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. And, maybe most of all, an impact that will last well beyond 25 years. Here are the stories: “The Women’s Center has made me a leader of my own life! It also has given me the courage to create my dreams and live them. It’s given me a voice and the passion to speak for those who cannot. It made me see the world differently, always asking myself, ‘How can I do more? How can I inspire more change?’ It’s made me that woman I am today … a business owner, empowering women to take ownership and control

in 1989, Lander moved to Hong Kong with his future wife, whom he met in China—she was on a similar one-year study abroad program through her UK-based university. After a brief period at the US refugee resettlement program, Lander was hired by the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) where he worked for 20 years, responding to refugee crises around the globe. Along the way, he earned two master’s degrees—one in development management, and another in international humanitarian law and human

not designed for theater. To know for what the building was intended – in precise order ¬– it is instructive to know the building’s original name: The Chapel-Music-Speech Building. “If you were in the balcony, you could hear a pin drop, but you couldn’t see anything,” Clapp said. “And if you were on the main floor, you could see wonderfully, but you couldn’t hear anything. “That place was designed for music, not the spoken word.” On October 12, 2013, all that will change. On the Saturday evening

student who decided on a career change after retiring from the Army as a Black Hawk helicopter mechanic five years ago. While serving in Iraq, Ross, 43, was impressed by the work he saw the nurses involved in as they treated patients. “I really appreciated what they did for the troops,” Ross said. So, for the past three years, Ross has been studying to be a nurse, and for the past two, he’s been working with Gene Meade, a fellow veteran who lives in Gig Harbor. When Ross met Meade, he quickly

you can show up and not have the work done and expect to fly by,” he said. “It is hard work.” Read Previous A look at climate change and energy storage Read Next Champion of all microbes everywhere COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24

married to JBLM I Corps Deputy Commander Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl and has two daughters, said the assaults did not change her career path (though she tried to keep one of her daughters home from college until she was 18)—but they changed the way she went about it. “When we started SHARP, I think that there was more assault in the Army than when I first came in,” she said. “Our culture is a vulgar culture. We don’t really even know what the rate (of sexual assaults) is—but it is not tolerable, and it is

for the nonprofit are required to raise a certain amount of money). “I raised $850,” Hurtt said. “That felt really amazing. Before I didn’t feel like I was that important of a contributor, but then I felt the importance of my involvement.”Rachel Carson LectureThe George and Helen Long Science, Technology and Society Endowment funds the annual Rachel Carson Lecture. The inaugural event last March (featuring James Anderson, Ph.D., on global climate change) was “wildly successful,” Lauralee Hagen

. The film took three years to produce. With Swingler’s input, the world surrounding Jameson and Wolf gained a playfully dark atmosphere and a Dr. Seuss-like rhyme scheme. Petersen said telling the story through rhymes was one of the most strenuous aspects of writing the film: “Sometimes we would agonize over one line, but if we changed that, then we’d have to change the paragraph before that.” "There were all these various things in the theatre department that I had to work on that I realized

healthy.” Taiwo said the change was hard but brought her closer to who she really wanted to be. Hambrick said her personal background with body policing in the workplace also drew her to the topic. “I came from a place, being here at PLU, with people telling me that my hair had to look a certain way, my earrings had to be a certain size, I had to cover my tattoos, maybe I shouldn’t have a nose ring,” Hambrick said. “If that’s our experience, then what are the experiences of students at a predominantly

Rogers have earned Ph.Ds and are passionate about education and helping students on PLU’s campus and beyond. PLC accomplishes both at the same time. Currently four PLU students are serving as assistant directors at the center — learning as they assist younger students who, by the way, they do not refer to as “kids.”Want to change the world?Support Local Literacy!Volunteer an hour or two a week at the Parkland Literacy Center (right across from Perry G. Keithley Middle School.)“If they are looking at