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Sponsored by MultiCare Health System, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and Pierce County, the Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway is an initiative working to address local healthcare costs, improve economic and social vitality, and increase public awareness about health and well-being in Parkland. Blue Zones’ goal is…
its first year in Parkland-Spanaway, deputy director Queena Tupou says the organization has prioritized community engagement and education. “We’ve been focused on the foundational work of connecting with community partners, making sure that they understand what the Blue Zones Project is doing in Parkland and Spanaway, and sharing the mission and model of this community-wide well-being initiative,” says Tupou. In addition to setting up an office on the edge of the PLU campus, Blue Zones organizers
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Ordinarily, it takes many years for a Theatre Major to earn the opportunity to write, compose or star in a high-profile musical production. However, one Lute is dramatically defying that expectation. Justin Huertas graduated almost six years ago, in 2009, with a Bachelor of Fine…
with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “How does this language inform what the characters are going through? That’s something I’ve always been very fascinated by.” Huertas also used
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.…
Foundation. Summer 2021 marks the 6th year of Benson research activity and brings the total number of student fellowship recipients to 13. Recent program graduates have gone on to work in education, the high-tech sector, government, and business. Six students have also attended graduate school in the disciplines of history, education, medicine, and social sciences. A Podcast about History and Innovation Fulton Bryant-Anderson (History, Communication) has received funding to pursue the intersections of
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.…
steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E. Benson and the Benson Family Foundation. Summer 2021 marks the 6th year of Benson research activity and brings the total number of student fellowship recipients to 13. Recent program graduates have gone on to work in education, the high-tech sector, government, and business. Six students have also attended graduate school in the disciplines of history, education, medicine, and social sciences. A Podcast about History and Innovation
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By Michael Halvorson. Halvorson is director of Innovation Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. Design has become an integral component of the innovation process. Leading businesses such as Amazon, Apple, Nike, Disney, Dyson, and Airbnb are all recognized for their award-winning designs that strive to…
Have you considered an Innovation Studies minor? September 16, 2024 COMA 248 Upcoming Workshop: A Special Session with Professor Jasinski September 12, 2024 Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 15, 2024
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Highly Decorated U.S. Army Veteran Shares His Journey From Service to PLU Steve Shumaker, a Political Science major at PLU who served in the U.S. Army for 12 years, tosses the coin at the Nov. 8 Military Football Game at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. (Photo:…
presidential election: American forces were there to help provide security for voters and to protect the election process from disruption by Taliban fighters. “We would always joke on a regular basis, ‘Oh, we are going to preserve democracy today,’ but on that day, I really felt like we had,” Shumaker said. “That was a really special day for me.” While he was deployed, Shumaker’s second daughter was born. “It was harder on my wife, but she got through it,” Shumaker said. “She was one of my heroes.” Second
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Zach Willis ’19 earned a BA in kinesiology with a concentration in health and fitness promotion and minored in sport and exercise psychology while playing on the football team at Pacific Lutheran University. Last year he returned to the university to serve as the football…
after completing his Master’s in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Western Washington University. He also works as a master resilience trainer and performance expert at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Willis spoke with us about how he incorporates his education into helping students succeed on and off the field.What goals did you have in mind when you returned to the PLU football program? My initial goal was to come and serve the players and coaching staff in whatever capacity I could. PLU and PLU football
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Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and…
took their final high school exam, 50 percent failed. “The biggest problem with education is that students are taught in their native language and then they are expected to pass high school in English,” Bryant said. “If they don’t get an education, then they have no future.” Bryant worked with the Salesian Sisters, who run BCC, to give students Karissa Bryant sits with a daughter of the Self Help Group member in Umphrew – a village outside of Shillong. The group members make bricks and sell them in
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Carolyn Hylander ’12, Caitlin Walton ’12, Mycal Ford ’12 and Gretchen Elyse Nagel ’12 received Fulbright Student Fellowships. (Photo by John Froschauer) Four PLU students receive Fulbright Student Fellowships By Chris Albert This year, four PLU students – Carolyn Hylander, Caitlin Walton, Gretchen Elyse Nagel…
representative of the US,” Hylander said. “I pursued Fulbright because I want to learn more about Latin America, specifically about the US’s relationship with Colombia and other Latin American countries and I want to learn how I can work for social justice in Latin America and for Latin American immigrants in the US.” Caitlin Walton ’12 – ETA in Malaysia Walton – from Colorado Springs, Colo. – graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education. She has accepted an ETA position in Malaysia. There she
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Spring, 2022 This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge…
incorporate issues of diversity and equity into our work. He argued that “issues of power and voice are at the heart of th[is] effort,” and made a provocative connection between Lutheran Higher Education and the writings of Malcolm X: Malcolm, the separatist who could throw his sharpest arrows at a predominantly white university, saw education as the sine qua non of self-determination. A Lutheran university can not only celebrate that latter commitment with him, but in the recognition of his own need for
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