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Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom,…
Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first generation Chinese immigrant Posted by: Zach Powers / March 15, 2024 Image: Brian Sung ’23 is a double major in business and economics. He recently interned at Russell Investments. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) March 15, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom
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Alum pursues research in Prague with follow up in Israel Laura Brade graduated from PLU in 2008, summa cum laude, with a double major in History and German. She took Bob Ericksen’s Holocaust course in the spring of 2006. She then studied for a year…
2012-2013 academic year in Prague, Czech Republic researching her dissertation. Laura Brade ’08. Brade’s dissertation is titled “Coerced Voluntary Migration: Jewish Flight from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1941.” She is investigating the ways in which networks of transnational relief organizations facilitated the successful emigration of a quarter of the Protectorate’s Jews by helping them to overcome significant obstacles. By tracing the connections among individuals, local
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When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…
work, and then returned annually throughout undergraduate and graduate school for college-related studies and more volunteering. He even met his future wife there, in 2004. Today, Levy is a specialist in contemporary Honduras and an assistant professor in Pacific Lutheran University’s anthropology department. His research has focused on Honduran governance after the 2009 military coup and the outmigration patterns that followed. Recently, Levy provided pro bono expert witness testimony on behalf
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PLU President Allan Belton is a morning person. He’s frequently among the first employees to arrive at the Hauge Administration Building, but not before his morning cup of joe. His favorite coffee stand is on South Tacoma Way, the seven-mile arterial that is the economic…
Destiny.No matter how early Belton drives to work, South Tacoma Way is brightly lit by street lights, bus stops, and electronic business signs. Once he visits his coffee shop, he turns on 112th Street South and heads toward campus. A strange thing happens when he crosses the Tacoma city boundary and enters unincorporated Parkland: the lights go out. “I started noticing middle and high school kids walking to school in total darkness,” Belton says. “There are no street lights, no sidewalks, and very few
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Zach Willis ’19 earned a BA in kinesiology with a concentration in health and fitness promotion and minored in sport and exercise psychology while playing on the football team at Pacific Lutheran University. Last year he returned to the university to serve as the football…
, I think my graduate studies prepared me to be patient and to truly listen to understand what each student-athlete needs from a coach to be successful. For me, being able to take a tactical pause rather than instantly react has translated well to coaching and processing the game in a new way. How do you coach a student when they’ve made a mistake? Mistakes are normal and I actually encourage student-athletes to be willing to mess up because that shows me they are willing to learn and grow. More
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The PLU Day of Vocation is almost here! PLU Chemists are a big part of it this year! (i) Keynote: Michelle Long , ’85 PLU Regent and chemistry alumna, Tues 4/5, 7 – 8 p.m., Scandinavian Cultural Center Join PLU Regent and alumna Michelle Long…
Lute Chemists and the PLU Day of Vocation Apr 5th-6th Posted by: yakelina / April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016 The PLU Day of Vocation is almost here! PLU Chemists are a big part of it this year! (i) Keynote: Michelle Long, ’85 PLU Regent and chemistry alumna, Tues 4/5, 7 – 8 p.m., Scandinavian Cultural Center Join PLU Regent and alumna Michelle Long as she kicks off this year’s Day of Vocation with a talk that addresses the challenges of finding purpose in life. Michelle claims that experiences
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This unique 2-year program was created purposefully to combine both environmental and green chemistry in order to train students to both evaluate and proactively address sustainability challenges. The program includes unique coursework in green chemistry, such as Design of Safer Chemicals, Green Industrial Chemistry and…
MS program in Environmental and Green Chemistry at George Washington University Posted by: alemanem / February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 This unique 2-year program was created purposefully to combine both environmental and green chemistry in order to train students to both evaluate and proactively address sustainability challenges. The program includes unique coursework in green chemistry, such as Design of Safer Chemicals, Green Industrial Chemistry and Sustainable Energy, as well as a
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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Computer Science, and NSF ACE Data Science and Analytics Program (DSA) at North Carolina A&T State University are hosting a ten-week Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Data Science and Analytics for science, mathematics and…
Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Data Science and Analytics Posted by: nicolacs / January 23, 2023 January 23, 2023 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Computer Science, and NSF ACE Data Science and Analytics Program (DSA) at North Carolina A&T State University are hosting a ten-week Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Data Science and Analytics for science, mathematics and statistics, computer science, engineering
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Jasneet Sandhu had planned to minor in global studies. But soon into her PLU experience, she decided to double major in it, along with computer science. She added anthropology and religion as double minors—as part of a strategy to enjoy her college experience at a…
community.Pursuing the personal and political Sandhu’s passions for global studies, anthropology and religion are rooted in her family’s history and background as Punjabi Sikhs. Her father was born and raised in the United States, while her mother immigrated from Punjab, India. Sandhu is the oldest of four children—three sisters and one brother—ranging from 20 to 9, all deeply involved in their community. The Sikh population faced genocide in India’s Punjab region in the 1980s, when government police picked up
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The REU Site in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Sanford Research 2024 provides an exciting ten-week research experience in basic cellular and molecular biology. Students will perform cutting-edge research in diverse areas, such as signal transduction, intracellular trafficking, cell proliferation and differentiation, organelle function, and development.…
REU Site in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Sanford Research 2024 Posted by: alemanem / January 4, 2024 January 4, 2024 The REU Site in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Sanford Research 2024 provides an exciting ten-week research experience in basic cellular and molecular biology. Students will perform cutting-edge research in diverse areas, such as signal transduction, intracellular trafficking, cell proliferation and differentiation, organelle function, and development. Students will also
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