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health in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization based in the United States. His work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Lewis was deputy

Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World. Symposium presentations and seminars moved to campus following his opening address. Representatives of NGOs and area leaders in science and business discussed their involvement in finding and delivering solutions – from active on-site intervention to benchmark research and the formulation of public

the PLU Diversity Center, and another search committee member, noted that Krise is deeply committed to diversity. In addition, his references said “he was a strategic thinker and planner,” Hambrick said. Before coming to PLU, Krise, 50, has been Dean of the College of the Pacific, the arts and sciences college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Prior to his appointment at Pacific, Krise was chair of the Department of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando

professor of geosciences. Claire Todd: Professor’s world rocked by rocks By Katie Scaff ’13 From Antarctica to Washington’s Mount Rainier, Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Sciences Claire Todd has studied glaciers big and small, far and wide. The Atlanta-native never truly experienced snow until studying at Pomona College, outside of Los Angeles, where she received her undergraduate degree in geology. From there, she traveled to New York to earn a master’s degree in earth resources

question, how to rule things out, how to set controls and interpret the new data.” Deane is one of approximately 30 students paired with about a dozen professors from the Division of Natural Sciences under PLU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Each year the program gives up and coming scientists, such as Deane, a chance to do field or lab research, and gain hands-on experience that is rare for an undergraduate. Science faculty met with the students in February, who then applied for the

degree from Yale and his Ph.D. from Harvard. During his research career in the field of psychology, Greenwald mainly has focused on implicit and unconscious cognition. He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Lifetime Achievement Award (William James Fellow) from the Association for Psychological Science and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other exciting speakers also are on tap for this year’s

paradigm that rewards institutions that prioritize high-paying professional fields such as engineering, computer science, and the health sciences. The study also suggests that colleges who are able to recruit students with extraordinarily high school test scores and grade point averages often receive more credit than they deserve for their contributions to the professional success of their graduates. As the column points out, high test scores and grade point averages reflect high intelligence and a