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topic of the Holocaust with their students. Through our efforts, Yad Vashem encourages young scholars to further research the multifaceted nature of the Holocaust.” PLU is home to an academic minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an endowed chair in Holocaust history, an annual conference on Holocaust education, summer research fellowships for students studying Holocaust questions, and more. Collectively, these programs and opportunities reflect PLU’s prominence as the home of internationally

wanted to support the sciences.“George sort of felt like he owed his success and his career to PLU,” said Lauralee Hagen, senior director of advancement. “He was very nostalgic about professors and his here and really wanted to do something to give back.” Hagen worked with the Longs to secure an endowment fund that supports two to three student internships in the natural sciences each summer, as well as an annual lecture. This is the second year that the George and Helen Long Science, Technology and

interview. In the past, I felt like an imposter, but I remembered my classes—especially economics—and how my professors taught me that if I can survive complex economic concepts, I can survive a complex project. I’m forever thankful for them giving me a bar to strive for.Do you have any plans for after commencement? There are several opportunities I am entertaining for post-commencement. However, first and foremost, I will take a short break and solo travel somewhere sunny with good food. A recharge is

integrated supply chain, and the new Enable Talk smartphone app, which allows sign language to be translated into speech, giving people with hearing impairments the ability to communicate with hearing peers. Sarah Cornell-Maier ’19 Social innovation differs from other types of innovation in that it uniquely works to solve issues that communities face in the social realm. Social innovators are interested in ideas and solutions that create social value. These ideas may come from social entrepreneurs

about how many of the seemingly intractable problems facing developing nations can be attacked through simple and affordable drugs. Or by leading nations – such as the United States – actually giving the aid promised, insisting on better treatment for women and deciding that millions of children and women dying each year of preventable diseases, torture and hunger is not OK. Lewis is currently a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director

plan to have Webcasts from the NMR lab to teach local college and high school students about NMR spectrometry. “This is really going to be the crown jewel of the instruments in our department,” Waldow said. Read Previous Looking into the laws behind adoption Read Next Making an art out of giving of oneself COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students

. Contact her at 253-535-7427 or clemenba@plu.edu for comments or more information. Read Previous Giving a people a voice, a face Read Next ‘We were made to move’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and

reserve. “Actually, Dr. Anderson stopped in at one of my classes one day and asked if I’d considered going to China during J-term. He’d found out I could speak some Chinese,” she said later, at her Gig Harbor home. “I hadn’t thought about it before, so I decided, why not?” And then there’s her height. The diminutive Pansino said that being short has actually helped her land parts as teenagers, and giving her a competitive advantage over older actresses. Her advice to those prospective actors, yearning

for another team’s huge public celebration. “I can’t believe the Seahawks are giving us the chance to travel down to Arizona and help with their big 12Fest Rally at Chase Field,” Dilts said. “To have my team down at the Super Bowl and be working under a national spotlight is super exciting!” Speaking of exciting, Dilts has a Super Bowl-sized surprise in store for the Pyramid Staging rally team (far be it for us to spoil that)—and an optimistic business plan for the immediate future. “Hopefully

them to build a viable business while also giving back to the community that they cherish. “It’s actually been really great,” Duncan said. “We love the neighborhood we’re in, and it really feels like it’s really starting to — after 14, 15 months — get to where we wanted it to be in terms of being a community space with a lot of different types of events for all different types of people. So it’s been fun.” Read Previous A Conversation with Shannon Murphy ’07, President of Washington Conservation