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November 17, 2008 Serving so others don’t have to While serving in Iraq Col. Scott E. Leith came to know one of the luckiest or unluckiest people he has ever met.“It depends on how you look at it,” he told a crowd last week at the Veterans Day Celebration in Mary Baker Russell Music Center Lagerquist Concert Hall. Leith and about 1,000 of his “best friends” were positioned in the backyard of the Iraq Insurgency. Their days were filled with firefights during the ongoing battles. There he met an

June 4, 2009 Living a life of faith focused through service to others FOR KATIE BRAY, going to church and being part of a religious community – namely, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in her hometown of Spokane, Wash. – has always been an integral part of her life. Spirituality is fed from faith – a faith in God. For Bray, that hasn’t changed. How did PLU make Katie Bray re-think the way she expresses her spirituality? However, her time at PLU has made her re-think the way she defines and expresses

September 8, 2009 Convocation – A generation of globalists The incoming and returning students at PLU are part of the first global generation, said President Loren J. Anderson during Convocation on Sept. 8.“Quite simply you are globalists,” Anderson said to more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff and guests at the ceremony officially marking the start of PLU’s 120th year. The advancements of technology have made it a smaller world and brought down borders that before only few could or would

August 4, 2010 The Power of Hope By David Ward, assistant professor of Marriage and Family Therapy As a marriage and family therapist, the couples I work with tend to wait until problems in their relationship have significantly escalated before they seek therapy. Fortunately, amidst the distress, by the end of the session I usually experience a feeling that keeps me loving the work I do with these couples. David Ward sought out to understand hope within the specific context of couples therapy

November 4, 2010 Holocaust scholar investigates Nazi campaign to “criminalize” Jews By Barbara Clements Michael Berkowitz first came to Professor Robert Ericksen’s attention about 10 years ago, when he first spotted the aspiring Holocaust scholar at the Ohio State University. Since then, Ericksen – PLU’s Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies – has followed Berkowitz’s career. Prof. Michael Berkowitz will speak at the fall lecture in Holocaust Studies in November on his recent book. The next

October 1, 2011 New MediaLab film explains “Compassion Fatigue” and impact on aid workers Three PLU student filmmakers spent more than a year researching the cumulative effects of tragedy and trauma, which will soon be unveiled in a new documentary – “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion.” The documentary focuses on the idea that there is a human toll associated with The new documentary from MediaLab, “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion,” examines and defines “compassion fatigue.” repeated

September 7, 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor Rosalind Billharz teaches a nursing class on pathophysiology this summer at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) A champion for microbes By Barbara Clements University Communications Everyone, or thing, however small, needs a champion. And for the microbes of the world, they certainly have that in Rosalind Billharz, a visiting assistant professor of biology at Pacific Lutheran University who taught an advanced pathophysiology course for nurses this

October 15, 2012 Deirdre N. McCloskey – distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago – spoke about the value of the middle-class during the annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) The value of the bourgeoisie By Katie Scaff ’13 Don’t be ashamed of being bourgeois, said Deirdre N. McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the

November 12, 2012 “The Other Side of Immigration” examines the impact migration has on the families that stay behind. “The Other Side of Immigration” By Katie Baumann ’14 PLU welcomed Roy Germano to campus this fall as part of the 2012 Department of Language and Literature Film Festival Series, to show his documentary, ‘The Other Side of Immigration.” This film explores why so many Mexicans leave their homes to migrate to the United States and explores another side of the issues surrounding

February 13, 2013 Chemistry professor Justin Lytle, shows students the chemistry of chocolate. (Photo by Jesse Major’14) ‘For the love of chocolate’ By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 40 chocolate lovers gathered in Leraas Lecture Hall the day before Valentine’s Day, “for the love of chocolate, aphrodisiac and food of the gods.” “When there’s free chocolate, you get a larger crowd,” said Justin Lytle, assistant professor of chemistry, as he showed the group the four chocolates they would later eat. A