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grow up while still being who you are. You take on bigger challenges and have a wider skill set while still being you at the core.” She incorporated those life lessons into her grown-up job as a staffer and troop leader at Girl Scouts of Western Washington, where she led five troops each week, working with girls on everything from self-esteem to community improvement. Eventually, she branched into other service, including as an AmeriCorps volunteer at the Al Davies Boys & Girls Club in Tacoma. I

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bodies, all equally valued, is demonstrated through many individual courses taught across the curriculum and strong support through the Center for Diversity Justice and Sustainability, Campus Ministry, Veterans Affairs, International Education, and Office of Accessibility and Accommodation. Care for the earth is honored through Environmental Studies and through PLU’s commitments to sustainability in buildings, waste management and recycling, composting, and its long time membership in the Association

is leading the way. Alan Krause ’76 is chairman and chief executive officer of MWH Global, an engineering firm that, according to its website, “manage[s] water purity and availability in a sustainable fashion for the health, livelihood and security of people worldwide.” HE’S A WINNER Alan Krause ’76 also is a 2015 Alumni Award Winner. Learn More One of its biggest projects is designing and providing construction management on the third set of locks for the Panama Canal Expansion project. This

, research project, and term project, in addition to lecture. This course is taught abroad in J-term. Prerequisite: BIOL 226. (4) BIOL 367 : Conservation Biology and Management Based upon the principles of population ecology and ecological genetics, an integrated study of the impacts of people on nature—specifically the diversity of plants and animals. Includes practical applications, techniques, and case studies in forest, fish, wildlife, and land management. Laboratories and field trips concern

Davis, a FabLab co-founder who graduated from PLU with a degree in business management and marketing in 2006. “We provide the tools, we provide the knowledge, and we provide some of the resources to get ideas up and off the ground.” Makerspaces aren’t new to the do-it- yourself landscape. But the for-profit approach employed by FabLab is young, Davis says. Typically, makerspaces have been affiliated with universities and libraries. FabLab is membership-based. Users pay a monthly fee to use the

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: First-Year Experience DJS Seminar FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act FNP: Family Nurse Practitioner FR: Freshman FT: Fitness and Wellness GenEd Element FTWL: Fitness and Wellness FW: First-Year Experience Writing Seminar FREN: French FYEP: First-Year Experience Program GE: Global Engagement GenEd Element GED: General Equivalency Diploma GENED: General Education Program GLB: Graham-Leach-Bliley Act GLCS: Global & Cultural Studies GLST: Global Studies GMAT: Graduate Management Admission