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sometimes fraught relationship with her parents in light of who she has become as a daughter, wife, and a mother. Told in a graphic novel format, Bui explores the universal themes of immigration and migration, family, racism and discrimination, duty, and redemption as they relate to the modern-day Vietnamese Asian-American experience. – from https://www.plu.edu/first-year/common-reading/ Mortvedt Library has many resources to support your reading of and engagement with The Best We Could Do. In addition

things are nice, but the real problems have not gone away. I don’t sleep well at night. When I sit here in the United States and try to enjoy a nice meal, I just think about whichever relative it was that called me earlier in the week asking for money to buy food for their family. It makes it impossible to enjoy a nice meal, or to enjoy going to the movies. I just can’t. I don’t know how. I walk around now with an immense sense of burden. David has earned two master’s degrees — both in business

Halvorson Delivers Homecoming Lecture on Programming and Social Movements View a recording of the October 6 webinar created for the PLU community Posted by: halvormj / September 30, 2020 September 30, 2020 Can learning to code be described as a social movement in American history? PLU Professor Michael Halvorson thinks so. His reflections on the subject were recorded as part of PLU’s Homecoming and Family Week, which presented several lectures by the PLU faculty for the Lute community. The

masked intruders, who fled on foot and exchanged gunfire with the deputy. One suspect was found dead at the scene; another was arrested shortly after on unrelated warrants and faces charges in the crime. McCartney was a 34-year-old Navy veteran. He was married with three young sons. “We lost one of our best,” Sheriff Paul Pastor said in a statement on social media. “I pray for the gracious blessings of strength and peace for his family and friends.”Anyone who wishes to donate to the deputy’s family

capital projects, including the renovation of Eastvold Hall which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Scheduled for completion in the fall of 2013, the center will house a remodeled Eastvold Auditorium, the new Studio Theater and the scene shop. It will be the finest performing arts center in the South Sound area. Tower Chapel will also be renovated, and has been renamed the Ness Family Chapel. It is funded through a generous gift from Kaare and Sigrunn Ness

the plate big time.” East Campus’ annual holiday party was revamped this year. In the past, only about 25 percent of the families were touched by the traditional holiday workshop, which allowed parents and children to pick out gifts for all members of their family. The children in the Head Start program were left out because a parent needed to be present at the workshop. This year, signed parental permission slips allowed the Head Start children to participate in the Dec. 17th holiday party

April 4, 2008 State association recognizes student When she started her undergraduate degree at Western Washington University, Amanda Montgomery decided to major in physics. However, she quickly realized that while she liked studying electrons, fission and atomic numbers, it wasn’t what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She discovered she liked people and changed her major to psychology. After graduating, Montgomery enrolled in PLU’s Marriage and Family Therapy master’s program, from

Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)Working in the field of therapy and mental health is an important career, providing support and help to those in crisis and working toward a more diverse, inclusive, and healthy society. If you are hoping to enter a new career that allows you to improve people’s mental and physical health and address the vulnerability of our communities today, you should consider a career in Marriage and Family Therapy. According to BLS, ​the median annual wage for marriage and family

. I’ve taken numerous studio workshops too as continuing education! I think it’s super important to be a lifelong learner, and taking classes makes me remember what it’s like to be a student. Why did you decide to study art? What sparked your interest in art and how did your academic path and career develop from there? I come from a family of artists, makers, and crafters. My first job as an artist was when I was five years old and I painted trees in the background of my grandfather’s landscape

program during the summer of 1999 during a sabbatical leave, and Lindsey in the summer of 2006. During the apprenticeship program we learned how to care for captive chimpanzees and assisted with ongoing research projects. Now we continue to volunteer at the Chimposiums held at CHCI. These are educational programs that inform the public about the sign language studies this particular family of chimpanzees has been involved in as well as providing information about the plight of free-living chimpanzees