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to know them, she said. “It’s nice to just reach out to the people around you everyday,” Pershall said. It’s a mission the Rieke Scholars hope to accomplish. The group of students aims to bring global issues to light by raising awareness and promoting diversity in all its forms. Everyone is diverse, Pershall said and worth getting to know. Plus it’s fun, she added. “Everyone has had an experience that is unlike yours,” Pershall said. Read Previous It’s time to vote Read Next Are you ready to rock

with him. “I told him he was the reason I wanted to go into politics,” Moran remembers. Obama laughed, thanked her for her work as an intern at the Democratic National Committee and chatted with her about her work. A few candids, as well as formal pictures, were snapped, and she moved down the line. Second Surprise: The first lady is just as gracious. Moran, an Economics and French double major, had expected to be a wallflower at an earlier D.C. fundraising event. Or, at best, a glorified go-fer

language impacts cultural and personal memory. Set in Pakistan in the early 2000s, the novel follows Alys Binat and her sisters as they navigate the marriage market, female identity, and British and Pakistani influences on their self-expression. Kamal translates “What will people say?” into Urdu: ” کہیںگے/ Log kya kahenge” (35). She applies a post-colonialist perspective to the question by asking not only how society will judge an individual’s actions, but how Pakistan will speak for itself as it works

stringed instruments, says that this is the first time in the 12 years he has been at PLU that every faculty ensemble and so many voice, keyboard, and instrumental faculty are performing together. The concert is a survey of the many flavors of music that have sprung from Pastor Sperati’s musical mission at PLU. Sperati was one of PLU’s four charter faculty members, professor of music and mentor to Choir of the West director Gunnar Malmin. The first half of the concert features resident ensembles that

strengths as we address significant changes – changes not of our own making – in the educational landscape that lies before us. Said differently, the great long-range question is how do we wisely and strategically navigate a path that will ensure that our mission and program remains compelling, relevant, effective and, yes, affordable in the years ahead? To do so will require that we face change boldly and with confidence as we prepare to serve a new cohort of students, incorporate technology, become

initiatives to support and empower low-income, first-generation, undocumented, immigrant, refugee, LGBTQIA and veteran students. For Zeno, the sector may be higher education development, but the mission is equitably and justly transforming systems with care to meet the needs of everyone involved. You have a long track record of building large-scale coalitions, initiatives and public-private partnerships at public research universities. What did you find intriguing about a small Lutheran university in

. from Stanford University, an M.A. from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Read Previous A Veteran Soccer Player Read Next Modeling the Early Universe COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24

violence and conflict and humanitarian intervention. There also is a service component to the program, said program leader, Philosophy Professor Greg Johnson. Johnson said he has been working on the program for the last 18 months. Originally scheduled for launch in 2015, Johnson said that all the pieces fell into place early – so why not 2014? “No university on the West Coast, with perhaps the exception of Stanford, has a program like this,” Johnson said before leaving for Oxford earlier this month

-profit farm which aims to promote self-sufficiency, inclusion and independence for people with developmental disabilities and rural youth. “I just liked their mission,” Anna Payton, a first-year student from Puyallup, Wash., said. “I really like that they give disadvantaged youth and people with disabilities the opportunity to work.” Payton and the rest of the students in her group spent the day learning about Left Foot’s mission and helped farm workers pull weeds.“Their hearts seem to be in the

the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission and its cadets’ performance and standing on the Command’s national Order of Merit List and its cadet retention rate. Cadet Command and the MacArthur Foundation have given the awards annually since 1989. Read Previous We’re like the Borg – We Swallow up Everybody Read Next Peace Forum livestreamed at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in