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sciences divisions, and the School of Business. “The heart of the university is its intellectual life, which is invisible,” said Patricia O’Connell Killen, provost and dean of graduate studies. “The research reception is one of the best ways we have of displaying the really exciting thinking and problem-solving and framing of new knowledge that our students engage in with faculty.” Geosciences professor Jill Whitman added that tangible representations of the research work, such as posters and papers

was new to this year’s slate of On the Road trips. The non-profit farm grows more than 50 varieties of vegetables year-round and harvests eggs to sell, as well as boasting a pesticide-free operation. It has more than 700 volunteers who put in approximately 3,800 hours of volunteer work last year. There were three other On the Road trips that also sought to encourage students to find ways to be of service to others. One group went to Northwest Harvest, one of Washington’s largest hunger relief

Incorporated, a guide service with well-trained ascension custodians. The group will spend two days training, learning about technical ice and crampon climbing, and then hike from Paradise parking lot to Camp Muir, which is the usual starting point for climbers attempting to summit the mountain. In the beginning, Stephens says that she would reach out to every new climber as they signed on asking, “so, what do you think?” But now that the group has been assembled, and she’s had some time to train

on her mother’s. She was a descendant of one of the Decembrists, the early 19th century social justice revolutionaries in Russia. Hewett remembers her mother as a passionate idealist and natural social worker. André and Magda met in the mid-1920s while studying in New York City, he at Union Theological Seminary and she at the New York School of Social Work. Six weeks after meeting, they were engaged. “They were two people from different places with the same ideas about serving humanity and doing

Development Award) Casey Laufmann Lauren Mendez Theresa (Aiko) Nakagawa April Nguyen Maya Perez Anna Sieber Doug Smith Meron Tadesse Andrew Tinker Clay Trushinsky Shelby Winters Amy Wooten (Professional Development Award) The inaugural inductees into PLU’s new Mortar Board chapter. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Mortar Board National Honor Society Membership in PLU’s new chapter of Mortar Board recognizes juniors with a 3.5 GPA or higher who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, leadership and

higher education has had on the nine graduates’ lives, careers and nation. As it turns out, this experience is having a profound impact on the PLU team: new graduates Andrea Capere ’14 and Princess Reese ’14; current students Shunying Wang ’15 and Maurice Byrd ’14; and supervisors Joanne Lisosky, Professor of Communication, and Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment.“What makes this so unique is the variety of perspectives that we have in the six people who are traveling on

one of the “Top 20 to Watch – The New Generation of Leading Clergy: Preachers Under 40” for her work with religion and justice. We caught up with Coleman, associate professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and co-director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology in southern California, to ask about her talk. Event Details What: The 2014 David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture. When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. Who: Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman; her talk is

, Australia; both New Zealand islands; San Francisco; Cusco, Peru (where she will visit Machu Picchu); Lima, Peru; New York City; Copenhagen, Denmark; Budapest, Hungary; Barcelona, Spain and various cities in Portugal. After a final stop in Washington D.C, she will will fly home to Washington state on Sept. 21. McGaha says she’s especially excited to visit Budapest because “it’s so steeped in culture and legend, yet I feel like it’s still a bit of a mystery to me.” She’s also excited about Machu Picchu

community group will apply for an assignment of the license with the FCC, which will be submitted by July 7, 2016. The FCC approval process typically takes a few months. Friends of 88.5 FM expects to assume ownership sometime in the fall. As part of the assignment, the station will be required to change its call letters, and the station plans to solicit community input before deciding on new call letters. Friends of 88.5 FM, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is the entity responsible for the Save

—so my family was happy.” Making the decision to attend PLU was easy. The difficult part came when it was time to leave her close-knit family. Gutierrez found Western Washington a major change from where she grew up in Central Washington.  “It was hard with the change of literal environment,” she said. “It’s rainy over here, there’s more population, more diversity. It’s a real city.” Gutierrez enjoyed her new school and making new friends but she admits she was homesick for her community back in