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community service might be more transformative for PLU students than it is for the community they serve. “It’s one thing to be able to identify your skills, values and perspectives in a traditional college setting. It’s a different thing to see what those look like in the community,” Zylstra said. “We encourage students to be engaged in the community to learn about themselves and the world that they’re apart of.” Read Previous PLU professor launches new class that immerses students in the local Buddhist

Back in the lab: an unexpected path led Angela Rodriguez Hinojosa ’24 to organic chemistry Posted by: Zach Powers / March 7, 2024 Image: Angela Rodriguez Hinojosa ’24 is a chemistry major who plans to attend graduate school following Spring Commencement. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) March 7, 2024 By Emily Holt, MFA '16PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer “It’s like clicking Legos together,” she says. Except that the Legos are chemical compounds contained in an 1H NMR tube. Chemistry major

PLU’s warm, sunny greenhouse, watching for genetic traits that help millet grow taller or produce more seeds. “The Danforth Center is crowdsourcing genetic research,” Laurie-Berry says. “We’re helping Danforth go through thousands of seeds, identifying which are worth studying. No one knows how each one will behave.” PLU students are joining high school and undergraduate students in analyzing lab-generated mutant seed populations in partnership with Danforth. Students care for the plants, recording

Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024

Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024

community, having empathy, defining a key insight, ideating, and creating a range of solutions. All this happens before any checks are written or websites are built.” Lund concluded by emphasizing a core intention of the program: “The problem-solving skills I’m learning in Innovation Studies will fuel a lifetime of creativity.” Links & Resources To learn more about Mariken Lund and her new venture, visit Elskthestudio.com. Instagram: @elskthestudio. TikTok: @elskthestudio. The book Mariken referred to

holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024

began setting cold type on a phototypesetting machine. In 1989, she learned to set metal type and has been a letterpress printer ever since. Spring has a Master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia College in Chicago. She began teaching at PLU in 2004 and has taught Art of the Book as well as graphic-design classes that specialize in typography. “There’s no better way to understand typography than handsetting and print type,” Spring said. “Everyone, regardless of their career path, learns some

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questions that can help identify things that they are called to do,” she said. “In college, there is a lot of pressure to have all of the answers, but here the students are the ones who get to ask most of the questions.” And ask they did. Crystal LaPorte, a Port Orchard native hoping to earn a degree in Nursing said that she was already thinking about the weighty question of what kind of mark she wanted to leave in the world. She would like to become a pediatric nurse and decided to participate in