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A Tale of Two Students: Yakima area students find a home away from home Posted by: Silong Chhun / January 4, 2021 Image: Henry Temple ‘21 and Isabel Gutierrez ‘23 (Photo by Jake Parrish) January 4, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsAbout two and a half hours east of Tacoma sits the farming community of Yakima, Washington. The Central Washington county has about 243,000 residents and is probably most notable for producing the majority of the nation’s apples and hops. But it’s also

. “Technological changes have favored those with the highest technical skills,” he said. And some of the workers haven’t acquired those skills fast enough.” And their paychecks show it, he noted. As for what the United States should do about it? It was here that Lindert laughed. You’ll have to show up to his lecture for his thoughts on that. Lindert, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, will be speaking on this very topic next week at the fourth annual Dale E. Benson

applying to graduate school. The paper has also been accepted to be presented at a UW Tacoma conference and at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference. Have you continued your research from the fellowship in another way, capstone or otherwise? I have been really interested in how the Israeli occupation works and how Palestine resists it. For my capstone, I am examining how historiography has changed over time. One of the popular Arabic terms for the ongoing occupation is “al-Nakba al-Mustamera,” which

Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka Professor of Design Appointed Director of Innovation Studies Posted by: Liza Conboy / August 20, 2024 August 20, 2024 The Innovation Studies program is excited to welcome Professor Junichi Tsuneoka as incoming director of the Innovation Studies minor. Professor Tsuneoka teaches design theory and practice in the Department of Communication, Media, and Design Arts at PLU. His professional work includes design projects for Nike, Adidas, Brooks, Google, Microsoft

July 9, 2014 Master of Science in Marketing Research Degree Launches in Fall 2015 Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business is accepting applications for the first cohort of its latest master’s degree, the Master of Science in Marketing Research (MSMR). The program will begin in September 2015, making PLU the only university on the West Coast to offer a dedicated MSMR degree. “PLU is excited to deliver the depth of education necessary to provide industry with job candidates equipped in

Professor of Education Kent Gerlach Retiring After Award-Winning Career Posted by: Zach Powers / December 17, 2015 December 17, 2015 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 16, 2015)- Classrooms are taking in more students, budgets are decreasing and curricular standards are becoming more rigorous in the modern school atmosphere. With all of the challenges facing today’s educators, one teacher can’t do it alone anymore. Pacific Lutheran University Professor Kent

attending Oregon State University in the fall to finish my dual-degree engineering program through their multiple engineering cooperative program. After my time at OSU I hope to either work in the field or move on to graduate studies in engineering. I also am really looking forward to my role as one of the class reps for 2012 along with Caitlyn Jackson, and hearing from fellow classmates about the exciting news in their lives after PLU! Read Previous The book you need to read this summer Read Next Four

volunteering at a local senior home for Holocaust survivors, she met Giovanna Urdangarain, professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, and Rona Kaufman, professor of English, who were interviewing survivors and recording their stories. “I realized I wanted to be involved in that,” Dieringer recalls. Following that trip, during her sophomore year, she worked with two other PLU students to transcribe and translate the survivor interviews conducted by the professors. As a junior, she headed to Oxford University

a youth representative to the United Nations Rio+20 Conference in Brazil. “It was a remarkable experience being in Rio with folks from around the world,” he says. Yet, it was also a wake-up call, of sorts. “It was incredibly revealing that an entire auditorium of people, all deeply aware of the current and imminent impacts of climate change, chose not to take bold action because it wasn’t politically or economically convenient.” He realized that the climate conversation is really about deeper

. citizens who plan full-time, uninterrupted study toward a doctoral degree at an accredited U.S. university; second-year (or later) graduate students may apply. Benefits include a $36,000 yearly stipend, payment of full tuition and required fees, yearly program review participation and an annual professional development allowance. You’ll find application details here (https://www.krellinst.org/lrgf/how-apply), and we encourage you to read more about the pursuits of fellows via our annual Stewardship