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, April 20 There will be a sustainability themed dinner in the Commons of the UC. Starting 7 p.m. GREAN is hosting a screening of “Queen of the Sun” in Ingram 100. Also the Volunteer Center will host its Celebration of Service event as part of Be the Spark. Thursday, April 21 Starting at 7 p.m., the Diversity Center will host an engaging talk about environmental justice. Appetizers will be provided. Friday, April 22 No School. It’s Good Friday. Read Previous Gift for all-purpose field primes athletic

of the School of Arts and Communication. “The new studio theater will enable us to offer additional student-based performance space,” Bennett said. “As a student-based space, more senior capstones, performances, scene and lighting designs, and plays will be produced.” “Because of this space becoming stronger, the students will have a lot more opportunity and they’ll have a home,” Clapp added. “This new space will provide our students with a central campus location,” Bennett said. “This will be a

closely with the curriculum of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) – a globally-known and respected designation.  Students have the opportunity to be well prepared to sit for the CFA Level I exam in December and the Level II exam the following June. This degree, as well as preparing for the CFA, will give PLU graduates a competitive edge in the business and investment world, said Darcy Johnson ’78 ’82, a PLU Regent and a member of the School of Business Executive Advisory Board. “Throughout my 30

, student-run media organization within PLU’s School of Arts + Communication. Overseen and advised by faculty and staff, MediaLab exemplifies PLU’s commitment to student-faculty research while offering students hands-on learning opportunities. Tapped Out was created by a team that includes Haley Huntington ’14, a Business major; Communication majors Katherine Baumann ’14 and Kortney Scroger ’14; and junior Valery Jorgensen ’15. Huntington, who served as a senior producer on the film, said the award is

hasn’t. If it’s something that you really value, you never really lose it.” Now Joanne is on the Fulbright faculty review committee. She and three other professors read nearly 100 applications each year from faculty around the country looking for funding to do research in central Asia. Reading those applications helps Joanne help students working on Fulbright applications—she gets to see firsthand what works and what doesn’t. I recently applied for a scholarship for graduate school in Germany through

Forbis ’14, Jessica Resop ’14 and Jessica Reid ’15—beat eight other teams at the Beta Alpha Psi 2014 Regional Best Practices Competition in Portland April 11-12, including teams from the University of Washington and Oregon State University. Now PLU’s team will represent the Northwest region in the national competition in Atlanta Aug. 6-9. Resop credits perseverance—an excellent best practice—for the win. “We were a small school, but that didn’t scare us because we had the will and determination to

Times about why colleges with a distinct focus have a hidden advantage. While social pressure often steers people toward the “best” schools as measured by things such as standardized test scores and rejection rates, many students have found that the best school for them is not necessarily the highest ranked, but the one that is most tailored to their educational interest or fellow students.  And the outperformance of those schools with a specialized mission is a sign of how colleges and universities

printed in an award-winning newspaper. It was something I thought I would never do. Now, I can’t wait to do it again. Matthew Salzano is from Spokane, Wash. He is the Arts and Entertainment Editor of The Mooring Mast, Community Garden Outreach Coordinator for the Office of Sustainability and president of the Foss Residence Hall Council. Read Previous PLU Sociology Professor Selected for Prestigious Speaker Bureau Read Next Former PLU Student and Instructor Andrew Milton Explores School Success in New

graduate school. That faculty-student relationship is vital to empowering undergraduates by giving them replicable, real-world skills. “Something that’s exceptional about Waldow is that he has the utmost confidence in the students’ ability almost from the start,” said Hannah Hazel ‘20, who worked with him this past summer. “He lets us make decisions from the beginning … and he was always there to provide guidance when we felt lost. That gave us the opportunity to succeed, but more importantly it gave

Carson Bergstrom and Nate Sager start a podcast to showcase capstones of fellow 2020 graduates Posted by: bennetrr / July 22, 2020 July 22, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21Marketing & CommunicationsRecent graduates Carson Bergstrom ‘20 and Nate Sager ‘20 struggled with quarantine boredom and the bittersweet end of the school year when they thought of a cathartic project to help share the capstone projects of their peers and burn some creative energy.The series, titled “Capstonavirus” is hopefully