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, happy family. We completed the 3,000-mile journey by returning along the Pacific Coast Highway, singing in Lutheran churches, visiting towns and having picnic lunches on warm beaches. All too soon, we were back in Washington. Home again at PLC, all we could say was, “Wow. What a trip!” Read Previous Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Read Next Cosmosis: combining the art of music with the inquiry of science LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the

passion, social justice and the plight of women, Barlow said she discovered during her research that access to clean water can’t be separated from human rights issue and, more specifically, the issue of women’s rights.  One issue, she said, can’t be solved without addressing the other.“If a woman has to walk for miles to clean water, or any water, it affects the health of her family and its general welfare,” she said. “Her sons or daughters may not be able to go to school because she’s out collecting

, native tribes and environmentalists opposed the measure.   Turning back to her first passion, social justice and the plight of women, Barlow said she discovered during her research that access to clean water can’t be separated from human rights issues and, more specifically, the issue of women’s rights.  One issue, she said, can’t be solved without addressing the other.“If a woman has to walk for miles to clean water, or any water, it affects the health of her family and their general welfare,” she

residency training at UW hospitals from 1987-1994 and working as a senior fellow in epilepsy surgery at UW hospitals in 1995. He then moved to the East Coast to work at Duke, and has now been there for 17 years. Haglund, who became a Christian in his second year of residency, said he has dedicated his life to Christ in both his profession and family life. Part of that dedication has been multiple medical mission trips around the world. “He’s very neurosurgery-focused, but what I love about what he does

know what further information and resources our students need in regards to these important issues,” Lader said. At last week’s Take Back The Night event, Lt. Col. Kevin Keller, head of PLU’s ROTC program and professor of military science, said this issue has affected his family personally, and he is frankly embarrassed and dismayed by recent headlines of the rising rate of rape and sexual assaults within all branches of the military. “We need to get out of the ‘man box’ that society has put us

family to finish college, but the summer before she entered seventh grade, her little brother died. “Everything got foggy,” Mattich said. But AVID was clarifying. Alex Mattich ’16 hopes to get back to Ferrucci Junior High as an AVID tutor. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) “In my junior-high years I was very vulnerable,” said Mattich, who was in Ferrucci’s first AVID class. “Steve Leifsen and Ron Baltazar took me under their wings and understood where I was coming from and helped me find my inner self and

her role at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, where, as co-manager, she oversees the foundation’s day-to-day operations and is responsible for development of new philanthropic initiatives. Prior to joining the Vulcan team in 2013, Ives was the founder and president of Milepost Consulting, where she led executive engagement, strategy development and team-empowerment efforts with clients across multiple sectors. Her work resulted in development of organizations such as the Green Sports Alliance

Hollywood,” he said. “They’ll call me up and say (for example) ‘I need to know all about tyrannosaurus rex.’ I’ll ask them if they need to know North American or Asian T-Rex, and from there we’ll narrow it down and figure out who in the field they should talk to.” Foss is passionate about his work in D.C. and enjoys living with his family in nearby Virginia. Yet, as it did throughout his PLU schooldays, his heart often pangs for the outdoors and the great expanse of the Pacific Northwest and Mountain

with a host family to develop relationships within the community and receive training,” Chell said. For the first three months, the Corps gauges their aptitude in specific tasks before assigning the volunteers to a particular region in Guinea. When applying for a Peace Corps position, an applicant has the option to serve in a specific region or be placed by the Peace Corps. Wentz, Chell and Bridgewater all opted for random placement. "The program provided helpful direction during my application

carpenter of all things, and he didn’t preach, he said ‘this is what the Christian faith is.’” Blagg’s Christianity classes inspired her to take a fresh look at religion as a whole. She eventually returned to Catholicism years after her family stopped attending church. “Those two classes got me thinking more than anything else that I took,” Blagg said.   After she graduated with her bachelor’s degree, Blagg’s graduate studies at PLU focused on how companies approach conflict resolution with their