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— Johnson is at once modest about his role, and also very aware of the organization’s international reputation for showing up in times of crisis. At the height of the global refugee crisis in 2015, Johnson was working for YouthCompass International to engage youth at international schools in humanitarian service projects in Romania, Serbia and Croatia. As approximately 1.6 million refugees came to Germany, he watched as refugees got off the train and went straight to a Red Cross tent. “And I just

. “Economics is fundamentally a discipline in which we study how and why we make decisions,” says Associate Professor of Economics Karen Travis. “It is the wide range of applications that tends to draw a very broad pool of students, including those interested in finance or developing economies.” “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

Punjab region in the 1980s, when government police picked up and killed young Sikh men and orchestrated military operations on Sikh holy places. In class, she wrestled with the history of international relations—and why the global system allowed this to happen.“I try to bring the Punjabi Sikh topic into the classroom, as it’s under-studied,” she says. “I want to make a difference and have an academic understanding of these issues.” Sikhs can face discrimination in the U.S. due to appearances. They

November 1, 2012 Robert Marshall Wells, associate professor of communication, works with a student in MediaLab. Photo by John Froschauer. Education and Journalism: Hard work and worth the effort By Barbara Clements Robert Marshall Wells was looking out the window of his corner office at AT&T, where he was working as a public relations specialist, looking beyond the rolling hills and D.C.-area cityscape, not really seeing anything. Wells was pondering his future. He had already racked up an

.” Previously, PLU was one of the few colleges and universities in the Pacific Northwest without some sort of formal film or media studies curriculum. Implementation of the new Film and Media Studies concentration builds on the success of MediaLab, PLU’s award-winning, student-faculty applied research program housed within the School of Arts and Communication’s Center for Media Studies. Since its establishment in 2006, MediaLab has received dozens of regional, national and international recognitions for its

UN and studied Chinese abroad on a one-year exchange program as part of his double major in Chinese Studies and International Relations (now Global Studies). The time abroad was integral to forming his future path. “After spending time in Southeast Asia, I realized I wanted to find a career that would allow me to travel internationally,” Lander said. “I realized I was  well-suited to that kind of life, and the experience triggered a deeper appreciation of international politics.” After graduating

years that followed he worked in sales, marketing, and operations for a variety of marine cargo companies and agencies. Eventually, he was appointed executive director of the Port of Olympia and later served as CEO of the Port of Tacoma. Since 2015, Wolfe has been the CEO of the Northwest Seaport Alliance, a marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma.We met with him recently to discuss his career in the maritime sector, his approach to international relations, and

Innovation Studies Student Launches Business During Pandemic Posted by: vcraker / May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021 In less than six months, Mariken Lund '22 built a website for her sustainable clothing business, received a crush of orders, and started averaging 60,000+ views on TikTok and other social media platforms. And she did it all during a pandemic. Lund is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects at PLU. However, during the pandemic, she returned to Oslo, Norway

Brian Sung ’24 talks business, econ majors, Oxford adventure, and his unique PLU journey as a first-gen Chinese immigrant Posted by: mhines / March 21, 2024 March 21, 2024 By By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23 PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Meet Brian Sung, a business major from the class of ’24 at PLU. When he’s not taking international honors courses or diving deep into his double majors in business and economics, he’s all about data science and statistics through his double minors

PLU selected for American Passport Project Posted by: vcraker / June 28, 2022 Image: Photo courtesy: Emily Metzler in Oxford June 28, 2022 Pacific Lutheran University was recently selected to participate in the second cohort of the Institute of International Education (IIE) American Passport Project. Through this initiative, 25 eligible PLU students who have never had a U.S. passport, will get one free of charge. PLU was one of 40 institutions in the United States to be selected. “We’re honored