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February 24, 2012 Paul B. Thompson, the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University gave the keynote address for the Food Symposium. (Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) Exploring food issues By Katie Scaff ’13 Food intersects with just about any social justice issue you’re interested in, according to PLU Philosophy Professor Erin McKenna. McKenna was one of more than a dozen experts and enthusiasts who shared their knowledge with PLU and the greater

of office-based and remote. This is an unpaid internship. No wages or benefits will be paid in compensation for work completed during the internship. A $1,041.67 monthly stipend will be provided to defray intern living expenses during participation in the internship program. Application Process Interested applicants must complete an online application at https://bit.ly/learnandlead2022. Selected candidates will be invited to interview for the program. Application deadline is June 30, 2022. Please

Lutheran University is proud of the work we’ve done over the years supporting veterans who have access to VA education benefits,” said Michael Farnum, PLU’s Director of Military Outreach. “This is an opportunity for us to extend that work to veterans who don’t have that access.” The partnership pairs CVI’s new Tacoma program with PLU faculty in philosophy and humanities. The ensuing dialogues will explore themes of war and reconciliation, considering universal human experiences and questions through

PLU. Like most other members of the team, Rystrom had never rowed before, but now he can’t imagine his life without crew. Rowing is a unique sport in many ways. Most rowers have to travel to practice because their school doesn’t have a boathouse on-campus. Rowers also work with a lot of equipment. But perhaps what makes rowers particularly different, is the fact that many of them didn’t start until they came to college. “Usually in collegiate athletics, you don’t have the option to jump into a

recruit, prepare and retain STEM teachers in a more inclusive way.”The scholarships, dispersed to qualifying seniors and teacher candidates in the MAE program over the next five years, will ideally target students looking at careers who plan to work locally — creating a pipeline of successful, diverse educators that feeds back into the South Puget Sound school districts.  “We hope that it will be able to remove some financial barriers for those students who are interested in teaching but may not think

investment fund are making are very real. And so is the money. The students that are part of the Mary Lund Davis Investment Fund at PLU have been able to gain invaluable experience using the same tools and concepts investors use on Wall Street. It is one of the many unique ways students in the School of Business can apply lessons learned in the classroom to real-life situations. “In the class can you simulate risk?” asks Kevin Boeh, a professor in the School of Business and adviser to the club. “We don’t

March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life

(D.M.A. and A.D. in Opera), Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (M.M.), and University of Washington-Seattle (B.A. /B.M.). Do you have any upcoming events or performances? I just returned from a recital tour in Wellington, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia. Upcoming engagements include Handel’s Messiah in Fort Worth, Texas, concert performances in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and San Antonio, Texas, and a recital tour in South Africa next year. I will be judging the Schmidt Youth Vocal

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are not just stewards of nature, but view themselves instead as a part of all nature and the ecological system, he continued.  Before a full-house in the Scandinavian Cultural Center of the Anderson University Center, Rasmussen, the Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, gave the keynote for the Lutheran Studies Conference – Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life: “What has God to do with Caesar?” “Ours is not the same planet our ancestors