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2014, magna cum laude. Peace-building experience: Barry was inducted into Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Honor Society, and completed Basic Mediation Training through the Pierce County Center for Dispute Resolution. She is now participating in the full year-long practicum to become a certified mediator. Her peace philosophy: “I’ve always been interested in conflict and communication—interpersonally and globally—how conflict comes about and how we can learn to better handle it,” Barry said. “We

February 1, 2013 Real-World Mentors For decades, Pacific Lutheran University has built a reputation for sending talented, proficient students into the workplace. Their success is proof that challenging academics – hours spent in the classroom and laboratory, the practice room and concert hall, the playing field and court – all while working closely with professors, will indeed produce results. By the time PLU students receive a diploma, they are fully equipped for success in the world. A PLU

Emergency Food Network (EFN)—and, doubly fittingly, that Lute is a former PLU basketball star and Athletic Hall of Famer: Don Brown ’92. Brown, now vice president and senior relationship manager for KeyBank’s business banking department, said he came up with the idea during a Tacoma Chamber of Commerce Leadership class—taught by another Lute, Catherine Pratt, associate dean of the PLU  School of Business. “During the class we were separated into teams and challenged to come up with an event that can

October 5, 2012 In Edwin Black’s book “IBM and the Holocaust” he examines IBM’s complicit work in creating a database for the Third Reich’s final solution. ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ By Barbara Clements University Communications Edwin Black remembers walking into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with his parents in Washington D.C. when something caught his eye by the door. “One of the first things you saw was an IBM punch card system,” he recalled. “No one knew what it was for. IBM and the

J-term adventures: Keep up with music students around the world Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 12, 2016 January 12, 2016 Churches, Organs, and Art in The Netherlands and GermanyUniversity Organist and Associate Professor of Music Paul Tegels takes students to visit historical buildings in the Netherlands and northern Germany.  Organ students will see and play some of the most significant historical instruments in that region, hearing the repertoire on instruments for which that repertoire

Zika. I think it is something that people are going to be looking into for many, many years.” For now, she will continue to do important field work, something she says keeps her connected to people in her community. She is working with her boss to develop a surveillance project for the Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger) mosquito in Atlanta starting this summer, prompted by the concern over the spread of Zika and Chikungunya, another viral disease. “It enables us to look into what are the local

1996. But after working on English classes and getting a sense of PLU’s mission of reaching out to the world and understanding other cultures: he switched to Chinese Studies. “PLU stresses leadership and teamwork, and looking at other cultures,” he said. “That is why it’s so special to me.” And that played a part in his decision to return. That, and a little nudge from dad. It was Nishimura’s father, Taichi Nishimura, now chairman of the company, who encouraged his son to go back and finish. “He

October 13, 2008 “Tyranny of Oil” author to appear at PLU A nationally-known expert and critic of Big Oil will speak at PLU on Saturday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. The address is free and open to the public. Antonia Juhasz has exposed an industry that thrives on secrecy and described how it hides its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, from consumers to get what it wants through money, influence and

Pursuing the Dream Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 21, 2012 Image: After applying as a cellist for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, just for fun, Justin Huertas ’09 found himself on a national tour and is working on turning the experience into his own show. (Photo by Kristina R. Corbitt) – See more at: http://www.plu.edu/news/2012/10/justin-huertas/home.php#sthash.4aKGwub5.dpuf October 21, 2012 By Leah Traxel ’14 Justin Huertas ’09 was ready to “break up” with acting and playing the

The Dream Program Posted by: nicolacs / September 24, 2021 September 24, 2021 THE DREAM PROGRAM is a 10-week summer program designed to increase the number of women and racially underrepresented groups in medical physics by offering research opportunities, outreach and strategic mentorship geared towards recruiting a more robust and diverse group of skilled undergraduate students in the field of medical physics. DREAM students will be placed into summer research and mentorship groups that are