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celebrating our PLU community and the end of summer. Tickets are on sale now! ‘Waste Not’ in Twin Cities PLU’s Twin Cities alumni chapter screens the newest award-winning MediaLab film. Alumni Blogs Humanosphere Tom Paulson's ’80 independent news site covers aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community. Rosanna Pansino After graduating, Rosanna Pansino '07 created Nerdy Nummies - a geeky YouTube cooking show with over 1.9 million subscribers. Bryanna Plog Bryanna Plog '10 has
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Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent and imagination?” In the latest PLU podcast, we pose these questions and others to a pair of RWW faculty members and acclaimed creative writers, Rick
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research group of a Physics Department faculty member. The program is particularly intended at encouraging participation by members of underrepresented minority groups (African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans) and women. Supplementing this valuable practical experience, faculty and graduate students present special lectures to provide an overview of the wide-ranging research conducted in our Department. Ten to fifteen internships will be awarded for the ten-week program, June 14 through
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Photo Recap COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indigenous education and tribal sovereignty September 23, 2024 PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028: Trailblazers September 11, 2024 Ethos in Action September
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Erika Meyer Erika enjoying some aebleskivers in Copenhagen, Denmark. PLU Class of 2011 Global Studies and Sociology Double Major Studied away in Copenhagen, Denmark Worked as a Science & Health Programs Assistant at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad Now working on Masters in Public Health at Emory University I graduated in 2011 with majors in Global Studies and Sociology, and spent fall semester 2009 at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark. After graduation I
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amplify the reading’s themes or information (Resources), and an example from the students’ personal experience that relates to the reading (Application). 15Consider ThisStudents are given a theory or concept that they have been taught (for example, thesis statements, the scientific method, or push-pull factors) and are challenged to figure out a way to apply it in a new and different context. 16What’s the Problem?Students look at examples of common problem types in order to identify the particular
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. He believes in the importance of global education for college students. “It is important to experience a different culture, a different way of life,” said Finitsis. “It gives you a different understanding of the world and supports the PLU Mission. We visit places that many people dream of visiting but can’t.” Finitsis led his class to Greece with the support of the PLU Wang Center. The Wang Center collaborates with academic departments to support PLU’s commitment to global education. The center
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the general education program produces is the basic foundation for the architecture of intellectual and personal qualities we, as faculty, aim to construct with our majors. This architecture is prerequisite to our majors’ vocational goals and provides our students with practical advantages in a competitive, global career marketplace–one that increasingly demands flexibility of thought, the capacity to entertain multiple perspectives, and the ability to employ diverse problem-solving strategies
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Peace Scholar, and a Nursing major.Elevator pitchThe reification of warAustin Beiermann blog Austin, ’18 is a 2017 Peace Scholar majoring in Economics and Political Science.Small acts for peaceAziza Ahmed blog Aziza ’19 is a 2018 Peace Scholar and a Sociology and Political Science major. Rooted and reachingSarah Ward blog Sarah ’20 is a 2018 Peace Scholar and a Global Studies and Philosophy major. Existing in the in-between
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-speaking country provides an ideal location for students in education and the natural sciences to study at the University of Namibia and gain necessary work experience through an internship and practicum. View the Namibia program In Namibia, he gained experience dealing with issues that teachers in those situations face — poverty, language barriers, lack of resources — in a global context. Not all the teaching moments were easy, but Sam said they were necessary. “Struggling with things is where
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