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to more than 175 auditions each year. “Dave is the conductor as well as the composer,” Youtz explains. “He sees what’s coming down the road, he can see from a long ways away what’s going to have to happen, so he’s able to help us adjust and shift and move so that we’re ready to meet it when it hits. It’s that sort of global vision from everything from state education policies to stuff on campus. He’s got the whole picture in his head.”   THE 90s - THE HOUSE THAT DAVE BUILT In 1990 Mary Baker

be fully tuned into our patients. So, we turn everything off for at least a few hours to have non-medical conversations or walk to the beach.” After completing his time at Stony Brook, they’ll move to Nashville, where Sean’s fellowship in global emergency medicine will begin this summer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Silver Linings Always seeking humanity’s goodness, Sean and Chrissy have been pleasantly surprised by the city’s response to the pandemic. The generosity and support of New

, John provides practical tools participants can use in making positive, sustainable changes in their lives, communities, and organizations. John has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy. He is currently finishing his PhD work at CIIS in San Francisco focusing on social justice, ecology, and indigenous studies. Read Previous Global leader in diplomacy to visit PLU and discuss how ‘Conflict is Inevitable, Violence is Not’ Read Next Last year Martha Spieker

, work and play.  I see it as my charge to point out where those disparities are in our community and pull the right people together to help address them. Read Previous National recording artist Crystal Aiken ’97 returns to PLU for a Gospel Experience Concert encore Read Next Disarming Polarization: PLU symposium to address national, global divisiveness 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

sit in their car to await results of their test, which are delivered within about 15 minutes. She sees up to 70 patients per day, and about 80 percent come back positive. After completing his time at Stony Brook, they’ll move to Nashville, where Sean’s fellowship in global emergency medicine will begin this summer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Silver Linings Always seeking humanity’s goodness, Sean and Chrissy have been pleasantly surprised by the city’s response to the pandemic. The

struggles, trans politics, queerness in the Carribean, and more in the 21st century. As the world continues to experience wars, pandemics, natural disasters accelerated by global climate change, and push back against racialized capitalism, imperialism, and heterosexism, we choose to honor our history and fight for our future. Magdalena Stickel Confidential Advocate Assistant Director | Center for Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability Other resources: Queer at PLU digital exhibit from the PLU Archives

Renaissance recovery of ancient languages, Luther translated the German Bible (1534), which shaped most profoundly German language and culture, and also global civilization through the Reformation. Just so, the brilliant translating work of Luther’s contemporary William Tyndale led to one of the most beautiful books in English, the King James Bible. But Francesco Petrarca, Lorenzo Valla, and a host of others in various humanistic disciplines equally played their parts in Renaissance culture. The

faculty have been a driving force behind change,” she said. Ray Orr is one of them. Orr, associate vice president for facilities management, says accessibility upgrades are a priority at PLU, even when funds are limited. Institutions across the country struggle to comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, amid aging buildings and a lack of funds to address all the needs at once. PLU is no different, Orr said. “Everyone’s trying to catch up and do what they can,” he said

echoed her frustration. Audrey Knutson ’07, a political science and global studies major, said 10-year-old Marimaua Muya can verbally comprehend what is said but has difficulty understanding what she reads. The Bantu children are still trying to adjust to life in the United States. During one tutoring session, Knutson asked Muya to locate Tacoma on a map of the United States posted in a corner of the classroom. Standing on a chair, Muya’s focus was on the Midwest. She needed prodding from Knutson to

over the last 10,000 years due to long-term global factors, such as changes in the earth’s orbit. Providing a record of this long-term retreat will help us place more recent, decade-scale climate change into context. PLU geosciences student Vermeulen ’12, along with Todd and four other researchers, traveled by C-130 cargo plane to a location in the Pensacola Mountains 1,000 miles away from McMurdo Station, the home of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Ice sheets leave behind clues about its past, by