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skills, and provided opportunities to improve my Spanish through classes and study away programs. Networking opens up many opportunities. While at Seattle Children’s, I was responsible for reaching out to find traumatic brain injury resources in Alaska for a study at Children’s. In the fall of 2022, I did preliminary literature review research and interview-question Spanish translation for a University of Washington palliative care and dementia issues project. As part of that project, I’m helping

understanding ancient literature in regards to sexuality and autonomy and critiques the current systems we have in place of acknowledging sexuality and addressing issues of consent. We are incredibly proud of these and all our other Classics graduates. We regret that this effective, innovative, and valuable program will no longer be available as a major, but we are very happy to be retaining our Classics minor, and a related minor in Early Christian Studies through a partnership with the Religion Department

Scholarship for the Women’s Center supports student research and programming at the center. And Lynn (Geschwind ’71) Ostenson, in memory of her late husband Richard Ostenson ’71, established an endowed scholarship for African-American students studying in the natural sciences. Endowment for Academics and Mission Gifts to the campaign led to the creation of four endowed chairs and an endowed professorship. These endowments help attract and retain top faculty, bring public recognition to the university and

being able to read literature, listen to songs, and communicate with others in a different language. Because of schedule complications, I started at PLU as a Hispanic Studies minor. But after studying away in Oaxaca, Mexico, and realizing I was able to fit in the last few courses I needed for the major, I decided to switch over. Welcome to Hispanic StudiesPLU students in the Hispanic Studies Program are challenged to think critically in an increasingly global world and to see the complexity of

the wild, smuggled to Lebanon, give forged documents, confiscated almost by luck in Cyprus. Second, we studied African grey parrots as paradigmatic of the problems in the global problem of wildlife trafficking. Between 2 and 2.5 million African grays have been trapped for the wildlife trade in the last 20 years. They are among the most popular animals in the global wildlife trade, largely because they are so intelligent. Dr. Goodall told us of one African grey parrot with a vocabulary of 1,600

, and author of contemporary Caribbean literature. Her novel Tentacle was the first Spanish-language book to win the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in 2017. Although she experienced viral music success, Indiana has since shifted her focus to her literary career. She has authored three short story collections and five novels, three of which have been translated into English. Her work in science fiction prominently features themes of queerness, culture, and Dominican social issues

. There are things I value from the culture of South Sudan and the culture of America, and I think that is going to be a tough conversation to have… I just hope they see I’m still the same human being. Still their same son. That concern runs deeper for David. He has long worried that he may never feel fully at home here or in South Sudan. When he travels there later this month, he anticipates being treated as an American — an outsider. And in the states, he says, he is seen as African — as a black man

distinct historical and cultural norms. Similarly, the professors who teach the IHON classes also bring diversity in their disciplines – Randhawa’s two first-year IHON classes, for instance, were taught by experts in historical theology and French Literature. Randhawa loved them both. Others see it that way, too. And the benefit isn’t just in the classroom. “I like having friends who have completely different views and completely different visions of where their life is going to go,” said Nellie Moran

foreign languages—particularly the “soft” ones such as Spanish and French—while men gravitate to the “hard” languages (German, Russian) and other academic subjects such as science and math. In the larger university setting, most foreign language departments have traditionally been split between (mostly male) tenured and tenure-track faculty members engaged in original research in literature or literary theory, and (mostly female) non-tenured lecturers and teaching assistants responsible for the

May 18, 2009 Commencement 2009 This year more than 650 students will make up the graduating Class of 2009 at PLU on May 24 at the Tacoma Dome. Here in their own words are a few insights from graduating students about their time at PLU and the next chapter in their lives. Go HERE to see a complete schedule of Commencement events and activities. Allison Cambronne – Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature & Global Studies (Development and Social Justice Concentration) with a Business