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A conversation with 2016 Benson fellows Marc Vetter and Matthew Macfarlane PLU Student-Faculty Resea

A conversation with 2016 Benson fellows Marc Vetter and Matthew Macfarlane PLU Student-Faculty Resea

continues over more clips of a mountain face.] Justin: emphasis is really on you know helping people and hopefully saving lives [video: Samantha Denham’s voice comes in over clips. A shot of a digital monitor showing topographic data. A shot from overhead of a town in cold weather, trees bare and some destruction on the ground.] Samantha: there was a landslide event in 2014 in Oso Washington that took 43 lives it is the largest deadliest slide in US history and that event highlighted the [video

the work force and the removal of coverture. My pursuit of the topic really arose from my internal dissonance I had regarding the passing of Same-Sex Marriage in the state. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. While I was elated by the fact that a new option would be available to legitimize the relationships of gays and lesbians, I wanted to take stock and understand the history behind the movement as it has come thus far. I wanted to know why marriage was the goal; this opened up my understanding

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, she had to branch out to surrounding Tacoma, Parkland and Spanaway schools to meet other people of color. After joining the heritage speakers cohort, Pinedo Chipana gained so much more, particularly a heightened ability to communicate with her relatives from Peru, where she was born. “My parents know all the history,” she said. “I was able to relate more to what they were talking about. When I learned about the history, I could finally understand what they were talking about.” Rojas Apodaca, a

,” outside a classroom lab setting. “We don’t know the answers in advance,” she said. “Our job is to figure out how to ask the questions.” For Hoang, doing science can mean embracing failure, because it’s part of the process. “Conducting research allowed me to appreciate failed experiments,” she said. “This actually helps me become more problem-solving savvy.” For Kiyomi Kishaba ’21, studying Jewish immigrants in South America resonates with her own family history. Her father’s side is ethnically

her time on The Voice. Guest Contributors Samuel Torvend, Ph.D. Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., is professor of the history of Christianity and currently serves as the university chair in Lutheran studies. As a historian of Christianity, his research focuses on the history of religious responses to poverty and food insecurity. He also teaches courses on religious art and architecture and their role in reforming movements. Among his published works are Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments . Kevin