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how she’s helping other international students at PLU adjust to life away from home. Read More Tacoma Study away programs don’t just take students to countries around the world. Some Lutes stay right in PLU’s backyard. This semester, five PLU students are living in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, as part of a new semester program. Read More Norway Two of PLU’s most important Gateway programs  — Telemark and Oslo — connect PLU to its roots while also teaching students about contemporary Norway

on desktop computers. A group of students sit in a room of technology, a sign that says “FLUKE” behind them.] Nathan: but also have fun and engage with my peers and my superiors and eventually folks that I led or that worked for me. [video: Return to Nathan.] Nathan: Those are skills that I learned through the liberal arts portion of the program here. [video: Coral’s voice continues over clips. A professor stands in front of a whiteboard, teaching a class. A teaching assistant helps a student

executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which leads groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.Jenny JohnsonJenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet, published by Sarabande Books in

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biology, cellular biology, and immunology. Her current research focuses on student sense of belonging; student challenges; metacognition and learning; the use of self-assessment to increase metacognition; and student theories of intelligence, learning, and failure. She is an alumnus of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biology Scholars Research Residency. Amy has won the Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Excellence Awards for teaching and service and the American Society for Microbiology Carski

County Public Defender Association Research and Evaluation Analyst, Seattle Housing Authority Social Services Specialist, DCYF Graduate Teaching Assistant, George Mason University Honors College Clerk, Madigan Army Medical Center Participant Recruitment Coordinator, Rainier Clinical Research Center, LLC Recreation Manager, Washington State Department of Corrections Health Screener, Capstone Family Medicine Graduates from the last last 5 years: Their graduate programs Ph.D. in Sociology, University of

sitting in a faculty meeting, minding my own business, just trying to figure what in the world this teaching thing is all about, and Dr. Lisosky was sitting next to me, and said ‘I have an idea. We should create some sort of agency and students would do all the work, the writing and photography for clients in the community,’” Wells recounted. “And then she turned to me and said, ‘And YOU should run it.’ ” That was 10 years ago. Now, the student group has produced five Emmy-nominated documentaries

family including Mary Jo Larsen ‘02, ‘04, Holly Deatherage-Larsen ‘08, and David Deatherage-Larsen ‘08, ‘15. Andrew Larsen ‘15Larsen and fellow Peace Corps Comoros volunteers. Peace Corps operated in Comoros from 1988 to 1995 in the Education and Environmental Education sectors. Assistant professor of Anthropology, Katherine Wiley, is the Peace Corp Prep Program Coordinator at PLU. The program began in spring 2017 and she advocated for it because she too served time with Peace Corps teaching high

‘02, ‘04, Holly Deatherage-Larsen ‘08, and David Deatherage-Larsen ‘08, ‘15. Andrew Larsen ‘15Larsen and fellow Peace Corps Comoros volunteers. Peace Corps operated in Comoros from 1988 to 1995 in the Education and Environmental Education sectors. Assistant professor of Anthropology, Katherine Wiley, is the Peace Corp Prep Program Coordinator at PLU. The program began in spring 2017 and she advocated for it because she too served time with Peace Corps teaching high school English in the Islamic

about a fatal shooting of one student’s best friend, turning it into a lesson on justice in the community. “I try not to shy away from the grittiness of the world,” Cushman said. “Students need to know the harsh and uncertain realities that await them. They have to be prepared academically, socially and emotionally…to overcome obstacles.” Cushman’s own history with overcoming adversity undoubtedly lends to his perspective on teaching, nurturing and uplifting young people in the community. He says