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work has grown following the merger, its core mission remains. “We’re dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education, a vision that has always assumed the dynamic intersection of the local and global,” she explains.  Partnering with departments all over campus, Wang Center staff help provide faculty members with development and grant opportunities, manage and coordinate domestic and international study

didn’t know what it was, to be honest, when I was 18.” Today, Peterson is more than familiar with the United Nations. After earning a master’s in environment and sustainable development at University College London, Peterson moved to New York in February 2019. She took on a role at Landmark Public Affairs, a public affairs and strategic communications agency. Landmark aids clients such as international food and beverage associations to engage with organizations like the European Union, World Health

of students across the campus, and helping to ensure that PLU graduates will continue to compete with great success. So I was not surprised, but very, very happy this past Sunday evening, to receive  Director of Assessment, Karen McConnell’s first report on the results of the Collegiate Learning Assessment.  Last year 153 colleges and universities, including PLU, asked both first year and senior students to complete this exam that evaluates writing, critical thinking, problem solving and

contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts.  After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to

lunches.” Creating options every day was no easy task. Especially for the Gradwohl’s youngest son, Major, who suffers from Celiac disease, an intolerance to gluten. Gradwohl began seriously thinking about convenient alternatives to packing lunches every day. Fantazimo Foods was the solution. In partnership with the Seattle catering firm Gretchen’s Shoebox Express, parents can order lunches online by 4 p.m. and lunches will be delivered to schools and camps the next day. Fantazimo currently offers

— while at the same time we’re making the pieces our own,” said Cece Robinson ‘20, a senior performing in the show. When thinking about how she wanted the show to come to life on PLU’s campus, Cunningham reflected upon the university’s first all-black production, “Fences,” directed by recent graduate Josh Wallace ‘19.  “I saw how it affected the students that were in the performance … the opportunity to bond and really feel proud about a work that had cultural relevance to them, that they could

thinking about how we can move forward and break down some of these barriers — see if we can work together to progress further than RHA has been in the past.PLU Residence Hall AssociationRHA encourages student development through educational and social programming that provides a forum to share ideas and common concerns, and establishes an effective and representative advocate body for residence hall related issues. Read Previous Timely Research Read Next No Mud, No Lotus COMMENTS*Note: All comments

focused on international service, highlighted by a Peace Corps service panel and keynote address by United States diplomat Ryan Gliha.Established in 2013, the Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens Celebration of Service uplifts the extraordinary public servant who was killed on Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. “The program highlights individuals and organizations dedicated to innovative pathways to peace,” said Wang Center Executive Director Tamara Williams. “It’s a day spent thinking thoughtfully