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climate change. There is where the PLU junior, and his geosciences professor, Claire Todd, will be spending 40 days, including Christmas, as they study deglaciation – or in other words, how fast ice has been melting – over the last millennia. “This long term look will give us a context of the recent changes we’ve been seeing,” said Vermeulen, who at first thought of becoming a nurse when he arrived at PLU. But his love of rocks and geology soon took over. As a kid, “I’d be the one collecting rocks

study it,” she told Zellner at the time. From then on things would change. He became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, participating in marches, protesting the injustices of segregation and taking part in organizing the Freedom Riders of 1961.The Freedom Riders were an organized group of civil rights activists who rode buses into the south to test the new Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving

organizations, like Night Ministry, who determine the particular kinds of support services they will be involved in. The climb, which is officially titled the Climb for Peace with Justice, is, as Stephens said, a step outside the ordinary for LVC service ventures. For the organization, which operates at a relatively low overhead, this fundraiser has the potential to bring in a substantial “chunk of change,” she says. Each respective member is expected to raise $4,300, netting the program nearly $40,000

November. “That is simply not true. There is nothing about poverty that is pre-ordained. It is the rules we set up.” And society – with few hits to lifestyle – can change those rules, stressed Foege, who in the 1970s led the fight to successfully eradicate smallpox. For his efforts, Foege was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Obama, who called him a leader in “one of medicine’s greatest success stories.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlM4pK6tCc Foege said he truly supports the $15

box and of the power of seemingly small projects to generate big change.” The film debuted at the United Nations in April 2012 as part of the 17th commemoration of the Rwanda genocide, and since has screened at numerous film festivals around the world. Read Previous Business Alum’€™s Startup Gets Huge Boost From Salesforce.com Read Next Talking Sports – €”for a Living COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

community group will apply for an assignment of the license with the FCC, which will be submitted by July 7, 2016. The FCC approval process typically takes a few months. Friends of 88.5 FM expects to assume ownership sometime in the fall. As part of the assignment, the station will be required to change its call letters, and the station plans to solicit community input before deciding on new call letters. Friends of 88.5 FM, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is the entity responsible for the Save

NCAT-supported centers are designed to be life changing. “(Our goals) go beyond equipping students with specific skills, to empowering each participant to effect the change they want to see in their own lives,” Schouten said. Nguyen, who has 20 years of experience in Pierce County workforce development, agrees. “We can make our community better by providing access to arts and education,” she said. “It’s the key to rising out of poverty and having a better life — and that’s why this project is so

to Pacific Lutheran University.His time volunteering for LuteVote through ASPLU, the university’s student government body, and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign inspired Dolan to pursue politics at PLU. Although Dolan may not currently have all the answers, he’s excited to start working on finding solutions to the world’s problems. “I don’t know exactly how to solve these problems,” Dolan said, “but I know there are problems, and I want to be a voice for change.” This summer Dolan will

gym after practice, I see my sister, and it’s like home is here.” “I definitely recommend going to school with your sibling,” Sydney says. “It creates an added cushion of support. Moving to college is a big life change, and having your sibling around throughout that makes the process a whole lot easier.”  Read Previous Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate Read Next Rick Steves to Present “Travel as a Wildly Hopeful Act” at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

project? My capstone project was very much inspired by my passion for plant science, food security and agriculture. I completed my capstone project last spring, where I wrote a literature review focusing on genetic engineering mechanisms to combat environmental stressors — such as flooding and drought — in important agricultural crops … food security is being threatened by the severe weather patterns as a result of climate change. One potential solution to the severe crop losses, loss of food security