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recognizes and encourages such excellence. Nominees “must have excelled through unusual success in or contribution to their field, through innovation or research which has caused their profession to advance, through extraordinary achievement which has enabled people to live more humanely or through exemplary efforts to advance the mission of the university.” PLU’s Educational Policies Committee nominated the king for the degree (often given to long-serving or high-ranking judges, clerics or public

, inspired her to pursue law in the hopes of changing the juvenile justice system from the inside. “I went back and forth trying to decide what the best (form of) advocacy was,” Sullivan said, “because ultimately my goal was to help youth and other underrepresented populations who wind up in the justice system.” She discovered the best path to advocacy was Seattle University’s law school, where she was offered the Scholar for Justice Award — a full-ride scholarship for students with interests in public

also realized that college was a really safe place to take risks and blow it. If I wasn’t blowing it, I wasn’t pushing myself. I challenge students with the same thing now when I see them making beautiful things that are too easy. I start to ask the questions, “Are you in a comfort zone, what’s next for these forms, where do you go from here, how do you keep pushing yourself?” Read Previous Jp Avila – “Office Hours” Read Next Fourth annual Ruth Anderson Public Debate talks third-party vote LATEST

, screened Feb. 17 at the Seattle Central Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. in Seattle. The other two portions of the series will premiere in Tacoma later this spring.  Episode III (Sedalia, Missouri- race) and IV (Richwood, West Virginia- class) will be featured on April 5, at 7pm in Ingram 100. “A World of Difference” was jointly sponsored and supported by PLU’s School of Arts and Communication, the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education and the university’s Diversity, Justice and

benefit from using the OSF as our shared workspace. In the classroom, the OSF provides a platform for students to share their work easily and privately with their partner; they can also include the instructor or the public. The OSF is not limited to psychology, or sciences. My 16-year-old daughter is using the OSF to conduct her own independent art study by uploading a weekly activity and seeking feedback from mentors. She can even share her artwork with her grandparents just for their own enjoyment

room and is reflected in his motto: pursuing excellence as musicians, students and citizens. “I want my students to grow as people and think outside of themselves,” he said. “I hope they take what they do in music to help our school, their community and the world.”Haven’s work already has impressed his former instructors. “Micah is my former trumpet student and is just absolutely a truly world-class teacher in the Tacoma Public Schools,” said Zachary Lyman, PLU Associate Professor of Trumpet and

science, you question everything until you have definite answers. Science is always evolving,” Chontofalsky says. “So definite answers are only definite for now.” The values instilled at PLU have helped guide his path in the public sector. “I’m glad I went to PLU because not only is it a good school, but it has a good reputation,” Chontofalsky says. “There’s a real sense of pride from graduating from PLU.” PLU’s biology team primed Chontofalsky for success, particularly Professor Emeritus of Biology

) over the last 20 years. In 1988, the United Nations and World Meteorological Society created the IPCC, an international group of scientists who collected and evaluated data on climate change from around the globe. The group’s most recent report was released in 2007. In it, the scientists agree that global warming is unmistakable, and they are 90 percent confident that the majority of the warming is due to human actions, Todd explained. Unlike the scientists, much of the American public isn’t quite

collectors,” Imhof said. In 1993, at the age of only 25, Imhof became one of the youngest dealers ever accepted as a member of the Professional Numismatists Guild. In 2005, Imhof made headlines when he purchased, on behalf of a collector, a 1927 $20 gold piece for $1.9 million. It still remains the world-record price for a single-issue coin in a public auction. Since then, Imhof has sold items of greater value, including a large collection for over $15 million. Currently, Imhof is vice president of

that. She set the example.” Screening: The Souls of Black Girls PLU is screening the film The Souls of Black Girls and hosting the filmmaker Daphne Valerius at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 in Chris Knutzen Hall at the UC. A meet and greet will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. The public is welcome to attend. The event is a great opportunity for students to experience an interesting and engaging college lecture. Mentors are encouraged to bring along their student. An RSVP is