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someplace Cheek had never heard of called Darfur. “Someone should do something about that,” Cheek remembered thinking, and then promptly forgot about the story. Once he returned home to the U.S., Cheek was shocked that in fact, broadcasts and stories about Darfur and the slaughter of civilians there were not grabbing headlines and top story slots on the evening news. In fact, there was little if any news about the conditions that African country. It was at this juncture, Cheek decided that he decided

of Ferrucci Junior High) 15 PLU Alumni Use Alma Mater Pride to get Junior High Students Thinking About College Early By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications It’s hard to imagine a workplace more loaded with Lutes than Ferrucci Junior High School in Puyallup—outside of PLU itself, of course. Of the 40 teachers on Ferrucci’s staff, 15 have attended and/or graduated from Pacific Lutheran University—and their stories just keep intertwining: •    Ferrucci Principal Steven Leifsen ’96 and

, but I’m right there for everything that happens,” Foss said. “I know about every fossil that’s being discovered before it hits the news. I know who is working where and on what. That’s the excitement of it, being on the edge of everything going on in paleontology.” × Foss juggles a variety of hats in an average week at the office, ranging from policy expert to to public relations officer. “I spend a lot of time helping to develop policy as well as reviewing other proposed policy, thinking about

carpenter of all things, and he didn’t preach, he said ‘this is what the Christian faith is.’” Blagg’s Christianity classes inspired her to take a fresh look at religion as a whole. She eventually returned to Catholicism years after her family stopped attending church. “Those two classes got me thinking more than anything else that I took,” Blagg said.   After she graduated with her bachelor’s degree, Blagg’s graduate studies at PLU focused on how companies approach conflict resolution with their

for undergrad trying to find ways to fund my education, let alone graduate school,” Dolan said. “I haven’t even been thinking about it really because I wanted to finish undergrad. But I knew that it would be tough, so to already be admitted with a full ride — it’s a very calming feeling to have.” Dolan also is excited to share opportunities with his fellow Lutes. Dolan made a list of summer fellowships and opportunities that he’s happy to share with other students. He’s eager to help his peers who

ultimately go towards the organization’s operations abroad. We hope in the future to receive enough funding for students to have the opportunity to go out into communities like Honduras, Panama, etc., to gain hands-on exposure. PLU Pre-Health Sciences AdvisingWhat inspired you to start this club, in particular? Being a pre-med student, or a student thinking about any health science grad school, can be a lot. It can also be hard to get a feel for what preparing for medical school should look like, how

honors. After walking across a commencement stage for the second time, this time to retrieve a college diploma, the road to get where she is today has been weighing on her mind. “I’m thinking a lot about my high school graduation and how emotional that was,” Dawson said. “It’s just crazy thinking about how much further I’ve come. When I started college, I had no idea how it was going to go and if I was going to finish.” Something that’s truly flourished during her college years has been her art

two years, for most of you four, some a bit longer, . . . and, of course, it took me 20!  But we have all made it, and tomorrow, MaryAnn and I, like so many of you will be packing the car and preparing to hit the road, and leaving daily life in the so called Lutedome for the last time! So, in a very special way, MaryAnn and have been thinking of this as our commencement day, and so we hope that it is O.K. with you if we claim for ourselves honorary membership in the class of 2012! And we are

make and use, and the rates of their production and use. We grow our phytoplankton cultures under various conditions that are representative of present and future ocean ecosystems to try to understand the implications these microbial activities have for our planet.” Lydia Flaspohler ’25Biology major “One of the most valuable lessons I learned this summer from participating in the NSSURP research program was that failure is not only expected, it is a critical part of the research experience

remembers that on her first trip to the continent, a wind gust picked her up, with a fully loaded pack, and slammed her into a rock. This will be Todd’s third trip back to Antarctica. This research on the rocks will not only provide clues into long-term global warming, but give a sense of long-term ice pack development and sea-levels. For low-lying communities, this information is critical. In short, “ice matters,” Vermeulen said. While on their trip, the team will be talking with three elementary