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  • Jeffery WrightJeffery (“Jeff”) Wright has been a professional humanitarian since the early 1990s. Since that time he has been involved as a front-line practitioner in many of the high-profile emergency and humanitarian responses that most Western audiences would have heard of (and perhaps a few that Western audiences would not have heard of). Apart from a brief detour as Country Director for an INGO development portfolio, his career has been entirely focused on humanitarian and emergency

  • McCuistion, professor and chair of the Department of art at the University of Puget Sound, shows mixed media ceramics that reference the effects and consequences of war. “The artwork I make is about history, myth, storytelling, religion, relationships, ceremony, civilization and humor. I am interested in the language of gesture, expression, texture, form and color,” McCuistion writes. The sculptures featured are part of his “G.I. Series”, which were inspired by what he felt was disingenuous information

  • point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic.” Steven Solomon, The Epic Struggle for Water, Power and Civilization (Harper, 2010) Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society’s vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century’s decisive, looming

  • Alexis Austin Director for Campus Life Engagement she/her Phone: 253-535-7068 Email: alexis.austin@plu.edu Office Location: Anderson University Center - 155 Professional Biography Education Master of Science, College Student Personnel, Western Illinois University Bachelor in Arts, English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing, Western Washington University Associate in Arts, Centralia College Biography Alexis began at PLU in Spring of 2022. Prior to PLU, Alexis most recently worked at the

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  • News & Events for the CS-STEM Program CS-STEM Teacher Candidates at Western Regional Noyce Conference Spring 2023 Quick Links CS-STEM Main Page More about CS-STEM Scholars More about CS-STEM Teacher CandidatesNoyce Summit (June 2023)PI Munro and CS-STEM alumni Becca Anderson and Nicholas Celebrado will attend the annual Noyce Summit in Washington DC. The team will facilitate a workshop about the format and content of the CS-STEM Equity Seminars. Becca will also present a poster describing

  • Shikai’s reform before his departure from North China, but he became an anti-Yuan fighter in Japan, which was a significant change. His exposure to new ideas opened his vista of seeing Western civilization and Japanese civilization. The Japanese harsh demands on China in 1915 urged him to be an activist to defend China’s national interests. Consequently, his nationalism was strengthened. Whether he accepted Marxism in Japan as some scholars have assumed, it requires further scholarly exploration. It is

  • Water (New Press, 2007). Barlow’s participation in the 2012 symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peace and Reconciliation Section.Terje Tvedt - Water scholar, advocate, filmmakerProfessor Terje Tvedt will deliver a keynote address entitled “Water and the Development of Human Civilization: Some Perspectives,” at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Tvedt is a professor at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Bergen and a Professor II at

  • Water (New Press, 2007). Barlow’s participation in the 2012 symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peace and Reconciliation Section.Terje Tvedt - Water scholar, advocate, filmmakerProfessor Terje Tvedt will deliver a keynote address entitled “Water and the Development of Human Civilization: Some Perspectives,” at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Tvedt is a professor at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Bergen and a Professor II at

  • 2023, Jennifer accepted the position of Assistant Dean of Students and continues to serve as Title IX Coordinator. Childress-White served as Western Washington University’s associate head coach from 2006 through 2013. As that program’s recruiting coordinator, she helped bring in the players that ended up making a deep run into the 2013 Division II national tournament. Western Washington lost in the national semifinals to eventual national champion Ashland (Ohio), and WWU finished its most recent

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  • Alexis Austin Director for Campus Life Engagement she/her Phone: 253-535-7068 Email: alexis.austin@plu.edu Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 155 Professional Biography Education Master of Science, College Student Personnel, Western Illinois University Bachelor in Arts, English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing), Western Washington University Associate in Arts, Centralia College Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Supervise 3 Community Directors (Harstad, Hinderlie

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