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February 10, 2012 “An Antarctic Sunset” taken by PLU student Samantha Dillion in 2006 during J-Term study away in Antarctica. Wang Symposium 2012: Water warrior fights to save our most precious resource By Barbara Clements Maude Barlow didn’t start out interested in water. Nothing of the sort, she recalled recently from her home in Ottawa, Canada. In the mid-80s, Barlow was working in the women’s movement and focusing on laws that would eventually be known as the NAFTA trade agreement. While
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April 25, 2008 One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American out of 257 who stayed in Rwanda through the genocide that claimed one million lives in three months – would not see his family until after the horror had ended. It was tempting to get on the convoys to the border of nearby Burundi, he told a packed audience
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and Leadership at PLU, started his teaching career at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center, a state institution in Bremerton, which closed earlier this year. At the time, it served autistic children ages 3 to 13. “That was my first introduction really to teaching and being responsible for the instructional management of kids with those types of disabilities,” Williams said. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCaTNPMKwgQ Thirty-seven years later, Williams is still doing this work. “I’m still working with
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December 8, 2008 Sankta Lucia Fest opens the Christmas season Emma Kane said she remembers growing up with the candles, the white dresses and the red sash, as her family celebrated the Sankta Lucia Fest each Dec. 13.On Friday night, Kane, a sophomore from Portland, Ore., had a chance to celebrate a festival that honors light, faith and sacrifice in front of the PLU community as she was crowned this season’s Lucia out of 15 contenders for the title.“I’ve been doing this since I was little and I
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.” (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in the world, houses a vast array of wildlife a majority of the fish that I have been consuming in Kampala. The smell is breathtaking, much like gardening on a hot day, with a thick smell of earth and sweet smell that I have yet to identify. We hopped into a van and headed forty-five minutes across a crazy traffic filled stretch of roadway into the heart of Kampala for groceries. Everyone was incredibly exhausted and after
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collect ones that I found interesting while playing outside,” he said of his early interest in geology ” Also I would get books about minerals and gems/paleontology from the library.” Yes, he was also the kid that fell in love with Jurassic Park. Once Vermeulen graduates next year, he plans to go on to graduate school. But for now, he’s just focused on his Antarctic adventure. And those rocks. Read Previous Student-satisfaction remains high in national survey Read Next New Science Lab Ups Interactive
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February 24, 2012 The Role of Water Among Women in Shillong, India By Katie Scaff ’13 Water is a prime resource, a basic human need, and a precious asset, according to Sister Helen Puwein, a native of Shillong, India and head of Bellefonte Community College. “Every living thing needs water,” Puwein said. Puwein spoke about the unique societal role of women in the state of Meghalaya in Shillong, India and the need for clean water in a talk last Friday. Sister Helen Puwein speaks to the role of
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February 26, 2012 Alum introduces a little titration magic, of sorts, into the PLU chemistry labs With a click of a mouse, magic – chemically speaking – seemed to happen in a lecture room at the Morken Center recently. Students and professors gathered around a new spectrophotometer developed by MicroLab Inc. Results of labs that used to take hours were available in minutes, if not seconds, using the new instrument, six of which (valued at a total of $10,000) were donated to PLU’s chemistry
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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
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Students share why they love studying music at PLU Posted by: vcraker / December 8, 2021 December 8, 2021 Music is a big deal at PLU. Each year, more than 140 concert performances present students, faculty artists and exciting guest performers with an incredible array of musical styles and media. Kylie Cordero ‘23 and Noatak Post ‘23 discuss their passion for music and how their journey at PLU inspires them to pursue careers in music. Learn more at plu.edu/music. Read Previous How to be a Lute
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