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ACS Local Section 2015 Career Event – February 11th Posted by: Dean Waldow / November 23, 2014 November 23, 2014 The local ACS section is again sponsoring a career event and this year our own Dr. Fryhle is one of the panelists. The following is an excerpt from the announcement. Please see the web link for more details. The Puget Sound Section of the ACS is sponsoring its Eleventh Annual Career Event on February 11th, 2015 from 1-5 PM at the W. R. Giedt Department of Health Public Health
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large news-show desk in front of cameras, Tinker discussed Initiative 1 on the 2015 ballot with Don Hansen, a local small business owner, and the show’s host, Chris Anderson. The show originally aired on Friday, October 30 at 7:30pm. Participants talked about the costs and benefits of raising the minimum wage in Tacoma to $15/hour. Tinker was confident during the interview as she realized her preparations for the Ruth Anderson Public Debate gave her more than enough experience and skill to handle
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October 12, 2012 ASPLU aims to increase student voices in upcoming election For many PLU students the upcoming election will mark the first chance they’ve been able to vote — at least in a presidential election. In an effort to increase the number of young voters, which make up the largest demographic in this year’s election, ASPLU and several other on campus partners started a new project called Lute Drive. The five-week drive ended on Oct. 5, but it surpassed its goal of registering 300
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. PLU was ranked seventh among private universities offering doctorate degrees.Institutions earn Military Friendly designations based on their commitment and impact on serving the military and veteran community. Over 1,800 schools were evaluated using public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. This latest designation adds to PLU’s long list of accolades for its commitment to military students and families. PLU has been a “Military Friendly School” since 2010 and this year was
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Entrepreneur Justin Foster ’02 on making meaningful relationships with faculty Posted by: Lace M. Smith / August 13, 2019 Image: Justin Foster ’02, and School of Business Dean Chung-Shing Lee photographed in the Morken Center for Learning & Technology at PLU, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) August 13, 2019 By Vince SchleitwilerGuest WriterLutes often find ways to show gratitude to the community that supported their education, but Justin Foster ’02 got started early. An
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retailer to get an item to the consumer. Fair trade essentially cuts out the “buyer” function, allowing the distributor to buy directly from the artisan and cut costs, Valdez said. “It’s why they can pay a fair wage and still charge a reasonable price for their products,” she explained. Most products are certified as fair trade through the Fair Trade Federation or the International Fair Trade Association. By visiting the production sites often, both organizations monitor how the goods are made and the
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to find guidance, let their writing breathe and listen to constructive criticism from their peers in a way that makes their work stronger. “Our goal is a sustainable writing life,” said Stan Rubin, MFA program director. Rubin said being a writer in the world with a sustainable writing career is what all of his adult students strive for, many of whom already have established writing success. “The only requirement is to come as writers, published or not,” Rubin said. Still, accomplished writers are
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January 11, 2008 UC, Morken powered by wind turbines As of Jan. 1, nearly 20 percent of the university’s energy is being purchased from renewable sources. The commitment to purchase “green” energy stems from the culture of the university, said Dave Kohler, director of facilities. Renewable energy is energy generated from natural sources that cannot be depleted, like wind and solar power. He points to the university’s mission to “care for the earth,” President Anderson’s signing of the
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General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations at PLU. In addition to years of education and experience as a diplomat, before taking the San Francisco post in 2005, Schuette spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley. Some of his experience also includes work in Israel. “The Holocaust is still the
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question, learn, and be inspired.” After graduating from the prestigious New School for Drama in New York with a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting, Tristan Morris was chosen from hundreds of applicants to participate in Broadway’s Rising Stars. “Performing on Broadway is like performing anywhere else,” said Tristan Morris. “You just have to wrap your mind around it.” Broadway’s Rising Stars is an annual one-night musical theater concert that takes place as part of the Town Hall’s Summer Broadway Festival
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