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together to have a laugh and keep their skills polished just like their bowling balls, you don’t have to be a local or a regular to enjoy Paradise Lanes. It’s a community institution filled with amazing people and cool things to do.

Symposium, “Food and the Environment.” This symposium began with a keynote lecture, co-sponsored with the Wang Symposium, by Dr. Vandana Shiva, and ended with keynote by Valerie Segrest, Community Nutritionist and Project Coordinator for the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project. The symposium also featured a series of panel discussions and a PLU Center for Engagement and Service sponsored food tour of Tacoma. In March, Dr. Hege Finholt, a Norwegian political philosopher from the University of Olso, gave

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would have met otherwise. I never would have thought that one month could completely change my personal community like it did.

School of Distinction from Washington State. Christine also led Meeker Middle School in becoming one of Tacoma Public Schools innovative schools focused on STEM education. Christine in partnership with Peace Community Center built an afterschool learning center which supports students staying after school until 5 PM. The students are exposed to enrichment activities such as robotics and gardening as well as academic tutoring and support.   Christine received her bachelor’s degree from Gonzaga

Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Articles posted bytompaulson Tom Paulson Tom Paulson graduated from PLU with a B.S. in chemistry in 1980. He’s the editor and founder of Humanosphere , an independent online news site based in Seattle and devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community. Before starting Humanosphere , which was first launched as an NPR experiment based at KPLU, Tom worked for decades

my interests in Indigenous literature. When I first came to PLU 3 years ago, I had no idea what I was doing; I didn’t even know if I wanted to stay for more than a year. But with the love, passion and mentorship I received both from the English department and the NAIS community, I found myself pushing harder for the things I wished for myself and for my community. That got me to where I am today and keeps me facing forward. — Mathilde M. ‘20, Individualized major in Holocaust, Genocide

-person classes will be offered in late afternoons and evenings. Clinically-oriented. The program prepares students for careers in a variety of settings related to physical and behavioral health in clinical social work, healthcare, schools, community organizations, policy development, and administration. The curriculum includes at least 900 hours of practicum work. Global focus. The program includes a comparative global focus on health and behavioral health, with the opportunity to include a January

knowledge is guarded and handed down unchanged to new generations, the Lutheran reform of education promoted what is cherished at PLU: a community of scholars and students in which the advancement of knowledge, for the good of all, takes place through critical questioning, experimentation, performance and community engagement. That just might be something worth celebrating.

global community and other cultures and to put yourself in that place,” Markuson said. He also embraced PLU’s mission in his daily life—to Markuson, that means care for others—and he continues to do so today. “After being at PLU for four years and taking that to heart, I think what I am doing now is caring for a community, and it is greater depth of understanding what that means, and there is empowerment in that,” Markuson said. Recently accepted to medical school at the University of Washington