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recycle until he came to PLU, but now he’s passionate about protecting the environment and sharing his knowledge with others. The geosciences and chemistry major plans to teach high school science. Under the guidance of Claire Todd, visiting assistant professor of geosciences and environmental studies, those in the program have spent a large portion of J-Term reviewing the evidence for recent climate change. They have been reviewing data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC

September 29, 2008 Documentary follows drug, weapons trade When assistant communication professor Rob Wells and his colleagues in the School of Arts and Communication launched MediaLab in 2006, they figured larger projects like feature-length video documentaries would happen sometime in the future. “It would be nice,” he recalled thinking. “Someday.”Thanks to some tireless – and inquisitive – student journalists, that “someday” happened much sooner than anyone might have expected. At 2 p.m

. The Chemistry faculty plan to have webcasts from the NMR lab to teach local college and high school students about the NMR spectrometry. Undergraduate students, who usually do not have access to such a powerful instrument, will find that having used the spectrometer-one of the first of its kind located in a West Coast undergrad institution – will help them land future jobs, the professors said. “This is really going to be the crown jewel of the instruments in our department,” Waldow said when the

notebook was impeccable.” “Chemistry is not an easy major, and I’m so excited about her learning process,” he said. “She is inspiring.” And determined. She faces a grueling schedule by anyone’s measure. Osborn gets her kids, Gabriel, 8, and Joshua, 4, up at 6 a.m. to get them off to school by 8 a.m. Between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. she works or goes to class. Once she gets home at 6 p.m., she devotes herself to her sons, helping them with their homework and playing with them. Once they are to bed at 8 p.m

the new learning center. The site has seen frequent work parties by PLU students, community members and local high school students to improve PLU’s local habitat. Ojala-Barbour started the Urban Habitat Restoration project in 2009. Prior to the project, the site was inaccessible due to dense thickets of Himalayan blackberries. This invasive species has affected a critically threatened a species of oak tree that is native to the area and grows on the PLU grounds. After more than a year of

and Polar Regions collection and how that work turned into a book of poems. She is the winner of a Rasmuson Foundation grant, and teaches AP English at Lathrop High School. Peggy Shumaker, reading from Marjorie Kowalski Cole’s The City Beneath the Snow Shumaker will give voice to excerpts from Cole’s last book, published posthumously. This final collection of stories from an award-winning writer offers portraits of contemporary Alaskans. Some readers will know Cole’s novel Correcting the Landscape

September 1, 2008 Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players on the now-gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The event has been beyond description, Hacker said in an e-mail interview from Beijing this week. But she gave a go at it anyway, in an

support to these able and dedicated leaders. PLU is blessed in a special way each year by the work of our remarkable cadre of academic program leaders and deans. This year we will be searching for new deans for the School of Arts and Communication and the School of Education and Movement Studies. During these important transitions, Professor John Hallam from art, along with associate professors Mike Hillis from education and Karen McConnell from movement studies will be serving as acting deans. We

. This idea is based off a theory called prosthetic memory, developed by Alison Landsberg. As Marcus explains, this is a way for strangers to connect to the Holocaust in a deep way. “Prosthetic memory is a memory of an event they never experienced but that is made real to them in the curated space of the museum,” Marcus said. “The past becomes accessible, personal, and present.”The Reform Jewish Quarterly: “I Did Not Lose My Father at Auschwitz” by Lisa MarcusAnd Marcus knows firsthand the power of

are satisfied. CROSS COUNTRY, TRACK AND FIELD – LEXIE MILLER For an athlete who spends so much time running anything but a straight line, Lexie Miller is about as straightforward a person as you’ll ever meet. Miller, who graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, has been a member of the women’s cross country and track and field teams throughout her four years at PLU. Like Crosetto, Miller has been a peer tutor since 2007, and was recommended for the position by a faculty member. She tutors