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Growing into her own: Sarah Davis ’23 discovers her passion for plant biology at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / April 26, 2023 Image: Sarah Davis ’23, a biology major and Hispanic studies minor, was drawn to PLU for several reasons — both her parents are alumni, the study-away opportunities were exciting and the community was welcoming. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 26, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterSarah Davis began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine

Oregon, but I found a great, flourishing Asian community here that I can call my friends. It is a place that makes me feel like I can be me. Who impacted you the most at PLU? Dr. Sailu Lulu Li has been my biggest mentor. She is also from China. Dr. Lulu jump-started my finance career and walked me through how to navigate America as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, especially in the field of finance. You started as a business major with a concentration in accounting but switched to a

Namibia, where she essentially built her classroom—from the daily lessons to the posters on the walls.  “I learned what it was like to kickstart a music classroom from nothing,” Jessa says. “I created my own safe space, and that was really fun.” Read Previous Inspired by Women: Cora Beeson’s research in Indonesia began with her Taiwanese Grandmother’s caretaker Read Next Creative Community: Autumn Thompson ’24 reimagines PLU spaces—in the art gallery and the residence halls COMMENTS*Note: All comments

to support students and sees parallels between preparing to be an educator and the support she receives from scholarships. As she shares, the PLU community’s commitment to students like her “truly inspires me to work harder to achieve my goals. I plan to make the most out of my scholarships by giving back to my community.” Hayley Maqui ’24, BiologyIn addition to graduating this spring, Hayley Maqui ’24 just completed 300+ hours of clinical healthcare experience, including shifts in the ICU

community of professors in the Humanities Division. “It is my sense that the professors genuinely care about you. As a new faculty member, I have received help with all of my questions from generous colleagues.” Having this level of support available has made Professor Zhu’s journey at PLU less challenging and has allowed him to better balance teaching, researching, and writing his dissertation. Professor Zhu taught his first PLU class, Chinese 101, this past fall, and then taught Chinese 102 and

persuading Georgiana to have Charles paint her, Arthur Parker (Turlough Convery) says that an artist “sees things with a rare clarity” and claims that Lockhart takes an unprejudiced approach to his work (S2E3). He then opens up to her about how personally meaningful a portrait Charles made of him had been because it conveyed a power he had always wanted others to see in himself. Knowing that he and Georgiana are bonded through a shared sense of feeling othered by their community, Arthur wants to share

significant impact upon the community. “I was impressed by the high level of music making by everyone on stage, ensembles and soloists.  Wow!  And then the audience sang the first carol, and I mean, really sang!  I felt I had arrived at some sort of musical utopia.” What’s a typical day like at PLU for you?There is never a typical day, it is always different.  But generally speaking, each morning I will be teaching, preparing to teach, or grading.  Then I might have an advising appointment with a student

to remove the rock via controlled explosions along the river bottom and dredge out the rubble to add a foot and a half of depth in order to keep the river operational until spring rains. In Thebes, we spoke with local history expert and owner of Thebes Landing: Trailer park and campground, Neal Day. He explained how the river construction had impacted the small community, which as very minimally. What I found even more interesting were Day’s thoughts and memories on how the river itself had

PLU study away was put on hold for 2020-2021. We were so excited to send students into the world again this year! The Annual Wang Center Photo Contest is an opportunity for #LutesAway students to reflect upon their study away experience and provides a way for students to share the world’s images, from their perspective, with the PLU community. If you’re ready to begin planning for your own study away experience and want to join the 40-50% of PLU students who study away at least once during their

has also pledged support for a new Rieke greenhouse/laboratory that will support both teaching and research. Early in the campaign, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer was brought online in Rieke. Faculty and student researchers use it to study the bonding of atoms in a molecule to gain a better understanding of chemical compounds. Funded by the campaign and the National Science Foundation, the facility is one of the first of its kind located at a West Coast undergraduate university