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profession. “I always thought I’m glad I don’t do scholarship on immigration because it would get me too fired up,” she said. “But that was when it all came together.” At PLU, Ramos has been able to combine her interests in language and immigration through courses she teaches, as well as through the university’s Common Reading Program. This year for the first time, the entire campus – students, staff and faculty – is reading the same book at the same time, exploring immigration, race and gender identity

around on his bike. Kinney later completed his associate’s degree at Pierce County Community College and transferred his credits to PLU just before his accident. After he re-entered courses at PLU, he started encouraging Jennifer to do the same. So she started her own journey. There may be a second generation of Kinneys on the way, as their daughter Aleesha, 17, is also considering PLU. “I would just say, if you have a dream, go for it, just do it,” Jennifer Kinney said. And Jym’s advice: Get back on

learn a great deal from each other.” By no later than spring 2015, the center also will begin offering continuing-education classes, evening and weekend workshops, and online courses, all of which will be open to the general public, not just PLU students. “Stay tuned. A lot of exciting new things are in the works,” said Wells. “Our ultimate goal is to make PLU the destination point for anyone who wants to learn about arts, design, communication or media.” Read Previous Convocation 2014 Read Next

new program—and a new way to teach—that includes eight wide-ranging blended or hybrid courses this fall that combine in-class and self-directed online learning: •    BUSA 302: Business Finance •    BUSA 308: Principles of Marketing •    COMA 360: Public Relations Writing •    ECON 111: Principles of Microeconomics: Global and Environmental •    ECON 322: Money and Banking •    EDUC 394: Technology & Teaching •    MUSI 120: Music and Culture •    PHED 100: Personalized Fitness program In addition

components.That wondrous poster remained in her mind throughout her youth and became a beacon as she decided what to study in school. The feeling of being so small, yet part of a universe so big, was the inspiration behind her vocational choice: to educate others about the universe and the world around them. Hay is now Associate Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. Earlier this year, she took a sabbatical from teaching college courses on electromagnetism, physics and calculus-based physics to

opportunity to learn more about PCAT and discuss the center with PCAT board members. The center also plans to offer a range of adult education and professional certification courses in demand in Pierce County’s smaller cities and suburban communities that are in need of an additional influx of professionally trained workers. “The population growth outside of Tacoma opens up business opportunities that will require skilled workers,” said Mark Martinez, a PCAT board member and executive secretary of the

concentration in finance. What prompted that switch? Accounting just wasn’t for me. I am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with

Women’s and Gender Studies & Holocaust and Genocide Studies at PLU, in addition to her History major. She was well-prepared for graduate school elective courses like “Human Rights and Nation States,” and “Sex, Society, and Politics in Post-1945 Europe.” As Carli puts it, in those classes and her year-long required historical literature survey and required research seminar,” I was able to utilize and build upon the intellectual base I formed at PLU and was challenged by fresh perspectives, a new peer

the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a prestigious national scholarship geared toward diversifying the types of students studying away. Zimmerman is the only Pacific Lutheran University student to receive the scholarship this year, and only the second in 10 years. Zimmerman, a nursing student, will study away in Windhoek in the spring. She will take nursing classes at the local university, as well as online PLU courses. “I’ve always dreamed of traveling,” Zimmerman said. “It had

-Bertoni is a visiting assistant professor here at PLU in the departments of Religion and Environmental Studies. She is originally from Oakland, California, and has had a passion for helping the environment from a young age. During her Senior year of high school, Robinson-Bertoni had the opportunity to take courses at the University of California, Berkeley, and she chose to first take an environmental studies class. From there, she went on to get her Bachelor of Arts degree at Berkeley in American