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Dean James Albrecht Greetings from the DeanWelcome to this year’s edition of Prism, which we’re rolling out in a fully digital format. It’s got some great features — links to sites with extra information on topics discussed in our articles, video clips — and you can access it all from your computer, tablet, or smart-phone. Kudos to our editors for this new look, with a special nod to our new colleague Scott Rogers, who counts digital literacy amongst his areas of scholarly expertise. (You can

By Genny Boots ‘18 and Kate Williams ‘16 Lark Powers joins the music faculty as the new piano instructor at PLU. She will be teaching the keyboarding sequence as well as piano lessons for students. What is your background? I grew up in Northern California in Humboldt county, on the coast close to the Oregon border.  Growing up, I studied both piano and violin. I attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and then lived in Paris for three years studying piano. From there, I

Aaron Bell ’04 Aaron Bell ’04 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/09/aaron-bell.jpg 600 600 Logan Logan https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/df88b9152697d03169d961f6b1582ddd?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 18, 2018 October 5, 2018 Aaron Bell is a partner and lead advisor of Cannataro Park Avenue Financial (CPAF) in New York City. Bell, who has been security licensed for more than a decade, got his start in the industry as an equity analytics researcher at a consultancy

Erika Meyer Erika enjoying some aebleskivers in Copenhagen, Denmark. PLU Class of 2011 Global Studies and Sociology Double Major Studied away in Copenhagen, Denmark Worked as a Science & Health Programs Assistant at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad Now working on Masters in Public Health at Emory University I graduated in 2011 with majors in Global Studies and Sociology, and spent fall semester 2009 at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark. After graduation I

Founders of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Peter and Grace WangThe Wang Center opened in 2002 thanks to the vision of donors Peter (’60) and Grace Wang. With their endowment gift, the Wangs have emphasized the role education can play in building a more peaceful world and recognized an opportunity to further PLU’s ability to prepare students for lives of leadership and service in an interconnected world. Both are first-generation Americans. Peter Wang graduated from

253.535.7400 www.plu.edu/computer-science/ cs@plu.edu Laurie Murphy, M.S., Chair Our curriculum prepares students to work in industry as professional software developers, to continue their studies in graduate school, or to apply their computational skills to another field. With a degree in computer science you might end up writing code for software simulations of proteins, creating the next big video game, or developing a social application that connects people in new ways. The possibilities