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September 1, 2008 Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players on the now-gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The event has been beyond description, Hacker said in an e-mail interview from Beijing this week. But she gave a go at it anyway, in an
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three times this spring, with at least one more event to come. “When we think about service and care, this event fits really closely with the mission of not only PLU but also the school of nursing,” said Dana Zaichkin, a nursing professor who also volunteered for the event. “I really enjoyed being a part of this.” Currently on sabbatical from PLU, Zaichkin is working with colleagues at the University of Washington to create a uniform means of tracking, reporting, and benchmarking data for local and
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Firmly Committed: In Response to DACA decision Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 6, 2017 Image: In the spring of 2016, students, staff and faculty joined in on the PLU4US: For and With Undocumented Students crowd funding campaign to raise over $30,000 for undocumented PLU students (Photo: PLU/Hansel Doan) September 6, 2017 Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm
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, pointing to Hurricane Katrina as an example. Shortwave radios may be the only means of communication available. “There has never been a time in any disaster when amateur radio operators weren’t operating,” Benton said. The radios are portable and don’t rely on a network since radio waves exist in the natural world. PLU’s station will have two radios that can operate simultaneously on various frequencies. The operators will be able to connect with Willamette University in Oregon, PLU’s emergency partner
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October 4, 2012 Doug Smith ’15 and Aiko Nakagawa ’15 after chalking advertising for “unPLUg” a sustainability and low power use push at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) UnPLUg aims to create culture of conservation By Katherine Baumann ’14 The lights are off but the competition is on. Students in the 10 resident halls across campus are vying against themselves to see who can save the most energy during the month of October in the annual UnPLUg competition. The UnPLUg tradition began in 2009 with
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The Puyallup Herald. While at PLU, Miller took every opportunity to escape campus for rock-climbing trips and days spent hiking around Mount Rainier. He was always sure to bring his camera. “Every cent that I didn’t have to spend on food, rent or gas was spent on climbing gear or film,” Miller recalls with a laugh. After graduating from PLU with degrees in Environmental Studies and Art, Miller immediately immersed himself in the world of wildlife photography. “I could have transitioned straight
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skills and knowledge in real-world settings. The Center leverages programs in journalism, public relations, advertising, art and design to provide students with pre-professional learning opportunities by working with clients, both on and off-campus. “Our objectives are to increase our public outreach, further engage with our communities and enable our students to have every opportunity to succeed in a marketplace that is constantly changing and evolving,” said SOAC Dean Cameron Bennett. This fall
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medal, winning bronze in the 1,000-meter event at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. By 2006 he had claimed more than 20 international medals, including the title of World Champion. At the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, Cheek, 26, realized a lifelong dream by capturing the gold medal in the 500-meter competition. He went on to win the Olympic silver medal in the 1000-meter event. After his talk and donations, he partnered with Right To Play, an athlete-driven international humanitarian
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she’d get a part. But she did. And she was surprised by how much work the chorus had on stage. “The chorus is on the stage almost all the time and is an integral part of the opera,” Van Mechelen said. After a taste of this, Van Mechelen knows that singing is what she wants to do with her life. She arrived at PLU as a transfer student. “I went into audition for the music program and the faculty was so warm and inviting … It just felt like home,” she said. Marlette Buchannan Hall, a vocal studies
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to know faculty scholarship as it happens on twitter and in the archives of Yale, and read about a student-faculty collaboration focused on ultrarunning and religion. You will read about the political work of some of our English faculty and their families, and you will learn from a conversation about teaching between two of our Language instructors. Finally, you can read my update on our Classics program. A new aspect of Prism this year is that our students have taken a larger role in producing
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