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presidential election: American forces were there to help provide security for voters and to protect the election process from disruption by Taliban fighters. “We would always joke on a regular basis, ‘Oh, we are going to preserve democracy today,’ but on that day, I really felt like we had,” Shumaker said. “That was a really special day for me.” While he was deployed, Shumaker’s second daughter was born. “It was harder on my wife, but she got through it,” Shumaker said. “She was one of my heroes.” Second

sometimes fraught relationship with her parents in light of who she has become as a daughter, wife, and a mother. Told in a graphic novel format, Bui explores the universal themes of immigration and migration, family, racism and discrimination, duty, and redemption as they relate to the modern-day Vietnamese Asian-American experience. – from https://www.plu.edu/first-year/ Mortvedt Library has many resources to support your reading of and engagement with The Best We Could Do. In addition to print books

dilemmas can be solved without broad, multifaceted expertise. Addressing climate change requires business savvy. Understanding modern racial unrest takes an understanding of American and world history. International diplomacy is often informed by religious traditions. Some of the most successful business managers are experts in psychology. Yet, despite these realities, far too many American universities are neglecting to provide an integrated education—an education that fuses the liberal arts

. Urrea visited Professor Jason Skipper’s class in the afternoon before taking the stage at a presidential inauguration event in Lagerquist Concert Hall to talk about his unusual upbringing which helped inspire his novel. “I think I became a writer partially because it was safer to stay inside to read,” Urrea joked. Urrea was born to an American mother and Mexican father in Tijuana, but moved to the U.S. after contracting tuberculosis, which ended up destroying his hometown neighborhood. It wasn’t

composed by Music major Melody Coleman, ’17 and was narrated by Communication major Terran Warden ’18. Changing Currents explores the many challenges facing waterways across North America, more than half of which are contaminated and unfit for drinking, fishing or swimming. During production of the film, the researchers conducted dozens of interviews, meeting with average citizens, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water utility experts, members of Native American and Canadian

March 9, 2012 The Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture – Catching up to Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization Professor Yong Zhao, from the University of Oregon, will examine if education reform in the United States is heading down the right path in a world that is more dramatically shaped by globalization and technology, during the Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture. The lecture starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 15 in the Scandinavian

. The cells then collect to form tumors called plasmacytoma. According to the American Cancer Society, most cases of multiple myeloma are found in patients who are 65 and older. Drews is 45. DONATE NOWHelp Keven Drews '16 raise money for an experimental cancer treatmentDrews has faced a 14-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer formed in the body’s plasma cells. His last hope is a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, with a price tag of $500,000 dollars.He was 31

Ayotzinapa were last seen Sept. 26, when they were taken to Iguala police headquarters after a confrontation. The government said the students were there to boycott a political event, but the students said they were there to raise funds for their school. Based on revelations over the past weekend, it now appears the students have been killed, though their remains have not been identified. Event Details What: PLU for Ayotzinapa: The High Stakes of Educating in Violent Times. When: 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Nov

PLU’s total number of Fulbrights since 1975 to 100. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries.” PLU’s 2014-15 Fulbright students certainly are experiencing a variety of countries and cultures: •    Walling is teaching English in Argentina and next plans to attend graduate school or law

, the Fulbright program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries.” It is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. Carolyn Hylander ’12