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biannual Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture is free and registration is encouraged. Event press kit including promotional photos, poster and banner designs. × Panel discussion to commemorate launch of Peace Corps prep programPrior to the Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture on March 1, PLU will celebrate the launch of a new Peace Corps prep program with a panel discussion featuring PLU and Peace Corps alumni Colin Hartke ’08, Taneesha Jenkins ’10, Annē (Hoblitt) Linn ’07 and Bonnie Nelson

: Chris Knutzen Hall Free admission. Registration is encouraged.To mark the 2nd anniversary of the PLU’s Peace Corps Prep Program, there will also be a panel presentation by PLU and Peace Corps alumni  – Lucas Gillespie ’16, Jihan Grettenberg ’12 and Colton Heath ’14 and Director of the PLU Health Center Elizabeth Barton – on the topic of “Critical Perspectives on Volunteering” from 3:40-5:00 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. “I’m hoping that I will leave the students with some important

. “It doesn’t come to you. And use LinkedIn!” His advice to alumni? “If you feel like you got value out of your education, give back,” he suggested. Donating money is one way to do this, but there are lots of others. “One or two hours a year at an event, connecting with a student, can make a difference,” he said. “People are busy, but it doesn’t take much time to give back.” Read Previous Diversity Center Alums: Complexities of Care and Service Abroad Read Next New PLU course Chem 103 illustrates

helping them turn that passion into a craft.” Grande often jokes that “making games isn’t curing cancer.” But he finds meaning and reward in designing experiences that people can do for fun to escape the more urgent matters in life. “It’s fun building games that I know my friends and family are going to enjoy and can bring a smile to people’s faces.”Lute Powered is a series highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known organizations in the Puget Sound region. Jon Grande ’92 is the second of

from each of the four colleges to the core curriculum,” said Gregson. “Liberal arts education will remain the common foundation for students across all four colleges, as will PLU’s commitment to integrating socially impactful civic engagement across its community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and partners.” A wide variety of additional efforts connected to the restructure are underway across campus, including but not limited to revisions to the faculty governance system, analyzing how

, new awareness programs like National Estate Planning Awareness Week, Make-a-Will Month, and digital tools like FreeWill have broadened the audience for planned giving.  FreeWill, a trusted free digital platform for creating wills, enables individuals to easily include PLU in their estate plans. This has led younger alumni and friends, even in their 30s, to plan their estates with PLU in mind.  Jennie: FreeWill users are typically younger and may not fit the traditional planned gift donor profile

history: the 50th anniversary of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the university. In 1974, renowned Holocaust scholar and Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Christopher Browning, fresh from graduate school, began teaching the first course on the Holocaust at PLU. Since then, the university has sustained a commitment to Holocaust education unmatched by other institutions in the Pacific Northwest. As part of the 50th-anniversary celebration, two PLU alumni

. Zoller received her BFA in Dance Performance at Western Washington University and her MFA in dance from the University of Oregon. Zoller has experience dancing with Pam Kuntz, Bellingham Repertory Dance Company, and Portland Opera. She is currently a Polaris Dance Theatre company member, instructor, and guest choreographer. Tickets to Dance 2017: Innovation are on sale now. General admission is $8, military, alumni cost $5, and PLU community and those 18 and younger cost $3. Read Previous PLU Theatre

tradition, canoe journey hosts provide lodging, food and other accommodations for tribes that travel from as far north as Alaska. They also provide massive tent structures for protocol, the ceremonial sharing of songs, dances and stories with the participating communities. “It’s a huge honor and investment to host something like this,” Hall said. For Hall, the cultural exchange is especially meaningful for the Samish, since the tribe’s people are typically very scattered. When they come together in

of communication for the School of Arts and Communication. Rowe recently returned from teaching Peace Journalism in Norway. World Conversations serves as student reflection on study away, research, internships and travel. Rowe teamed up with assistant professor of history Adam Cathcart for the opening conversation to discuss Gateway Programs in China and Norway. At the opening session, Rowe and Cathcart discussed the controversy surrounding the Chinese dissident being awarded the Nobel Peace