems engineering career team and worked more closely with the researchers. “She knows how to get the best of out of them,” said Deanna Nowadnick

thing to hear about Microsoft or Google going global,” he said. “But it’s quite a different thing to see this in action in another country.” That’s certainly true, according to Assistant Professor of Management Matt Monnot, who took a group of MBA students to Spain in 2012 to visit Mondragon Corporation, an industry which is the only business model of its kind in the world. It’s a worker’s cooperative that produces everything from refrigerators to products and systems for construction. Assistant

be able to utilize criminological research methods to collect and analyze data, integrate interdisciplinary ideas to develop nuanced perspectives on social and legal system issues, and critique social and economic systems that shape the criminal legal system.” Pittman adds that the launch of the new program is timely. “Students who are coming to PLU today have grown up in a complicated era of digital surveillance, policing and war,” he says. “This major will give them the historical context as to

programming, cutting-edge evaluation tools and innovative operational systems and technical assistance to support all aspects of its integrated programs. Based in Tacoma, Degrees of Change is a national organization that serves students across the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. Of the students served, 90% are students of color, 70% are first-generation college students, and 80% are from low-income families. We love our communities and want to see them thrive in all their diversity. Tacoma Public Schools

and environmentally sustainable agriculture. Laurie-Berry started teaching at PLU in the fall of 2008. In addition to Plant Physiology, Laurie-Berry’s other classes include Plant Development and Genetic Engineering and a first-year writing class focused on global agriculture, world hunger, genetic engineering and related topics. “Our central question for the course is how agriculture and related systems must change to alleviate global hunger,” Laurie-Berry says.Before 2015, the original PLU

, tutor, and scholar lead/mentor for Washington state opportunity scholars. He’s also been a campus leader, serving as the Vice President of the PLU Habitat for Humanity chapter, At-large senator of ASPLU, and founding the university’s Global Medical Brigades/Pre-med Club. Global Medical Brigades is an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that

, Ambachew applies her skills of spotting problems and finding solutions. She gives students feedback on how to improve their resumes and problem-solves how to play nicely with the tech-based screening systems businesses use to filter resumes. “I love doing this type of work,” she says. After graduation, Ambachew seeks job opportunities in marketing analysis, project management, and learning experience design, applying what she’s learned from the business and technology worlds. Technology still appeals

an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni

materials that could transport charge and ions to be used on biosensors and be more easily integrated into biological systems, unlike other semiconductors or batteries. Did you appreciate the research experience? Working on my own project in the first lab forced me to learn to take accountability and engage with chemistry on my own. Last year, however, Dr. Waldow was very involved, but I was doing my own thing and diving past polymers into synthesis, which was super fun and challenging. To me, research

and to achieving ambitious and measurable results with students,” Buley said. Nicolette Paso – Research in Germany Paso will be moving to Leipzig, Germany, to complete her Fulbright Research Grant. Her hope is to apply her research toward a master’s degree, and eventually doctorate, in religion. Her research project is centered on the early Reformation church ordinances that created the first state-sponsored systems of social welfare. “I am primarily interested in how theological context of each