King Harald V of Norway (holding fl owers) visited Pacifi c Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., in May.
have defined its administration. “It has truly been an honor and privilege to serve an institution of this caliber and to watch the university grow and serve so many people,” Powell said.
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., received a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund a three-year project called Science for Youth Ministry: The Plausibility of Transcendence. The project will start faith-and-science conversations with young people through youth ministry and will produce materials to encourage those discussions. Part of the project will include a pilgrim- age to Europe with selected teenagers to explore some of the sites that rep- resent the history of conflict between science and the church.
It’s not every day a king comes to call, but on May 23, Harald V of Norway visited Pacific Lutheran Univer- sity, Tacoma, Wash., in honor of the school’s 125th anniversary. The king toured the campus, met with stu- dents and faculty at a reception, and attended a luncheon in his honor. He then delivered a touching—and humorous—address at PLU’s 2015 commencement ceremony and received an honorary degree.
Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, honored 46 degree and certificate candidates at com- mencement exercises in May. Stanley
N. Olson, then president of Wart- burg, said of the students being hon- ored, “We on the faculty and staff have the privilege of watching God renew the church by calling women and men into servant leadership, forming them and sending them into the church for the world.”
Augustana University, Sioux Falls, S.D., is among the recipients of a $14.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support undergraduate research and faculty scholarship in the biomedical sci- ences. The school will receive nearly $2 million over the next five years as
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