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did you choose PLU? PLU felt like a good distance from home — not next door, but not too far from family. I really liked the atmosphere and culture on campus and the opportunities it gave me to be involved in more than just my academics. What led you to your majors? I knew coming into PLU that I wanted to major in environmental studies and probably double major with another program. Spring of my freshman year, I took a first-year experience course on the geology of national parks and fell in love

working on a summer research project with his physics prof, getting a good work-study job, even co-captaining the nationally ranked ultimate Frisbee team. “When else would I have an opportunity like this?” he asks. Studying away wasn’t necessarily Andy’s intent when he arrived from Arvada, Colo., to study math and engineering. But he quickly learned PLU makes it easy for students to immerse themselves in another culture. There is a campus office dedicated solely for that purpose. There are

, 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

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

with Ruizpalacios as kids in Mexico City? Alonso and I met through a mutual friend when we were 14 years old, and from the beginning, we became very close. Alonso went to a British school in Mexico City, and my dad is American, so we had a very heavy dose of British and American pop culture: our friendship revolved around watching “Monty Python,” Woody Allen films and NBA basketball, among many other things, and we always enjoyed arguing over sports and music bands. As a teenager did he hope to

consider working in Central and South American ecosystems.  After several scientific collecting trips, he became convinced that he would have to become proficient in Spanish if he were to have real impact in these regions.  He tested his fluency by spending an entire year immersed in the culture of Colombia as a Fulbright Fellow in 1991.  During that year, he taught a graduate level course entirely in Spanish.  His second Fulbright fellowship, in 1998-99, was dedicated to teaching sustainable

?” [emphasis mine], to which Georgiana responds with “Utterly”. Perhaps romantic on a surface level, the word “capture” juts out in a deeply unsettling way. As the late, influential bell hooks writes in Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics: “[l]ove in patriarchal culture was linked to notions of possession, to paradigms of domination and submission wherein it was assumed one person would give love and another person receive it” (101). Charles sets up this dichotomy through painting Georgiana: he

juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as a gallery assistant, Museum of Glass associate, and gallery exhibitions manager for the next seven years.All of which helped prepare Gines for her new role beginning in 2019 as the Tacoma Creates program coordinator within the city’s Office of Arts and Culture Vitality. Tacoma Creates was the first voter-approved Cultural Access Program in Washington State. The initiative intends to increase access

at work and in the classroom is a strong indicator of whether the organization, school or community has an inclusive culture,” Montgomery continued. “Our hope is that our community can have an organized base of folks equipped to move these difficult conversations forward towards solution-based strategies.” Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland will be issuing a proclamation acknowledging the racial divisions in America, affirming the City of Tacoma’s commitment to diversity and dialogue, and declaring

institutional mission as a highly dynamic and intentional community partner.    What is it about our environment, in particular, that you find energizing? There are few universities in the country that match the diversity of land and people that surround Parkland. We have urban, suburban, shoreline, rural, foothill and Native American communities. We have the fourth largest US military base in the world next door that brings with it the ninth largest veteran community. We are at the center of a rapidly