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years as an assistant professor at the University of New Haven, she looked for a faculty position that would bring her back to Washington State and opportunities for collaboration with local industries and businesses. She found that position with PLU. In her own work and in her teaching approach, Ha emphasizes the importance of looking past data to the reasons and purposes behind and beyond it. “I always encourage my students not to stop with data analysis,” she says. “As marketers, it’s our job to

December 1, 2009 Back to Normal By Barbara Clements A sense of relief. That seems to be the common reaction from cab drivers, shop keepers, bureaucrats and baristas around Anchorage when Gov. Sean Parnell’s name comes up. It has been a tumultuous two years for Alaska. Its new governor, PLU alum Sean Parnell ’84, brings a sense of normalcy to the state. “Frankly, I’m glad he’s there, I was getting tired of all the drama,” said a cab driver who cranked up the heater as the first hard nip of

buying tickets to Uganda again, this time with his girlfriend and fellow Lute, Margaret Chang, ’07, a global studies major. Kennedy at first couldn’t find his fellow organizers, but with new confidence, headed into the slum and quickly found them, including Ocitti. But the field they’d used for the first tournament was gone, now the home of an office complex. So they found another field outside of town and another at a nearby school. When the bus arrived to take spectators to the school, the kids and

and feeling that you are willing and able to act on options can be increased by simply committing to a time frame to work on a desired outcome with an attitude of hope; that is, a belief and feeling that you are able to achieve your goal. Too often, desires get stifled by spending time debating in our minds the obtainability of the goal rather than putting energy into action that will make the goal more possible. This happens in distressed relationships as individuals use each new interaction as

was a few months into the largest ecological disaster in history when the students visited the region.  In April, an explosion on an offshore drilling rig killed 11 people, also causing a deep-sea surge of oil into the Gulf. According to AP,  estimates of how much oil leaked into the Gulf per day ranged from 2.7 million to 6.8 million gallons, with massive leaks being capped by mid-July and the spill diminishing. Back in Houston they flew to Chicago, then drove to Detroit, Washington D.C., New

February 3, 2012 Last May, Gary Nelson ’81 summited Mt. Everest. He has reached the top of the highest peaks on five of the seven continents. ‘There are no excuses’ By Chris Albert The way Gary Nelson ’81 tells it, when ascending to the summit of some of the highest peaks in the world there is a moment of realization. The risk has been taken, the challenges faced. Now something new washes over the climber as what sets in his mind isn’t the depleted oxygen, forceful winds or even the stunning

the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s.  He was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, with colleagues, founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin may cause the sometimes deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has

the promise not to hold back, to engage the culture and the Chinese people in any way he could and take chances and advantages of new opportunities. So was he going to commit, or not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVql5xQ2agw He closed his eyes and chomped down on the scorpions that he’d bought from a market vendor. Two years later, Ford ’12, tries to describe the taste. He gives up. “Crunchy, and a taste I don’t even want to remember,” he said with a laugh from Kauhsiung, Taiwan, where he is

life and turned the page to new chapters to be written, including one filled with dreams of a professional baseball career. It was a year ago in December, during the winter break between fall semester and J-Term, that Beatty’s life took a dramatic turn. A visit to the doctor revealed that Beatty had testicular cancer. Within a week’s time and unaware of Beatty’s diagnosis, Baseball America magazine, one of the nation’s top publications dealing with amateur baseball, named the PLU right-hander as

the computer time and an overwhelming Word document with information on about 35 masters programs in China! I’ve used that information to apply for programs for this coming fall. I have really enjoyed my gap year so far. There is more time for me to organize and plan, and also learn new things that I didn’t have time to before. I’ve been piano coaching, accompanying, studying Chinese and getting involved with my church community. How did you hear about the Up Close with the Masters classes, and