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life takes them.  We teach Aristotle in the language he spoke, we explore issues of race and ethnicity in part by relating them to such issues in the Greco-Roman world, and we are tracing the roots of the contemporary medical profession thousands of years into history.Second, Classics is one of the most innovative academic programs at PLU. Our Classics faculty work with the departments of Women’s and Gender Studies, Religion, Honors, History, English, and Art, to create cross-listed and

opportunity for people of color to finally have their chance in the limelight and to share the story of their people. For the first time in the history of Vpstart Crow, Fences was produced with an all black cast. Student director, Josh Wallace made this decision “to level the playing field and show that inequality is something that can be defeated with the right amount of hard work, dedication, and patience.” Vpstart Crow is a student-created organization that provides support to Theatre majors interested

picking papayas and mangos from a grocery, we either fell asleep on the bus or attempted to on the asphalt of the parking lot. All of us are boarded at Makerere University in apartments on the edge of campus. The students are currently out for summer break, but even so the campus is alive with students and professors. The school houses about 13x as many people as PLU, numbering around 39,000 people and we were given the opportunity to learn from professors and students about the history and culture of

teacher at Washington High School. During his time at PLU, he became a well-liked teacher and colleague and a very successful author. With professor emeritus Don Wentworth, he co-authored five editions of “Economic Scenes”; wrote “The Evolution of Economic Thought”, a history of economic ideas; and coauthored with his former professor Campbell McConnell “Contemporary Labor Economics.” His biggest success, “Economics,” will soon be in its 19th edition. Nearly one in four U.S. students cut their

] Paul Tillich.” Paso graduated with a degree in religion and German, and after spending some time working in downtown Tacoma at a church, left last year to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Armin Kohnle, director of the Institute of Church History at the University of Leipzig. With Kohnle, Paso studied “common chest” ordinances in the early reformation period. “Common chest” literally refers to a locked box where donations where kept for the poor in a church. “It was basically early

long awaited and much anticipated event,” President Loren J. Anderson told the assembled crowd. The 60 year-old Eastvold had been identified as a building in dire need of revitalizing as far back as 1995, he said. It took a series of steps to get to this occasion. First was a fundraising effort ran purely by volunteers that raised $10 million. “It was, I think, by any stretch the most successful volunteer fundraising in the university’s history,” Anderson said. The next was a generous gift left to

Mercury Excellence Awards for her branding and designs for MediaLab’s 2014 documentary, Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food Equation.Cox, a senior Graphic Design major with an Art History and Publishing and Printing Arts minor, has been a graphic designer for MediaLab since 2012. The award makes Cox’s branding for the documentary Waste Not second worldwide in the “Campaigns-Nonprofit/Public Affairs” category. The film, which premiered in Fall 2014, explores global food waste. “I worked on the graphics

erosion as well as supporting MediaLab in future endeavors.” The film premiered on April 27, 2019 at the Washington State History Museum and has received the Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Recognition for Student Documentary Short. The film was also featured in the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and Friday Harbor Film Festival in October 2019. ​ Living on the Edge ​is available to stream online via Vimeo.MediaLab MediaLab seeks to create high–quality content and services for

-time nurse or K-12 educator.“Our nursing and education programs are deeply rooted in PLU’s history,” said PLU President Allan Belton. “For more than a hundred years, we have been training and preparing thoughtful and highly skilled nurses and educators to serve their communities. To show our thanks, we pledge to do everything in our power to make higher education possible for the dependents of teachers and nurses.”With this promise, PLU will cover at least half of the student’s tuition —$23,408 for

internship/industry experience and/or courses in business, economics, history and ethics.  “Project-based learning is a different kind of learning than in-class learning and adds a different kind of value to a student’s degree,” said Bogomil Gerganov, associate professor of physics. “Internships and apprenticeships are extremely valuable training for future engineers, and students with such experience are more attractive job and graduate school candidates.” To fulfill the engineering internship/industry