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Kate Hall ’17 builds connections, serves community at ESD 113 Posted by: Silong Chhun / September 6, 2022 Image: PLU alumna Kate Hall ’17 is a communication specialist at ESD 113, a Washington state agency that helps ensure that students in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties receive an excellent and equitable education. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 6, 2022 By Debbie CafazzoPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterKate Hall ’17 remembers the job interview
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immersion in her year abroad. “I saw this as a great opportunity to get me over to Europe without costing a fortune,” she said. Lapp also was chosen as an alternate for the Fulbright Program in Spain. She is a global studies and anthropology double major, with a minor in Hispanic studies, from Kalispell, Montana. Although she won’t be serving abroad, she is honored to have made it so far in the process. “Being selected as an alternate has been really encouraging,” she said. Previously, Lapp was selected
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success, even if it did demand a logistic audible. “We used to just meet in the little conference room in Morken 103 when we had 50 students,” Blaha said. (This year) we had to go over to Leraas Lecture Hall. That was great. We had too many people!” The fourth annual contest, held Feb. 1, hosted 31 teams representing 14 schools. Students—on Advanced or Novice teams—worked for three hours to write programs to solve as many computer-programming problems as they could. The first-, second- and third-place
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. Dupont is working with McKinstry full-time from home, building skills in writing, web design, video editing, organizational communications, and promotion. “I’m very thankful for this work,” Dupont said. “I feel like I’m doing something valuable with my summer. It’s been so nice to use this time to grow my skills. I’ve gotten great hands-on skills, keeping communication going through something as dramatic as the pandemic.” These students are working hard to ensure that even a global pandemic will not
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going on. So it’s a lot quicker-paced.” Fitting in hasn’t been a problem, either, as Columbia does an excellent job providing resources and orientation for the transferring students. “I’ve noticed that (people at Columbia) regard the 3-2 students very highly because they have such a great background,” Baligad said. “So it was a really smooth transition.” That, ultimately, is what PLU’s 3-2 Engineering program is all about, Hay says — setting its students up to be successful once they leave Parkland
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our curriculum and one that sets a PLU graduate apart from others.” Business major and Men’s Golf standout Ryan Pearson ‘21 says that team projects have helped bring principles he’s read about to life—dating all the way back to his first business course. “In ‘Intro to Business’ we had to actually create a product idea that we wanted to bring to market and we had to do all the marketing, production, and selling behind our product,” Pearson remembers. “It was a great introduction to see how much
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annual reception in May showcased endowed projects. The change in format highlights a broader spectrum of research. “We wanted an event that everyone was invited to — not just a certain set of people,” said Jan Lewis, associate provost for undergraduate programs. “There’s some great project stories of what students and faculty do. We want to be able to tell those stories.” Welcoming student speakers, the symposium works to tell the stories of student-faculty collaboration campus-wide. Championed by
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July 23, 2009 Biology professors win coveted Murdock grants Turning over barnacle-encrusted rocks, one by one, craning your neck to catch a glimpse of a bird or sloshing through a muddy tributary might not seem like hard core scientific endeavors. But think again. It’s research such as this that gleaned three assistant professors of biology – Michael Behrens, Julie Smith and Jacob Egge – grants totaling more than $120,000. The support, provided by the Vancouver, Wash. based M.J. Murdock
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been a resource for great employees,” she says. She credits the university’s emphasis on service and social justice with producing an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talent. “It’s welcoming to people,” she says. “It’s core to who they are.” Those core values are ones she’s carried with her. “The more I mature into my career, the more I really appreciate that solid foundation.”Lute Powered is a project highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known organizations across the
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Portrait Gallery in London. The internship went so well, Avila said, they wanted to hire her after graduation. That’s how he remembers Fallin — as a remarkable, dedicated student who was “always willing to try anything.” “She was the type of student that sought out to be successful and it’s great to see someone from our department be just that,” Avila said. “I’m very proud of her.” In an email to her old adviser, Fallin wrote that she has “never worked a day in [her] life,” because she is doing what
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