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July 8, 2008 Spanning the globe during J-Term 2008 In January more than 400 students were sojourners in 21 countries across the globe as once again PLU classes convened on all seven continents. ANTARCTICA Journey to the End of the Earth From the great South American city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the tip of the continent in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, students explored some of the grandest scenery in the world. Patagonia served as a jumping-off point for 11 days in Antarctica – all

bachelor’s degree from Hobart College and his masters and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Berkowitz has held fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. Before coming to UCL he taught at the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, the University of Judaism, and St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York). Professor Berkowitz’s current

activist Maude Barlow to an assembled crowd in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “There’s lots of water, until there’s no water at all,” the keynote speaker of the 2012 Wang Symposium – Our Thirsty Planet, told the crowd. The address marked the inaugural PLU Norwegian-American Annual Lecture. “First and foremost, we are a planet running out of water,” Barlow said. “What we actually have to get our heads around is we are actually coming to the end of water.” In many parts of the world, rivers and fresh water

Radio. Read Previous Learning to Brew Read Next PLU choral conductor winner of The American Prize for 2013 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indigenous education and tribal sovereignty September 23

large mouse with small ears and a long snout. Despite its looks, it is not a rodent or a shrew, but a marsupial without a pouch to carry its babies. Caenolestes sangay is part of the order Paucituberculata, an ancient group of South American marsupials different from the well-known opossums and Australian marsupials. Restricted to the Andes, very seldom seen in the wild, and with only seven species, the shrew-opossums are among the most enigmatic marsupials on the planet. The DNA clearly delimits

. Barnes graduated from PLU with a degree in business—and uses that degree every workday as an intern for the Super Bowl-worthy Seattle Seahawks. All these dreams once seemed so out of reach for Barnes, the first of his family to graduate from college. Growing up in Redmond, where he was the only African-American child in his elementary school, Barnes recalls being bullied and taunted. Of course, the times he did try to defend himself, a teacher would show up, and Barnes would be the student cooling

retailers capture local conversations about the stores with great success. “Venuelabs has changed the game for us,” said Tyler Pringle, Director of Digital and Social for American Golf. “It allows us to see intimately into the experience of our customers at each of our nearly 100 courses and properties.” In a press statement, Salesforce.com, which is now helping to fund Venuelabs, said it intends to use its new $100 million investment, Salesforce Ventures, to support companies that are involved with

degree from Yale and his Ph.D. from Harvard. During his research career in the field of psychology, Greenwald mainly has focused on implicit and unconscious cognition. He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Lifetime Achievement Award (William James Fellow) from the Association for Psychological Science and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other exciting speakers also are on tap for this year’s

military sexual trauma; the Tacoma Vet Center; the National Association for Black Veterans; Delta Sigma Theta Inc.; Joint Base Lewis-McChord Sexual Assault Prevention Response Program; The JBLM Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Prevention Program; Wounded Warrior Project, Seattle; and The American Legion and VFW. PLU, co-sponsor Delta Sigma Theta and all of the resource providers are very proud of Washington’s veterans, said U.S. Army veteran Michael Farnum, PLU’s Director of Military Outreach

. “Dr. Krise strengthened the ties between PLU and the 581 congregations of the Pacific Northwest Region 1 of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,” said the Rev. Rick Jaech, bishop of the Southwestern Washington Synod of the ELCA. “He also fostered greater interfaith understanding with the African-American church community in Tacoma, and by appointing Catholic and Jewish associate chaplains, and encouraging the creation of new student religious groups, including the Muslim Student Association