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longtime Pierce County leader, acknowledge a staff or faculty member and student who have exemplified an extraordinary commitment to service; sustained engagement; and collaborative leadership with agencies, programs and community leaders that serve the public good. The student service award was presented to Nicholaus Townsend Falck, who combined his dual passions for music and business into a nonprofit that provides an after-school program at Brookdale Elementary and three one-week summer music camps

Facebook. KPLU Christmas Jam  Dec. 10 | 12 p.m. |Karen Hille Phillips Performing Arts Center 88.5 KPLU’s 19th Annual KPLU Christmas Jam features tenor saxophonist Anton Schwartz. Anton will perform Christmas selections with the University Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Dr. David Deacon-Joyner, who will play piano with Anton’s quartet, which also includes bassist Clipper Anderson and drummer Mark Ivester. Free to the Public | The event will be live streamed at www.kplu.org. 25th Annual Winterfest

."- Courtney Miranda ’19 Mooney is excited to improve her communication and public-speaking skills. In addition to improving those skills, Miranda and Morin are looking forward to getting feedback from others in their field. “I think a lot of advisors will come to kind of learn how to help their students,” Morin said. “I’m excited for their questions, and to be able to discuss technically what we’ve done, and see how other advisors have handled it. It’s going to be interesting to see other people’s point

something. She snapped a few pictures in the Mortvedt library — where she initially intended to study for class — and posted them to social media. Then, Anderson encouraged her friends to take pictures with paper signs, finishing the phrase “Will ____ Be Next?” And the campaign was born. “We just did it,” Anderson said. “We took a couple pictures and it was not very well planned, because we didn’t think it would go very big.” Anderson and others use social media and public rallies to spread the

connect with your teammates, your community, your professors, something I bring back into my real life to be able to connect, to be a part of a community. And I really believe that’s what PLU is all about.” Read Previous PLU Forges a New International Partnership for Continuing Education Read Next Kenzie Knapp ’23 discusses summer environmental work, role with ASPLU, and public transit advocacy COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker

, but what are your thoughts on the plans to improve the facility and technology? You know, investing in the sciences at PLU is investing in future nurses of our community. It is also investing in future physical therapists and doctors — all sorts of future healthcare professionals. So, investing back into PLU is investing in the future of public health and care. It’s investing in your future. Editor’s Note: PLU aims to expand well-being, opportunity, and justice in our region, including through

communications for Sound Physicians Read Next Henri Coronado-Volta ’23 discusses his global studies major, studying away, and his plans to attend UW’s Public Health Epidemiology program COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indigenous education and tribal sovereignty September 23

whose behavior seemed to deviate from the norm or those who were intellectually disabled.  “The physical harm or emotional harm that is done to one person can also disable entire families and households and communities,” she says. One of her works’ broader themes is “how we harm or cultivate community, what do we do to each other, and how does that play out?”  A second case titled “Votives” examines how votives provide insight into ancient experiences of pain and suffering and how various conditions

shaped by this experience? My goal before starting the internship was to go to law school, but I do not have anything more concrete beyond getting my JD. I do not want to limit myself to one single pathway when there are many different opportunities that may pop up along the way. I do not want to feel like I have worked so hard for a particular goal that I’m dismissing another opportunity because I wanted one certain thing. Hopefully working in public service of some kind or helping out in that way

, and making public presentations of my work for peers and community members. I love the content, from European history to American history to Asian history. Right now, I am completing my capstone project on the contributing roles of travel, technology, and business in the travel industry in contemporary China since the Cultural Revolution. Damian Alessandro Something that is great about History is its flexibility as a major. The PLU program requires just 36 credits (or nine classes). This gives