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her things and leave that day. Chell says she barely had enough time to say goodbye to her host family and close friends before leaving.  “There was no closure,” she says. “Something I’ll wrestle with is just the highlighted privilege of I’m there to be a public health education volunteer and the moment a pandemic comes, I leave. That felt really awful.”Serving during the pandemic Chell made it back home to South Dakota safely. But she found it difficult to hunker down as many were doing to ride

. Ambassadors are individuals that for whatever reason cannot be released back into the wild. At that point, their options are euthanasia or becoming an ambassador and spending the rest of their lives in captivity where they are used for educational purposes. Ambassadors are an essential part of wildlife education because they allow the general public to develop a relationship with an individual. Numerous studies have shown that relationship greatly increases the likelihood that individuals will do

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decides to remain in Vietnam. Imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp, he urges his family to make the escape by boat without him. His wife Mai, son Lai and mother Ba Noi then embark on the arduous ocean voyage in the hope of reaching the U.S. and freedom.—from www.journeyfromthefall.com/Synopsis.aspx   Terry S. & Freida, L. M. (Directors). (1994). Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. [Film] American Film Foundation. https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.plu.edu/watch/maya-lin-a-strong-clear

The Women’s Center at 25: Stories of Inspiration and Impact Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 5, 2015 Image: People gather at the Women’s Center for a retreat. (PLU file photo) March 5, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. Along the way, through education, counseling, mentoring and

PLU invests in continued accessibility improvements across campus with help from student advocates Posted by: Kari Plog / September 19, 2017 Image: Noelle Green ’18 has been a vocal advocate for accessibility on PLU’s campus. She is pictured above on a new ramp in the Kreidler Hall lounge. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 19, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 19, 2017)- Noelle Green ’18 says equal access to education means equal access to facilities

” will vie for Oscar nomination in the Best Short Film (Live Action) category at the 2018 Academy Awards. The lengthy process involves competing against more than 100 qualifying films before the Academy narrows the nominee pool to five; Petersen hopes “All the Marbles” makes the cut. Petersen said his time studying theatre at PLU helped prepare him to write, produce and star in film projects. His says the education in makeup, sound, set design and a host of other production elements equipped him for

fundraising wasn’t enough, that education was a big part of seeing a change. That has been our motivation for our educational events which included a professor panel on the healthcare proposals by the presidential primary candidates (McCain, Clinton, and Obama), our screening of “Sicko” by Michael Moore, and our recent debate on healthcare reform with the PLU Democrats and Republicans. We, as well as our members, are very proud of our involvement with the club and the groups success. Progress is

majority of that time. “We really appreciate this method of branding it, and so we decided to go ahead and utilize their tools to help students understand their role in preventing violence on our campus,” said Stephens. “We’ve gone through different versions of how we do prevention, but when the bystander education version of prevention came about, it resonated with me a lot.” Stephens says that previous prevention work around the country hasn’t changed the sexual-assault numbers. Many colleges and

, Kamal holds multiple cultures between her fingers while maintaining their distinctions. The novel’s epigraph signals the tapestry Kamal weaves and unweaves through her writing. First, an 1813 letter from Austen to her sister, Cassandra about her feeling that Pride & Prejudice would benefit from “something unconnected to the story” to ground it; second, Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1835 “Minute on Education” in which he claims that “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native