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How will working with real-world clients in PLU’s classrooms support your success as a business professional? In this session, Professor Fang Lin from the School of Business answers students’ most frequently asked questions and the experience you’ll get through the Business Program!
his unique PLU journey as a first-gen Chinese immigrant LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024
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Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom,…
Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first generation Chinese immigrant Posted by: Zach Powers / March 15, 2024 Image: Brian Sung ’23 is a double major in business and economics. He recently interned at Russell Investments. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) March 15, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom
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Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do…
. Read More Here Read Previous How Keegan Dolan’s PLU Mentor Helped Land Him A Dream Internship In Boston Read Next Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first generation Chinese immigrant LATEST POSTS Meet Cameron Emerson ’08 April 14, 2019 PLU Alum Visits Department of Economics April 15, 2019 National Conference on Undergraduate Research April 16, 2019 Economics Alum Receives Award June 24, 2019
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2019 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at Mississippi State. Program information: Ten-week program; $5000 student stipend, provided housing, meals and travel Program runs June 3rd to Aug 8th 2019 Research projects on bio-fuels; biochar soil amendment; water purification and biochar surface characterization; for a complete list, see the…
REU-INFEWS Program at Mississippi State Posted by: alemanem / November 28, 2018 November 28, 2018 2019 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at Mississippi State. Program information: Ten-week program; $5000 student stipend, provided housing, meals and travel Program runs June 3rd to Aug 8th 2019 Research projects on bio-fuels; biochar soil amendment; water purification and biochar surface characterization; for a complete list, see the website application Workshops on running a small
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‘Souls of Black Girls’ When filmmaker Daphne Valerius flipped through magazines as a young girl, she rarely, if ever, saw anyone that looked like her – then a shy young black girl growing up in Rhode Island.“You looked through the magazines and didn’t see one…
, that is beautiful, that is desirable,” Valerius said. Valerius said she never had a conversation with her mother about self image when she was growing up. It just wasn’t a conversation that was going to happen in that household, with Regis, a Haitian immigrant, raising three children by herself. There were jobs to do and bills to be paid. “But my mother was always a strong figure and a maverick in her own right,” Valerius said. “She was a strong, beautiful black woman, and she didn’t deviate from
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Originally published in 2016 As scholars of the Humanities in the 21st century we find ourselves working in unusual settings. Places of faith and worship, educational contexts like high schools and public libraries, in newspapers, in comment forums, on radio shows, our “workplaces” often do…
Locating Humanities in the 21st Century Posted by: alex.reed / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Scott RogersOriginally published in 2016As scholars of the Humanities in the 21st century we find ourselves working in unusual settings. Places of faith and worship, educational contexts like high schools and public libraries, in newspapers, in comment forums, on radio shows, our “workplaces” often do not resemble the ivory towers of old. Vignette #1 Prime Time Family Reading Night I ask the question
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 10, 2019) — Governor Jay Inslee will be holding a town hall at Pacific Lutheran University’s Karen Hille Phillips Center auditorium on Monday, May 13th, at 9 a.m. Gov. Inslee will field student-submitted questions from an ASPLU Lute Vote moderator on a…
leaders were invited to lunch with Gov. Inslee in Olympia, and finally the Governor’s campus visit. The town hall will be proceeded by a 30-minute “Get-to-Know-Jay” session, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in KHP. This event is free and open to the public. No ticketing is required, seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Want to submit a question for Gov. Inslee?Submit a question for the governor to answer at Monday’s town hall and vote on the ones you like the most! Read Previous Forum on
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TACOMA, Wash (October 17, 2016) – Pacific Lutheran University prides itself on global education—it was the first university with a Study Away student on every continent at once, and nearly 50 percent of students study away, compared to the national average of 10 percent—but its…
and love that they have for places around the world,” said PLU Associate Professor of Art and Design and T.I.E.S. Program Director JP Avila. Joel Zylstra, Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service at PLU, helped plan and launch T.I.E.S. He says the program connects “global influence with local concerns and opportunities.” “Tacoma offers an incredible window in seeing how globalization continues to influence how local communities function,” Zylstra said. “While PLU’s international
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 27, 2017)- Maria Chavez leads with her own experience when she addresses academic opportunity and achievement. Specifically, she empathizes with students who come from marginalized populations Chavez, chair and associate professor of politics and government, identifies as Latina. She’s a native Spanish…
who come from marginalized populationsChavez, chair and associate professor of politics and government, identifies as Latina. She’s a native Spanish speaker who didn’t learn English before beginning school. She was raised in an immigrant household in the Southwest and experienced many of the obstacles fellow Latinos face every day in the U.S. Like many who come from a similar background, Chavez was the first in her family to graduate from college, despite the barriers she faced. She came from a
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Dr. Amy Young, professor of communication, explains at this year’s TEDxTacoma What comes to mind when you think of the word “intellectual”? If you type “intellectuals are” into Google, the top three responses are “stupid,” “useless,” and “annoying.” Dr. Amy Young, professor of communication, argues…
field. They wrote for magazines and newspapers, gave public lectures, and were known as thought leaders in their communities. Toward the middle part of the last century came the intellectual “witch hunts.” These drove the majority of intellectuals into the academy, seeking the protective cover of tenure against the frothing-at-the-mouth commie hunters. And there they stayed. To get, and stay, in the ivory tower, academics have to publish works, which requires speaking a language even other
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