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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

answered any questions I had, and I worked through some of the problems in front of him. Since I got to work one on one with a tutor, I was really able to focus on areas where I needed to grow in my understanding and abilities in physics. This allowed me to become a much better physics student going forward. In addition, my tutor was actively doing groundbreaking research and we would often talk about his research during the tutorial. Because of this, I learned about more than just the material