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mural in The Cave and received the Sustainability Fellowship to design and propose a sustainability course as part of PLU’s general requirements. “My liberal arts education equipped me to be a well-rounded, conscious citizen and taught me the skills to do something about it,” said Rousseau. After graduating in 2012, Rousseau was determined to continue her personal education by investigating issues surrounding unsustainable agricultural systems. To do this, she set out to gain hands-on farming

.” But ideally, he said, “We’d like to get folks who graduated 10 or more years ago— get them there to network and meet their buddies.” And, while the PLU Business Network awards an annual scholarship usually worth $2,000, it’d love to broaden the applicant pool. But mostly, Rosales and Smith want to create connections that lead to success—through the network and on a more personal level. “I’ve mentored a couple students,” Rosales said. “My company is at all the career fairs and among the top 10 in

continue after you graduate? I would love to see it continue, but that will depend on if another student takes interest in it. Right now we’re using it as a fundraiser for Theatre Club, Alpha Psi Omega, but I’m revitalizing it just out of my own personal passion for children’s theatre. We’re reaching out to Franklin Pierce School District elementary schools, and a lot of those kids don’t ever have the opportunity to experience theatre, so this a cool chance for them to do that. What place do you think

.” Miranda says student journalists should apply the social-media skills they’ve gained from everyday use, because those skills are an asset in professional newsrooms. “We should all know how to do something like this if we’re all successful at it in our personal lives. We are stepping into a world of people who have really just mastered Facebook,” Miranda said. “We’re lucky to be given this skill set.”Mast MediaCheck out the work of student journalists through Mast Media.Mooney will present on building

the field of surveillance studies, defines it as any systematic and routine attention to personal details. An example that he uses is a lifeguard. A lifeguard is there for your safety. They watch over everyone in the pool. That’s a very mundane, innocuous form of surveillance. You might think about things like registries of people who have a history of something like domestic violence. That’s a form of surveillance that is really important to protect people. There’s always questions around the

reflects on her personal and educational experiences at PLU in our Q&A with her.How did you discover your passion for chemistry? When PLU went online, I took organic chemistry after general chemistry and loved that class, because it’s about figuring out different types of puzzles. I know organic chemistry is the class everyone is supposed to hate, but it’s my favorite, and I will die on that hill. Honestly, I knew chemistry was right for me after taking organic chemistry and having a ton of fun with

have a richer experience in a diverse community, and will be better able to choose a life path that makes a difference — in their careers, in their personal and civic lives, and in the world they inhabit. This creates an interesting, bilingual challenge for us: we must be proficient in speaking the language of Christian faith as understood with a Lutheran vocabulary, while also speaking the language of other religious traditions. It is a challenge, but we must do it. It is the responsibility of