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of my life giving it away,” fits well with her new dream. She’s currently working on distribution deals for African hot sauce and wine. Eventually, she plans to import the African products to America, sell them as gourmet and reinvest the majority of the profits into different areas of Africa, such as education. “I’ve learned the concept of enough,” she said. “You take what you need and with the rest of it, you bless others.” Cunningham is hosting “Why Africa Matters” on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at the

needy Parkland families. “Every day I realize the importance of food. It infiltrates everyone’s life,” Mares said. The university encourages students to study away and live lives of service, but it falls short of engaging students with the Parkland community, Mares said. The garden aims to open the Lutedome and better connect students with their neighbors across the street. “Knowing about the farm and the garden create a larger perspective,” Mares said. “It’s an education in how to grow food, what

Explore! because she felt that it could be an opportunity to help broaden her social skills, which she acknowledged would be an asset in her profession. Last-minute participant Amy Larson said that she was contemplating the most critical aspects of her future career and how to find a balance between the importance of a college education and real-world experiences like professional networking. Larson hopes to graduate with a degree in business and work with non-profit organizations. Explore! Student

Sponsorship for major symposia, annual lectures, seminars and workshops that are crucial to a flourishing academic culture and extend the explicitly academic resources of the university out into the community. “I can’t emphasize enough how important these development opportunities for academics and mission are,” Killen said. “They make it possible for PLU to move into the future with it’s own kind of Wild Hope, profoundly rooted in its Lutheran tradition of higher education.” Killen calls PLU a global

around by us every time there was a discussion about remodeling Eastvold,” said Rev. Dennis Sepper, University Pastor. “PLU and Lutheran higher education put such a high emphasis on pluralism and diversity that I believe if we’re going to invite students of different faith traditions to our school, we should at least minimally provide for their spiritual needs in terms of a space to pray.” But according to Sepper, it wasn’t until Alazadi spoke to the diversity center that the idea got pushed off the

from passionate faculty. It was a coincidence that found Zee studying in Tacoma. His parents had wished their son to have the advantages of an overseas education, but worried what may come of him “without close supervision,” he joked. As it happened, PLU physics professor K.T. Tang visited Hong Kong (Zee was a student at the high school where Tang had once studied) and made an impression on Zee and his parents. “They thought that if I studied physics in Tacoma, Professor Tang could keep an eye on

, Malloy worked in public health in New York and Washington, D.C., before moving back to the Northwest to further his education. Malloy attended Seattle University Law School, studied intellectual property law and took a position at the Infectious Disease Institute. He stayed there until his recent move to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he’s now operational leader in its Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division. “This position involves a lot of international health activities, which is

Colleges for Veterans list released in September. PLU’s six-year graduation rate for military-affiliated first-year students is 86.4 percent, compared to 56 percent for Education Department numbers reported in the Military Times. Earlier this year, PLU hired its first Director of Military Outreach, Army veteran and Tacoma resident Michael Farnum, who is responsible for increasing PLU’s engagement with current and prospective military and veteran communities; increasing enrollment of military-affiliated

and international honors. Waste Not is the latest in a series of MediaLab films that have tackled big, highly topical issues such as religion, water, oil and immigration. All of those productions have been supported by PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and other on- and off-campus organizations such as the School of Arts and Communication, The News Tribune, KWA and others community partners. In addition to gaining valuable experiences in filmmaking, the Waste Not team also learned a great