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to help current PLU students find post-graduation service opportunities. Many PLU students seek service opportunities after graduating, and this panel allows students to hear from alumni about their service paths. It will give insights about how students can be proactive leaders in problems such as hunger and homelessness. This year’s alumni panelists include  Jedd Chang ’05, Peace Corps; Saiyare Refaei ’13, NWLF Urban Leaders in Training; Kathryn Boelk ’13, LVC; and Claire Smith ’10, JVC

environmentalist and Americorps volunteer who trains urban leaders. • Mark Griffith: a pastor with expertise in physics. • Charlene Tachibana: a nurse trained in Japanese efficiency and senior vice president, hospital administrator and chief nursing officer of Virginia Mason Medical Center. 12:30 p.m.: Lute Talks: What’s Your Passion? | Session II Anderson University Center, Room 201 1:45 p.m.: “A Musical Interlude: Stories of Musical Callings” Anderson University Center, Chris Knutzen Hall Hear performances

grant, from the agency’s Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program, will support training for 72 Doctor of Nursing primary-care nurse practitioners, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year. The grant is for $2.8 million over four years, with annual funding subject to Congressional budgeting. The grant’s goals are broad. Among its aims: Increase the number of nurse-practitioner students practicing in clinical rotations with medically underserved patients in both urban and rural settings

emerging urban and community leaders to engage the college campus and their communities at home. Having already been awarded the Palmer’s Scholarship —an award that supports Pierce County students of color access to a higher education —Mosa now had all the funding he needed to attend college. “Scholarships are really important to me and people like me,” Mosa said. “Being a person of color, it’s really hard to attend college. Most of us end up going to the workforce, so a scholarship is really important

disparities, like folks who live in the middle of nowhere and their closest doctor is an hour away and the closest specialist is eight hours away,” Chell said. “So, to see this free clinic situated across the street from a phenomenal hospital and people need to access it, was fairly eye-opening to urban health disparities.” Her passion to understand and help create health equity began while she was a student at PLU. As a global studies major and biology minor, Chell says she thrived in the

going to feel throughout your life. In fact, you should feel it throughout your life — because learning is a lifelong journey.” During her time as a PLU student, Long — a committed community member who’s held important positions in the NAACP, United Way, the Urban League, The Boys and Girls Club and Girls Inc., among others — became involved in the university’s then-fledgling Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) program before ultimately receiving PLU’s outstanding recent alumni award in