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joining the Foreign Service in 1979, Barr has served in posts around the world, in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. In addition to speaking at commencement, she will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Barr graduated magna cum laude from PLU with a Bachelor of Business Administration. She earned two master’s degrees from Harvard University and the National Defense University, and speaks Swedish and Russian. This year marks the third time commencement has been held off campus at

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why she was selected. Passion Leads to PLU Hunt, a 2011 PLU graduate, discovered her passion for archaeology early. “Ever since I can remember—ever since my family can remember—I’ve been obsessed with it,” Hunt said from her hometown of Anchorage. “I would watch National Geographic constantly and tear apart the magazines and put them in a special binder.” Hunt’s TED Experience Watch Katie Hunt’s TED talk: www.ted.com She pursued her passion through two years at another (ahem) western Washington

Renewable Energy Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / September 6, 2022 September 6, 2022 September marks the beginning of application season for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation.  We are now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2023.  Last year we gave twelve $2000 scholarships; this year we anticipate 16 or more.  There will be at least one for an early undergraduate (preferable community college), at least one other undergrad scholarship, one for an early grad

Renewable Energy Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / September 6, 2022 September 6, 2022 September marks the beginning of application season for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation.  We are now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2023.  Last year we gave twelve $2000 scholarships; this year we anticipate 16 or more.  There will be at least one for an early undergraduate (preferable community college), at least one other undergrad scholarship, one for an early grad

left free for campus events and activities. “My main job here is to support Tom in his role, to help in any way possible. And to reach out to students,” Krise said. She is currently working as a project manager for Ford Motor Credit. Her team looks for process improvements in Ford properties in the U.S., Canada and India. She is the early-bird of the team, often rising in the early morning to send work emails across the globe. Patricia Krise was immediately impressed by the warmth and dedication to

-winning journalist and author Robin Wright will talk about the middle east during the Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture. Wright has reported from 140 countries, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Atlantic and The Sunday Times. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign

have the PLU Trumpet Ensemble perform because I have been looking for ways to show this great group off the wider community. This is the perfect venue.” “Also, as a trumpet player I have performed on this same radio show twice myself, once with the Mosaic Brass Quintet, and once with the Lyric Brass Quintet,” Zachary Lyman, Associate Professor of Music – Trumpet; Chair of Winds and Brass at PLU. Pieces that will be performed include an eclectic mix of modern work written for large trumpet ensemble

Bible are modern products of the last few hundreds years,” Borg said. Borg suggested an exercise: think back to the end of your childhood, age 10 or 12, and think about what you would have said about the heart of the gospel if you had to sum it up in a sentence or two. He vividly recalled what his answer would have been at the time: “Jesus died for our sins so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven if we believe in him.” “Even if you grew up in non church going family,” Borg said, “you would have

January 1, 2013 Alum pursues research in Prague with follow up in Israel Laura Brade graduated from PLU in 2008, summa cum laude, with a double major in History and German. She took Bob Ericksen’s Holocaust course in the spring of 2006. She then studied for a year abroad in Freiburg, Germany. She completed her History Capstone Seminar with Bob Ericksen on the topic of the “Kindertransport,” the saving of about 10,000 Jewish children who were sent to England just before the outbreak of World War