Search

Library. Or prepare yourself to literally change the world just like William Foege, M.D., Class of 1956, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this May for devising the global strategy for the eradication of smallpox when he served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control. And among your own near contemporaries, four members of the Class of 2012 showed great promise for the future by winning Fulbright Scholarships, bringing to 91 the number of Fulbrights won by Lutes. These awards

hopes that they too realize that discovering your vocation isn’t always a linear process — there are setbacks, false starts and plenty of learning opportunities along the way. His hopes set on running a business, Thorpe’s first job after graduating was with Enterprise Rent-A-Car as part of its management training program. Not his dream job by any means, it nevertheless paved the way for his eventual transition to SuperGraphics. “I’m definitely not passionate about renting cars,” Thorpe said. “But I

manager], Eva [Frey, dean of students], Austin [Beiermann, accessibility and accommodation director] and everybody there was amazing and very sweet. The internship made me think about different opportunities that I can take with a psychology major, like case management. Being able to talk to students and fill out care forms solidified the fact that I genuinely enjoyed doing that work and being a psychology major.What was your favorite job responsibility in that role? I think responding to emails or

part of a delegation that traveled to Russia. The cultural exchange with the Nenets people included staying in the traditional homes of reindeer herders in the tundra and discussing concerns of climate change, among other important issues. Last week, local tribes returned the favor by welcoming a group of Nenets people during part of canoe journey festivities, Hall added. “Even though we live in vastly different climates and regions,” Hall said, “there are many more similarities than differences

love to work on reconvening and being a part of the University Sustainability Committee. That’s part of that long-lasting change a lot of us are hoping to continue for years to come.Get involved with ASPLUThe Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) supports the values that uplift all students on campus: diversity, justice, and sustainability. Members of the ASPLU are the elected leaders of PLU’s elected leaders. The President heads the Senate, while the Vice President heads the

innovative Google Earth topics include: Each stop includes the story of a real diamond miner. Click to view larger. The moral and social issues surrounding worldwide diamond mining and trade. Energy consumption across the globe. Glacier change over the last 50 years. Cause and effect of the Boxing Day Tsunami. Google Lit Trips features dozens of downloadable literary tours, including Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and The Travels of Marco Polo. Google

climate change, is exciting,” he says. But what is perhaps most fulfilling for Waldow is to see his students grow into the next generation of scientists. “What’s really satisfying is to see students realize that they can do this themselves,” he says. “To see students develop confidence and curiosity and start to ask their own questions, and then apply that level of curiosity and skill to whatever they do next is the most rewarding.” Read Previous Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 Read Next

PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the

November 3, 2008 Will students take the plunge and vote? It’s nearing that time to change the statement “I Will Vote” to the “I Have Voted.”And several students around campus are making that statement with an exclamation mark, said Lace Smith, program director of Student Involvement and Leadership.“I think across the board there is a lot more excitement and intensity (with this presidential election),” said Geoff Smock, PLU College Republicans’ president. “Who we elect matters for our future

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