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more than 165 college athletic programs to register 159,000 potential donors that have led to 880 successful transplants. McAdams worked with PLU baseball Coach Nolan Soete ’06 to organize the inaugural drive at PLU. Alapai and Bainter were two of an astounding 355 Lutes registered at that first PLU event. It’s incredibly rare for a registrant to be matched with a patient. Only 0.5 percent of people who are registered are chosen throughout their lifetime. Yet, within a year, Alapai and Bainter

Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon Posted by: Julie Winters / February 6, 2018 Image: (Photo by Jordan Stead / Amazon) February 6, 2018 By Michael HalvorsonDirector of Innovation StudiesOn Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ).The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations. Interested PLU students get a tour

love for this biologically diverse and culturally unique southern state of Mexico. It isn’t just the unique location or the wonderful food – though they certainly loved that. Not even the salsa dancing, which is an optional one-credit course and a seemingly weekly evening event. It was the community that they talk about, both during their time in Oaxaca, and again when they return to campus. For Engh, the idea of community is made clear when he talks of his host family. (The Oaxaca program is the

newspaper as a bullet storm. Shumaker retired from the military in 2013 and says that during his 12 years of service, each deployment was an experience of its own. “Those are significant life events,” Shumaker said. “When you are saying goodbyes to your family for a year or more, it really sticks in your head.” First Deployment: Afghanistan, April 2004 (Duration: 12 months) The most memorable event of this deployment, Shumaker recalled, was an assignment on the day Afghanistan held its very first

her for her time and leave her office. A CNN anchor on the TV says results are “unpredictable even now. There’s no knowing what’s going to happen tonight, even at this moment.” I suddenly know how to write about a Trump win, about the need for accurate, humane reporting. Knowledge and truth will perhaps no longer sound old fashioned, at least for me. It’s a silent ride back. Read Previous PLU professor participates in Think & Drink event that engages community in tough dialogue about racial

tools back to the office and implement immediately.” Event organizers say The People’s Gathering was conceived in response to the culturally divisive 2016 election, and other racial tensions that have recently frequented local and national news. “Many citizens are finally acknowledging the depth of our racial differences and divide in America and are crying out for opportunities to learn and more deeply understand their role in it,” explained Montgomery. “How people talk ─ or don’t talk ─ about race

at the American Academy of Religion conference and the American Chemical Society conference. Because of connections I’d made with faculty, I was recommended to participate in the Rachel Carson Lecture Planning Committee, which was a great experience to meet and work with faculty to plan such a meaningful STEM event for campus. And I would never have learned about the opportunity to attend a United Nations conference as an undergraduate student if I hadn’t talked with Professor Yakelis about why I

proximity of the television market in nearby Seattle provided Souza with her first professional job after graduation at KOMO-TV. She thrived in the high-energy environment. Unfortunately, following September 11, 2001, Souza and others in the media industry were impacted by mass layoffs due to the economic impacts of the terrorist attacks. But the unfortunate event offered an unforeseen opportunity. While grocery shopping, Souza saw a familiar face from her PLU days — Edward Inch, then dean of PLU’s

Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon Posted by: halvormj / January 31, 2018 January 31, 2018 By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations. Interested PLU students get a tour, free lunch, and the

be really  happy, I had to feel like as I was contributing to life in general, something meaningful,” said Kennedy in an interview before the Wang Center Symposium, which will take place March 4-5 on the PLU Campus. Kennedy will speak the second day of the event, the theme of which is “Understanding the World Through Sports.” The transformation from budding bicycle repair teacher to soccer tournament organizer and life coach, came about fairly quickly after Kennedy stepped off that plane in