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Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education“Africa and the Holocaust”SpeakersFree and Open to the Public - Registration RequiredWednesday, October 25Edward KissiRobert P. EricksenEdward KissiKeynote Opening Address: “Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust” Who: Dr. Edward Kissi, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida Bio: Dr. Edward Kissi is associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the

their phones or cameras for selfies—this was one of the first times an adult reached across the barrier of language and culture to make contact. Are You Here to Serve or Just to Update Your Facebook Status? A Professor’s Perspective Behind the Resolute Desk For behind-the-scenes bonus features and videos, see the RESOLUTE blog. Later, at the Living Water compound about 45 minutes south of El Limonal, Horn, who walked into the shower fully clothed to shake the caked mud, reflects on the day. He

diagnosed as dyslexic, but didn’t let that deter her from developing a love of books. Butler started creating her own stories early on, and decided to make writing her life’s work around age 10. Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own

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, biologists, and engineers with participants from all over the globe. Graduates are applying biomimicry in their work in different settings and places including Fortune 500 corporations, the EPA, South Africa, Spain, Columbia, Mexico, Turkey, as well as the US. As senior editor, Dayna compiled a decade of experience in biomimicry into a practical how-to guide Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Knowledge and Best Practices (2013). All of this has helped fertilize the movement of biomimicry as a

is a communication/mass media and journalism major with a minor in global development at PLU. Since leaving her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Genny has been exploring new places. From backpacking in south and central America and central Europe to a semi-settled life in the Puget Sound, Genny has enjoyed writing and telling stories. You can find her work around campus, through PLU’s Division of Marketing and Communications as well as Mast Media, and in The News Tribune of Tacoma. She’s embraced

music among my friends, and kept us up-to-date during the first years of Beatlemania. In June of 1967, following our graduation, Al and I joined Doug and two others in in Doug’s Pontiac GTO for a road trip south, listening the whole way to the just-released Sergeant Pepper album that was getting wall-to-wall play on the radio. We first stopped in San Francisco, trying, with our one-day growth of whiskers and slightly mussed-up short haircuts, to look as if we fit in at Haight-Ashbury during that