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internships to students pursuing fields of study related to the environment or Native American nations.Knapp has served as a G.R.E.A.N. club officer, is currently co-chair of the Student Sustainability Committee, and is a leader of the Tacoma hub of the Sunrise Movement of young people fighting for intersectional environmental justice. She is also the incoming ASPLU Environmental Justice Director. We spoke with Knapp on her award, the opportunity it provides her, and her goals for the incoming school year

-as-dust lectures she encountered at university. Picketers protest segregated stores in Tallahassee (1960) After graduating with a BA from San Francisco State University in 1979, she did some traveling in the US… but also, amazingly to me, all the way to Australia, where she developed an interest in Aboriginal history and its resonance to Native American experiences. Australian Aboriginal rock art This was exciting for me to hear, since I had just returned from a trip home to research a new study

New Faculty Profile: Adam Arnold Posted by: Matthew / December 8, 2017 Image: Dr. Adam Arnold, a Tacoma native, began teaching Philosophy courses at PLU in 2017. December 8, 2017 By Janet Koplitz '18PLU HumanitiesPhilosophy professor Adam Arnold is a new addition to PLU’s faculty. Originally from the Tacoma area, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, Tacoma in 2009. From there, he earned the opportunity to study away at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of

Julia A. Rutherford Memorial Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / January 31, 2022 January 31, 2022 The Education Committee of the Puget Sound American Chemical Society will be accepting applications for the Julia A. Rutherford Memorial Scholarship. Two $1500 scholarships will be awarded students currently enrolled in a 4-year college/university who has completed or is currently enrolled in organic chemistry I. The eligibility details and contact info can be found here. The deadline is March 1

ACS Puget Sound Section – College scholarships – due March 1 Posted by: nicolacs / January 31, 2024 January 31, 2024 The American Chemical Society Puget Sound Section is pleased to open applications for a scholarship for 4-year college students and an additional DEIR Scholarship to support underrepresented minority students in STEM. Each scholarship is a $2000 award. Applications are due March 1st. Eligibility, criteria, and FAQs can be found here: https://acspss.org/education/#scholarships

Moms Are Best Reached By Brand on Facebook With a Cause Posted by: wagnerjc / September 12, 2017 September 12, 2017 Originally published by American Marketing Association on August 25, 2017 by Zach Brooke New research from SCG sheds light on family matriarchs' purchasing power and media habits A survey completed by SCG Advertising and Public Relations shows that a majority of matriarchs are the primary decision makers within their households across several categories, including food and

How to be a Lute: Let’s Spend a Day in Tacoma Posted by: vcraker / May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021 Ready to explore? Tacoma native Lindsey Hansen ’22 shares some highlights of her favorite Tacoma hang-out spots. Read Previous Interested in studying Psychology? Read Next How to be a Lute: How to weather the Pacific Northwest weather LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024

January 14, 2013 At PLU, students get the chance to explore the depths of the Puget Sound – for class credit. Diving for an A, at the bottom of the Puget Sound Katie Baumann ’14 A native of the land of 10,000 lakes, James Olson ’14 never imagined he would be a certified scuba diver, getting college credit to take a dip in the Puget Sound. But through the scuba diving physical education class at PLU, collegiate credit and an unforgettable experience is exactly what he got. For Olson, taking

took an interest in these neglected diseases. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Bill Gates, at the time the richest man in the world, his wife Melinda and his father Bill Gates Sr. were looking for something to do with all that extra money. The Gates family had looked into supporting various philanthropic efforts in education, libraries and, on the global scale, population issues. But ultimately it was the simple vaccine – or more accurately, the lack of childhood immunizations across much of the world

higher education has had on the nine graduates’ lives, careers and nation. As it turns out, this experience is having a profound impact on the PLU team: new graduates Andrea Capere ’14 and Princess Reese ’14; current students Shunying Wang ’15 and Maurice Byrd ’14; and supervisors Joanne Lisosky, Professor of Communication, and Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment.“What makes this so unique is the variety of perspectives that we have in the six people who are traveling on