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PLU Senior to Present Economics Capstone at National Conference Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 24, 2015 Image: Helen “Nellie” Moran ’15 (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 24, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 24, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University senior Helen “Nellie” Moran has been chosen out of 3,700 submissions to present her Economics Capstone at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 16-18.Moran, a double major in Economics

, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale.By Dr. Gregory YoutzPLU Professor of Music and ComposerTACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The late September sun was hot as we crowded in through a narrow door into a lobby full of metal detectors and federal security agents. Behind us Vietnamese and Falun Gong protesters waved flags and signs. Police were everywhere, as the whole neighborhood around Lincoln High School had

Summer Internship: Economics major finds family environment with global company Posted by: tpotts / October 28, 2022 October 28, 2022 Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study

Summer Internship: Economics major finds family environment with global company Posted by: Silong Chhun / August 30, 2022 Image: Travis McDaneld ’23 spent his summer interning with Russell Investments as a data analyst with the global data operations team. August 30, 2022 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsTravis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business

Healthcare Economics: An Interview with Teresa Hackler and Karen Travis Posted by: halvormj / April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018 By Michael Halvorson, Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History The following excerpts were gathered from an April 24, 2018 conversation between Michael Halvorson, PLU student Teresa Hackler, and Economics professor Karen Travis. Hackler and Travis completed a Benson Summer Research project together in 2017 on healthcare economics and racial discrimination in

graduating from Pacific Lutheran University. Bozich gained the first-hand experience needed to draw that conclusion thanks to the Whiteneck and Smith Global Peacebuilding Award, which funded her internship with World Vision in Washington, D.C. She was one of two recipients of the award during the 2015-16 academic year. “I learned that development and humanitarian aid is really, really messy and highly political, regardless of how you’re involved with the system,” Bozich said. “I also learned that

. “Economics is fundamentally a discipline in which we study how and why we make decisions,” says Associate Professor of Economics Karen Travis. “It is the wide range of applications that tends to draw a very broad pool of students, including those interested in finance or developing economies.” “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

PLU Awarded $14,000 for Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund Posted by: Silong Chhun / December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsSchool’s Out Washington and the Washington State Department of Commerce has awarded Pacific Lutheran University a grant for $14,000 from its Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund. The grant will go toward the Tacoma/South Puget Sound MESA program, which prioritizes early exposure to STEM topics and

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. It would seem appropriate that someone with such passion for Justice would go on to meet the trailblazing woman – the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice – whose name is attached to the school he attends. Kim, who double majored in economics and psychology at PLU, says he made it to law school because of the graciousness of his support network and the rigor of his undergraduate experience. He spent four years at PLU: working 30 hours a week to pay for living

read relevant historiography and primary sources, then record and edit podcasts in PLU’s Martin J. Neeb Center. Hotels and Sustainability Kristin Moniz (Business, Economics) has received funding to study the business and economic history of hotels, with an emphasis on how the hospitality industry has managed sustainability initiatives over the past 40 years. A long-time resident of Hawaii, Kristin plans to research several hotel properties on the islands and integrate data from Airbnb, a recent