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abroad in Europe, but knew little about Africa or Islam. “My world view was very narrow,” she admitted. Mauritania expanded it, rapidly. “It was a fantastic experience,” she said, “which I benefited from way more than the people I was quote-unquote ‘helping.’” Wiley’s new book, Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania (Indiana University Press), is based on anthropological research she conducted on a return trip years later. It focuses on women who are Haratine — a term that refers
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went on to earn a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Washington. Brian is a recognized leader in the government and nonprofit sectors, and has developed cross sector recognition as an innovator. He has a proven track record in developing and implementing innovative educational programs and leading large-scale operations that provide digital skills training, community-based learning, and educational advancement for children, families, and adults. Read more
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) at any time via on-demand and scheduled appointments. We encourage you to connect with this service as it fits for you. Counseling Center Crisis Line Students in need of urgent mental health support have access 24-hours a day to telephone-based support. The Crisis Line provides a triage service to assess the nature of student’s presenting concerns and help students identify next steps to support their health and safety. Call (253) 535-7075 to speak with a counselor immediately. Winter BreakAll
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Prague and Vienna for a week. Upon my return to the States, I started working part time at MJH in a new capacity in the Education department. I assist with organizing the Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education program for teachers at Jewish schools, planning workshops for Jewish day school students, and helping to plan for the annual Interfaith Living Museum program, which brings together fifth graders from Jewish and Muslim day schools to create an exhibition based on their family religious
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/Phil 248 is near capacity with 56 students registered between the courses. The new class is drawing participants from a variety of majors on campus and also includes a healthy number of undecided majors and first-year students. It is especially helpful to start the college experience with a team-based curriculum like this. Halvorson described a few of the activities that the students will be doing. “The Innovation Studies program is sponsoring a new creative makerspace in Hinderlie Hall, and our
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a couple months out of undergrad how much he enjoys reading and talking about books, especially in a university setting where his peers share his passion. And, in hindsight, his training as an EMT connected with the study of teaching; both professions are fundamentally about helping people. “Once I got to graduate school, I discovered that I absolutely adored teaching,” Schaumberg said, “and that being in this collaborative discussion-based environment, thinking about important stuff, talking
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kid from northern New York, she’d studied abroad in Europe, but knew little about Africa or Islam. “My world view was very narrow,” she admitted. Mauritania expanded it, rapidly. “It was a fantastic experience,” she said, “which I benefited from way more than the people I was quote-unquote ‘helping.’” Wiley’s new book, Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania (Indiana University Press), is based on anthropological research she conducted on a return trip years later. It focuses on
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rest of your life.” Manfredi stressed that it isn’t unique for college students to study in China; many institutions have programs based in the two major cities in the eastern part of the country — Beijing and Shanghai. PLU’s program, however, is located in western China, in Sichuan’s provincial capital. That, he says, is distinct. “It’s far from those cosmopolitan centers,” he said. “It’s somewhat off the beaten path, though maybe a little bit less so since we started the program.” At the time the
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range of psychology courses as well as seminars on the development of immigrant youth and families in the US. Her research examines (1) psychosocial wellbeing among transnational and mixed-status migrant families from the Global South, and (2) critical consciousness development in diverse groups of adolescents and young adults. She uses community-based and participatory research methods in her work with youth, families, and communities. Prior to joining the faculty at UWT, Rachel was a Research
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competitive full-tuition engineering fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis, and several others have received half-tuition awards and other merit-based scholarships. Did you know? Most students pursue the physics degree while at PLU, but if you’re interested in chemical engineering or biomedical engineering, you can choose to study chemistry at PLU instead. Did you know? Dual-degree students can participate in PLU’s Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (NSSURP), which
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