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sponsoring organization for the Simon Awards will be with us at Opening Convocation to present the award to our entire community. Academic excellence is the direct product of faculty research and scholarship and, in just the past year, division of humanities faculty published 6 books, 65 articles, 25 essays and poems, and made 120 public presentations, while natural science faculty published over 30 articles and earned six research grants totaling over $250 thousand.  In the social sciences, faculty

, professor of chemistry, received another in a long series of Natural Sciences Foundation grants–this one for $98,000 for his research in polymer chemistry. Archaeologist Don Ryan, a PLU alumnus and a faculty fellow in humanities, published “Beneath the Sands of Egypt” to critical and popular acclaim. These are just a few examples of faculty scholarship, to which one can add the dozens of performances by our music faculty, creative works by our faculty in art and theater, as well as the contemporary

about the natural world. My experience in Natural Sciences was one of the most positive experiences and one I did not expect when I first jumped onto campus. The faculty has given me scholarly support, tremendous research opportunities, and enough laughs to fill an episode of “That 70’s Show.” Nathan Page ’13 is from Gig Harbor, Wash. What’s next? After a Geosciences Field Camp in Dillon, Mont., I will be on my way into the world of non-formal academia. however, I believe I will never stray far from