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create artificial gravity, and how many people to bring aboard so that the genetics of those on board can be uncompromised in future generations. Next, they discuss the challenge of how to feed the population using a self-sustaining biosphere. Students then build their own self-sustaining terrarium inside a glass jar and seal it to represent the conditions that would be present on the ship. This project was a favorite for many of Heath’s students, including mathematics and physics double major

writing content for the nonprofit’s website. Her beat was technological solutions and global education. She wrote pieces about artificial intelligence as a solution to poverty, and the education of refugees to name a few. This sort of research-based, nonfiction writing is Hurtt’s comfort zone. In her junior year she switched majors from biology to English literature, making one of the biggest jumps between academic disciplines. But her experience in analytical writing was one of the reasons she

the new artificial athletic field at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7 vs. Trinity Lutheran and on Saturday, PLU football hosts rival sister school CLU at Sparks Stadium at 12:30 p.m. Two noted speakers will come to PLU as part of the inauguration festivities. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of “Into the Beautiful North,” will be on campus on Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss his novel that was the focus of PLU’s Common Reading Program this year. Larry Rasmussen, professor emeritus of social ethics at Union

glistening in the distance, and the evergreen firs looming just south of the soccer field. And the grass was green. Really green. Artificial-green green. For the women’s soccer players who were the first athletes to officially compete on the synthetic-surface sports field, that color couldn’t have been more beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lklxHZPURw The lighted multi-purpose field, on which the men’s and women’s soccer teams will play their home matches, is just one part of a long list of

the ethics of torture. Perry, ’81, is the Gen. Maxwell Taylor Chair of the Profession of Arms at the war college located in Pennsylvania. Perry earned his bachelor’s in religion from PLU in 1981 and Ph.D. in ethics and society from the University of Chicago divinity school in 1993. Kaurin, who met Perry at a faculty seminar at the Naval Academy, invited Perry to come to campus this fall. Perry is going to discuss the ethics of torture when viewed through the lens of warfare and intelligence