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transportation fuels, including leading a team responsible for developing technologies related to commercial production and distribution of advanced non-food-source biofuels that was, at the time, a rather abrupt career transition she describes as “a little uncomfortable.” Charged with managing Chevron Technology Ventures’ biofuels unit, Long now was knee-deep in a slew of terms lifted straight from the proverbial botany textbook. “It was an opportunity for me to stretch myself,” she said. “And one of the

Auschwitz by the Nazis], and other small Polish towns. We listened to numerous presentations, took tours of Holocaust-related sites, visited over twenty museums, and discussed our thoughts with each other nearly every day. Carli watching footage about the Oyneg Shabes Archive at the Emanuel Ringelblum institute in Warsaw. We spent three days in Auschwitz, where we took intensive tours of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. After the fellowship concluded, I continued to visit Jewish sites on my own in

Thorpe strives to deliver is that dreams can always be achieved, just not always in the manner in which you thought. “I didn’t expect to be in the world of graphics and signage,” he said. “But I am a huge sports fan, and I now do work with a lot of sports-related accounts. So I can’t really imagine a better scenario for myself, with my client base being the sports teams that I love to root for. It makes me excited to go to work every day — in that respect, it’s my dream job.” Read Previous Explore

looking to satisfy their sweet teeth. For almost a dozen years, the university and Garfield Street have provided a safe place for kids to enjoy Halloween festivities. Students living on campus can sign up through their residence halls to pass out candy to children on Halloween night. “Most of them [the students] really enjoy having the little kids come,” said Rebecca Rumpza, office supervisor of PLU’s Residential Life. On Garfield Street, many businesses offer activities such as cookie decorating

on becoming, and why? I chose to go into family medicine because of the opportunity to care for anyone, regardless of age, for nearly any issue. As a family doctor, I can maximize my impact within the community and touch as many lives as possible. Ultimately, family medicine provides an opportunity for me to combine my passion for service and my talents in order to meet one of the world’s greatest needs in primary medical care. What have you enjoyed most about medical school? One particularly

funds supplemental salary for the Mayer Chair, research and travel related to scholarship, enhanced library resources, student-faculty research fellowship opportunities, coordination of the annual Lemkin Student Essay Contest and the Lemkin Lecture (named for Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”), as well as the annual Holocaust conference. At first glance, PLU might seem to be an unlikely place to be a center of Holocaust study and scholarship. But really, it embraces the Lutheran

percentage of today’s students will spend the majority of their careers doing jobs that currently don’t exist. We also know that a mere 27 percent of bachelor degree holders serve in positions related to the field they studied and that 26 percent of college graduates change careers within five years of graduating. For those to whom job preparation is paramount, there should be no greater realization than the importance of illustrating the value of widely transferable knowledge and interdisciplinary

Teaching with Sakai at PLU Posted by: bodewedl / August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Resources website has a new webpage dedicated to Teaching and Learning with Sakai. Here faculty can learn more about how Sakai is being used across campus. View Real PLU Sakai Sites Ever wondered how your colleagues are using Sakai in their courses? The Teaching and Learning with Sakai site allows PLU faculty and staff to enroll in Sakai

to go ‘help people elsewhere’ and how can we do that in an ethical and engaged way,” Wiley said. “I wish I could have done something like this when I went to school. I would have entered Mauritania better prepared for service than I did.” Some of the best advice Nelson, one of the alumni panelists, can offer students interested in Peace Corps or related service is simple — listen. “Listen to the stories from community members about the history of an area, listen to how people respond to your own

too much information about the applicant.  The graduate-level personal essay should highlight two or three major accomplishments or traits that can be a topic of conversation during the in-person interview, and that also reflects aspects of their resume.5 key points to include in an impressive and exceptional personal statement that stands out from the crowd.If the graduate essay does not prompt you to answer the following questions, you should consider addressing the following 5 questions in your