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honors and hopes to qualify for the Rio Paralympics later this year. So, she quit her job, left her family behind and moved to Oklahoma City to train full time with the country’s best coaches at top-caliber facilities. “I ate, slept and breathed rowing for almost a year,” McCarthy said. During that time, she often talked on the phone with Hacker, a repeat Olympics coach herself and professor of kinesiology at PLU. The pair talked through the mental challenges facing McCarthy. “It paid off,” she said

organization—a well-intentioned collaboration with many pros and cons. Students push us to walk the talk Beth Kraig, Professor of History Xochilt Coca ‘13: We decided to form the student organization Latin@s Unidos in order to promote cultural awareness and social justice issues surrounding Latin@ communities. We also wanted to create a space where Latin@ students could feel a sense of belonging on a predominantly white campus. We started off with six members whom we met through the Diversity Center. We

developing world. Sarah was considering working in international development and saw the Peace Corps as an opportunity to get some hands on experience and help her decide if she would like this kind of work. Sarah Slinker (left) and two friends celebrating a holiday, wearing traditional "panye".× Sarah served in Togo (2014-2015), as an EGE (English and Gender Education) volunteer. The EGE program falls under the education sector of the Peace Corps’ platform. It worked to promote not only English language

employees and roughly 100 on-call workers. Her business specializes in full- service events, providing clients everything from rentals, music, flowers, linens and quality Northwest-inspired food prepared with local ingredients. “We’re basically a one-stop shop,” Halvorsen said. “We focus on everything for an event to come together.” (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) Halvorsen worked in the food industry before and after studying public relations and English at PLU. She tried for a long time to break into the

So You Want to Be a Pharmacist?Pharmacists dispense prescription medications to patients and offer expertise in the safe use of prescriptions. They also may conduct health and wellness screenings, provide immunizations, oversee the medications given to patients, and provide advice on healthy lifestyles. The demand for trained pharmacy professionals has increased in recent years due to the rapid growth of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, especially for the growing elderly population

So You Want to Be a Pharmacist?Pharmacists dispense prescription medications to patients and offer expertise in the safe use of prescriptions. They also may conduct health and wellness screenings, provide immunizations, oversee the medications given to patients, and provide advice on healthy lifestyles. The demand for trained pharmacy professionals has increased in recent years due to the rapid growth of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, especially for the growing elderly population

Holocaust Conference looks at art thefts, complicity of church, university leaders during WWIIThe fifth annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU will focus March 8 on the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables, along with belated efforts at restitution. There will also be a session on German churches and universities, with speakers discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Catholic Church, and postwar denazification. Sessions on March 9 will focus on education. Holocaust research keeps the

Holocaust Conference looks at art thefts, complicity of church, university leaders during WWIIThe fifth annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU will focus March 8 on the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables, along with belated efforts at restitution. There will also be a session on German churches and universities, with speakers discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Catholic Church, and postwar denazification. Sessions on March 9 will focus on education. Holocaust research keeps the

Holocaust Conference looks at art thefts, complicity of church, university leaders during WWIIThe fifth annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU will focus March 8 on the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables, along with belated efforts at restitution. There will also be a session on German churches and universities, with speakers discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Catholic Church, and postwar denazification. Sessions on March 9 will focus on education. Holocaust research keeps the