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won first place in the novice division. Additionally, Austin Ballard ’16 won a speaker award. At the Mark O. Hatfield Memorial, Austin Ballard ’16 and Angie Tinker ’16 received first place overall. This was a significant accomplishment since they competed against 52 teams comprised of students from all over the nation, as well as international teams from Vancouver, B.C. Ballard also received a speaker award at this tournament. Teams from PLU took home first and second place at the University of
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from her home state of Indiana. She is looking forward to getting to know the political scene in D.C. and is networking to find a job relating to Economics and Chinese in order to stay in the city a while longer. Chaney Skadsen, 2016Chaney is currently attending Illinois State University where she is a Master’s International student pursuing a degree in Applied Economics and Community Development. While on campus she has been a graduate assistant working on implementing a grant (UWE), to get more
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), which won the 2015 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction. Her stories have been listed as notable in Best American Short Stories and Best American Mystery Stories, and her books have been shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association Award, International Dublin Literary Award, Eric Hoffer Award, and Foreword Indies. Adrianne has also been the recipient of several fellowships and grants, most recently, a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.Keetje
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has published essays about numerous contemporary American poets. A regular essayist for The Georgia Review, his critical articles and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections, among them The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, The Southern Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Poetry International. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he taught poetry writing and modern and contemporary American literature. Still
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today, you have come together in this great PLU learning community from 32 different states, and 14 different countries. Your membership represents the great diversity of the human family, religiously, ethnically, economically, five of you are only 20, and the oldest “real” graduate is 65, the oldest “honorary” grad is 66! You have done well at PLU! Today, 222 of your number are graduating with academic honors, 48 of you have completed the International Honors program, dozens have participated in
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don’t like to show, so I’ve learned to just internalize it. It’s how I’ve learned to keep living despite all that I’ve gone through.” “This is not a vacation. This is a trip that will redefine who I am.” I met David nine years ago, in an international conflict resolution class at Pacific Lutheran University. We quickly became friends and, eventually, roommates. The following summer he invited me to move into a house three blocks from campus, affectionately nicknamed “The Embassy.” It was home to
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2014 ConvocationCreating a culture of sustainable and responsible citizenshipBy President Thomas W. Krise Sept. 8, 2014 We are delighted to welcome you all to the 2014 University Convocation! Whether you are a part of the entering class of 2018, a student joining us with some college experience already behind you, or an exchange student here for a more brief time…we are pleased to see you this morning. We are joined in this year’s class by 80 international students from Cambodia, China, Denmark
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of academic program quality that continues to act as the foundation of PLU today. Likewise, the MBA of the School of Business as well as the department of Music became accredited. Rieke was named among the top five percent of effective college presidents in 1986 and was named Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Olav V in 1989 for his efforts in strengthening international ties. The Science Center built in 1985 was named the William O. Rieke Science Center to honor the
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needs to return to our national and international conversation. We’ve summarized all this into our mission statement: The mission of Pacific Lutheran University is to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care—for others, for their communities, and for the earth. That’s a very Lutheran mission statement and I can tell you that everyone at PLU without exception is deeply committed to it. So when you wonder about whether Pacific Lutheran University is “Lutheran
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