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)Looking for more resources on social impact?SDG Index Understand key indicators and find nonprofit partners working to address critical aspects of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in each US state.Looking for careers in social impact innovation?Tech for Good Directory Get inspired by over 2,500 companies making an impact. PLU Nursing students prepare to support community health-care initiatives. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)
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this claim seriously – that a significant dimension of faculty, staff, and student development is hearing and responding to the call of being with and caring for others rather than living in splendid isolation or imagining one’s “vocation” as service to the self alone. To that end, our educational mission emphasizes an essential relationship between rigorous learning and engagement with this world, not one without the other. Thus, a degree from a Lutheran college equips students to consider how
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area leaders in science and business who will discuss how they have been involved in finding and delivering solutions – from active on-site intervention and benchmark research to the formulation of public policy. This is the third in a series of symposia sponsored by the Wang Center and PLU. It follows “China: Bridges for a New Century,” in 2003, and “Pathways to Peace: Norway’s Approach to Democracy and Development,” in 2005. For more information contact wangcntr@plu.edu or call 253-535-7577
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?” It is this last sentence that has become the cornerstone of the Wild Hope Project, challenging students to ask: “What will I do with my one wild and precious life?” Funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment, the project helps students develop a sense of their personal vocation, and provides support to faculty and staff in nurturing this development. Born in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Oliver attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College in the mid-1950s, but didn’t
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vice president for the Residence Hall Association, Siburg is currently working on his capstone project for religion and economics. His research examines the religious promotion of sustainable development in third world nations. Siburg is the third PLU student to receive the fellowship. Read Previous Basketball adventure Read Next Art grants support PLU faculty COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing
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development, and maintains the company’s Website. He hopes Fantazimo can expand and provide nutritious lunch options to more parents and children in the region. “We want to be there for parents,” Gradwohl said. “We want parents to know wherever their kid is at, we can deliver them a lunch.” Read Previous The Rose comes home Read Next Gift for all-purpose field primes athletic facilities transformation COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker
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the Civil War. His argument focused on the profitability and viability of slavery on the eve of the Civil War. Despite the rising prices of slaves and the profitability to slaveholders, and to some degree, non-slaveholders and northern and European consumers, Coclanis argued that the economy was too dependent on slave labor. “Slavery hindered the long-term development of the southern economy,” Coclanis said. “The South, in a relative sense, had been rendered into an economic backwater.” With the
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Officer. Prior to joining Milgard, Gessel gained extensive experience in financial leadership in consumer–packaged goods as Vice President, CFO of Nalley’s Fine Foods, Assistant Vice President of Seafirst Corporation/Bank of America, and as a member of the corporate finance team and leadership development program at Ford Motor Company. Gessel holds a Master of Science in Industrial Administration (MSIA) from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Brigham Young University
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March 25, 2013 A path of discovery By Katie Scaff ’13 For Austin Goble ’09, volunteering after graduation was anything but a gap year. Goble wasn’t ready to jump right into the workforce, so after graduating in December 2009 Goble spent a year volunteering with Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC), and then a year with AmeriCorps. “For me a year of service was intentional,” said Goble, “an intentional path of self-discovery.” Goble met a recruiter from LVC at a career development fair before
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of the Olinguito carnivore as well as Caenolestes sangay, says, “The Andes are still terra incognita; several plants and animals remain to be described and studied in detail.” The co-authors of the article, including Ojala-Barbour and Pinto, have more projects coming unveiling the mammalian richness of the Sangay National Park. The cloud forests in the Andes Mountains are very sensitive environments. These forests are under extensive human pressures, particularly farming and development. For
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