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people, in the past or the present, hold different religious convictions that shape their views of human life on this earth. What can I do with a degree in religion?Recent PLU Religion graduates are currently employed as: Business and Technology Development Consultants Case Managers and Social Workers Pastors Environmental Consultants Grief and Family Services Counselors Teachers Chaplains Lawyers Non-Profit Directors Physicians and Nurses Professors Research and Development Chemists Volunteers and

and financial aid and served in that capacity for 13 years. He then moved to the Office of Development (now Advancement), where his positions included serving as the university’s director of endowed scholarships. Sara Officer Ph.D. Retired PLU teacher, coach and administrator Sara Officer Ph.D. passed away in May 2022. Officer spent 30 years at PLU, retiring in 1998 as a professor and assistant dean. Officer coached several PLU athletics teams and developed an intercollegiate athletic program for

assignments in Tijuana, Mexico and Mogadishu, Somalia. Shella currently works in the Office of Global Change at the U.S. Department of State headquarters in Washington, DC, leading international climate negotiations related to climate adaptation. Photo of Haley Ehlers Haley Ehlers ‘16 (she/her) served as a community economic development Peace Corps Volunteer in Timor-Leste (2016-2018). During her service, she worked with a rural savings and loans cooperative on financial and technology literacy

international health and development. She chose to maximize her graduate school experience by participating in the Peace Corps Masters International Program, which combines graduate studies with Peace Corps Service. As a Preventive Health Education volunteer in rural Senegal, Annē led programs to build cervical cancer prevention services in rural communities and for harm reduction programs around mercury exposure in gold mining communities. Her primary project was leading a pilot study of a proactive model

variety of roles at University of Puget Sound, beginning as a facilities coordinator before being promoted to football recruiting coordinator. She left for a job at Texas Tech, and UW hired her in 1998 as an assistant director of athletic development. “So much of that time at PLU, whether it was in the classroom or work in my graduate-assistant job, was the foundation for how I felt about working in sports to begin with. Philosophically, developing values, what my work ethic was going to be like — I

graduating in 1994, Cohen worked in a variety of roles at University of Puget Sound, beginning as a facilities coordinator before being promoted to football recruiting coordinator. She left for a job at Texas Tech, and UW hired her in 1998 as an assistant director of athletic development. “So much of that time at PLU, whether it was in the classroom or work in my graduate-assistant job, was the foundation for how I felt about working in sports to begin with. Philosophically, developing values, what my

Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Lace M. Smith, associate vice president of marketing and communications Lace is responsible for curating adaptive and sharable content on PLU social media. Starting in PLU’s Student Involvement and Leadership in 2005, Lace has a rooted background in connecting technology, marketing and communications with the concepts of student development. Lace has been a facilitator for the Student Social Justice Training Institute, at multiple queer student leadership retreats

vice president of marketing and communications Lace is responsible for curating adaptive and sharable content on PLU social media. Starting in PLU’s Student Involvement and Leadership in 2005, Lace has a rooted background in connecting technology, marketing and communications with the concepts of student development. Lace has been a facilitator for the Student Social Justice Training Institute, at multiple queer student leadership retreats and has presented at both National Association of Student

the watershed, so that more trash can be removed to reduce the pollution that comes from it. In addition, impervious surfaces allow for toxic pollutants to get into the watershed and our water sources through runoff so I believe that in the future, Pierce County should try to incorporate more pervious surfaces as urbanized development continues. Should less pervious surfaces and more trash become present in this watershed, there will be greater observed impacts on water quality that could be

School of Nursing.  This includes facilitating the development and maintenance of the School of Nursing’s (SoN) Systematic Evaluation Plan (SEP) and supporting the implementation and monitoring of program evaluation assessment activities and improvement processes as required by the accreditation agency AACN CCNE.