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end of a year, graduate students earn their master’s degree and a Washington state teaching certificate. “I feel like all the professors really understood what it was like in the classroom,” said Cook, who teaches at Baker Middle School in Tacoma. “Education changes, students change, demographics change. But they stay current on best practices and research for the youth we are currently educating.” That’s by design, says Mary Jo Larsen, assistant dean of the university’s education department. “We

be felt far and wide. Theodore Charles ’12, who studied anthropology at PLU, spent two years in Turkey researching food culture and migration with the Fulbright program. “Looking at Turkey is kind of an interesting geographical location because over centuries and centuries and centuries you have all these movements of people,” he said. “So you’ve got this confluence of culture.” But through the course of his research, the mass movement of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East began to

this information, I explain how integrating science teaching methods that focus on developing empathy will lead to social change through increased environmental comprehension among underserved communities. My work with Wildlife Champions highlights how an environmental education program can be successful in developing these traits. With climate changes on the rise and the disproportionate way in which it impacts marginalized populations, this work is more important now than ever because it