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potential and almost unlimited possibilities for the future. A YEAR OF CHALLENGE AND ACHIEVEMENT – 2009-2010 Now let’s begin by considering, in broad strokes, some of the highlights and the significant achievements that marked academic year 2009-2010.Economic Challenges I begin with matters economic. Of the last three years of global economic uncertainty, the past year has been the most stable. It now appears (and we hope accurately) that the turbulence is subsiding and our economic and social

her Capstone project in Political Science, April Rose M. Nguyen created a documentary on the 10,000 untested rape kits in Washington, and helped raise awareness of the issue with a post-screening panel featuring two state representatives, Tina Orwall (D) and Gina Mosbrucker (R). In her first year, the tireless Nguyen planned a six-week series of discussions on religious diversity, spanning six faith traditions, which won Social Justice Program of the Year. “It was an ambitious project,” she

encourage each other as they navigate the world of theater together. Their friendship, after all, began with a challenge, all those years ago at PLU: “If you audition for Sally Bowles, you’re going to be cast as Sally Bowles.” Read Previous The People’s Librarian: Brian Bannon’s passion for democratizing information led him to the New York Public Library Read Next PLU launches new Master of Social Work (MSW) degree COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might

Department of History to the Division of Social Sciences derives, ultimately, from some such view of the historian’s labor.)There has always existed a certain skepticism about history’s claims to offer positive knowledge of the past. Such skepticism has usually been founded upon a deep-seated anti-intellectualism or irrationalism, and reflects the suspicion that history is not philosophy teaching by examples, but “an agreed upon fable” (Napoleon), “merely gossip” (Oscar Wilde), or, more provocatively, “a

. I’m getting a master’s degree in clinical social work at Smith College in Northampton. Summer classes start on June 4th! September through April, I’ll be interning 30 hours a week at The Peck Full Service Community School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where I get to work one-on-one with low income students in grades K-8. After I graduate from my master’s program in two years, I hope to find a job counseling at-risk teenagers and young adults. I feel like my education at PLU has definitely prepared me

dry eye was in sight. Tears of joy were streaming down their faces. They didn’t even know that Ellen and Target were giving the school $100,000. “We received the money [from The Ellen Show] not because there’s something wrong with our school, but because something is right with our school,” Herold said, a social worker at James Sales. Gretchen Saunders in her kindergarten class at James Sales Elementary. The money is being used to provide a safe play area for the community at the school and things

classroom a week after the election. “This is where everyone is coming that cares the most. We’re going to get people with a lot of emotion and people who are extremely invested in this.” Sill and Schleeter urged the students to consider how social scientists would engage such an event, by recognizing the significance and trying to remain impartial. “We want to think of this as a very unique and amazing opportunity in which we are living and experiencing history as it’s unfolding in real time,” Sill

sponsoring organization for the Simon Awards will be with us at Opening Convocation to present the award to our entire community. Academic excellence is the direct product of faculty research and scholarship and, in just the past year, division of humanities faculty published 6 books, 65 articles, 25 essays and poems, and made 120 public presentations, while natural science faculty published over 30 articles and earned six research grants totaling over $250 thousand.  In the social sciences, faculty