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important discussions about justice and surrounding topics, O’Brien sees this as the right time for Finney to come back to campus. “This lecture will be a great way to continue those discussions, energize them with new ideas and challenge our community to do all we can to define and work toward these ideals,” he said. Finney encourages the PLU community to come to the lecture with one thing—an open mind. “I want people to come with a flexible mind, including myself,” she said. “[Students and staff
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landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors that have caused child vaccination rates to decline in many parts of the country.Not that poring over such data was always her forte. Her passion was kindled years ago as a psychology undergrad at PLU — even if she had to overcome her initial dread of statistics and methods first. “I was terrified to take that class because I never considered
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—so my family was happy.” Making the decision to attend PLU was easy. The difficult part came when it was time to leave her close-knit family. Gutierrez found Western Washington a major change from where she grew up in Central Washington. “It was hard with the change of literal environment,” she said. “It’s rainy over here, there’s more population, more diversity. It’s a real city.” Gutierrez enjoyed her new school and making new friends but she admits she was homesick for her community back in
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and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion.“I have a family history of agriculture, my grandfather used to have apple orchards in Eastern Washington,” she said, explaining why her PLU biology classes resonated with her. “From that point forward, I began to pursue plant biology, as I had both personal and academic passion in the subject.” On her way to her degree, Davis completed a capstone project
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Seed Teachers Program gives Tacoma High School students debt-free path to becoming teachers Posted by: mhines / June 9, 2023 Image: Students from Mount Tahoma, Lincoln, SAMi, IDEA, and TOL are part of a new program by Degrees of Change, Tacoma Public Schools, and Pacific Lutheran University, offering Tacoma students a debt-free, supportive pathway to earning their college degree and becoming teachers. Seed Teachers Program creates equitable public education system with teachers who reflect the
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. +Enlarge Photo As a 15-year “reader” for the College Board, which oversees the AP program, he also contributes to the syllabi audit and exams for AP Chemistry programs and works closely with instructors and students of the course. “I want to be able to share what I know about the College Board program—how students perform and new things,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for me to bring that content back to the teachers.” On that toasty July day in the lab, Swank guided seven teachers through one of 16
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: Visit New York City: ✓ Attend a Super Bowl: ✓ Work for an NFL team: ✓ Finish college and work in his major: ✓ Barnes graduated from PLU with a degree in business—and uses that degree every workday as an intern for the Super Bowl-worthy Seattle Seahawks. All these dreams once seemed so out of reach for Barnes, the first of his family to graduate from college. Growing up in Redmond, where he was the only African-American child in his elementary school, Barnes recalls being bullied and taunted. Of
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, challenging and mentally stimulating. Most important, it has variety and lets me be around lots of new people each day. What do you enjoy most about your work? Every day is different; new challenges, new faces and new ways to help people. I can have a bad day, and the next day is a fresh slate, a new variety of people and symptoms to organize, treat and comfort. What motivates you? I’ve been a patient. I’ve been a patient’s family member. It’s scary, not knowing and not feeling well. As a nurse, I can
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Teaching in the Pandemic: How Three Teachers Made the Best of an Unprecedented Time Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 27, 2021 Image: Alonso Brizuela ’14, Sarah Lord ’00, Caitlyn Zwang ’09 May 27, 2021 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterHigh school choir and guitar teacher Alonso Brizuela ’14 was in Spokane at a national choral directors conference in mid-March of 2020. Just a day and half days into events, the conference shut down early—due to a mysterious new illness that
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