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come here and be in our little bubble here at PLU,” said Marisa Etzell ‘20, who works as a student volunteer at Perry G Keithley Middle School in Parkland. “We have the opportunity to serve, and I think that it’s our job as students here at PLU to recognize our privilege and use that privilege as leaders. (We’re in) a rich, diverse community with plenty of opportunities for experiential learning.” The university is working hard to eliminate that gap. CCES is an integral tool to that end, mobilizing

to begin applying to medical school. She hopes to be accepted to the Johns Hopkins University public health MD/MPH program. Read Previous Student-athlete finds a community more than 2,600 miles from home Read Next Suit Up for Senior Year: The College Search Process LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic

pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024

how important his stories were to him. They spoke the truth, the medic wrote, adding that he recalled how he had been trained well on the mechanics of working on wounded soldiers in the field, but he had never been ready to hear the voice of his friends screaming, “Don’t let me die.” By writing, Hrivnak has brought to light some of those details that make such a difference in a place that is as disorienting as a sudden exposure to the desert sun. Read Previous Student Voices Read Next Alaska

October 31, 2013 An African Grey Parrot takes stock of a photographer. (Photo provided by PLU Prof. Charles Bergman.) Free as a bird  — at last PLU Professor and Student Journey to Jane Goodall’s Famed Sanctuary for First-Ever Release of Rescued African Grey Parrots By Barbara Clements, Scene Managing Editor; Photos by Professor Charles Bergman and Nevis Granum ’14 So much for the photo opp. Professor Charles Bergman had been camouflaged in a blind for hours, waiting for a flock of 17 African

to 55 of them, counting all three years’ cohorts—come to campus only every August for 10 days, along with highly distinguished faculty. “It’s like if you mash up a boot camp and a summer camp,” Barot said. “It’s fun, but it’s incredibly rigorous.” Each student is paired with a faculty member, and from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., they attend workshops, talks, readings and “hang out with people of their tribe,” Barot said. The rest of the academic year, students and faculty work together through

November 5, 2014 Highly Decorated U.S. Army Veteran Shares His Journey From Service to PLU Steve Shumaker, a Political Science major at PLU who served in the U.S. Army for 12 years, tosses the coin at the Nov. 8 Military Football Game at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Now a Political Science Major, Steve Shumaker Will Speak at PLU’s Veterans Day Celebration on Nov. 11 By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 6, 2014)—Steve

fulfilling. You don’t want to become an echo chamber, you need someone else to work with. We both were craving collegiality. You need someone to bounce ideas off of.  Rude: A lot of students don’t know that we are actually in two different divisions. I am in Student Life and Laree is on the academic side. By working together, we increase our perspective about what is going on in other parts of the university, which impacts our ability to support our students and our staff. Chapel break has officially

exam is watching the TED Talks and discussing the redesigned aspects of life. For some students, the course is life-changing. Heath says that in 2017 one student stood up on the last day of the class and asked, “Has anyone else been completely blown away and not quite sure how to live their life now?” Multiple students raised their hands. Last year, multiple students came to Heath and said they didn’t know where to go from here. “For me, that was the goal,” Heath says. “To get students to really

continual support for older students also impressed Surla—she befriended other nursing program students older than her, including a student in her 50s. Surla experienced a life-changing J-Term study away experience in Oaxaca, where she helped provide health care at a variety of towns and villages outside Oaxaca City, often working up to 16 hours per day. She and her classmates visited a variety of health care facilities throughout Oaxaca, including a children’s hospital, retirement home, Red Cross