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teaching. “If I help parents and schools do a better job, then I’m helping her, too,” Jones said. As a result of her successes, Jones is now a sought after speaker on the education circuit. In May 2009, Jones delivered keynote addresses at conferences in Phoenix and Oregon. “They have given me the opportunity,” Jones said, “to reach a farther audience.” Read Previous Top marks for green Read Next Poetry to restore the complexity of the world COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments

January 1, 2013 Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in April of 2012 after winning second place in the Raphael Lemkin essay contest in March of the same year for my paper “Letters Written in Blood: the Holocaust in Poetry”. The fellowship application was for the

question, “Who was Jesus?” There is, however, a different question to consider: “Why is Christ?”  Ramshaw’s presentation will focus on four Christological images embedded in ancient texts and contemporary hymns that open up, rather than narrow, the Christian understanding of God. Ramshaw is a graduate of Valparaiso University (B.A.), Sarah Lawrence College (M.A.), Union Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.). Her doctoral dissertation is a study of the poetry of

Challenge. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Read Previous PLU ROTC student to be honored in Washington, D.C., as only recipient of Green to Gold award for excellence in leadership Read Next PLU Chinese studies chair serves as catalyst for cross-cultural arts and poetry project; related symposium comes to campus 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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25

credit for: personalities, intelligence, language [and] feelings,” said Bergman, who’s working on a project titled “Speak, Parrot,” which details his conversations with the highly intelligent birds. “I love penguins because they are irresistible. I love them because they remind us so much of… US!” Bergman has a wondrous passion for the natural world and uses his mastery of the English language—and his camera—to capture it all. “I love to be in the company of wild animals, and [I] have used my writing

had a recent IMPACT Award winner for the School of Business share that in a future career, everyone will be asked to do new things. In his career, he was asked to do some new things that had never been done before. And to do those things, he drew upon those skills that he had developed at PLU (creative problem solving, strategic communication, collaboration with others, and other foundational skills).BusinessLearn more about studying business at PLUHere’s one more example of how a graduate used

year’s theme, TV shows, has already garnered some creative names, such as Campus Ministry’s “God’s Anatomy,” a play on ABC’s popular drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” As of Feb. 15, there were 34 teams signed up – more than half the committee’s goal of 60 teams. Once again, the relay planning committee has high hopes for the event, setting the fund-raising goal at $60,000 with 600 participants (10 people on each team). Last year, PLU and the University of Puget Sound hosted a combined relay and raised over

may be thanks to consideration of new data released last year by the Obama administration. For the first time, the publication’s 2016 rankings included incomes of students 10 years after enrolling at a given college, how likely they are to be paying down principal on loans and the percentage of first-generation students at each college. Earlier this summer PLU was named one of the top colleges in the country for awarding creative arts scholarships by LendEDU, the PLU School of Nursing was ranked

interdisciplinary minor. The program equips students to find creative solutions to pressing problems and ethical dilemmas, such as providing equitable access to high-tech instruction. Alice Steinglass, President of Code.org Speaker Biography At Code.org, Alice Steinglass manages teams that build curriculum, tools, and software to support introductory computer science classes for students from kindergarten through high school. In addition, her team partners with education and software companies across the high

read? You can also check out this ‘5 Tips for Writing a College Essay’ post! 5 TIPS FOR WRITING A COLLEGE ESSAY Read Previous College Prep 101 Webinar: College Applications Read Next YouTube Short: PLU Parkland Night Market & Taste of Garfield Street LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We