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treat humans badly, we don’t treat animals badly and we shouldn’t treat the Earth badly,” he said. “When you get involved more, you start thinking about it more.” Tegels recently invested in an effort that goes beyond simply replacing quick car rides for leisurely bike rides, when he became the first customer for Parkland Light & Water to enroll in the net metering system. This process allowed him to become his own source of power generation, by powering his home through the installation of 10 solar

. The two were up late one night discussing the idea of using electronic tracks with acoustic players.“A few months later, Peter contacted me saying that he had been thinking about our conversation and inquired if I might be interested in organizing a commission. After talking some business and options for how the work might be funded, we decided to try a “crowd source” approach by setting a low buy in for institutions and encouraging many. So I went to work to drum up interest. I am proud to say

Canfield inspired me to go into music as a career. When I was in 9th grade I went to a summer music camp and watched Dr. George Umberson teach there. I remember thinking “I don’t know much about this man, but I want to do what he’s doing.” I thought I was following Dr. Umberson when I started looking at colleges and he had moved to West Texas State – little did I know that he was the Chair of the Music Department there and the Director of Choral Activities was a young man named Hugh Sanders. Luckily

students are in completing it. Kakar talks about “milestones” – setting up enough successes early in the year, so that they are able to reach their project goal. All CSCE capstone projects take place over the entire academic year – professors like to get the students thinking about it during their junior year. Any project is going to need many milestones – and a mentor like Kakar to offer support, insight and an occasional whip crack. Even so, there will be enough all-nighters in the project room

his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future.The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by poverty, violence and abuse. Cushman was one of several speakers who discussed resilience, in the seventh biennial event at Pacific Lutheran University that aimed to stimulate serious thinking on the global challenge. Cushman told attendees that his negative experiences as a child prevented him from envisioning a future in which higher education was valuable or even possible

— with that, my college ultimate career was over. And I cried. That sort of hot, ugly cry that wells up inside you and just blubbers out in waves. I just kept thinking that this was the last time I would wear this jersey for my team, the last time my teammates and best friends would play together, the last time cheering and chanting, and my whole college career is ending. It was very dramatic. “I think nationals represented not just hard work and determination but a culmination of your guys’ dreams

and symbols with her mentor — Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture — got Hall thinking about her own culture more than ever before. Samish tribal members dance during protocol, a ceremonial sharing of stories, songs and dances during the Power Paddle to Puyallup, this year's annual tribal canoe journey hosted by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Soon, Crawford had Hall working with the group that established the Native American and Indigenous

to discuss their internship experience.  Why did you want to study theater at PLU? I was thinking about going to a conservatory or another college, but when I came and visited, I really loved PLU’s student-produced season. That was something I hadn’t seen at other colleges, and there’s just a lot of opportunities for students to do things in the department. How did you find your internship with Taproot? I remembered that my advisor, Professor Amanda Sweger, did a sabbatical at Taproot, and they

track their progress and help them develop the professional skills they see in their internships throughout the week.This gives the students the added benefit of a mentor to aid in their adjustment to professional life. “With Friday professional development, we gather all the interns, regardless of their field, all together and we work on different development skills,” Whitney explained. “(Things like) self-advocacy, how to ask for more work without feeling overeager, how to say no without feeling

burgeoning field that go to root principles. And if the basic concept itself is fuzzy, the core principles are also up for debate. Just a decade ago, a precise definition of “global health” was perhaps not so critical. In the late 1990s, global health was largely defined, by default, as whatever was being done by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the few other organizations working internationally on matters of public health. Global health was about getting kids in poor countries vaccinated