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Professor Mike Halvorson publishes new book Posted by: tpotts / October 7, 2024 Image: Promotional photos for the Innovation Studies Program with Michael J. Halvorson, Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, at PLU. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) October 7, 2024 The History Department’s own Professor Michael J. Halvorson, with Shelly Cano Kurtz, has published a new book, “This Little World: A How-to Guide for Social Innovators”. “Little World” is a PLU-inspired

policy innovation and evaluation (PIE) and communications intern. “It’s great work!” she said. “I maintain and manage the Tacoma Housing Authority’s social media, and I help with website updates. I’ve even been able to do some in-person work taking photos of local small business owners.” Kang aims to help make THA’s online presence feel accessible and approachable. “I’m really enjoying sharing the things I’ve learned at PLU with my coworkers, and online,” she said. “I think it’s important that we

their opinions in light of new information or differing perspectives. Guest Speakers: To spark interest and introduce variety, consider inviting a guest speaker to talk to your class. Students can converse live with your guest in person or using a web-conferencing tool. They could also interact asynchronously with a guest using a discussion forum or social media tool like Twitter or Facebook. If you are interested in learning more, check out this blog post Understand, Engage, Connect: Meeting

beginning of spring semester. Athletic Marketing and Social Media Director Sarah Hebel said the new mascot fits not only with the athletics brand, but also with all of PLU.  “We needed something that we could out into the community even beyond athletics that would be a recognizable image that people would associate with PLU,” she said. “This can be the identity people associate with PLU campuswide.”  Sarah Giomi ’18, a member of the cheer squad, loves the spirit Lancelute encourages. “The mascot really

supportive learning space for participants to discuss race and racial disparities that are systemically present in work, school, and everyday life. This summer’s emergency convening was organized in response to the increased public indignation regarding police brutality towards Black people.  “Millions of people worldwide watched in horror on television and social media as a law enforcement officer, with callousness,  murdered a black man,” said Melannie Denise Cunningham, PLU director of multicultural

steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E. Benson and the Benson Family Foundation. Summer 2021 marks the 6th year of Benson research activity and brings the total number of student fellowship recipients to 13. Recent program graduates have gone on to work in education, the high-tech sector, government, and business. Six students have also attended graduate school in the disciplines of history, education, medicine, and social sciences. A Podcast about History and Innovation

. Each one of them is passionate about public policy, legislative process and their particular role in the lawmaking process. Briahna Murray '07 ( )Vice President, Gordon Thomas Honeywell | English and Political Science Major   Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery("#audio-4178").jPlayer({ ready: function () { jQuery(this).jPlayer("setMedia", { mp3: "//www.plu.edu/news/wp

Alaska Airlines Credit Union. Butters is now the recruitment marketing team leader at MultiCare Health System. She oversees all of MultiCare’s recruitment marketing, managing virtual hiring events, websites, social media, and more. “I love getting to do all of those different pieces,” she says. “It just makes it so interesting. Every day is different.” Read our full profile of Leah Butters. Read Previous Yaquelin Ramirez’s ’22 passion for helping others leads to a future in healthcare Read Next

Summer Program for Undergraduate Research at University of Oregon Posted by: alemanem / January 12, 2018 January 12, 2018 Applications are now being accepted for the University of Oregon’s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). The program supports 10-week mentored summer research experience that also includes travel, room and board, stipends, professional development workshops, and community-building social activities. Students from underrepresented groups in life sciences are

PLU Marketing Students Win Business Competition Track Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 24, 2015 Image: A Marketing Management team made up of, from left, Taylor Gonzales, Kevin McKay, Kayla Evans, Lindsey Campbell and Austen Wilson (all ’15), took first place in a track of the 2015 Business Plan Competition. April 24, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 24, 2015)—A team of PLU Marketing students has won the Social Business track of the 2015 Business Plan