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applied field research. It helps our students become systems thinkers, to understand that a single issue or problem can—and must—be seen from a variety of perspectives. It challenges students to understand the complexity inherent in human relationships with places, and how we need to work with all the living communities of that place—plant and animal and mineral as well as human—in our restoration efforts.Let's keep the conversation going! Read the additional Bjug Day Q&A's Bjug Day Q&A

had never done anything remotely medical until this internship,” she said. “It’s really more the anatomy, physiology side of it that I really like.”Haley Hurtt '18 Photo by Oliver Johnson '18 This summer, English literature major Haley Hurtt ’18 became well acquainted with her U.S. senators. Or at least their voicemails. Hurtt was an intern for the global poverty nonprofit, The Borgen Project. She was responsible for calling her senators every week and raising at least $500, but her main job was

. “That’s when things really got going because we knew we had the funds,” he said. By working with the Native Plants Salvage Alliance, he was able to secure native seeds and native species for replanting on campus. Plants like snowberry, Oregon grape and beaked hazelnut. All in all, there were 25 plant types for replanting. The money was there, and there were people ready to get their hands dirty, but they needed a voice to organize them. They needed someone to lead them and focus on making a difference

the work of a political campaign is about listening and asking questions and genuinely caring about people, and to me that’s what PLU embodies. PLU drew you to Tacoma. What made you decide to plant your roots here and get so involved? I love Tacoma. It originally happened accidentally, but after a year working in downtown Tacoma after graduation, I knew Tacoma was home. I grew up in a small town in Minnesota and I always knew that I wanted something bigger, but I also love the sense of community

—I like to bring those to my work as well.What are you most interested in as a biologist? I am a developmental biologist. The thing I love about developmental biology is that you’re a jack of all trades. It’s a mix of molecular, genetics, cell biologies, anatomy and physiology. It’s all these different biology disciplines merged into one. A few decades ago it would have been called embryology. I’m really interested in cell interactions and how cells actually communicate with each other while an

well.What are you most interested in as a biologist? I am a developmental biologist. The thing I love about developmental biology is that you’re a jack of all trades. It’s a mix of molecular, genetics, cell biologies, anatomy and physiology. It’s all these different biology disciplines merged into one. A few decades ago it would have been called embryology. I’m really interested in cell interactions and how cells actually communicate with each other while an embryo is developing. And so, how do they

in the late 1970s, Huelsbeck worked on what would become one of the most profound archeological Native American discoveries ever – Ozette. The centuries old Native American village on the Washington Coast was remarkably preserved by a landslide between 400 and 500 years ago. Time stood still at the village, in many ways like the volcanic preserved site of Pompeii. “The landslide created an air tight seal,” Huelsbeck said. “It even preserved plant materials. The whole bit was preserved.” After a

episode five. When Esther worries aloud about the correspondence, Edward sharply chimes in that “Babington is preoccupied with his business affairs. I cannot believe it is anything more than that. It’s highly unlikely he would have been led astray.” Edward gives false comfort to Esther but then implicates an affair to plant yet another seed of doubt in her mind. Esther for her part contests by exclaiming “He’s not you, Edward!” and adds with a sort of foreboding foreknowing that “There’ll be a good

unspeakable violence—and in the community, classrooms and concerns of Pacific Lutheran University. That’s especially true this year, as PLU’s 2015-16 Spotlight Series focuses on Roots of Resilience, based on a quote popularized by Martin Luther King Jr. and inspired by Martin Luther: “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Dozens of campus events, ranging from a one-man play about a brother’s death from AIDS to February’s Wang Center Symposium, will

rearranged chloroplast genomes with respect to other plant families. Previous comparative analyses of Campanulaceae plastomes have shown that significant rearrangement events occur not only deep within the phylogeny, but also between closely related genera. We report the completed plastome of Asyneuma virgatum, which we compare to the previously published chloroplast genome of its sister taxa, Trachelium caeruleum. Using the Nicotiana plastome as a reference, we observe interesting genome rearrangements