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PLU works with local Habitat for Humanity to build lasting partnership, sustainable community, homes for people in need Posted by: Kari Plog / April 26, 2016 Image: Volunteers, including some from PLU, secure and align a wall at a Habitat for Humanity build site in the Woods at Golden Given, a sustainable 30-home housing community. The house was built for a student who, at the time, was studying marriage and family therapy. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 26, 2016 By Brooke Thames '18PLU

focus on relationships and seeing the world through the lens of relationships. I’ve always been fascinated by how our close relationships are a foundation for how we view ourselves and how we view the world, which then impacts our individual mental health and impacts the way we interact with others. Do you feel yourself using the skills you’ve developed as a therapist in this new role? Absolutely. I think relationships are at the heart of leadership and administration. Understanding patterns and

take years to become widespread clinical practice. This PCORI-funded project will cut that lag time and smooth the path by implementing STAIR in 31 UCCs across the United States. These STAIR programs will offer structured trauma treatment that is responsive to the patient-, provider-, and system-level factors associated with the delivery of trauma-focused mental health challenges for college students. “This project is part of a portfolio of PCORI-funded projects that aim to improve the awareness

programming skills. The REU will be conducted online with most meeting times during 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT. The program will run May 30 – July 21, 2023. Selected students will receive a $4,800 stipend ($600 per week). Additionally, students will be funded to present their work at conferences after the REU. Participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and must be undergraduates in fall of 2023. Applications are especially encouraged from students who identify with populations currently

. I will always look back on my time at PLU with a tremendous amount of gratitude. Carre Avary ’11 – Bachelor of Arts in education. What’s next? I hope to begin my career as a middle school math teacher. Sometime in the next few years I plan to go back to school to obtain my masters in educational administration. Elise Nesselquist – Bachelor of Arts in global studies (concentration in global health) and Norwegian Elise Nesselquist ’11 – Bachelor of Arts in global studies (concentration in global

Environmental Lab Scientist in Training Posted by: nicolacs / May 2, 2024 May 2, 2024 The City of Tacoma is recruiting for a temporary part-time to full-time (up to 960 cumulative hours) position of limited duration (six months with the potential to extend an additional 6 months as long as the cumulative hours do not to exceed 960 hours) as an Environmental lab Scientist-in-Training.  A person in this position will be assisting laboratory,  and project staff, in sample processing, coordination

: The Impact of COVID-19 on LGBTIQ+ Communities Globally.”Bishop is a global health and human rights consultant and has worked in more than 20 countries. She is also a clinical instructor at the University of Washington Department of Global Health and the Consultant Research Advisor for OutRight Action International, a global LGBTIQ+human rights organization. As a consultant, she primarily focuses on HIV, TB, and health access for key populations, as well as on women’s cancers. Her expertise is in

Global Studies major pursues medical school to support health equity PLU alum Margaret Chell ’18 reveals how Peace Corps transformed her life Posted by: vcraker / November 3, 2021 November 3, 2021 While at PLU, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She was excited about the idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as

MediaLab receives national prize for latest documentary film about higher education Posted by: Kari Plog / March 22, 2016 March 22, 2016 By Amanda Williams '16MediaLab General Manager, special to PLU NewsTACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- MediaLab, the applied research and media production program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a prestigious national award for its most recent documentary film.These Four Years, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned a Grand Prize in

Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Deliver Benson Lecture Posted by: halvormj / July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 On October 9, 2019, the PLU community will welcome Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University Center. Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard, where he teaches the history