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. He turned onto South 112th Street, near his home. The last thing he remembered was concentrating on getting home. Kinney woke up in a hospital intensive-care room that day and was told that a red car had hit him from behind at 40 mph, destroying his bike and tossing him 24 feet. The driver never came forward and was never caught. Kinney spent a month in the hospital with a crushed ankle,  concussion, fractured shoulder and various torn ligaments. The Naval reservist had to drop out of classes at

the 15,500-plus-square-foot space near the corner of Garfield Street South and Pacific Avenue recently vacated by the Pacific Lutheran University bookstore*. Once complete, the center would provide free arts and career training programs to local youth and professional instruction to area adults.“PCAT would be a welcome addition to the educational and training resources offered to low-income and underrepresented members of Pierce County,” said Geoffrey Foy, an associate provost at PLU. “The

there’s a tactical side to communication, how you craft messaging, and why you’re crafting messaging the way that you’re crafting it,” he explains. “But I also love thinking through the complexity of what we do. In addition to the near-term decisions we make right now around communication, also thinking about the potential long-term or ripple effects of that.” Read our full profile of Regan Zeebuyth. The Career GamerJon Grande ’92 was an intern at Microsoft the summer before he enrolled at PLU. His

Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower’s Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic By Jack M. Holl ’59 In 1918, Dwight D. Eisenhower, while in command of the Tank Corps at Camp Colt in Gettysburg, PA, played a key role in the US Army’s fight with the 1918 influenza pandemic that ravaged US troops near the end of World War I. Before the pandemic ran its course, the 1918 flu killed almost as many American soldiers as died in battle during Europe’s savage war.  While the deaths of young soldiers at Camp Colt were

by that? Cary Nelson: I have always spoken what I think to be the truth and not everyone loves me for it. But anger is for me a valid response to injustice. You should feel fueled by injustice and want to do something about it. It was about 20 years ago that I started interviewing part-time faculty around the country. I met a lot of part-time faculty, especially in the big cities on the East Coast, who had been teaching at under $1,000 a course with no health care, no vestment in a retirement

honored to be invited to England to be a keynote speaker at the Second International Conference on Adoption Research at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. This marked my first trip abroad. The following year, I was invited to give a talk at the biannual conference of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth in Norrköping, Sweden. Soon thereafter, I received a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship to teach at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in the spring semester, 2008. And then

to Frank. Titlow Beach is a favorite of Frank and Jill’s, it’s a great place to have a picnic. Northwest Trek is uniquely Pacific Northwest with animals that are native to the area. (Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) Northwest Trek (20.7 miles from campus) 11610 Trek Drive East Eatonville, WA 98328 Northwest Trek features a narrated tram tour through more than 400-acres of meadows and forests where you can see bison, elk, moose, mountain goats and other wildlife. The park also has a walking tour

PLU alumna earns Montana teacher of the year recognition, receives Presidential Award for Excellence Posted by: Zach Powers / December 15, 2016 Image: President Barack Obama greets Jessica Anderson, Montana, during a photo line in the Blue Room prior to an event to honor the 2016 National Teacher of the Year and finalists in the East Room of the White House, May 3, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) December 15, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA