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  • if only electronically. We hope that this page will allow alumni to reconnect and current students to meet some of their predecessors. Please email us with pictures and stories to share.

    Institute and State University. After finishing my contract for this job, I moved to China as a volunteer teacher with Pearl S. Buck International. I then extended my stay in China via an internship with the cultural division at UNESCO, Beijing. In late December of 2005, I returned to the US for a brief visit, and this returned to China as a visiting researcher at Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University–working on social impact assessment and ethnic minorities development initiatives with the University’s

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 18, 2020) — If you’ve ever wondered whether leaders are born or made, the answer is both. At least it is when you’re referring to Pacific Lutheran University graduate Amy Spieker ’09. Growing up in a Navy family, Spieker moved her fair…

    justice. I remember reading about apartheid and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and really becoming aware of the hatred and injustice in the world. Dr. (Karen) Travis introduced me to public health and showed me a way to use my skills in a field that I was passionate about. My ways of thinking were influenced by my economics classes, I often stop and think about the incentive structures that are leading people to make certain decisions, or about the economics of prevention. I also reinforced my value

  • Lutes are dedicated to global education, and student athletes are no different. This fall, two Lutes who studied in Norway managed to balance their studies and training abroad, while PLU welcomed

    pair studied international relations as well as peace and conflict studies. Throughout fall semester, they stuck to the regular workout plan sent by head rowing coach Andy Foltz. “That’s nice because I don’t have to modify,” Ivey said. The erg — short for ergometer — was one of the many ways Ivey stayed fit in preparation for the spring rowing season that sneaked up on her shortly after she returned to PLU in January. In addition to following the coach’s workouts, she ran around the city and lifted

  • On Exhibit: Common Reading Book 2021, The Best We Could Do The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book is the critically acclaimed graphic novel,  The Best We Could Do  by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter…

    Museum website   Smithsonian American Art Museum. (n.d.) Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue. https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/chung Tiffany Chung (b. 1969, Đà Nẵng, Viet Nam) is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals. Vietnam, Past Is Prologue makes visible a history hidden in plain sight for the past forty-five years. Her subject, the War in Vietnam (1955–1975), has achieved a nearly mythic

  • The PLU School of Business is a community of compassionate faculty, staff, and administrators who provide an excellent business education in a student-centered learning environment grounded in the

    management, and the global business environment. Prerequisite: BUSA 201. (4) BUSA 305 : Behavior in Organizations Working with and leading others in the global environment at individual, group, and organizational levels. Learning skills to organize and manage people with emphasis on individual and team dynamics, personality and values, diversity, motivation, leadership, decision-making, conflict, organizational culture, and change. Prerequisite: BUSA 201. (4) BUSA 308 : Principles of Marketing Introduces

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    professors from multiple disciplines, other campus staff, and community members from the greater Tacoma area.While I attended PLU before the induction of the HGST minor, I had the opportunity to take several of the classes that came to be part of that program. Taking classes related to Holocaust & Genocide Studies extends far before and far beyond World War II. Gaining a greater understanding and awareness of all minority groups (ethnic, religious, or both) helped me better contextualize struggle and the

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    professors from multiple disciplines, other campus staff, and community members from the greater Tacoma area.While I attended PLU before the induction of the HGST minor, I had the opportunity to take several of the classes that came to be part of that program. Taking classes related to Holocaust & Genocide Studies extends far before and far beyond World War II. Gaining a greater understanding and awareness of all minority groups (ethnic, religious, or both) helped me better contextualize struggle and the

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    professors from multiple disciplines, other campus staff, and community members from the greater Tacoma area.While I attended PLU before the induction of the HGST minor, I had the opportunity to take several of the classes that came to be part of that program. Taking classes related to Holocaust & Genocide Studies extends far before and far beyond World War II. Gaining a greater understanding and awareness of all minority groups (ethnic, religious, or both) helped me better contextualize struggle and the

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    professors from multiple disciplines, other campus staff, and community members from the greater Tacoma area.While I attended PLU before the induction of the HGST minor, I had the opportunity to take several of the classes that came to be part of that program. Taking classes related to Holocaust & Genocide Studies extends far before and far beyond World War II. Gaining a greater understanding and awareness of all minority groups (ethnic, religious, or both) helped me better contextualize struggle and the

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    professors from multiple disciplines, other campus staff, and community members from the greater Tacoma area.While I attended PLU before the induction of the HGST minor, I had the opportunity to take several of the classes that came to be part of that program. Taking classes related to Holocaust & Genocide Studies extends far before and far beyond World War II. Gaining a greater understanding and awareness of all minority groups (ethnic, religious, or both) helped me better contextualize struggle and the