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shooting in American history on Sunday as a terrorist act targeting a place of “solidarity and empowerment” for the LGBTQ community and namely LGBTQ people of color. He urged Americans to decide “if that’s the kind of country we want to be.” It is not the kind of country I want, nor do I think is it the kind of country that our students deserve. Since the shooting death of PLU Professor Jim Holloway by a deranged gunman 15 years ago, we at PLU have been especially sensitive to issues of gun violence

April 2, 2013 First Aid/CPR/AED/BBP training on April 26 and April 27 Free and open to all PLU students, faculty, staff and administrators, PLU – Environmental, Health and Safety is pleased to sponsor the following upcoming training opportunity: Michael Newhouse, NREMT-P and SEI of First Aid Northwest will be facilitating this full day training course in two separate sessions: Friday: April 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday: April 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A two year American Heart

) Summer REU: May – August 2023 (actual travelling dates depend on each student schedule) Poster presentation – ACS National Meeting & Exposition Spring 2024 Stipends: Stipend consists of $6000 for travel, food and miscellaneous + free housing (provided by hosting site). Reimbursement for ACS participation: Up to $1000 are provided to travel to the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in 2024 (if in person). Find all the details here: https://reu.chem.ufl.edu/the-program/ Read Previous NSF

hands,” chimed in a Los Angeles Times reporter. “When (the torch) belongs to someone who will use it to illuminate the world’s problems and try to solve them. It was the most surprising, enlightening news conference I’ve ever seen.” A native of Greensboro, N.C., Cheek grew up as an inline skater and made the switch to ice skating in 1995. Doing so required an international cross-continent move from North Carolina to Calgary, Canada – all at sixteen years old. Cheek captured his first international

states in the U.S. are struggling with some sort of water issue and reoccurring drought. The water in the Oglala Aquifer serves much of the west-central US, is being used eight times faster than it is being replenished, her book notes. Even with that dire prediction, last year corporate raider T. Boone Pickens made a bid to buy the entire aquifer, but was pushed back after an unlikely coalition of farmers, native tribes and environmentalists opposed the measure last year. Turning back to her first

, 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

was slow and tentative. So Chris started to yell. Yell like a howler monkey whose diaper was way too tight. His teammates – and everyone else in gym, for that matter – gave him the what’s up with that guy?! look. Then they realized he was just having fun. His team laughed and relaxed. And then they started screaming like howler monkeys. They still do it every game. Since then, the Portland, Ore., native has organized numerous teams – volleyball, softball, dodgeball, basketball – based almost

.         Amy Pfrimmer, international soprano, French song specialist. Pfrimmer is the 2019 Winner of the American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award, has performed internationally, and released three records. amypfrimmer.net       William Burden, international star tenor. Burden has performed in operas and in concert all across the United States and Europe. He is include on multiple recordings and enjoys performing in new works. Profile Read Previous Harpsichord Donated to PLU Music Program Read Next Outdoor

take their own peer reviews and writing process more seriously.A History of American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press) will be marketed as a textbook. And so, in Fall 2013, I provided an online draft of the text for my Pragmatism and American Philosophy class. It provided important background information for the figures we studied and the texts we read. The students provided valuable feedback on how the book read and what they got out of it. They, of

victim to predatory lending schemes. Harmon now oversees shelters, affordable housing programs and funding as the housing assistance bureau chief for Arlington County in Virginia. Affordable housing work is “a passion that found me,” Harmon says. “It showed me tangible ways I could help make a real difference in people’s lives. Safe, decent and stable housing is the American Dream.” “Becoming a housing advocate, working for our most vulnerable, puts you on the front lines to fight for policy and