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, helping to strengthen international ties and increase our country’s global competitiveness. In 2013, Pacific Lutheran University ranked No.18 on the Peace Corps’ list for small schools, with 15 undergraduate alumni from PLU serving overseas. The year before, PLU produced nine volunteers. As the preeminent international service organization of the United States, the Peace Corps sends Americans abroad to tackle pressing needs of people around the world. Peace Corps volunteers work at the grassroots

the guidance of Assistant Professor Mark Mulder, the students traveled to the northwest corner of the country to help build a well under the auspices of Living Water International, a Christian NGO that organizes well projects around the world. Living Water operates in 26 countries, and works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSb6gmwYvRw community by community to help resolve the world-wide clean-water crisis. The entire project was hatched in the fall of 2012 during a marketing class, where students

work has grown following the merger, its core mission remains. “We’re dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education, a vision that has always assumed the dynamic intersection of the local and global,” she explains.  Partnering with departments all over campus, Wang Center staff help provide faculty members with development and grant opportunities, manage and coordinate domestic and international study

of the universe and natural world with pre-recorded and digitally produced sounds along with a live solo horn performance. She also received acclaim for her composition “Mountain Ascent,” awarded first place at the International Women’s Brass Conference Competition in 2022. With an international reputation and a string of commissions from prestigious ensembles and musicians, Gillie’s substantial, relevant, and influential work has elevated her status as a composer and contributed significantly to

maybe he should do something about it. But first, he had to focus on the upcoming 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy. “I felt that if I ever had the spotlight, I would do something about it,” he told the crowd of 200 people gathered at the Tacoma Convention Center last Thursday for the Cheek’s keynote speech for the Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation. At the talk, Cheek, along with William B. Stafford, was awarded PLU’s Wang Center for International Programs

semester. Little did she know the research she conducted there would lead to a presentation at the esteemed 2024 Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies.  The conference featured a weekend of panel sessions, during which student presenters shared findings with peers. The conference’s theme, “Power of the People: Uplifting Global Communities,” emphasized the idea of collaborating with communities rather than for communities.  Dr

, inclusive and affirming communities for all who live there. CLICK HERE to learn more about Tingelstad. Read Previous Social work major and working mom Teranejah Lucas ’23 explores the politics and power of Black hair in her senior capstone Read Next You Ask, We Answer: Can I study international business at PLU? LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major

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Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare, and then to Xavier Hall, where she perched on the stoop  and reflected on all the PLU connections that had brought her to this point. With a bachelor’s degree in Child Development and Family Relations from the University of Maine, Sullivan had worked in Maine until she was laid off. After her father’s death, she and her family followed her sister to the Pacific Northwest, and her sister, as sisters sometimes do, gently pushed Sullivan to go back to school. Sullivan