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proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans? There are so many wonderful people who influenced me at PLU. I had a fantastic time senior year studying piano with Professor Oksana Ezhokina. She challenged and encouraged me. She also gave me lots of playing opportunities, such as monthly studio classes

a fit for all these levels of experience and education. That has tremendous benefits for our community. The ships we see in the ports are coming from and going to – I imagine – a wide variety of international destinations. What is your role in developing international partnerships? A big part of the role at the NW Seaport Alliance is building strong relationships with our customers. The large shipping lines that call our gateway are typically foreign-owned carriers, most of the freight

contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts.  After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to

work has usually been revolved around this theme, I have yet to discover my exact purpose as an artist. I began my journey into art through photography when I discovered how exciting it was during the end of my sophomore year in college. From there I began to discover how fascinating digital art was. I’ve always wanted to become a game designer, which is why I pursued an education in Math and Computer Science, but I discovered the visual designs of art were more fascinating. I began to realize that

, second only to New Jersey. The Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area also has an unusually high concentration of jobs in these fields, the fourth highest in the country. Further, employment for market analysts is projected to grow an astounding 22 percent by 2030, which is much faster than the national average for all occupations. An inside look at PLU’s master’s degree in marketing analyticsPacific Lutheran University’s Master of Science in Marketing Analytics (MSMA) is an innovative analytics degree

middle school math and science teacher. No roads lead to Naknek, which survives predominantly on the summer salmon fishing industry. The only way to get to Naknek is by boat or plane into nearby King Salmon, Alaska, which at one time served as a U.S. Air Force base. The area’s one paved road is the 15-mile stretch of blacktop constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between King Salmon and Naknek. During the fishing season, the airport serves thousands of fishermen and cannery workers who come

me about ways people perceive and interact with the environment and asked me to critically consider negative social externalities that arise from pollution and other concerns. I really enjoyed these classes but wanted the opportunity to take more math and science courses and ended up shifting the environmental studies degree to a minor and adding a chemistry major. The Hispanic Studies degree was really inspired by my high school Spanish teacher. I took AP Spanish 4 and 5 in high school and loved

instructors from around campus and our community–into their understanding of what this watershed means in a really broad sense. How is this course shaping our students? This course exemplifies a very PLU approach to learning: it’s applied, it’s engaged with the community, it’s taking a holistic perspective, and it’s truly interdisciplinary. It’s not only environmental science but environmental studies—which means that it includes that broader picture, bringing the liberal arts into conversation with that

insightful answers,” Heath writes in the class syllabus. “Although we will be using some scientific methods of inquiry and exploring scientific ideas, this is not a science course. As we work to design our starship, we will find that many of the lessons we learn can be directly applied on Earth.” "(The goal is) to get students to really see some of the harm that our society is doing so that they can’t really ignore it and live the same way they have been."- Professor Daniel Heath In the first few weeks

exclusively on this work that I am so passionate about is a dream come true and further solidified my career goal of becoming a full-time scientist. It has also made lab courses look far more digestible than I had previously found them to be. Whether it be in my academic studies or my future career plans, I hope to carry with me the organization, work ethic, and joy for science that I found working at Fred Hutch. Murdoch and their lab mates pose for a polaroid photo. Could you reflect on any networking