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Knowledge Bowl.“This experience was one for the books. I used to compete on a knowledge bowl team in high school, so it was fun to compete again and represent the department of kinesiology,” said Pociernicki. “It brought me a lot closer to Brianna and Emily and created a stronger relationship between the three of us.” Whittaker, Pociernicki, and O’Malley competed against winners of all eleven ACSM regions, including large public universities like University of Alabama, Michigan State University, and

. 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

documentary, “Building Connections: Reclaiming the Lost Narratives of the Alaska-Canada Highway,” which premiered at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. The film chronicles the lives of the soldiers who built the highway, as well as the residents and First Nations people who were irrevocably changed by the project. The yearlong odyssey took the pair to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., up the Alaska-Canada Highway twice, and to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers archives in Virginia

Sustainable Polymers: (Bio) Renewable Feedstocks and Resource-Efficient Processing Benefits Include: $6000.00 summer stipend on campus housing limited travel budget team-building activities and field trips Program Dates: Monday, May 24th – Friday, July 30th 2021 Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 More information is available here: https://www.usm.edu/polymer-science-engineering/nsf-research-experience-undergraduates-reu.php Read Previous SUMMER, 3-CREDIT, ALL-OUTDOOR FIELD SCIENCE COURSE Read Next

, Whitman College Music Building, Walla Walla at 7:30pm (free admission) Friday, April 19 Ferris High School exchange, Spokane Repertoire being performed will include works by Verdi, Borodin, Mozart, Enescu, Schend, and Janáček. Read Previous PLU Trumpet Ensemble live on KING-FM Read Next Jazz Under the Stars concert lineup announced LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music

Sustainable Polymers: (Bio) Renewable Feedstocks and Resource-Efficient Processing Benefits Include: $6000.00 summer stipend on campus housing limited travel budget team-building activities and field trips Program Dates: Monday, May 24th – Friday, July 30th 2021 Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 More information is available here: https://www.usm.edu/polymer-science-engineering/nsf-research-experience-undergraduates-reu.php Read Previous INMED – Reimagine Indians Into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2021

authority that is uniquely based on their background. A big part of the study away program is for the students to learn how to recognize what created those varied perspectives – the people they met and the stories they heard helped guide that. “It’s a real important principal in anthropology,” he said. “There is no one Makah perspective any more than there is one American perspective.” Huelsbeck’s course has created a unique relationship between himself the tribe and PLU. Beginning as a graduate student

family members perished in the Holocaust. He eventually settled in Tacoma and in 1957 established the first volume home-building company in the area. The company, now known as Mayer Built Homes, specialized in subsidized and affordable housing. Mayer operated the company until 1981, building thousands of single-family homes and multi-family apartment units in Washington, Idaho and Colorado. Today the firm is operated by Mayer’s son, Joe. “When my generation passes there will no longer be eyewitnesses

October 21, 2011 PLU’s first solar panel system arrives in 2012 By: Katie Scaff ’13 PLU is that much closer to being carbon neutral by 2020 thanks to a $50,000 Solar 4R Schools grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The grant will pay for a 20-ft solar panel system, which will be installed on the Facilities Building   in March 2012.Designs are currently underway. Chrissy Cooley, sustainability manager through facilities management, worked with students to write the grant, and

will equip her to acquire her dream job as a member of the World Health Organization. Lapp is also a sophomore and a double-major, in Anthropology and Global Studies; she also is completing a minor in Hispanic Studies. In her two years at PLU, she has spent a January term in Northern Ireland and a full semester in Oaxaca, Mexico. It was in Northern Ireland that Lapp was formally introduced to peace-building as an academic study. “In these trips I discovered that peace-building is a necessity in