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about disability through a wider lens—not just one person’s disabled body, but how disease or illness can disable an entire family system or community. A woman’s breast cancer could lead to physical pain and an attempt at removal—which might also then lead to an infant’s malnourishment or lack of employment if the woman worked as a wet nurse. Major events to celebrate the new work included November 24, 2023’s Night at the Museum event. In a full-circle experience, Llewellyn Ihssen was one of the

evaluated the proposal. “Artificial intelligence and human resources are a location where ethics, technology, and business intersect dramatically,” Halvorson said. “We are excited about the research that this innovative team is engaging in, and I look forward to their presentation during Spring 2021 when we can consider what they have discovered. I am grateful to the Benson Family Foundation for funding this innovative project.” Ben Merrill will be a senior at PLU in the Fall, majoring in Business

August 10, 2011 The renovation to the Tower Chapel, now known as The Ness Family Chapel, will begin in 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) The PLU ‘Imaginarium’ By Chris Albert With continuing construction and updates at the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, PLU is quickly becoming the home of the premier theater venue in the South Sound. This year, Phase II construction will begin on the center, which will include work on Eastvold Auditorium and the renamed Ness Family Chapel

students? “Everything just felt so nice – everyone was so welcoming,” she said. Alazadi values community – it is an essential component of her family life and her Muslim faith. Her family fled Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 1990 after a failed uprising and a subsequent crackdown from dictator Saddam Hussein. After four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, she and her family landed in Everett, Wash. She was only four. The tight-knit Iraqi community of 100- or-so families has sustained her ever since. Alazadi’s

January 19, 2011 PLU on the Vine There are selections from five wineries with PLU alumni connections available at 208 Garfield. Benson Vineyards Estate Winery is family owned and operated by Scott Benson ’96 and Rebecca (Gilge ’98) Benson. Scott says, “Most of the vineyard’s 25 acres is planted to Syrah. It’s pretty much what we are known for.” The Mediterranean-inspired estate winery overlooks Lake Chelan, one of Washington’s newest wine growing regions. Today they are producing a little more

, Cory. The ensuing family tension struck a chord with Wallace. “It was definitely personal. For me and my dad … It was strict, it was tough, it was supposed to be what most people consider tough love,” he said. “I think that sometimes we forget that tough love isn’t always the answer. But the way that Troy shows and expresses his love to his son, with that tough love, was very similar to how my dad expressed his love to me.” Race is an underlying theme throughout the play, as “Fences” illustrates

the social role women and water in India. (Photo by John Froschauer) Meghalaya is a matrilineal society, which means that family inheritance is passed down through the women, but this doesn’t mean their rights are guaranteed, according to Puwein.“Decision-making resides with the males in the family,” Puwein explained. “Women are suffering, are victims of violence. Women are abandoned by their fathers.” The women also do a significant amount of work. In addition to looking after the children, women