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Nations in November. They will represent a quarter of a small contingent of college students selected nationwide for the opportunity.Alice Henderson ’16 and Maddie Smith ’17 have been chosen to represent the American Chemical Society (ACS) serving as the student voice, engaging young people through social media on climate science and policy. Each year, only eight students are chosen to tweet, post and blog about their experiences discussing climate change at the conference, which is in Morocco this

focus on the positives. Owen has the most common blood type, increasing the odds of finding a successful match if one comes forward. The key now is waiting. “The waiting list (for a kidney) is incredibly long,” Ebi said. He’s had practice with patience. It’s how he captured the perfect frame in November 2008, during a project documenting native legends, for the stamp that’s circulating around the U.S. “(Photography is) a lot of patience and going with the flow, having a very open mind and knowing

the environment. “You never really stop being a park ranger,” Plog said. “That’s the life.” The Snohomish native said she was drawn to the PLU for its many study away opportunities, in addition to receiving a scholarship. The university instilled values in Plog that changed her life, she said. “PLU had big ideas, like being a global citizen. I didn’t know what my vocation was going to be,” she said. “I just hoped my variety of studies would help me find something I was passionate about, and it has

: There are two that stand out to me. One is about transformational moments by Jose Calderon, a Latino professor at Pitzer College who talked about moments that completely transformed his life and led him from being a migrant seasonal farm worker to a professor at Pitzer after receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. Another is one by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that I use in my “Intro to American Government” class. It’s called “We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim,” and it’s about the effect of

adhere to the Academic Costume Code, which was first codified in 1895 and has been maintained by the American Council on Education (ACE) since 1932. The academic regalia is complete in itself and is not intended to be a canvas for messages, humor or items unrelated to the dress that symbolizes the academic profession. The Academic Costume Code allows for certain exceptions, such as religious clothing or military uniforms. For instance, it is perfectly appropriate for someone to wear a headscarf

member institutions of the ELCA Network of Colleges and Universities condemn the racist attacks and threats of violence made against the president and members of the Bethany College community,” the statement reads. “Such behavior is antithetical to both Christian and American values. All people of good will should stand with us against the racism, bigotry and hatred that is at the root of these recent attacks.” The chalk messages appeared this month on the campus of Bethany College in Lindsborg

by Gary Greene (chapter artist) Creative Colored Pencil, The American Society of Portrait Artists’ Signature Magazine (Summer, 1996) Best of Colored Pencil II, III and IV Ann Kullberg ’79. (Photo courtesy Ann Kullberg) “I was ecstatic,” Kullberg said. “I even remember where I was standing when the call came. There were not many colored-pencil books out there at the time.” (Her Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step is still one of the top books in the art market for painting portraits.) Kullberg

up, and then seeing the torn-down, unkempt tombstones where they buried African-American people, that was meaningful and impactful to see. I am reminded of how much we still have to do.” Dobies said the Lutes visited Savannah, Georgia and the South Carolina cities of Charleston and Saint Helena Island, where students visited the Penn Center that was one of the first abolitionist schools for freed slaves. Other stops included museums, historical civil-rights era buildings and the two cemeteries

New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute to be held at PLU – Call for proposals Posted by: hassonja / February 8, 2018 February 8, 2018 The 2018 New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) Summer Institute will be held at Pacific Lutheran University June 19-21. The Summer Institute theme is Engaging Civility: Leading Dialogue In and Beyond the University. PLU is excited to welcome colleagues from across NAC&U institutions to campus this summer and we encourage faculty and

administrators to China in four summer study tours of three to four weeks each,” he said. “The purpose was to engage more American educators in the study and teaching of China, and we helped create school-to-school partnerships in the U.S. and China, focusing on both Sichuan as Washington’s sister province in China and Fuzhou as the sister city. I joined the Sister City Committee in 2008 as part of connecting that committee to the PLU project and to the Tacoma Public Schools, with whom we were working