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  • Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg Fortress (now 1517 Media); served on the Board of Directors of Lutheran Summer Music, the

  • of coal plants. “That’s not by accident, but due to racism in America,” he says. Addressing that racism while cleaning and improving the environment is what centers Andrew’s work—even as horror, tragedy and grief are involved, too. Being rooted in community and sense of purpose helps him see beyond the immediacy of the 30-year-window for change.PLU Department of Sociology & Criminal JusticeWhether we are studying families, policing, gender, or deviance, the Department of Sociology and Criminal

  • complexity of how to do the most social good with the resources available.” – Susan Boyd ’90ROOTED IN THE RECESSIONThe current affordable housing emergency didn’t spring up overnight. It stems from the last time Americans lost their homes en masse — the subprime mortgage crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010. When the Great Recession struck, Nicole Harmon ’03 was working at a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit called NeighborWorks America where she assisted and advocated for families who had fallen

  • States,” Davidson said. Students in the cohorts claim a variety of backgrounds — with families from countries all over Central and South America, for example — and their majors are as diverse as they are: biology, education, philosophy, social work, kinesiology, and more. But Davidson said their shared experiences are key to creating the sense of community, a primary factor that has contributed to the cohorts’ near-perfect retention rate, despite the challenges first-generation students of color

  • ,” outside a classroom lab setting. “We don’t know the answers in advance,” she said. “Our job is to figure out how to ask the questions.” For Hoang, doing science can mean embracing failure, because it’s part of the process. “Conducting research allowed me to appreciate failed experiments,” she said. “This actually helps me become more problem-solving savvy.” For Kiyomi Kishaba ’21, studying Jewish immigrants in South America resonates with her own family history. Her father’s side is ethnically

  • the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser–the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series–masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder’s tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose