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series, titled “A World of Difference,” explores issues of diversity, including gender, race, immigration and social class. The first two segments, about immigration and gender, will screen at 4 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the Seattle Central Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. in Seattle. The other two portions of the series will premiere in Tacoma later this spring. “A World of Difference” was jointly sponsored and supported by PLU’s School of Arts and Communication, the Wang Center for Global Education and

year.    Check out worldofdifferenceseries.com for more information about the MediaLab documentary. Visit www.plu.edu/medialab to learn more about MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program. Generous funding helped make “A World of Difference” and “More Than a Mission” possible. The former received funds from PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and PLU’s Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability (DJS) Fund.  The latter also received funds from PLU’s DJS Fund, as well as the Center for

accountant and even ran her own accounting business for many years. She first earned an associate’s and then a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Western Governors University, but she didn’t feel quite comfortable with her career path. “I finished the bachelor’s in June of 2019, and by Christmas time, I felt this little tapping on my shoulder.”PLU's ABSN ProgramIf you have a non-nursing college education, a rewarding nursing career is closer than you think. Earn Your Nursing Degree in 16 Months!She

and with the Associated Students of PLU (ASPLU). We sat down with Tugade to learn more about his PLU experience. Tell me about your sociology capstone.  My capstone is on financial aid in higher education. I am looking at how graduating students are affected by different demographic and financial factors, using a PLU dataset from 2010 to 2023.  What is your hope for this research? I am going to make a big ol’ presentation. Hopefully, it will be for Student Financial Services or even a retention

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education. ACTFL’s mission is to provide vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages.As President of ACTFL, Dr. Yaden runs board meetings, writes for the organization, and advocates for language learning in Washington DC. She had also planned to travel to about 30 different national and international conferences. Many of these were either cancelled or moved online due to the pandemic. This meant that, instead of traveling around both the country and world, Dr. Yaden

me a little about the internship. What are you doing, what are you learning? As a Bio Tech at this refuge, I work under the supervision of the head biologist to catalyze hydrologic restoration for bird habitats, test the water (mainly salinity, conductivity, and temperature at various sites,) establish baseline vegetation data sets, network with land agency professionals, set up bird nest-monitoring technology, eradicate invasive species, build an outdoor education center, and work on wetland

-monitoring technology, eradicate invasive species, build an outdoor education center, and work on wetland delineation. What do you enjoy about your internship? I love this amalgam of scientific research and manual labor. There are plenty of chances to read and evaluate data, but it’s also truly satisfying to learn by physically living here. It may sound sentimentalized to say this; there’s something irreplaceable about waking up in nature, working outside, and listening to the outdoors. You’d be

communication professor Cliff Rowe Enhancing their French language skills and indulging in the rhythm and energy of the French Creole culture in Martinique, with French professor Roberta Brown Analyzing how the arts can be used to promote religious and political beliefs in Neah Bay, Washington, with anthropology professor David Huelsbeck Exploring the history and culture of New Zealand while backpacking through the country’s dramatic scenery with associate physical education professor Bradford Moore

relationship with the students, and find out the food they eat and the food they want. Are there sustainable choices, including local and organic options? Can students find ways to make some of the same dishes in a cost-effective manner in their residence hall? And then there’s this: Is there an opportunity to educate students about their eating experiences? (PLU is all about education, after all.) For instance, each year as part of “Culinary Week,” Certified Master Chef Ken Arnone (and instructor at the