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the chance to discover under the sea. Even on land, he’s busy reconstructing a whale skeleton  that will someday “swim” through PLU’s Rieke Science Center. You might say that Behrens, assistant professor of biology, grew up wiggling his toes in salt water. As a baby, he was part of family outings where he was strapped into a backpack and brought out to the coast. This ritual continued as he grew older. “As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time at tidepools,” he said.  By the time he was 13 or

February 28, 2011 Actors practiced the art of Bunraku puppetry to express Paula Vogle’s play, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” Pictured here are David Ellis ’11 and Abigal Pishaw ’12, who play the parents in the play. (Photo by John Froschauer) Actors and puppets take audience through a bittersweet, Christmas car ride By Barbara Clements Most of us have this childhood memory – sometimes cherished, sometimes tucked away under lock and key – of the family road trip. The miseries of sitting in the

, October 3, at the 7th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lectureship, which was established by the Benson Family Foundation during the 2005-2006 academic year, brings to campus outstanding members of the academic and business community. The topic for the night’s lecture came from a debate Coclanis had with economic historian Stanley Engerman in November 2009. In both debates he argued that based on economic reasoning slavery would not have survived much longer without

career during her senior year in high school. She knew she wanted a career and healthcare and nursing seemed to fit. And since Tachibana loved to study, and loved working with people, becoming a nurse and going to college – the first in her family to do so – took hold.  It didn’t take long before Tachibana discovered that this was her life’s passion. Still, she didn’t realize the impact nursing could have on an individual’s life until she began working closely with patients.  Nursing has a tremendous

both exercise fanatics.” She’s a third generation Ford employee – and yes, both Krises drive Ford Mustangs – although she stresses that after receiving her MBA from Miami University in Ohio, she really hadn’t planned to continue the family tradition, it was just the first place she found a job. The Indianapolis native received her bachelor of arts degree in business from Hanover College in Indiana, where she played D-III volleyball and basketball. Krise was impressed by PLU when her husband was a

by the Benson Family Foundation during the 2005-2006 academic year and brings to campus outstanding members of the academic and business community. The topic for the Monday night’s lecture came from McCloskey’s series of books, The Bourgeois Era, which explore the relationship between moral virtue and capitalism. She argued that innovation, ingenuity, and the drive of societal change are characteristics of the middle-class, and that it was from the liberation of this class that the modern world

hadn’t really intended to follow in the family business. This was just the first employer who offered her a job. Between her father, grandfather and two uncles, Krise figured that the five of them had worked 159 years at Ford. In any job, but especially in a male dominated industry, it’s also important to find mentors, Krise added. Her mentors have taken a chance on her over the years and given her new opportunities she wouldn’t have had otherwise, she said. “Seek out the mentors, if you can do it

the skull and the DNA, that this is a different species.” Their discovery was recently published in the Journal of Mammalogy, a renowned scientific outlet for studies on the biology of mammals. In it, the international team of scientists from Ecuador and the U.S. described a new species found in the cloud forests of Sangay National Park and clarified the family tree of this group. Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11. (Photo by John Froschauer) The new species of shrew-opossum, Caenolestes sangay, looks like a

, Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Rasmus’ girlfriend and partner in food activism, Heather Hoffman, will be making the ride with him. Family and friends will keep him company along the way as he treks his way through 12 states. His father plans to join in in the last leg into Washington, D.C. To follow Rasmus’ ride, check out his blog, or his Twitter or Facebook page. Read Previous Marissa Meyer ’04: Living the Dream as a Best-Selling Author Read Next The Career Whisperer COMMENTS*Note: All comments

building apps and producing “connected products”—so Venuelabs perfectly fits the bill. Crist calls the funds from Salesforce.com “a great source of validation that they [Venuelabs] are on the right track.” During his time at PLU, Crist took part in many School of Business events, including Washington Family Business Awards and Young Entrepreneurs, and says these programs helped him “reach outside the classroom” while still in school. Crist also fondly remembers the contagious excitement of students and