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and steady-handed leadership,” Starkovich said. Bennett says he  looks forward to working with students, faculty, staff and alumni to enrich what he calls the already outstanding PLU educational experience. “To combine the unique and challenging environment of a professional School of Arts and Communication with a strong liberal arts curriculum is the best of all possible worlds,” Bennett said. “The arts are all about communication,” he said. “With the self-contained resources of the disciplines

Paid Biotechnology Internship with RAIN Incubator Posted by: nicolacs / January 23, 2024 January 23, 2024 RAIN is presently recruiting interns for our Spring 2024 program. www.rainincubator.org/intern RAIN is a biotechnology incubator located in downtown Tacoma, WA. It’s primarily set up for molecular and cellular biology research, although there is limited space for chemistry work. We are currently incubating two young companies as well as pursuing our own research, which is focused primarily

, one of the safest cities in the country, which is kind of entirely contrary to what you would hear about it,” Wiersma said, adding that was “in contrast with Juarez, which is one of the most dangerous cities on the face of the planet. We really wanted to get to the bottom of it and be like ‘What’s it actually like living in a border community?’” The second episode to screening on Feb. 17 will focus on women who work in the construction trade. Construction is an industry typically dominated by

A Conversation with Dr. Moneyang and Dr. Ortigas Posted by: Matthew / December 8, 2017 Image: Dr. Patrick Moneyang, French (left) and Dr. Jose Ortigas, Spanish. December 8, 2017 By Athena Gordon '18PLU HumanitiesOn Friday, September 29th, Athena Gordon had a conversation about vocation, teaching, and the importance of languages with two professors in the Department of Languages & Literatures. José Ramón Ortigas is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies who earned his PhD from the University

nurturing for me and I do not believe I would be where I am today without it. So when I saw the position opening at PLU, I decided to apply. At the time I was at the University of Tennessee, a large division one school, and saw PLU as an opportunity to grow professionally. I was lucky enough to get the job. It was an added bonus that I moved back to the West Coast, closer to my parents and brother. What sparked your interest in music? There is an old saying that says we do not choose music, that music

their families. –Maria Chávez By Maria Chávez PLU Associate Professor of Political Science When she was 11, “Ana Sofia” came to the United States on a tourist visa with her parents and sister. Now 18 and a high-school senior in Seattle, she learned of her status as an undocumented immigrant only two years ago—and has found the new knowledge unsettling. “It’s just the feeling of feeling unwanted,” she said. “Even though you have not done anything bad—because I don’t feel I’ve ever done anything bad

Ebenezer Scrooge, Martin Luther, and the Power of the Past and of Language Posted by: alex.reed / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Eric NelsonOriginally published in 2012There’s something strange that goes on with texts, readers, writers, and time. I mean, look at you: there you are, reading this now, in the spring of 2012. And here I am, in your past, and it’s not even (technically) winter 2011. I’m sitting next to the Christmas tree (as yet untrimmed), finals and graded papers drifting around the