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assignments in Tijuana, Mexico and Mogadishu, Somalia. Shella currently works in the Office of Global Change at the U.S. Department of State headquarters in Washington, DC, leading international climate negotiations related to climate adaptation. Photo of Haley Ehlers Haley Ehlers ‘16 (she/her) served as a community economic development Peace Corps Volunteer in Timor-Leste (2016-2018). During her service, she worked with a rural savings and loans cooperative on financial and technology literacy

Mergenthal, History) Teresa Hackler (Karen Travis, Economics) Michael Diambri (Beth Kraig, History) Alex Lund (Rebekah Mergenthal, History) Marc Vetter (Peter Grosvenor, Global Studies) Matthew Macfarlane (Michael Halvorson, History)Call for 2025 Summer Research Fellows in Business and Economic HistoryDeadline: April 1, 2025 Contact: Michael Halvorson (halvormj@plu.edu), Dept. of HistoryDescriptionPLU is pleased to announce the availability of student research fellowships in Innovation Studies and

are only now being recognized. Through presentations by professionals, authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. If one is at all in doubt about this being a different world, consider that there are now 193 counties following a labyrinth of political systems and economic models, and a global population that now exceeds 7 billion. Just as the symposium reaches out to challenge the assumptions and

Acclaim 2016-17 Dear SOAC Alumni and Friends: I welcome you to our first-ever Alumni Magazine of the School of Arts and Communication at Pacific Lutheran University – Acclaim. There is much to celebrate regarding our students, faculty and alumni. As a professional school, we remain committed to providing our students with an exceptional education and to building and enhancing our community through the study, practice and understanding of artistic expression. Read more from Dean Bennett Features

After his first sabbatical became a great learning experience in 2006, Professor of Music Svend Rønning left campus for the 2015-16 sabbatical with a new mindset — to focus on teaching his specialties to the broader musical community. “I’ve gone on a quest to share my specialties with students and colleagues in a portable way,” Rønning said. “I’m excited about the relationships I’ve built across the nation.” Rønning graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with an undergraduate degree in

Student writes of her student-faculty research experience By Kaitlyn Hall ’17 Kaitlyn Hall is a senior Communication and Spanish major. We study the past and the present to inform the future. Student-faculty research offers one of the university’s most valuable opportunities for collaboration and innovation, bringing together academics of diverse experience and interests. Communication professor Justin Eckstein and I first met in a class centered on researching restaurant success. It started

In the opera titled “Fiery Jade — Cai Yan,” the ancient story of Chinese poet Cai Yan proves an excellent example of diverse perspectives and student-faculty collaboration. HOW IT’S MADE The music for Fiery Jade is composed by Greg Youtz, PLU professor of music and composer, and the script — known as a libretto — is written by poet Zhang Er. “I just love getting inside a poet’s words,” Youtz said. “When you set words to music, you get deeply inside the poet’s creative space.” Youtz has been