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, and making public presentations of my work for peers and community members. I love the content, from European history to American history to Asian history. Right now, I am completing my capstone project on the contributing roles of travel, technology, and business in the travel industry in contemporary China since the Cultural Revolution. Damian Alessandro Something that is great about History is its flexibility as a major. The PLU program requires just 36 credits (or nine classes). This gives

, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held down a variety of jobs, including working as a medical scribe, tutor, and scholar lead/mentor for Washington state opportunity scholars. He’s also been a campus leader, serving as the Vice President of the PLU Habitat for Humanity chapter, At-large senator of ASPLU, and founding the university’s Global Medical Brigades/Pre-med Club.Global Medical Brigades is

power acknowledge and address them and decide they want to change things,” he said. “That is the white power structure.” Smith, who identifies as African-American, said he enjoyed listening to white people in his group discuss the day’s topic. He said getting people beyond discomfort is crucial to meaningful dialogue. “I really was quiet at my table today because I thought it was an opportunity to listen, and for folks of color to not have to carry the banner around conversations on race,” Smith

chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held down a variety of jobs, including working as a medical scribe, tutor, and scholar lead/mentor for Washington state opportunity scholars. He’s also been a campus leader, serving as the Vice President of the PLU Habitat for Humanity chapter, At-large senator of ASPLU, and founding the university’s Global Medical Brigades/Pre-med Club.Global Medical Brigades is an international

reflect on what kind of information they’re consuming, they can then move on to more complicated questions, like what information may be missing that might be important. In my Introduction to Media Studies class, I ask students to work in teams to audit an American news outlet. They have to carefully read articles to determine what the agenda setting function of news actually is. What is news covering that sets the agenda for what matters? Then we can ask deeper questions about power and what’s not

shooting in American history on Sunday as a terrorist act targeting a place of “solidarity and empowerment” for the LGBTQ community and namely LGBTQ people of color. He urged Americans to decide “if that’s the kind of country we want to be.” It is not the kind of country I want, nor do I think is it the kind of country that our students deserve. Since the shooting death of PLU Professor Jim Holloway by a deranged gunman 15 years ago, we at PLU have been especially sensitive to issues of gun violence

tributaries. Three of our faculty also received Fulbright Awards last year. Joanne Lisosky will teach journalism at Baku University in Azerbaijan beginning next January. Janet Weiss traveled to Namibia in July to undertake work in curriculum development. Jennifer Jenkins participated this past summer in the Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German studies. Every year our faculty produce hundreds of publications, creative works and performances. And this commitment to our