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construction. Most distressingly, she reports the government is encouraging new tourism projects to generate revenue since the oil that currently generates 30 percent of the country’s income will likely run out in a few decades. “With all this under my nose, and dozens of active cranes visible from my hotel room window, I don’t see Dubai engaged in anything vaguely resembling sustainability,” she writes. While wandering through downtown São Paolo, Brazil, student Kari Liebert also considered how Brazilians

sciences divisions, and the School of Business. “The heart of the university is its intellectual life, which is invisible,” said Patricia O’Connell Killen, provost and dean of graduate studies. “The research reception is one of the best ways we have of displaying the really exciting thinking and problem-solving and framing of new knowledge that our students engage in with faculty.” Geosciences professor Jill Whitman added that tangible representations of the research work, such as posters and papers

, Joyner notes it doesn’t bother most students. “They just pile in the car are drive a half hour north,” he said. “Seattle isn’t a university town, but it’s a dense city, where jazz flourishes.” Joyner compares it to students living in New Jersey who think nothing of hopping the train into New York, the epicenter of classic jazz in the United States. McEntire figures that eventually, the Big Apple is where he’ll end up. And with a bit of luck and grit, earn a living. Aside from the his passion for jazz

was new to this year’s slate of On the Road trips. The non-profit farm grows more than 50 varieties of vegetables year-round and harvests eggs to sell, as well as boasting a pesticide-free operation. It has more than 700 volunteers who put in approximately 3,800 hours of volunteer work last year. There were three other On the Road trips that also sought to encourage students to find ways to be of service to others. One group went to Northwest Harvest, one of Washington’s largest hunger relief

. Since leaving PLU in 2001, the soprano had excelled in winning competition after competition. And in January, Meade won the prestigious Beverly Sills Award. But it wasn’t an easy or straight path from PLU to center stage at the Met. Meade had first come to the Big Apple soon after graduation, arriving in the fall of 2001. About a week after she arrived at the Manhattan School of Music, 9-11 occurred and Meade decided that the school she was attending and New York City, for that matter, wasn’t for

study it,” she told Zellner at the time. From then on things would change. He became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, participating in marches, protesting the injustices of segregation and taking part in organizing the Freedom Riders of 1961.The Freedom Riders were an organized group of civil rights activists who rode buses into the south to test the new Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving

on her mother’s. She was a descendant of one of the Decembrists, the early 19th century social justice revolutionaries in Russia. Hewett remembers her mother as a passionate idealist and natural social worker. André and Magda met in the mid-1920s while studying in New York City, he at Union Theological Seminary and she at the New York School of Social Work. Six weeks after meeting, they were engaged. “They were two people from different places with the same ideas about serving humanity and doing

Development Award) Casey Laufmann Lauren Mendez Theresa (Aiko) Nakagawa April Nguyen Maya Perez Anna Sieber Doug Smith Meron Tadesse Andrew Tinker Clay Trushinsky Shelby Winters Amy Wooten (Professional Development Award) The inaugural inductees into PLU’s new Mortar Board chapter. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Mortar Board National Honor Society Membership in PLU’s new chapter of Mortar Board recognizes juniors with a 3.5 GPA or higher who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, leadership and

higher education has had on the nine graduates’ lives, careers and nation. As it turns out, this experience is having a profound impact on the PLU team: new graduates Andrea Capere ’14 and Princess Reese ’14; current students Shunying Wang ’15 and Maurice Byrd ’14; and supervisors Joanne Lisosky, Professor of Communication, and Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment.“What makes this so unique is the variety of perspectives that we have in the six people who are traveling on

one of the “Top 20 to Watch – The New Generation of Leading Clergy: Preachers Under 40” for her work with religion and justice. We caught up with Coleman, associate professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and co-director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology in southern California, to ask about her talk. Event Details What: The 2014 David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture. When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. Who: Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman; her talk is