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woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their analysis without it and proceeded into the final sprint—finishing their paper. Though the students pretty much collapsed after turning in their paper, for Matthew, participating was “one of the best decisions” he’s ever made. “We worked hard, and we didn’t stop unless we absolutely had to. I can’t wait to do the competition again,” Duffy said. “To sing in the foyer of Morken at two in the morning, to drink enough caffeine to kill a

working in small groups, or large organizations, such as nonprofits, universities, and government organizations. How does Social Innovation work? At Pacific Lutheran University, we begin by investigating political, social, environmental, and economic challenges, and then we apply attributes like critical thinking, economic analysis, and sustainable business design to imagine solutions to the problems. Social innovations are often complex–they take on big issues like human rights abuses, stigmas in

analysis without it and proceeded into the final sprint—finishing their paper. Though the students pretty much collapsed after turning in their paper, for Matthew, participating was “one of the best decisions” he’s ever made. “We worked hard, and we didn’t stop unless we absolutely had to. I can’t wait to do the competition again,” Duffy said. “To sing in the foyer of Morken at two in the morning, to drink enough caffeine to kill a horse and to thrive in an environment where participation and working

now the school system in Macedonia is segregated linguistically, which also means that it’s segregated ethnically… so [my project] was an analysis of how this organization is trying to promote integration within the school system.” Always wanting to do more, Ryan also made time to volunteer at the American Corner Library in Skopje, helping with English language classes and Model UN competitions. Kelly Ryan ’10 landed his dream job working for the State Department. Although he was nearly 6,000

and is a frequent soloist with symphonies throughout the United States. Moby featured Gardner prominently on his 2009 release, Wait For Me. July 31 The Rob Hutchinson Group Hutchinson teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation and composition at the University of Puget Sound. He is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the UPS. His band, the Rob Hutchinson Group, includes Kareem Kandi on saxophone, David Deacon-Joyner on

straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their analysis without it and

more academic disciplines. “Within the culture and fabric of PLU are these interdisciplinary approaches,” Teska said. “It makes us stronger.” A workshop sponsored by the grant on May 27 to 29 examined the state of Clover Creek. Workshop participants will look at data gathered each spring by the “Environmental Methods of Investigation” course, which charts the health of the creek and the community, and determine what’s changed, what needs to be done and how it can be done better. The final activity

international implications—and a multifaceted mission. CREP (rhymes with “grape”) not only helps validate psychological research findings; it also allows undergraduate students, including those at PLU, to engage in potentially publishable research. “Most student projects, the data go nowhere,” Grahe said. “In my classes I’ve always tried to get undergrads to do projects that might be publishable, but the problem is as one-off projects, they almost always are unpublishable.” But with CREP, he said, “Ideally

may be thanks to consideration of new data released last year by the Obama administration. For the first time, the publication’s 2016 rankings included incomes of students 10 years after enrolling at a given college, how likely they are to be paying down principal on loans and the percentage of first-generation students at each college. Earlier this summer PLU was named one of the top colleges in the country for awarding creative arts scholarships by LendEDU, the PLU School of Nursing was ranked

1960.” “Her support was absolutely crucial once we began running different data analyses on information we collected as she was able to both suggest other tests to run while also ensuring I was performing the math properly.” Dr. Karen Travis “Finally, Dr. Travis’s expertise in Economics enabled us to consider deeply how a variety of factors might have impacted black health indicators.” Halvorson: “Dr. Travis, how did you and Teresa work together on this project?” Travis: “It was a fantastic