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said. After telling her about his background in special education, Hijlkema told him, “Well, we have something for you to do then.” She wanted him to work more at the program level, rather than the individual child level. PLU Professor Greg Williams has been working with Sol y Luna, an organization that works with disabled children, for a number of years. “These types of kids that Sol y Luna works with… present very challenging behaviors to the people who work with them,” Williams said. “The

coordinate mentoring projects by PLU students. PLU students from an education class dealing with multicultural issues in the classroom will be going out to the schools. In turn, “fifth graders will be coming to PLU for a day, and hopefully it will put them on the trajectory of thinking about college,” he said. Eventually, Zylstra would like to see PLU known as much for its involvement in the local community as it is now known for its nationally recognized study-away programs. And the way he sees it

When college students dream up the perfect summer, it usually doesn’t involve getting up at 3 a.m. to take water samples, living out of your backpack, and sleeping in the trees. But for geosciences major Nathan Page, there was no better way to spend the last summer of his undergraduate education. Page set out on a series of research trips with four of his peers and Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Claire Todd to study waste management on Mt. Rainier. It was a great way

.” Rowland received a bachelor of arts in music education from PLU, and went on earn a masters in creative writing at Boston University, where his life took a new direction. While he was studying at Boston University, Rowland wrote his first novel, In Open Spaces, a historical fiction piece about his home state of Montana. He published the novel 11 years later, in 2002, and then a second novel, The Watershed Years, in 2007. Russell Rowland’s anthology, titled West of 98: Living and Writing the New

, have turned into professional relationships. And, most certainly, both developed real-world tools through mentoring and training programs at places like the Women’s Center. For graduates like McGifford and McLane who aspire for a career in advocacy, there is no better way to prepare. “The interns who go through the PLU sexual assault peer education team training program are prepared weeks in advance (compared to other schools),” McLane said. “That has to do with the mentoring and the faculty at PLU

theater scene here, Hobson also has some irons in Hollywood, including appearing in a movie in which Johnny Depp will make a cameo. He took all this experience and recently boiled it down to bits of advice as workshops he held in January at Pacific Lutheran University. His main points: Follow your passion and take risks. On the first point of following his passion, Hobson told the class that during his sophomore year at PLU, his father nearly died of an aneurysm, and Hobson, who was a music education

glacial processes by analyzing glacial melt water, by mapping the sediments in front of the glaciers,” Todd said. “That is one of my favorite aspects of my job, being able to spend summer with my students on Mount Rainier.” In addition to Mount Rainier, Todd has also brought two students in recent years to Antarctica to study how glaciers have changed over time. Profile Areas of expertise Glacial geology Paleoclimatology Glaciology Education Ph.D. in geology, University of Washington – 2007 M.S. in

professors Joanne Lisosky and Robert Marshall Wells, who had worked at The News Tribune before coming to PLU. Patterson was a single mom while attending PLU and worked while enrolled. She credits her professors for helping her get where she is today. “The community understands the value of a PLU education,” Patterson said. Patterson still keeps in contact with professors, visits classes and shares her experiences with current students. “Journalism is such a small, small world,” Patterson said. The summer

Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. As Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust, he participated in three meetings in the past year designed to include Muslims in the Museum’s goal of spreading Holocaust education. As Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, Bob received travel support to attend a meeting of the Editorial Board of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte in Germany, and he spent time in the British Library in London, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the Cambridge University

spent the past year in Serbia studying peace and conflict resolution, and would like to work with youth when he leaves PLU. Delo is a political science and global studies major and is considering going into the Peace Corps or furthering her education through graduate studies in international relations. They also will hear PLU alum Dr. William Foege ’57, who led the fight to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Anna McCracken ’14, a