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hop dance included break dancers and was set to music by Christine Aguilera, Busta Rhymes, Aceyalone, Timbaland and Pit Bull Liz Erie, dance team co-captain, who created a number titled “Diamonds” accompanied by the music of Eve, Gnarles Barkley and Janet Jackson Dmitry Mikheyev, who choreographed a dramatic dance that included the use of props Rachael McWilliams, whose number was set to a song from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Phantom of the Opera” Clare Edgerton and Justin Huertas, who incorporated

figures. All the residence halls on campus lowered their energy usage, said Christine Cooley, manager of PLU’s sustainability office, and these savings continue throughout the year. Since PLU began its sustainability program, the university has saved $71,000 in natural gas costs, $66,000 in electricity costs and raised over $100,000 in grants and rebates from the Green Partnership Fund, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and other utility companies, she said. Vice President of Finance and

Sustainability Manager Christine Cooley. “Innovative projects like onsetting soar past neutral and allow for regenerative sustainability projects—serving the ones that support the global and local environments PLU visits, and the communities where students study away.” PLU will pilot the off- and onsetting program during the academic year 2014-15 for all semester-long Study Away programs. By earmarking a portion of a per-student carbon-mitigation fee, PLU will be at the forefront of responsible travel by

job creation. Donations from the Moveout drive will directly provide revenue and resources to fund job-skills retraining and placement programs,  helping 9,000 of the approximately 74,000 unemployed people in a region that covers a 15-county area. “So much can be reused and repurposed,” said Christine Cooley, Sustainability Manager at PLU. “If someone else can reuse the item, we want to make sure they have that opportunity.” “Together, we can turn student dorm items into something that will

diverse children of different ages. A date has not yet been set for her presentation. And the last speaker in the 2014-15 series will be PLU Psychology Professor Christine Moon, whose groundbreaking research into infants’ language learning has received national and international recognition. Her talk will be held at 2 p.m. April 24 in Xavier 201. In the past, PLU’s Department of Psychology has hosted premier scholars for the Colloquium. One of the most notable was Warner Schaie, acknowledged as one of

in eight short minutes and hope it sprouts into new ways of thinking about making a difference in your community and beyond.” Barnett will be joined by 12 other speakers, including retired Army Lieutenant General Mike Ferriter, New York Times best-selling novelist Isaac Marion, Jason Lee Middle School principal Christine Brandt, former Tacoma City Council member Bill Moss and Beecher’s Handmade Cheese founder Kurt Beecher Dammeier (full list of TEDxTacoma 2016 speakers). The program will also