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– University of London, and the Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford. The choir will join with the King’s Voices to present a Choral Evensong at famed King’s College Chapel in Cambridge. Following the tour of the United Kingdom, we will fly to Germany to participate in the 16th Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition. This bi-annual event is considered one of the world’s most important competitions for chamber choirs, and since its inception has drawn over 200 choirs from more than 40 countries

disservice.” Swenson grills small burgers for a weekend event on campus. Sourcing local Most university chefs can’t say with certainty where the meat they cook with comes from — but no one ever said PLU chefs are like most chefs. A student worker serves dinner in the University Commons. While the rest of the university moves toward the goal of being a carbon neutral by 2020, Dining Services staffers are searching for ways to reduce their own carbon footprint. They work with a number of local companies

first city in the country to host an in-person event to promote the “Hate Won’t Win” campaign just a few weeks ago.  So once again, I was reminded that issues of racial equity are all around us. I started out these remarks by quoting our PLU mission statement.  I like to point out that the word “care” is an unusual one in a university mission statement, and we emphasize it unusually strongly by repeating “care for other people, care for their communities, and care for the earth.”  This triple

solution to meeting the challenge, apparently, was to include almost any kind of activity that had something to do with health and also some kind of link to the rest of the world. While this certainly produces some impressive numbers, it appears to include many activities that seem to have little to do with helping the world’s poorest people. Another example of this broadening of the meaning of “global health” is a blue-ribbon, invitation-only event held every year in Seattle called the Pacific Health

possible, matched me with a faculty adviser, and introduced me to Dale Benson at an event last October. Of course, I had you as an instructor for an Honors course my freshman year. It was nice to work with you again!” Michael: “It is very fun to reconnect with students as they move through their programs. But any student can apply for the Benson fellowships—all the information is up on our website, and we’re interested in proposals from student-faculty teams across the campus with an interest in the

speaker. She spoke not just to the conference participants, but at an open event that produced a huge local crowd, drawn by her commitment to and knowledge of chimpanzees and animals.  Students, staff, and faculty at a chapel service blessing animals in 2015 Anyone who has seen her speak knows that it’s something of a cultural phenomenon. Afterwards, however, many at the conference dismissed her forty years of work as sentimental and not scientifically rigorous. Something about her emotional and moral

during high school that should have been titled “The Briefest Intro to Art Ever”), I fell in love with ceramic arts while taking a class at Highline College to fulfill graduation requirements. Working as a ceramic artist wasn’t on my radar at the time (I was pursuing a career in forensic anthropology with an emphasis on facial reconstruction), but a couple missteps in planning my classes placed me on my current path. After transferring to Pacific Lutheran University, I jumped feet first into working

University Center. This event will feature research projects from the three divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences—Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The posters, articles and videos on display will provide a window onto activities that are at the core of Pacific Lutheran University’s mission: scholarship and student learning. These projects make visible what too often is invisible: the intellectual activity that is central to discovery, interpretation and artistic production

dancing in the Ordal courtyard, and my three years working with residential life.  Studying abroad to South Africa and winning the intramural flag football championship also won’t be forgotten. At PLU, I have been pushed out of my comfort zone more times than I can count, but this is what’s made me who I am. I am excited to take my PLU experience with me wherever I go for the rest of my life. What’s next? After graduation, I am planning to marry the love of my life Jessie Sheppard. Then, after our