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know our mission statement well: “To educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth.” It was formally accepted by our Board of Regents when the PLU 2010 long-range planning report was adopted. In that same document we set out our pathways to academic distinction in global education, purposeful learning and lives of service, and the close interaction between students and faculty. What a gift this collective vision

=CwMYT9Zwwq4 Not only did Ojala-Barbour turn this passion into a degree, but his passion changed the landscape of PLU. That passion was celebrated last April during Earth Week, when about 60 students, faculty, staff and community joined Ojala-Barbour, PLU President Loren J. Anderson and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Fred Tobiason to dedicate the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center. The native space behind the University Center has become a symbol of what one student, with a lot of on-campus support

into a new school where she doesn’t understand the language and struggles to keep up. At home, she doesn’t fit in with her new stepfamily.—from the publisher   Other books (print) on display in Mortvedt Library lobby PS3614.G97R45 2017 The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen DS548.B7613 2009 Indochina: an Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 DS556.8.B73 2000 Imagining Vietnam and America: the Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 DS556.83.T7A3613 1985 The Red Earth: a Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a

proposition. However, if you’ve done the soul- searching and you feel called, know that it can be done and go after it with all your might! And, again, it can be very high reward! It’s a great privilege and blessing to be an artist, to create daily. To learn more about Jeremy Mangan and view his work, visit his website at: http://www.jeremymangan.com/ Read Previous St{art} Momentum Read Next Earth, Sea, Sky shows Permanent Art Collection’s strong points LATEST POSTS Pacific Lutheran University

service and pro-bono work.  “I was kind of surprised when I got it just because it’s kind of a rare occurrence. A scholarship, especially to law school, is pretty difficult to obtain,” Sullivan said. “I’m still coming to terms with that, I’m like ‘wow I’m going to school for free.’” Sullivan plans to take the pro-bono pledge at Seattle U Law, promising more than 100 hours of pro-bono work over the course of her time at the school. Although Sullivan knows the work is difficult, she’s excited to get

success to PLU’s broad liberal-arts curriculum. “My time at PLU gave me a strong foundation,” he said, “not just analytical skills, but being able to communicate with people, and to write lab reports, helped prepare me for the research world.” Proudest achievements: Gonzalez’s interest in plants made participating in habitat restoration projects at PLU a perfect fit. “The university sits on prairie land,” he explained, so going to pull weeds with a professor isn’t an unusual occurrence. “In my time at

around in an old Harvard green bag that she slung over her slumped shoulders. She had glasses, braces, long hair pulled straight back. She wore heavy brown and white oxford with thin anklets, and her long hems were always crooked. Hanging around with Sally damaged my fragile popularity, but she was still my dearest friend. Today Sally is a world-class geneticist at an eminent university. During our rare encounters, we continue to share an uncanny unity of vision about education, and a resulting

” professors like Justin Lytle—“my go-to professor when it came to anything science.” Through them, he found research opportunities on campus, at Cornell, and in the graduate program he’ll attend in Arizona, and he credits his success to PLU’s broad liberal-arts curriculum. “My time at PLU gave me a strong foundation,” he said, “not just analytical skills, but being able to communicate with people, and to write lab reports, helped prepare me for the research world.” Proudest achievements: Gonzalez’s

smiles. Most were singing and dancing their way out of the stadium. Of the 35, 287 fans at the match, two impressed me a lot. Two Algerian fans came up to some of us, shock our hands and said, “Fair play. good match.” While we walked the streets back to the buses, Clay texted me, “I am having a beer with President Bill Clinton”. Later Clay told me, I tapped his beer with mine and said, “Cheers Bill”. Players mentioned how down to earth and nice the former US President was. What an honor to meet him

Sandström’s setting is a thoughtful reimagining of St. Matthew Passion that honors both the Bach setting that inspired it and the contemporary audiences for whom it is intended. Performed by the Choir of the West and Choral Union with University Symphony Orchestra. Day of Vocation April 5-6 | various times and locations across campus Your Deep Gladness. The World’s Great Hunger. Annual Lemkin Lecture and Essay Contest April 7 | 7-10 p.m. | Regency Room Earth Day Lecture: Dr. Alex Wilson from the