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, have turned into professional relationships. And, most certainly, both developed real-world tools through mentoring and training programs at places like the Women’s Center. For graduates like McGifford and McLane who aspire for a career in advocacy, there is no better way to prepare. “The interns who go through the PLU sexual assault peer education team training program are prepared weeks in advance (compared to other schools),” McLane said. “That has to do with the mentoring and the faculty at PLU

volunteering with AmeriCorps’s local affiliate, Peace Community Center (PCC). Goble started with PCC in September 2011, and was there through mid-July 2012. Through his role as the elementary programs coordinator, Goble coordinated the center’s tutoring program and read with students at McCarver Elementary School. He was unsure of his plans after PCC, but he wanted to stay in the area. “I hope to stay in the Tacoma area,” Goble said. “I found myself in Tacoma. I became an adult in Tacoma. I have a strong

Conservation Fund and other conservation programs. He was a key player in  establishing various Washington wilderness areas, including the Clearwater Wilderness Area adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park. He secured funding for Superfund cleanups in Tacoma, and helped break many jurisdictional and regulatory logjams that threatened to slow cleanup plans. He also worked to revitalize downtown Tacoma and Bremerton. Dicks is also well-regarded for his legislative acumen and for his commitment to the

building apps and producing “connected products”—so Venuelabs perfectly fits the bill. Crist calls the funds from Salesforce.com “a great source of validation that they [Venuelabs] are on the right track.” During his time at PLU, Crist took part in many School of Business events, including Washington Family Business Awards and Young Entrepreneurs, and says these programs helped him “reach outside the classroom” while still in school. Crist also fondly remembers the contagious excitement of students and

debate team is one of the oldest and most decorated forensics programs in the country. Read Previous PLU Music Professor Plays Instrumental Role in Chinese President’s Visit to Tacoma Read Next PLU Student Headed to U.N. After Her Video on Reproductive Rights Wins National Contest COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and

university’s profile for academic excellence, raised the endowment to a record level, and expanded support for student access and diversity through significantly enhanced alumni fundraising activity,” Krise said. About Pacific Lutheran University Pacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement through distinctive international programs and faculty-mentored research opportunities for its 3,100 students. Founded in 1890 by Norwegian pioneers

part of the Murdock College Science Research Program, is to support and recognize undergraduate research in the natural sciences at four-year institutions across the Pacific Northwest. The award is given to exemplary senior faculty members who run established, productive and nationally recognized research programs, and comes with $15,000 in funding. “To be recognized by your peers and in a large setting like this, you know, the whole Northwest, it really made me feel humble,” Waldow said. “There

.” Social Work at PLULearn more about a career in Social WorkEducating caring, skillful generalists to be ethical agents for global and local change.After her graduation this May, Marquez plans to take some time off from school before eventually attending graduate school to earn her Master’s degree in social work.   “I want to have a year to celebrate my accomplishments. It’s kind of scary, because all my life I have been a student,” she said. Marquez hopes to find some training programs related to her

will cut that lag time and smooth the path by implementing STAIR in 31 UCCs across the United States. These STAIR programs will offer structured trauma treatment that is responsive to the patient-, provider-, and system-level factors associated with the delivery of trauma-focused mental health challenges for college students. “This project is part of a portfolio of PCORI-funded projects that aim to improve the awareness, uptake and use of results from patient-centered comparative clinical

also reminds us that social and environmental flourishing is a shared pursuit of all of our academic and co-curricular programs across campus. It’s a shared pursuit among medical doctors like Melissa Wollan Francis ’02, documentarians like Emma Stafki ’24, public policy analysts like Lorelei Juntunen ’97, and musicians like Jessa Delos Reyes ’24. Kimmerer’s determination that “all flourishing is mutual” reminds us that flourishing is not just about us as individuals. It is connected to and