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, something she says keeps her connected to people in her community. She is working with her boss to develop a surveillance project for the Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger) mosquito in Atlanta starting this summer, prompted by the concern over the spread of Zika and Chikungunya, another viral disease. “It enables us to look into what are the local contributors to breeding patterns,” she said. “There’s a lot of very important things to be done right now.”

experienced success on their own terms. Learn how our community designs extraordinary learning opportunities and explore how Lutes find meaning after graduation, measured not only by traditional forms of success, but in lives well lived. Read More Defining Success PLU asks students to broaden their definition of success beyond career milestones or dollars earned. We talked to Lutes in various stages of life to find out what success means for them. Read More Build It and They Will Come A generous donation

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you have questions about becoming a site director, please contact Dr. Tamara R. Williams, Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. williatr@plu.edu 253-535-7678***Note that the IHON-Oxford Site Director application process is different from other Gateway programs. If you have taught in the IHON program and wish to apply as IHON-Oxford Site Director, please contact Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen (ihssenbl@plu.edu), IHON-Oxford Program Director, and/or the IHON

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, listen, and read in the target language at a level comparable to a 202 language course or above at PLU. Evidence or verification of their proficiency level may be presented in at least one of the following ways: letter from a member of the community where the target language is spoken that addresses the student’s level of proficiency in all four skill areas and/or the dimensions of the student’s “true bilingualism”; documentation related to Korean, German, Japanese, Chinese, Yiddish, etc. weekend

visibility of PLU and inspire connection with prospective students and their families, current students, alumni, donors, influencers/thought leaders, and community members. Smith joined Student Involvement & Leadership at PLU in 2005. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art from the University of Puget Sound and a MBA from PLU. Smith most recently served as the Executive Director of Content Development at PLU and was directly responsible for curating adaptive and sharable content that can be

Title: The Jewish Community in Poland: Contemporary Jewish-Polish Relations Who: Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, Beit Polska and Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland Conference ScheduleBio: I have devoted myself to the revival and flourishing of congregations around the world, most recently Beit Polska, the umbrella organization of ten Progressive communities that grew out of Beit Warszawa in post-Communist Poland. In America, we are supported by Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland (JewishRenewalInPoland.org

of this trip: Ten PLU students—in conjunction with Assistant Marketing Professor Mark Mulder—set out to bring clean water to a community that did not have a reliable source of this precious commodity. But the trip also was about building relationships, some immediately and some cautiously, but all connections that ended up changing these Lutes forever. Meet the Team Click on the photos to hear each Lute’s story.   Day One: El Limonal, Nicaragua Church Courtyard Drill Depth: 90 Feet T he journey

experienced one of the nation’s deadliest landslides. It claimed the lives of 43 people, devastating the community. (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) “It’s still so fresh in a lot of people’s memory,” Wilcox said. “And you see that when you go out to the site and people who are community members are still mourning their losses and still trying to deal with how this happened.” The mapping that Wilcox is doing can be used by communities, emergency response units, city planners and others to help navigate the