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Michael Farnum. Tuesday, Nov. 11: All PLU faculty and staff members, alumni and students with military ties are invited to submit photos for the Veterans Photo Gallery Wall at Kreidler Hall, which will be open for viewing following the Veterans Day Celebration. (Submit your photo to CTSC@plu.edu.) Wednesday, Nov. 26: PLU will host approximately 120 active-duty Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers for a Thanksgiving meal. These soldiers are new to JBLM; some are away from home for the first time and are

comedians Dean Obeidallah and the Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi who explore how comedy might be used as a strategy to mitigate the swelling tide of anti-Muslim sentiment. Audience members, both in the theater and online, are encouraged to participate in this global conversation. During the event, lend your voice to the conversation on Twitter with #beyondbombers. After the documentary stay for a panel discussion that will further dissect the thoughts presented in the film. Read Previous Peace and Conflict

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entire curriculum for the Ph.D. was a Friday afternoon seminar/introduction to the department/introduction to the field. Each week, the faculty member in charge of the class would pick a topic that was “hot” in communication, and ask two other faculty members to discuss the topic from their respective theoretical or methodological or practical standpoints—for instance, “activism” or “engagement” or “campaigning” or whatever. The idea was to let graduate students see how scholars approach a topic and

Tacoma-area Conference for Innovation Students Submit your proposals by February 22, 2021 Posted by: halvormj / February 4, 2021 February 4, 2021 By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies Are you a current Innovation Studies student? Read on if you’re interested in presenting a paper or student project at a local Innovation conference. I was contacted recently by a colleague at the UW/Tacoma who directs their university’s Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement. Each year they

Mary Beth Sheehan ’00, Immigration Law Attorney Posted by: Zach Powers / November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015 Mary Beth Sheehan ’00 is an award-winning attorney specializing in immigration law, including removal defense, asylum, U visas, VAWA claims, family-based petitions, adjustment of status and naturalization. Sheehan is one of 11 notable alumni currently featured in a billboard campaign that asks “what can you do with a PLU degree?” Others featured in the campaign include Android co-founder

policy world; it also required that she learn MBA skills by using them — working with leadership, finance, and marketing on everything from cost structure and hiring strategy to market position and brand advantage. Juntunen eventually became vice president of operations, then president. Now, she is a thought leader in the field, with almost half of her time leading teams doing policy research, and the rest leading the firm’s strategy and growth. ECO remains rooted in the belief that place matters

, professional studies and civic engagement—to their undergraduate students. And while voters, shareholders and governing boards continue to affirm leaders with robust multi-sector knowledge and a track record of civic engagement, far too many universities are trending in the opposite direction, decreasing their emphasis on general education and interdisciplinary studies, and creating fast track curriculums focused solely on a highly specialized degree.Simply put, a college curriculum that is not open to

,” he says. The two years Johnson spent as assistant director of alumni and constituent relations at PLU were pivotal in his discernment process. Inspired by Mary Oliver’s 2008 visit, the campus conversation at the time circled around the final line of “A Summer Day” her 1992 poem: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” Johnson being interviewed on the beach while helping to coordinate the cleanup work near Daytona Beach. Johnson with American Red Cross intern

research projects in the laboratories of Graduate School faculty members. Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques and plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. SURF introduces students to the kinds of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and fosters an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of answers to current questions in the biological sciences. At the end of the SURF Program, fellows