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, and the educational opportunities, that’s never left me. That’s what still inspires me and motivates me in my job now.” Her job now: athletic director at the University of Washington, where she oversees 20 Division I sports programs and an annual budget upwards of $100 million. And while PLU no longer offers the graduate program that helped launch Cohen’s career in college athletics, the most important lessons Cohen learned during her grad-school days are reflective of university-wide cultural

” Kathi Breazeale, Troy Storfjell & Britta Helm, “Selling Wind: Sámi as Witches and Witches as Sámi in Northern European Religious Imagination” 2008-9: Carmina Palerm & Jackal Talorn, “Roots of Migration vs Roots of Community Branches of Survival in a Global Economy” PLU News article: Rethinking the Global Citizen Louis Komjathy & Jeff Rud, “Asian Religions in the Pacific Northwest” 2009-10: Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Kevin O’Brien, & Anna Duke, “Natural Disasters as Moral Lessons: Contemporary Social

dying and grieving in a uniquely close way. They will share the struggles they witnessed and experienced in lieu of the pandemic as well as reflect on insights or lessons learned from their roles in relation to Covid patients in this uniquely difficult time. These bedside practitioners will lead us in examining the vocation of caregiving during these times and may speak to the role of faith or spirituality for the dying and their families. Speakers include representative leaders from Christianity

has an unwavering work ethic. I don’t have the space to list all the jobs my dad has worked. He excelled equally in all of them. But my dad’s biggest impact on me has been his relentless consumption of newspapers and his staunch life lessons. He has an associate degree, and started studying business finance at the University of Alaska Juneau before a great job opportunity in retail management and building a family took him down a different path. What does it mean to be first in the family?“He just

Properties”. In Handbook of Luminescent Semiconductor Materials; Bergman L. and McHale J. L., Ed.; CRC Press: USA, 2012; pp 307-320. “Quantum Dot/Plasmonic Nanoparticle Metachromophores with Quantum Yields That Vary with Excitation Wavelength” K. Munechika, Y. Chen, A. F. Tillack, A. P. Kulkarni, I. Jen-LaPlante, A. M. Munro, D. S. Ginger Nano Lett. 11, 2725-2730 (2011). Presentations “Lessons from an Asynchronous Food Chemistry Course” Andrea M. Munro oral presentation in the Chemistry Teachers Day

Partners include Lakewood-based Clover Park School District, Parkland-based Franklin Pierce School District and Tacoma Public Schools. Five two-person teams of PLU science students plan lessons with classroom teachers. The project exposes the younger kids to a type of science instruction that busy classroom teachers might not otherwise have time to deliver, said Four Heroes teacher Britni Proudman. “It gets students excited about science,” Proudman said. Ksenija Simic-Muller, associate professor of

thoughtful inquiry and embracing community are part of the fabric of the Pacific Crest Trail, just as they are a part of the fabric at PLU. Ultimately, those lessons have helped her come to terms with the unpredictability of the journey she is on. “It’s about being open to any experiences life is going to throw at you,” she said. Ballinger said her hike underscored her love of the environment that grew out of the Antarctica study abroad program she was a part of during her time at PLU. “I’m thinking of

crowdfunding campaign helped with extra costs associated with storefront construction, Wagstaff opened her charming Lady Yum shop where Champagne flows all day long. It pairs well with her sweet and savory macarons in flavors you won’t find anywhere else, including mango habañe- ro. Wagstaff has learned a lot of lessons along the way – she’s a wise and seasoned businesswoman at 33 years old. When she was a little girl running around the island, her biggest fear was grizzlies. As an adult it is waking up

mouth.” After a successful online crowdfunding campaign helped with extra costs associated with storefront construction, Wagstaff opened her charming Lady Yum shop where Champagne flows all day long. It pairs well with her sweet and savory macarons in flavors you won’t find anywhere else, including mango habañe- ro. Wagstaff has learned a lot of lessons along the way – she’s a wise and seasoned businesswoman at 33 years old. When she was a little girl running around the island, her biggest fear was

. I love the language, the sound, the power embedded in his works. What are you going to miss while you’re away? I’m sure two months into my sabbatical, I’m going to be really wishing I was back teaching! My students are amazing individuals. They are really the reason why this job is so fulfilling and exciting for me. It’s that human element as well — not just the lessons, but the kind of relationship you create with a person you are working with on a common project. Professor Spencer Ebbinga