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water audits, toxics reduction, green chemistry, and life cycle assessment. Read the Host Businesses Project Descriptions very carefully to determine which project best suits your interests, skills and knowledge. Additionally, you will benefit from: Hands on experience in project development and management Collaboration with industry Mentorship by an WASI engineer or scientist Communicating science to interdisciplinary audiences Internship applications open March 13th and are due April 21st.  Find

, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand. What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future? AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental journalism, and the goal would be to write about and advocate for conservation efforts. Aside from that, the experience I gained working on-site has given me countless new skills for

. “It’s comprehensively helping students take on the identity of a college student and understanding what that means,” says Dr. Eva Frey, PLU’s Dean of Students and the PLUS 100 instructor teaching McAdam’s first-year cohort. “PLUS 100 is the only class (at PLU) that explicitly talks about the behaviors needed to be successful in and outside of a college classroom.”McAdams, who just completed his first season at the helm of PLU’s football program, saw first-hand the kind of impact college skills

we’re mostly interested in learning about what you’ve done outside of regular schoolwork. At PLU we understand you may be at the beginning of your artistic journey, so your resume is meant for you to list what experiences and skills you feel you currently possess. It is fine if your resume reflects an artist at the beginning of these experiences. Your letter and portfolio will be more important. What should I cover in my letter of intent? For your letter of intent, here are some ideas for topics you

resume is meant for you to list what experiences and skills you feel you currently possess. It is fine if your resume reflects an artist at the beginning of these experiences. Your letter and portfolio will be more important. What should I cover in my letter of intent? For your letter of intent, here are some ideas for topics you can cover: why you’re interested in attending PLU, why you love your art form(s)/medium, how you came to practice your medium, what drives you to make art, how you believe

subjects—and to excite them about math and science. MESA stands for Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement, and MESA Day tests all of those skills through fun challenges such as building stick bridges, designing and flying gliders, creating prosthetic arms and building energy-generating windmills from straws and masking tape. Students have been working on these projects throughout the year—in class and after school—and then they bring them, and their own high hopes, to PLU each spring. It’s a

radio station, LASR,” said Ash. “During the fall semester of my first year, I became a DJ, and fell in love with radio.” Now a senior, Ash, 21, is LASR’s student general manager. She credited PLU’s emphasis on public engagement with providing her with many on- and off-campus opportunities to learn about radio and expand her media skills, helping make her career path after college abundantly clear.“Through my experience with student radio, I’ve had opportunities to visit professional stations,” said

skills and managing college workloads, while the veterans offer a valuable perspective about military life. For example, a cadet interested in aviation could have a veteran partner who worked in the aviation branch.   “Cadets can connect with veterans and learn a little bit about what military life has been like for them so they can live by proxy through their experiences,” Farnum said. “And it’s an opportunity for these veterans who have not been students for some time — for some a couple years

different way to provide better patient education and better education in the community,” she said. McFadden put the research skills she honed at PLU to good use, writing her dissertation on variations in county-level toddler immunization rates, a topic she continues to explore at the Yale Institute of Global Health. She also assists the center’s director, Saad Omer, on projects that examine the impact of immunization policy changes on vaccination rates, vaccine hesitancy among health care workers in

from the American Conservation Experience company and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Then, a resume and cover letter submission was required like any regular job, along with a housing contract which allows me to live on the refuge. If you end up applying for an American Conservation Experience (ACE) job or a job with U.S. fish and wildlife, it’s helpful to make a list of any specific skills you’ve learned in the lab or in outdoor fieldwork. Chances are, your employers will see this in your application and