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  • Fulbright program, bringing PLU’s total number of Fulbrights since 1975 to 100. That 100th Fulbright, Brianna Walling ’14, said she was speechless when she received the email from the Fulbright committee that informed her that come next March, she would be travelling to Argentina for about nine months to teach English there. “I was hiking up Mount Rainier when I found out from a friend on Facebook,” she laughed before walking across the Tacoma Dome stage on May 24 to receive her degree in Political

  • newspaper, The Mooring Mast). We showed up at the TNT dressed in our best, excited to be first-years at an award-winning paper on election night, ready to report the news. The political editor, Kim Bradford, briefed us in a conference room about the hashtag we would be using (#waelex) and where we were headed: the “Yes on I-591” rally in Bellevue, Wash., which was anti-gun-regulation. She also told us what we were looking for: color. (“Color” is a term used in journalism to describe what makes the story

  • left Pacific Lutheran University. Not only has she had a book published with a PLU professor, but Henrichsen also has recently been published by UNESCO and was accepted to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania for her Ph.D.Henrichsen, a Communication/Political Science double major with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution and a minor in German, learned at PLU that she was passionate about justice for journalists around the globe. As an undergraduate student

  • Little Rock, received the grant for their ongoing project titled “An Edition and Translation of Selections from Louise Dupin’s Philosophical Treatise, The Work on Women.” The project aims to present the work of Enlightenment French feminist, author, and philosopher Louise Dupin to a wide audience for the first time by translating and editing a selection of her most important political and philosophical ideas in an approachable anthology. “Making Dupin’s work more accessible to a new generation of

  • Rising Amazon recruiter April Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan Posted by: Silong Chhun / June 3, 2022 June 3, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsApril Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan. A political science and communication double major who recently earned an MBA at PLU, Nguyen followed the advice of a career adviser into a series of contract jobs in human resources. Not because she has career aspirations in HR — though she does find the work endlessly interesting — but because

  • . “We’ll teach you everything you need to know about business. Go find a topic that you love and learn how to think critically.” With that encouragement in mind, Grande majored in political science while interning at Microsoft throughout all four of his PLU years. He accepted a full-time position a few weeks before commencement. One year later, he transferred departments, to an up-and-coming Microsoft games unit that only had about 25 staff members. He’s worked in gaming ever since, spending 13 years

  • Aztec city of Calixtlahuaca, Jakowchuk is examining stylistic, political and geographic factors that influenced the production of projectile points, chipped stone artifacts used as multi-purpose tools, during the post-classic period, right before the Spanish conquest. This spring, she presented her findings at the Society for American Archaeology conference in Portland. To Dr. Andrews, it’s her willingness to dive into challenges like these that makes Jakowchuk such an impressive student. Though she

  • to bring in people who were never involved so they can learn,’” Franklin said. “And because of that I won overwhelmingly.” That win launched Franklin into a 20-year stint in state politics. Her extensive background in health care, both public and private, and her time in the political sphere gave Franklin experience that was hard to beat. “If you have the experience and you have been there, then I think you can craft better laws” she said. “I’m no Harriet Tubman. Let’s get on with it and bring

  • Program learning outcomes. The program aims at expanding students’ knowledge about the Hispanic world by exposing students to the variety of Spanish spoken in the Rio de la Plata region and by providing opportunities to attend lectures on Uruguayan current political and social issues. Additionally, the experience of home-stay and structured experiential learning opportunities will allow students to become familiar with Uruguayan contemporary social struggles as well as with its progressive agenda in

  • In their own words: Global Studies majors on what it’s like to study (and study away!) at PLU Why global studies at PLU? “As a first year, I enrolled in GLST 210 ‘just because’ and by the end of the year had switched my intentions of a pre-med degree to declaring both a Global Studies(GLST) and Political Science major! During this time, I… July 21, 2023 AcademicsGlobal EducationStudent VoiceStudy AbroadStudy Away