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paperwork and permits shuffled back and forth, the bones continued to sit. “This year, the state told us they wanted their chicken coop back,” Behrens laughed. After most of the bones – including a bag of mystery bones –were loaded in the back of Benham’s truck, the skull, all 200 pounds, was loaded into a trailer, and the entire skeleton was moved to the Rieke storage room last week. It will stay in there for the next couple of weeks, and then moved to a walk in freezer at the Columbia Center to kill

others.” The Bensons each came to PLU from modest and devoted Lutheran families, intending to become teachers. They met on campus in a bowling class, Jolita said. Dale says it was in chorus singing under R. Byard Fritts. The couple has been together ever since. They graduated in 1963 – Dale to attend graduate school at the University of Maine and begin a career as a professor of history, Jolita to teach kindergarten and first grade. Before long, they decided that Jolita would step out of the

things for my costumes because I had four of them for this production,” she said. “I met my voice teacher, and he warmed me up. Then I met with the maestro, Roberto Abbbado, at 6 p.m. and sang through a couple of things for him. Then I had a little dinner, got into my costume and went out on stage at 7:30 p.m. It was the most amazing evening of my life. “I just couldn’t believe this was happening,” she said. “I had to pinch myself several times that day.” Meade had worked hard to get to this point

-faculty summer-research project, a continuation of Underwood’s work as an independent researcher before he joined PLU. “I’ve been playing around with things on this theme for a couple of years,” Underwood said. “There are different ideas about how this period of inflation went about. … I was interested in how inflation started in these variations. The project we’re doing here is a further expansion upon that.” These variations, small bumps and fluctuations in the smoothness of the universe, are

these awards are given annually. “Mathematics Magazine is probably the most-read journal of mathematics in the world; it is very difficult to get an article published in there at all,” Heath said. “I was quite pleased just to have them accept the article and suspected at first that the award notification was an April Fool’s Day joke that arrived a couple days late; I had to read it several times before I believed it.” Heath is the second PLU recipient of this prestigious award; Associate Professor

skills and managing college workloads, while the veterans offer a valuable perspective about military life. For example, a cadet interested in aviation could have a veteran partner who worked in the aviation branch.   “Cadets can connect with veterans and learn a little bit about what military life has been like for them so they can live by proxy through their experiences,” Farnum said. “And it’s an opportunity for these veterans who have not been students for some time — for some a couple years

formation of the PLU Pantry, an on-campus food pantry where students can pick up ingredients for a meal, toiletries and other necessities with the swipe of a student ID. University Pastor Jen Rude first became aware of the growing number of food-insecure students after several professors came to her with concerns about students’ lack of access to nutritious meals. “We had a couple folks reach out to Campus Ministry to say, ‘I know this is a need among my students. What do we have on campus?’” Rude

concentration in finance. What prompted that switch? Accounting just wasn’t for me. I am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with

in the face of such an incredible ordeal demonstrated an exceptionally strong will to succeed and overcome whatever challenge was set before her.” Hunt has been in remission nearly five years. For the first couple, Hunt said, she wasn’t comfortable talking about her illness, but now, as part of Survivors Teaching Students, she teaches medical professionals in Oregon and Washington—including nursing students at PLU—how to recognize the symptoms of ovarian cancer. Katie Hunt speaks at the 2014 TED

learning, eager to foster intercultural relationships, willing to step out of their comfort zones, committed to serving those around them, and want to use their college education to make a difference on campus and in their communities at home. “Just their presence in the classroom brings a diverse perspective,” Melannie Cunningham, director of multicultural outreach and engagement at PLU, said of Act Six Scholars at PLU. “I look at the group of students we have and every one of them is unique in their