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.” The course runs every year, focusing on real-world clients. During fall semester, 42 students directed their attention toward Skagit Valley, a region about 60 miles north of Seattle. Agriculture and crop production is the primary industry there, thanks to renowned soil quality and more than 90 crops grown in the area. Students in the class looked at branding Skagit Valley as a region and creating a tourist destination for those traveling between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. They

PLU student-media members to present at College Media Association’s national conference in New York Posted by: Kari Plog / March 5, 2018 Image: McKenna Morin ’19 (left), Courtney Miranda ’19 (center) and Natalie Mooney ’19 (right) are heading to New York City this week to present at a national conference for the College Media Association. (Photo by Molly Ivey ’20) March 5, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 5, 2018) — Student journalists nationwide get to

November. “That is simply not true. There is nothing about poverty that is pre-ordained. It is the rules we set up.” And society – with few hits to lifestyle – can change those rules, stressed Foege, who in the 1970s led the fight to successfully eradicate smallpox. For his efforts, Foege was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Obama, who called him a leader in “one of medicine’s greatest success stories.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlM4pK6tCc Foege said he truly supports the $15

November 5, 2010 PLU Named Top Fulbright Producer By Chris Albert Pacific Lutheran University ranks among the top schools in the nation for the number of students selected for a Fulbright Student Fellowship in 2010.   Eric Buley and Nicolette Paso were selected as student Fulbright Fellowship recipients. Buley as a teaching assistant in Venezuela and Paso in research in Germany. (Photo by John Froschauer) Among comparable master’s degree granting institutions, PLU ranked in the top 15 in the

. Students have asked when they’ll be getting a new fitness center and what his goals are for the next few years, but he’s open to talking about more personal topics, like how he and his wife maintained a long-distance relationship for part of their marriage. “I can tell that part of the reason he wants to teach a class is because he wants to get to know students and what they have to say,” Stone said. “It makes me feel like I’m genuinely being cared for as a student. He’s very receptive to feedback too

sometimes fraught relationship with her parents in light of who she has become as a daughter, wife, and a mother. Told in a graphic novel format, Bui explores the universal themes of immigration and migration, family, racism and discrimination, duty, and redemption as they relate to the modern-day Vietnamese Asian-American experience. – from https://www.plu.edu/first-year/ Mortvedt Library has many resources to support your reading of and engagement with The Best We Could Do. In addition to print books

learners come to class as “practice students” — Park helped that day’s teacher with the lesson. Students learned, all in Korean, how to make kimbap — a sort of Korean sushi roll. “She’s really been a leader in the program,” Yaden said.LEARN MORE AND APPLYVisit plu.edu/languages/startalk-teacher-program to learn more about the program or contact Bridget Yaden at byaden@plu.edu.  Read Previous For PLU’s Mary Moller, Nurse of the Year award was a career in the making Read Next PLU’s Diversity Center

looking over the documents at the time, Barlow noticed that water was listed as a tradable commodity. Odd, she thought. And unfair. “I thought (water) should be free for all, and considered a resource,” she mused as she prepared her remarks as the keynote speaker for the Wang Center Symposium on Feb. 23. The two-day symposium will focus on water – both its growing scarcity and value, as well as its impact on socioeconomic trends. “I guess since I wasn’t a lawyer or a scientist, I saw these issues with

that children need an outlet to deal with loss, and this story can help with that.Charlotte's WebPresented by the PLU Theatre ProgramFebruary 13 at 7:30 February 14, at 2pm and 7:30pm Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing ArtsThis is the first Children’s Theatre production that PLU has done in a VERY long time. What went into putting all this together? PLU had a very strong children’s theatre program in the ’70s and early ’80s, and I wanted to revitalize it. I

first time I entered an archive was when I was an undergrad, and it was specifically so I could ask the archivist what an archive even was,” Loftis said. “In what I now refer to as a happy accident, I somehow left that meeting with a job.”  And that is when her love for the library and archives blossomed. She scanned hundreds of documents and digitized government documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, photographs and more. But as tedious as the work seemed, it was important. She was responsible for