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her three grandchildren and serving as the primary caregiver for her homebound mother. In the six weeks of the reading series, they have moved and overcome a nasty bout with flu, but they have not missed a minute of the series. They are among the best and most consistent participants in our discussions; the grandmother’s commitment and enthusiasm is heroic. She explains matter-of-factly, “We all have some darkness in us. We’re all a bad decision or a wrong turn from something we might regret

mere hours together, the love sparks began flying and in six months we were married. Two and a half days after the wedding I moved to Kristiansand, Norway where Clay plays for IK Start in the Norwegian Top Division. I am currently working with the Red Cross and volunteering at our church in Kristiansand. On August 17 the Red Cross will host their first 5k run, “Run for Your Life” to raise awareness and funds to support the group I directly work with, children suffering and recovering from cancer

Brown, the chair of our voice program, invited Stephanie Blythe to campus in February to work with six of our voice students.  Ms. Blythe is one of the most highly regarded and respected mezzo-sopranos in the world today. The event provides our students with an incredible learning experience, at the same time advancing our reputation in the local community and the world of opera. It is gratifying to see such a small and mundane action as sharing budget information with faculty leading to an event

. “My brother always was like, ‘Let’s do a podcast together.’ I always ignored it,” Shomler said. “The night he died, it’s like 4 in the morning and I’m like, I’ll listen to that podcast finally.” The podcast in question: a goofy show Zayne had discovered, enjoyed and periodically shared with the then-disinterested Zac. Over the next six months, Zac Shomler listened to every single old episode of that show. It was a way for him to stay connected to his brother, to pay homage to a memory — to fulfill

inquiry is demonstrated throughout the essays we are re-publishing. For example, six language faculty offer a series of translations of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights,” moving it through 5 other languages before re-translating a different but still delightful poem into English. This exploration of meaning and expression captures the “literary imagination” Dean Rasmussen referenced. The “critical eye” of scholarship is also demonstrated in English professor Chuck Bergman’s reflection on how the

three cast members and the original director, Brandon Ivie, came together for each production, and the show racked up more awards, winning six Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards in 2022. “Performing in the U.K., in particular, was incredible,” remembers Huertas. “That truly felt like a peak. We felt like we’d love to bring it to New York, but we didn’t know if that would ever happen.” After the show was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest performance arts festival, New

Research fund + Fred L. Tobiason Endowment for Faculty-Student Science Research Diels-Alder reactions involve the reaction of a four-atom diene and two-atom dienophile to form a new unsaturated six-membered ring. The reverse process – the retro- Diels-Alder reaction – has traditionally been very difficult to study due to requisite high temperatures imparted by the stable six-membered ring products. The hetero-retro-Diels-Alder reaction of N-carbamoyl-3,6-dihydro-1,2-oxazines is of particular interest

don’t listen enough. There’s a lot of power in dialogue and negotiation, but not enough time devoted to it.” Barry is inspired by the work of Dr. Steinar Bryn—a six-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who once taught at PLU, and who comes up in every conversation with every cohort member. “He brought groups together from Serbia and Croatia after that conflict, and what was really powerful was the idea of storytelling—people just want to be heard and feel that their beliefs and experiences matter.” Post

priority enhancements to academic facilities and equipment, and we have continued to perform critical physical plant maintenance. ●      In spite of a difficult economic environment, our fund-raising successes continued. There were more than 10,000 donors to the university last year, that’s more than any time in our history. Progress on our $100 million “Engage the World” campaign was slow in the early months of last year, but a flurry of major gifts over the past six months moved the campaign past the

as an institution within a number of sometimes overlapping circles of character and identity.  As we begin discussions about what we aim to be in the distant future, I would encourage us all to think about where PLU falls within these various groups—that is, when someone mentions a group of colleges and universities, at what point does PLU get mentioned? As everyone here knows well, PLU was one of six colleges established by Norwegian Lutheran pioneers—the others are Luther College, Concordia