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innovative nature of the technology or pedagogy, overall impact on the applicant’s curriculum, feasibility of the project, and benefit to other faculty and students. Recipients of 2008-09 DMC Small Grants Jan Weiss, Assistant Professor of Instructional Development and Leadership: Weiss will use her $500 award to buy four Flip video camcorders. This will help build reflective practices around video recordings of teacher candidates, enhancing teaching skills and promoting learning in elementary and

is and how to reduce it through eight steps: 1: Sustainability in Campus Culture 2: Campus Operations 3: Sustainability in Curriculum 4: Reducing Scope 3 Emissions -Transportation 5: Waste Stream Management 6: Reducing Scope 1 & 2 Emissions -Facility Improvements 7: Renewables 8: Funding Sustainability Projects There are big steps to be taken, like identifying and committing to facility upgrades, but there are also smaller steps that make a significant difference. “It’s just going to take

August 4, 2010 Tenacity is the hallmark of ad man’s work By Liz Anderson ’10 Brian Ford ’95 began his creative work early during his college career, designing posters for clubs and organizations through ASPLU’s agency, known as Impact. Now, as co-founder and creative director of the advertising agency Zambezi, his list of clients includes NBA superstars Kobe Bryant and, as it pertains to his endorsement deal with Vitaminwater, LeBron James. Ad man Brian Ford’s list of clients includes NBA

construction. Most distressingly, she reports the government is encouraging new tourism projects to generate revenue since the oil that currently generates 30 percent of the country’s income will likely run out in a few decades. “With all this under my nose, and dozens of active cranes visible from my hotel room window, I don’t see Dubai engaged in anything vaguely resembling sustainability,” she writes. While wandering through downtown São Paolo, Brazil, student Kari Liebert also considered how Brazilians

transformative for me, academically and personally. I’d recommend studying away to all PLU students, not just GLST majors.” – Sarah ’23 Where is global studies taking you? “Global studies has already taken me to Athens, Greece and Oxford, England and I hope to pursue a graduate degree in international development studies abroad after I graduate from PLU!” Hannah ‘23 “Directly after graduation I’ll be continuing my current job working at a local refugee resettlement agency as a Community Engagement

these systems at their source.One way that we strive to do this work every day at PLU is by helping to ensure that all students have access to a purposeful, transformative education.  PLU’s mission—to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth—is hardwired in Lutheran higher education’s core belief that study in the liberal arts is a liberating experience, freeing the learner from ignorance and a life focused