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New ’employer relations’ position connects students with employers By Steve Hansen A new position has been created on campus to help bring together students with future employers in the region. Bobbi Hughes, who has been advocating for students at the Women’s Center, has been named…
able to offer more targeted relations [with the business community],” Hughes said. “It is relationship building – something that will really benefit PLU.” Located in Ramstad Commons, Hughes will work closely with Pat Roundy, dean for student academic success, and director of Academic Advising. You can reach her at 253-535-8268, or hughesbr@plu.edu. Read Previous PLU prof awarded prize from Yale University Read Next Wild Hope Project finds a permanent home COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated
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Clarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU’s art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn’t easy—she had a child during her senior year, and juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as…
Alum combines passion for art and community with Tacoma Creates Posted by: vcraker / August 5, 2022 August 5, 2022 Clarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU’s art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn’t easy—she had a child during her senior year, and juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as a gallery assistant, Museum of Glass associate, and gallery exhibitions manager for the next seven years. All
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Art in—and for—the Community PLU students prepare the Parkland Post Office wall for a community mural. (Photo: Parkland Community Mural Project) Parkland Community Mural Project is a Shared Reflection of History and Identity By Shunying Wang ’15 Learn more about ‘and work on!’ the mural…
May 1, 2014 Art in—and for—the Community PLU students prepare the Parkland Post Office wall for a community mural. (Photo: Parkland Community Mural Project) Parkland Community Mural Project is a Shared Reflection of History and Identity By Shunying Wang ’15 Learn more about ‘and work on!’ the mural project On Facebook. On the project blog. Volunteers are welcome to help paint the mural; May painting dates are scheduled for Saturday, May 10; Saturday, May 17; Wednesday, May 21; Friday, May
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Originally published on the PLU Library blog . Reposted with permission. During J-Term 2021, students in Assistant Professor Kate Drazner Hoyt’s Media Literacy COMA 388 explored topics such as: the role that the press plays in sustaining democracies; the different forms of online misinformation and…
Media Literacy J-Term Projects Posted by: Reesa Nelson / April 13, 2021 April 13, 2021 By Holly SennResident Assistant Professor, Virtual Reference Services LibrarianOriginally published on the PLU Library blog. Reposted with permission.During J-Term 2021, students in Assistant Professor Kate Drazner Hoyt’s Media Literacy COMA 388 explored topics such as: the role that the press plays in sustaining democracies; the different forms of online misinformation and disinformation; the rise of
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Finding strength through community WHEN SHE CAME to PLU as a first-year student, one might excuse Bashair Alazadi for being slightly more anxious than most students. Alazadi is Shi’ite Muslim. There might have been a few butterflies, she said, but that had more to do…
students? “Everything just felt so nice – everyone was so welcoming,” she said. Alazadi values community – it is an essential component of her family life and her Muslim faith. Her family fled Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 1990 after a failed uprising and a subsequent crackdown from dictator Saddam Hussein. After four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, she and her family landed in Everett, Wash. She was only four. The tight-knit Iraqi community of 100- or-so families has sustained her ever since. Alazadi’s
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 24, 2016)- In the U.S. and around the world, rivers represent primary sources for the water we need to live. But PLU digital media major Rachel Lovrovich ’18 did not become aware that many major water sources are in serious trouble until…
. MediaLab students work on projects across the media spectrum, including market research, photography, graphic design, web design, writing, video, public relations, event planning, filmmaking and more. Read Previous Scholars gather at PLU for International Transformative Learning Conference Read Next Students plan to build upon archaeological research following museum partnership, summer dig in Roche Harbor COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad
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Looking at the packed tables, “the smiles on their faces, the sense of community, and the appreciation they express are incredibly gratifying,” says junior Rayen Slama, a Tunisian exchange student at PLU who volunteered for the October and November meals. Community Meals unite many people…
Community Meals brings people together and feeds souls Posted by: Ava Edmonds / December 1, 2023 Image: PLU and Trinity Lutheran Church are partnering up for a new collaborative dinner series, Community Meals. Community members gather around a table enjoying October’s meal and company. (All photos provided by Rev. Jen Rude) December 1, 2023 By Britt BoardUniversity RelationsLooking at the packed tables, “the smiles on their faces, the sense of community, and the appreciation they express are
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Do you ever worry about history-tracking web browsers, “smart” kitchen appliances, and the even smarter phones we sleep next to? PLU Assistant Professor of Communication Marnie Ritchie thinks about these things. She thinks about them A LOT. Ritchie is an award-winning researcher and writer in…
. Interesting. I feel like that rhetoric is still common in airports. Yes, absolutely. You’ll encounter it a lot when you travel. This rhetoric is trying to make us lower the threshold for reporting what we see or what we hear in our everyday environment to law enforcement.Department of Communication, Media & Design Arts A strategic and creative curriculum to prepare students for careers in diverse fields including print and digital design, journalism, PR & advertising, film & media production, and studio
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Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and…
May 13, 2014 Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and Communications It’s that time of year again: What do you do with that couch, or mattress or lamp you no longer want? And what about that unopened box of gluten-free
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Robert Marshall Wells was looking out the window of his corner office at AT&T, where he was working as a public relations specialist, looking beyond the rolling hills and D.C.-area cityscape, not really seeing anything. Wells was pondering his future. He had already racked up…
fed his passion by shaping future journalists, creating the award-winning MediaLab, and contributing to efforts to create a media studies center at PLU. The MediaLab idea was born in 2004. The best and brightest media students in journalism, video, photography, public relations, and other disciplines have since scored over a dozen awards as well as one Emmy. MediaLab students have traveled into areas ravaged by tornados and oil spills, gone up the Alaskan Highway in search of unsung war heroes
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