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. Innovation studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on creative solutions, using design thinking, collaboration, and entrepreneurial mindsets. Working in teams, students develop opportunities and solutions for contemporary problems. The program’s class options span the gamut from video game history to business to graphic design. A makerspace in Hinderlie Hall offers sewing machines, electronics, paints, and more for crafting inventions. In an innovation seminar, Ambachew learned about the cyclical

was my admiration for how Icelanders view the earth and how those values affect their conservation efforts. When there is a deeply rooted connection to your land and its history, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand.What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future?AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental

integrating the book into their curriculum. Lisa Marcus, associate professor of English, plans to teach the book in her Writing 101 seminar on “Banned Books.” She wants students to recognize that Urrea’s book has been banned in Arizona as part of a push to suppress ethnic studies, particularly works that address Mexican-American history and experience. Students in her course – after reading about several controversial banning cases around race and sexual orientation – will take up Urrea’s book in the

I’ll get a wider sense of what the election means on a broader scale,” said political science and global studies double major JuliAnne Rose ’13. “It’s an election that everyone has a lot of stake in. Everybody has a lot of opinions and I have a lot of my own opinions, and so it’s going to up my anticipation level of what the results are going to be. It will kind of feel like I’m part of the history more than if I were to just cast my vote.” Read Previous The connection between the Sun and the

. White will reflect on his journey, as well as his current job, which entails reaching out to leaders – both religious and secular – in the world’s conflict areas, when he comes to Pacific Lutheran University on Feb. 21 as one of the keynote speakers of the Wang Center Symposium: Legacies of the Shoah. White specializes in building cross-border coalitions and history-making campaigns, three of which led to major international treaties: the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

. 26: Dr. Aana Vigen, Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Loyola University Chicago Musician: James Brown, Associate Professor of Music Sept. 29: Dr. Sergia Hay, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Musician: Anikka Abbott ’15, vocalist For more information, click here.   Sept. 12 is an especially high-profile day at Chapel: PLU President Thomas W. Krise will speak on the history and importance of alma mater, LuteCast will Livestream the entire service and a new alma mater tune composed

PLU NEWSStudents from PLU and Tacoma’s Lincoln High School work together to fight racismThe J-term history class “Fighting Racism in the United States 1896-2016” paired PLU students with students from Lincoln grades 9-12. The course challenged them all to critically think about daily experiences with institutionalized racism and how to effectively confront those experiences. Read Previous ‘The Monologues’ at PLU: Students reimagine famous Eve Ensler play in their own words Read Next Dialogue

come together as a people and be at peace with one another. Never before in the history of man have we needed more than now, commitment to the proposition that we can chase from the face of this earth poverty, hatred, ugliness and pollution; and that we can make this earth a garden and a place of peace.” Prior to his service at PLU, Dr. Wiegman taught at numerous Lutheran schools and universities, served as an aide to a Nebraska Congressman, worked with land grant colleges in extension programs for

campus visit and I was totally won over by the environment. I loved the nurturing and challenging space. I loved the liberal arts, but professional approach. It was not too big and not too small. I really do credit PLU for giving me the foundation for what I’m able to do and hopefully I’m able to give back.”Over Power Africa’s seven-year history, the partnership has helped create nearly 19 million electrical connections, which means more than 87 million people gaining access to electricity for the