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For the graduating class of 2024, freshman year was online and confined. So by the time fall came around for sophomore year, they embraced in-person classes, study groups, lunches, dinners, and more. That’s true at least for political science major Kaden Bolton ’24, who graduated…
separate times – two spring semesters and a J-term. As a double major in political science and global studies with a concentration in international relations, Bolton felt that he wanted to dive in and start learning as much as he could about the world abroad. He even did an independent research project at Oxford.“There’s a region there that they made a pedestrian-only zone,” says Bolton. “My research project was about the public’s reaction to that, and if that significantly affected their view of their
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 24, 2019) — Research has become Pacific Lutheran University grad SarahAnn McFadden’s life. This year, McFadden ‘11 landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors…
low-resource countries, and the ethics of changing dosing schedules for the human papillomavirus vaccine. The transition from her graduate studies to her current project work has been quite challenging, but it is a challenge she enjoys. “I think it’s going to be pretty similar when I make the transition from postdoc to faculty,” she said. “But I feel like I was exposed to enough at PLU, at Hopkins, through nursing, all of it, to where I have the skills and background to make my way on any new path
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 15, 2015)—Resilience is characterized by the “power or ability to return to original form” after being “bent, compressed or stretched.” You see examples of resilience in the news all the time—in the exhausted yet determined faces of Syrian refugees, in the grace of forgiveness following…
examine the personal and big-picture capacity to withstand and overcome the stress and devastation related to trauma. “There is building interest in understanding the conditions that make it possible for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions and organisms to overcome adversity,” said Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. “While varied, the events and programs that will be featured as part of
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The world of business is always changing. Markets trend up and down, technologies evolve, and ethical standards constantly progress. To many private-sector veterans, this rate of change can be daunting, but to students and faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business, they are…
strategies,” she says. “This meant we took over their social media, created a plan of what kind of content we needed to post, and evaluated where they needed improvements and how the changes can be long-term.”PLU’s Master of Science in Marketing Analytics program to be offered exclusively onlinePartnering with Community It’s projects like the one Ouanesisouk described that make Mark Mulder light up with enthusiasm. A former Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce board member, Mulder has helped
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Joanne Lisosky, PLU Professor of Communication, returned from sabbatical this fall after completing a manuscript for her book and traveling and teaching in Azerbaijan. In the summer and fall of 2010 Lisosky completed the manuscript for a book titled, “War on Words: Who Should Protect…
Professor of Communication returns from sabbatical Posted by: Todd / October 19, 2011 October 19, 20
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Wastefulness can produce distressing results. This is especially true in the international food industry, in which more than one-third of all food produced globally each year goes to waste, resulting in economic, energy and environmental losses totaling more than $750 billion annually, according to the…
MediaLab Premieres documentary about food waste Posted by: Todd / November 15, 2014 November 15, 201
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Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Art & Design and Hospitality Services & Campus Restaurants are helping raise money for the hungry, one bowl at a time. PLU’s annual Empty Bowls event will be on Tuesday, November 15, from 4-6 p.m. in the Anderson University Center.…
Helping one bowl at a time Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 4, 2016 Image: on Wednesday, Nov. 18
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PLU returned victorious from the Pan-American Debating Championships March 10-12 at the University of La Verne in Pomona, Calif., where debaters from universities nationwide and more than nine different countries gathered for divisions in English and Spanish Worlds Style debate. In a difficult final round…
PLU wins Pan-American Debating Championships Posted by: Todd / March 16, 2017 March 16, 2017 PLU ret
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Last week, student artists at PLU turned in their two dimensional and three dimensional artworks for inclusion in the Juried Student Art Exhibit. This yearly event happens each fall and focuses on recent work by talented students in any discipline. The juried exhibit is open…
PLU Student Artists Bound to Impress Posted by: Reesa Nelson / November 11, 2019 November 11, 2019 L
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The Department of Art & Design congratulates all students whose art was included in the Juried Student Art Show! The juror, Lauren Boilini , selected a variety of works to be included in the show and called out several for prizes and honorable mentions. Lauren’s…
Results & Photos of Juried Student Art Exhibit 2021 Posted by: Reesa Nelson / November 15, 2021 Nove
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