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systems change that offer meaningful solutions.” Brian Lloyd ’88 is a vice president at Beacon Development Group, a Seattle-based operation that provides affordable housing consulting services to nonprofits and public housing Authorities. “PLU instilled the idea that I could serve the community,” says Lloyd, who double majored in history and global studies at PLU before earning a master of public policy degree from Harvard University. “After grad school, I realized the place for my service was the

part of a delegation that traveled to Russia. The cultural exchange with the Nenets people included staying in the traditional homes of reindeer herders in the tundra and discussing concerns of climate change, among other important issues. Last week, local tribes returned the favor by welcoming a group of Nenets people during part of canoe journey festivities, Hall added. “Even though we live in vastly different climates and regions,” Hall said, “there are many more similarities than differences

love to work on reconvening and being a part of the University Sustainability Committee. That’s part of that long-lasting change a lot of us are hoping to continue for years to come.Get involved with ASPLUThe Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) supports the values that uplift all students on campus: diversity, justice, and sustainability. Members of the ASPLU are the elected leaders of PLU’s elected leaders. The President heads the Senate, while the Vice President heads the

course, this internship was a great resume booster, but it also taught me so much about land management. I expect that this newfound experience of working with landowners will prove useful, especially if a specialty in water conservation or ecology is in my future. What are your plans when you graduate? I’d like to pursue a master’s degree in environmental science eventually, but plans do sometimes change. When graduation comes I may be inclined to work for a year or two before going back to school

innovative Google Earth topics include: Each stop includes the story of a real diamond miner. Click to view larger. The moral and social issues surrounding worldwide diamond mining and trade. Energy consumption across the globe. Glacier change over the last 50 years. Cause and effect of the Boxing Day Tsunami. Google Lit Trips features dozens of downloadable literary tours, including Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and The Travels of Marco Polo. Google

climate change, is exciting,” he says. But what is perhaps most fulfilling for Waldow is to see his students grow into the next generation of scientists. “What’s really satisfying is to see students realize that they can do this themselves,” he says. “To see students develop confidence and curiosity and start to ask their own questions, and then apply that level of curiosity and skill to whatever they do next is the most rewarding.” Read Previous Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 Read Next

PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the

sometimes change. When graduation comes I may be inclined to work for a year or two before going back to school. Thanks to this internship, I’m flirting with the idea of working as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife member during that time. Read Previous City of Tacoma environmental scientist Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 loves asking questions Read Next PLU biology professor Amy Siegesmund receives national teaching award LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world

climate change. There is where the PLU junior, and his geosciences professor, Claire Todd, will be spending 40 days, including Christmas, as they study deglaciation – or in other words, how fast ice has been melting – over the last millennia. “This long term look will give us a context of the recent changes we’ve been seeing,” said Vermeulen, who at first thought of becoming a nurse when he arrived at PLU. But his love of rocks and geology soon took over. As a kid, “I’d be the one collecting rocks

study it,” she told Zellner at the time. From then on things would change. He became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, participating in marches, protesting the injustices of segregation and taking part in organizing the Freedom Riders of 1961.The Freedom Riders were an organized group of civil rights activists who rode buses into the south to test the new Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving