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, H&P works hard to build relationships and personalize the experience, making them seem more like a boutique style research firm than the international powerhouse that they are. “It’s no longer enough to be just researchers. We need to be forward thinking for our clients.” The personalization is accomplished in part by H&P’s communication platform, The Hub, that connects researchers to clients. It is through this platform that Riley and her team can share not only research results, but also

Business Finance, Marketing, and International Studies! He enjoys listening to music, playing video games, and cooking! Fun fact: Viet is a dog person. “I am excited to expand my knowledge in the data analysis area and to be able to do it in 9 months is a challenge I am looking forward to completing.”Guanming QuGuanming graduated from University of California – Davis with a degree in Managerial Economics. Fun facts, Guanming goes by Johnny and is originally from China!Yingwen RobertsonYingwen graduated

everyday.” After wiping away his tears, Marzano washes off his makeup and heads back to campus, where the vocal performance major has a full schedule between classes and leading PLUtonic, PLU’s men’s a cappella group that won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinals competition in February. The Tacoma-native admits it’s not easy to manage so many commitments, but he says it’s well worth it. “Me not being the greatest multi-tasker in the world it is a challenge, but it is a

years, I’ve developed a course for our International Honors program, and I’ve learned all sorts of amazing new music doing that. I’ve done the same for our Nordic Studies program and learned all sorts of great Scandinavian music (from Grieg to Heavy Metal) that I would not have known about without teaching that course. Now I’m working on a similar course in film music for our new Film Studies program. Would you share your favorite memory from a performance? When I was eight years old, I performed

of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization based in the United States. He is a professor of global health at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada. The foundation helps ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa by providing support at a grassroots level. But the self-effacing Lewis pushed aside all those titles last week. Noting the United Nations Millennium general assembly in 2000, Lewis said that many of the

Holocaust, yet I must resist forgetting.” The annual banquet honors Raphael Lemkin, an author, international lawyer and Polish Jew who coined the term “genocide” in 1943. He derived the term from the Greek “genos” meaning race or clan and the Latin “cide” meaning killing. In 1948, he persuaded the United Nations to adopt the Genocide Convention, which outlaws the destruction of races and groups. Students submit essays on genocide that reflect Lemkin’s ideals and concerns. Eleven students submitted

from Parkinson’s disease, an elderly Ali’s hands shook as he lit the Olympic flame in front of a world audience. “It took real guts to reveal that vulnerability to the global community,” Jhally said. Titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Men’s Role in Ending Violence Against Women,” the conference attracted an international pool of approximately 250 registrants, including nearly 100 PLU students. Friday’s workshops and presentations focused on what men can do and highlighted innovative approaches

June 4, 2009 Tilden flies high as Alaska Airlines’ new CEO By Barbara Clements As a boy, Brad Tilden ’83 would look up from the yard at his home and see airplanes launch into the sky from the nearby Seattle- Tacoma International Airport. Someday, he wanted to fly. And while going to PLU and working toward a degree in business administration and accounting, the high-energy Tilden did just that – he took what money was remaining from his summer jobs and began training for a private pilot’s

mission of PLU,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise. Rude replaces the Rev. John Rosenberg, who has served as interim university pastor at PLU for the past year, and who will be teaching in PLU’s department of Religion this fall.About PLUPacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. With distinctive international programs and close student-faculty research opportunities, PLU helps its 3,300 students from all faiths and backgrounds

International Honors, economics and social justice courses for catching “the activism bug.” They gave him the confidence to openly discuss issues such as minimum wage, labor injustices, racial justice and more. Beiermann said his support system on and off campus also has helped him greatly. He said Maria Chavez, chair of politics and government, “has been huge as a sounding board, believing in all of the ideas and hopes that I have had. “Having someone who has so much knowledge talking with me has been an