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from her home state of Indiana. She is looking forward to getting to know the political scene in D.C. and is networking to find a job relating to Economics and Chinese in order to stay in the city a while longer. Chaney Skadsen, 2016Chaney is currently attending Illinois State University where she is a Master’s International student pursuing a degree in Applied Economics and Community Development. While on campus she has been a graduate assistant working on implementing a grant (UWE), to get more

be taken on campus.Concentration: Development and Social Justice Standards of living have increased dramatically worldwide over the past 100 years, yet poverty and inequality remain features of our world. Continued improvement in human well-being for all involves economic growth, reducing poverty, and addressing inequities and issues of social justice, for example in wealth, political freedom, education, and health care. Given the complexity of development processes and of the diverse array of

images, from their perspective, with the PLU community. See the online version of this exhibit here. Exhibit supported: The Wang Center and Global Studies Curators: Curators: Wang Center Staff and Holly Senn, Librarian   On Exhibit: Books in Honor of Women’s History Month This exhibit includes a selection of the library’s print books about women published within the past five years. The books cover a wide variety of issues affecting women’s lives, cultural contexts, political work, artistic

semester, PLU faculty will explore the pandemic phenomenon through the lens of diverse disciplinary fields. These include: Biology, Global Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Literature and the Arts. The course also includes a panel of PLU alumni in the health and care professions that have been invited to reflect on their experience of the crisis from the vantage point as practitioners. The

semester, PLU faculty will explore the pandemic phenomenon through the lens of diverse disciplinary fields. These include: Biology, Global Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Literature and the Arts. The course also includes a panel of PLU alumni in the health and care professions that have been invited to reflect on their experience of the crisis from the vantage point as practitioners. The

the political and social problems of mankind, cutting to the marrow of reality as he saw it. … He gave a part of himself to the people of Tacoma and to the students attending the two Universities which were fortunate enough to be his hosts.” President Kennedy addresses the crowd of energized young people. Photos Click on each photo to view the image in the PLU Archives database. Documents Click on each image to view the document in the PLU Archives database. Secret Service Memo to Milton Nesvig

Professor, Society and Environment and Medical Anthropology, University of California Berkeley in conversation with indigenous Mexican immigrants Introduced by Katherine Wiley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, PLU Location: Regency Room 11:50 a.m. - 1:35 p.m. | Under the Volcano: Polarization in Mexico's Decaying Democracy Speaker: Dr. Denise Dresser, Professor of Political Science, ITAM, Mexico City Introduced by Adela Ramos, Associate Professor of English, PLU Location: Scandinavian Cultural

— That Obscure Subject of Resilience: Meditations on Global Health (Scandinavian Cultural Center) Dr. Adia Benton, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Program of African Studies (PAS), Northwestern University 12:30-1:40pm — Critiques of the Apocalypse: End Times and Resilience in Contemporary Mexico (Regency Room) Juan Villoro, Prize-winning Mexican Author and Political Commentator 1:50-3:05pm — Resilience, Adaptation, and Shifting of Paradigms in Mexico City’s Water Management