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is my goal. Be curious. Find out for yourself.” In his lecture presentation entitled, “A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change,” Thorleifsson recalled his 80 day journey around the Arctic with photos and video clips. Thorleifsson and Ousland’s voyage took them though the Northern Sea route in Russia, the Northwest Passage in Canada and across the North Atlantic back to Norway. It was a race against time and in waters with drifting ice, increasing darkness and autumn

University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., went to Germany as one of Pacific Lutheran University’s 100 Fulbright Scholars and then earned her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. “PLU is the place where I first learned how think as a historian,” she said. “And more broadly, my professors there taught me how to become not only a better scholar but also a more thoughtful and engaged human being.” Loberg, whose area of expertise is modern European history, centered her article on the perspectives and

the Düsseldorf region of Germany. He networked with other brewers and conducted online research to guarantee the recipe was right and, more importantly, authentic. They even altered the water to create a similar mineral content to that of the beer von Bora would have brewed. The result of the combination of the perfect water, malt and yeast? A craft beer that offers a nod to its German roots while offering a modern flavor that’s hard to resist. “Crisp and malty is what we’re aiming for,” Thoburn

, and even controversial.  Sutton will advise participants on staying centered despite the tumult of the modern world in her presentation, “The Way Forward: Six Practices to an Intercultural Growth Mindset.” In the afternoon, participants will participate in small group race dialogues and the final session of the day will feature report outs from each group and discussion with Dr. Karen Johnson, office of equity director in the Washington State Governor’s Office. The People’s Gathering recently won

community. We also think she will be an effective partner with faculty and staff to provide learning opportunities around questions of identity, vocation, faith formation, justice and other topics relevant to PLU’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care,” he said. “We look forward to welcoming Jen to PLU and supporting her and her staff as she builds a campus ministry that is diverse, engaging, nourishing, at times challenging, and worthy of the

engage in fulfilling and meaningful work. The program promotes and provides a number of opportunities for the PLU community to engage with, discern, and live out their vocation. The Center’s official mission can be found at plu.edu/vocation. We spoke with Laree Winer, associate director for The Wild Hope Center for Vocation, about the grant and how it will be used to create the Wild Hope Institute to continue to fund the program’s mission.  How would you describe the mission of the Wild Hope Center

PLU’s mission is built to tackle challenging issues like those all people face moving past this divisive election cycle. “The word ‘care’ in our mission statement is especially important today: PLU is and will remain a place that honors, respects and protects people of all kinds: of all races and ethnicities, all religions, all classes, all sexual identities, all nationalities,” he said. “We Lutes will work together to do what we can, in our institution and in our communities, to build a model for

projected over the next decade, the demand for skilled professionals in this field is undeniable. Assistant Professor N. Justice, assistant director of the data science program, believes PLU is uniquely equipped to respond to the nation’s growing demand for data scientists. “PLU’s mission and curriculum invites students to grapple with complicated issues of inequalities in our society. This means Lutes are remarkably well-suited for becoming the kind of data scientists that the world really needs—data

most recently as the mother of a potential new Lute. But even though I’d been on the PLU campus, I’d never really connected with the PLU campus—and its people, and its history, and its mission—until I became part of it. I imagine you know what I mean. There’s just something about this place, and its people. And that’s the story we want to tell. We start with this issue’s behind-the-scenes look at the energy, passion and jaw-dropping juggling acts that go into PLU’s highly anticipated Christmas

change the world. He also reminded the incoming first-years of others who have sat in the same seats in past decades, such as Brad Tilden ’83, the president of Alaska Airlines, Seattle Parnell ’84, Alaska’s governor or Joyce Barr ’76, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. More than 1,000 incoming first-year, transfer and graduate students will join a student body of 3,400 total students. “The mission of Pacific Lutheran University is to educate students for a life of thoughtful inquiry