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Yesenia Arellano ’13 discusses her work as a bilingual mental health counselor Posted by: Silong Chhun / September 28, 2021 September 28, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing and CommunicationsPLU alumna Yesenia Arellano ’13 was recently honored by the City of Tacoma during National Hispanic Heritage Month for her work as a mental health counselor providing bilingual therapy to diverse community members and an immigrant clientele. Yesenia spoke with PLU Assistant Director of Communications Veronica

Northwest Association for College Admission Counseling (PNACAC) conference in Boise, Idaho.The Rising Star Award honors individuals and programs that exemplify excellence and dedication to serving the needs of students in the transition from high school to college. It encourages affiliates of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) to identify and nurture new members and programs, as well as continue professional development of organization members. NACAC is an organization of

February 22, 2011 Programs that engage the world By Kari Plog ’11 At PLU, studying doesn’t just take place inside a classroom. Nearly half of the students enrolled at PLU will study away by the time they graduate, and the Wang Center for Global Education recently showcased what these experiences can offer through World Conversations. Every January, hundreds of PLU students study around the world. (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) “World Conversations is designed to give students the opportunity

. In 2017, they were approached by Associate Provost Jan Lewis and Prof. Tamara Williams who invited them to participate in a grant to support Digital Humanities at PLU. Mathew Salzano explains his project during the open house for the Digital Humanities Lab at PLU, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Dr. Ramos explains, “We were really excited when we were told that there was a grant that we could apply for, and so we did. What was really great was that the grant was supporting

are some of my best, and yet, there is so much still to learn that I feel I will never truly be done with them. As an artist, my work is an extension of myself, and it is constantly in flux.” Sarah Henderson, another late-night-Ingram-inhabitor, is also in the throws of finishing her capstone artworks. Henderson received first place in the fall Student Juried Exhibition for her sculpture entitled Just Be. That piece, which consists of a goat strung between a balloon and an anvil (all made of

distinguish where one starts and the other ends.” (Photo by Theodore Charles) The next day, I really wanted to purchase some cloth for my mother back home. I hopped on a bus with a number of students returning to a tailor for dresses. Ugandan markets contain stores that are packed tightly together and it is often hard to distinguish where one starts and the other ends. While the students that had already bartered a good went to the second fabric stand on the corner, myself and several others ended up in

October 3, 2013 Auberry Fortuner ’13 and Assistant Professor Bret Underwood did research into understanding what gave rise to the expansion of the universe. (Photo by John Froschauer) Modeling the Early Universe By Katie Scaff ’13 None of us was around for the Big Bang, but one enterprising student is determined to see what the universe looked like in its beginning, more than 13 billion years ago. Auberry Fortuner ’13 spent his summer simulating events that happened about one-billionth of a

Month” for her recording with the Buffalo Philharmonic on Naxos. Wincenc is also renowned pedagogue who frequently serves as a juror at prestigious international flute competitions and continues her teaching legacy at both Stony Brook University and The Juilliard School. PLU’s Assistant Professor of Flute, Jennifer Rhyne, was a doctoral student of Wincenc at Stony Brook University. Given her long list of accomplishments, Wincenc’s appearance on campus provides a once in a lifetime learning

trade agreements at the time, Barlow noticed that water was listed as a tradable commodity. Odd, she thought at the time. And unfair. “I thought (water) should be free for all, and considered a resource,” she mused before she spoke this spring at the Wang Center Symposium, which focused on water – both its growing scarcity and value, as well as its impact on socioeconomic trends. “I guess since I wasn’t a lawyer or a scientists, I saw these issues with fresh eyes,” said Barlow, who has a degree in

newspaper, The Mooring Mast). We showed up at the TNT dressed in our best, excited to be first-years at an award-winning paper on election night, ready to report the news. The political editor, Kim Bradford, briefed us in a conference room about the hashtag we would be using (#waelex) and where we were headed: the “Yes on I-591” rally in Bellevue, Wash., which was anti-gun-regulation. She also told us what we were looking for: color. (“Color” is a term used in journalism to describe what makes the story