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for the Under 16, Under 19 and the Under 21 United States Youth National Soccer Teams. Corporations, business groups, professional sport teams, civic organizations and print and television media seek her strategies for peak performance. With more than 30 years’ experience in higher education, Hacker has conducted extensive, applied research in the field of sport psychology with particular emphasis on peak performance, team building, leadership, mental toughness and psychological skills training
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,” said Larson, a graduate of Lincoln High School. “We have been to libraries reading to children, spending time with the elderly, as well as eating dinner with politicians.” The court is part of the Daffodil Festival, which has been a Pierce County tradition for more than eight decades. The festival’s mission is to better communities through leadership training and education opportunities, and its legendary parades travel through four communities each year. “It’s a huge honor to be the queen,” said
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assignments from the base’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company—leaving them, in a sense, “homeless” for the holiday. “Invariably around this time of year, about 100 soldiers, most or all of them brand new and right out of basic training, don’t make it through in-processing and are therefore stuck in the barracks with people they don’t know during the four-day weekend,” said Michael Farnum, PLU’s Director of Military Outreach. “They’re away from home for the first time and lonely. The Association of the
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attend conservatories, which are schools that focus specifically on classical music or art, but Baetge is happy he chose to attend PLU. “I thank my lucky stars every day for [that] experience. It made me a more rounded person and more rounded performer,” Baetge said. Baetge left PLU in 2004 to pursue professional opportunities at the Skagit Opera and the Seattle Opera and to spend two years training at the Seattle Young Artist Program. With just one credit needed to earn his degree, he then returned
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paraeducators, training programs and career ladders for paraeducators. Gerlach has been a driving supporter for legislation to determine these standards and has made national waves with his advocacy for the group. Kent Gerlach, Professor of Education, at PLU on Thursday, July 3, 2014. (Photo/John Froschauer) PLU's Department of EducationPreparing Teachers Since 1894 Read Previous PLU Holiday Photo Recap Read Next PLU Business Students Donate Class Project Revenue to Wounded Warriors COMMENTS*Note: All
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of race and gender. The center also conducts bystander training for student athletes, showing them how to interrupt anything from an attempted assault to a racist joke. It also engages men as allies, maps gender-inclusive bathrooms across campus and supports programs that empower women to run for public office. Smith said those underscore an all-encompassing menu of services. “But because ‘women’ is the core of our name, people don’t see that immediately,” she said. “That work is not reflected in
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-tech companies are now major partners in non-profit work, community training and global partnerships that promote social good.16th Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic HistoryRegister through the Wang Symposium registration pagePart of the Wang Symposium March 10, 2022 at 7 pm Free, but requires advance registration“Justin Spelhaug’s message is that every person can work for positive social change in the setting that they live in,” Halvorson said. “As students prepare for future careers
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religious faith and social justice, human ethics and environmental concerns, scientific data and moral commitments. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists (Georgetown 2017). DCHAT is a new interview-based podcast featuring PLU academic deans and highlighted by questions submitted by PLU alumni. Special thanks to the following alumni for submitting questions for this episode: Mariesa Bus ‘06, Jacob Harkenson ‘10, Andrew
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issues with finding tools. There are so many digital tools to choose from for use in the classroom, many which are free right now. However, the biggest challenge is training teachers how to use them in student-centered ways, and training parents to support students in using the tools for learning. PLU: In this time of uncertainty, fear, and darkness — what are some positives you see emerging in terms of education and the future? Anderson: Educators are powerhouses! I’ve always known that teachers do
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reproduction, neuroscience, and stem cell research. He received the Stanford Prize in Population Genetics and Society in 2017. His newest book, CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, was published in February 2021. Presented by the PLU College of Liberal Studies, the annual Koller Menzel lecture focuses on creative writing or ethics, the special interests of PLU student Heather Koller, who died of bone cancer in June 1994, shortly after graduation. The Lecture was endowed in 1994 by
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