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collects, studies mosquitoes in the pursuit of improved public health 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 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new Chief

Associate Professor of Philosophy Pauline Shanks Kaurin``Advocacy``Guests: Associate Professor of Religion Kevin O’Brien and Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication Justin Eckstein``Climate``Guests: Associate Professor of Biology Michael Behrens and Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Kaitlyn Sill Read Previous PLU Scholarship Awards Full Tuition to Eligible 253 Area Code Students Read Next Media Student Serves and Learns Simultaneously COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

. “Economics is fundamentally a discipline in which we study how and why we make decisions,” says Associate Professor of Economics Karen Travis. “It is the wide range of applications that tends to draw a very broad pool of students, including those interested in finance or developing economies.” “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

there’s not adequate access to food, water or health care—conflict with family, community, government,” she said. Espasandin is vice president of PLU’s Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management and has completed three certificates in basic mediation, basic negotiation and peace-building with an emphasis in dialogue. She also traveled with Feller to Northern Ireland on a J-Term Study Away trip. Her peace philosophy: “Peace-building doesn’t always aim to resolve conflict, but to build

syllabi. You’ll read about how students made distance learning work, how faculty continued campus programs, national leadership, and international scholarship.  You’ll read how classes were adapted to ensure that students were cared for and supported in English, Languages, Philosophy, Religion, and the MFA. All these stories are honest about the challenges we faced and the real loss of these last years, but they also reveal how much great work continued.  As you read about this work, please know that

studying away on all seven continents, and one of eight groups posting to the Sojourner blog. Auxiliary services director Mark Mulder and assistant philosophy professor Brendan Hogan made the T-shirts as a way to achieve a group identity among the students. In the group’s few short weeks on the South American continent, it’s proven to be much more than a simple T-shirt, Mulder said. “It is a chance for students to identify with their role as Sojourners, as ambassadors of global citizenship, and to

policy. Those who gave presentations included: Brad Berg, a full-time pediatrician in Mount Vernon, Wash., and co-founder of the nonprofit Fight for the Children Steve Deem, an environmental health engineer for the Washington State Department of Health Zoey Dering ’93, nurse and commissioned officer with the U.S. Public Health Service Joe DiCarlo, director of emergency relief at Medical Teams International Brent Hample ’86, chief executive officer of India Partners Veronica Esteban Hernandez

violence and conflict and humanitarian intervention. There also is a service component to the program, said program leader, Philosophy Professor Greg Johnson. Johnson said he has been working on the program for the last 18 months. Originally scheduled for launch in 2015, Johnson said that all the pieces fell into place early – so why not 2014? “No university on the West Coast, with perhaps the exception of Stanford, has a program like this,” Johnson said before leaving for Oxford earlier this month

Sawyer (D-29th District) and PLU faculty members Kaitlyn Sill, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Mike Schleeter, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Panelists will share their perspectives on the strongest and weakest parts of the U.S. governmental system as designed under the Constitution—what is working, what is not working, whether it is working as intended—and then take questions from the audience. The event will be Livestreamed at https://www.plu.edu/lutecast/. Read Previous PLU

more, says Boyd. “The housing market didn’t keep up with demand, and public policy didn’t respond adequately,” she explains. During college, Boyd grew “immensely curious about how people became homeless and disappointed by our culture’s willingness to tolerate it.” While majoring in philosophy she solidified her ethic of service and began getting involved. Boyd’s career started in direct services, continued in policy and law, and she now serves as the chief executive officer at Bellwether Housing