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Wild Hope Center, and we look forward to learning from him and celebrating his commitment to human and ecological flourishing,” said Faculty Fellow in Humanities and Wild Hope Director for External Relations Samuel Torvend. In 2019, Steves was featured in PLU’s ResoLute magazine and shared insights about the political and spiritual benefits of international travel. “The whole idea about traveling is to get out of your comfort zone, and to gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity

continue to teach for another year?“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.  Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power

YouTube Short: Week 1 in Oxford Posted by: shortea / March 1, 2023 March 1, 2023 Jenny Kamimura ’24 studied abroad during January Term in Oxford as part of the International Honors Program. She shares some of her adventures from Week 1! Read Previous You Ask, We Answer: I’m undecided on my major, so should I even go to college? Read Next Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean

Carow ’12 Major: Business with marketing emphasis Internship: The Puyallup Fair Annika Carow is a busy person. She has a full class load of 17 credits, and is the assistant general manager of MediaLab, PLU’s student-run media organization. But when she locked-down a coveted 40-hour-a-week internship in the public relations department of the Puyallup Fair, she couldn’t pass that up. More >> Aaron Hushagen ’11 Major: Sociology Internship: 88.5 KPLU-FM Aaron Hushagen is a sociology major. He’s also an

. The Namibian alumni, who currently work in all sectors of Namibia, from forensic science to foreign relations, will lead a panel discussion after the film about the impact education had on them and what it means for their democracy today. Student filmmakers Princess Reese and Andrea Capere will also be present for a question-and-answer session about the making of the film. Admission to the event is open to all. Namibia Nine is sponsored by the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education

cachet in academic circles. For instance, having an endowed Lutheran professorship will increase PLU’s reputation as a leader among Lutheran universities. Torvend is now collaborating with an international consortium of scholars working on economic, political and social reforms to be presented and published at the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. Thus, PLU will be the only Lutheran college or university in North America represented in that international consortium. The chair also

July 9, 2013 PLU Night at the Rainiers set for Aug. 16 Baseball season is upon us and we are getting ready for one of our favorite summer events, PLU Night at the Rainiers. Last year, more than 800 Lutes enjoyed an evening at the ballpark. In preparation for an even bigger crowd, the Office of Alumni and Constituent Relations has purchased even more tickets, with the plan of taking over Cheney Stadium. This event is a great way to end your summer with a bang while enjoying the company of other

spent the past year in Serbia studying peace and conflict resolution, and would like to work with youth when he leaves PLU. Delo is a political science and global studies major and is considering going into the Peace Corps or furthering her education through graduate studies in international relations. They also will hear PLU alum Dr. William Foege ’57, who led the fight to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Anna McCracken ’14, a

. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science at UC-Davis; received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oregon; and got his teaching certification at PLU, through the Alternative Route to Certification program (ARC). After receiving his certification, Milton went on to teach at many different levels. He is currently an eighth-grade English teacher in DuPont, Wash., and an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Troy University. Milton’s teaching career took a

Theater.Admission is free, and the event is open to the public. In producing the documentary, three MediaLab students, all Communication majors, spent more than a year exploring the topic of food waste and its many implications, and their hard work has been rewarded: Waste Not has received several national and international recognitions, including a 2015 first-place nomination from the National Broadcasting Society, a national second-place finish in the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Arts