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‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of…
University of Maryland, where she teaches Media and International Affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. I wouldn’t call it compassion fatigue, but more of a burnout, a distinction I feel confident making after all my research. But just like the caregivers we studied, we knew that our work wasn’t about us as individuals, but instead about doing something greater than ourselves. It was experiences, like that in Joplin and interviewing Bobby Senn, which helped remind us of our mission. My
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When we first catch up with environmental advocate Andrew Schwartz ‘07, he’s preparing for a massive road trip with his wife, Emily, and 8-month-old daughter, Maja. They’re headed east to visit Emily’s family in Illinois. But the 36-year-old Schwartz’s life has also been a journey,…
on to become a Lutheran pastor, while his grandmother was an organist and pianist for the church. In 2003, Schwartz enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University. PLU’s Parkland location helped open Schwartz’s eyes beyond his white, middle-class upbringing in Corvallis. The school is an academic institution with a lived intention to give back to community, he says, and exemplified how nothing exists in isolation. “For an ecosystem to survive, everything needs to thrive,” he says. “Being here
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 22, 2016)- It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan. An estimated two million people died as a result of war, famine…
don’t like to show, so I’ve learned to just internalize it. It’s how I’ve learned to keep living despite all that I’ve gone through.” “This is not a vacation. This is a trip that will redefine who I am.” I met David nine years ago, in an international conflict resolution class at Pacific Lutheran University. We quickly became friends and, eventually, roommates. The following summer he invited me to move into a house three blocks from campus, affectionately nicknamed “The Embassy.” It was home to
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Save the Date! Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Anne McCoy, Natt- Lingafelter Professor of Chemistry and the recipient of the 2022 ACS Francis P. Garvan–John M. Olin Medal Posted by: alemanem / October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022 Read Previous Dept of Energy Office of Science Summer Undergraduate Internships Read Next Virtual STEM Career Fair with the US Dept of State LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15
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Undergraduate Research Experience this Summer at ASU Posted by: alemanem / March 14, 2023 March 14, 2023 Read Previous MSOT Accepting Apps 2023 Read Next Internship at the Port of Tacoma LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program
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Mathematics/Chemistry seminar this Wednesday 3/2 featuring Profs. Justin Lytle & Tom Edgar Posted by: yakelina / February 29, 2016 February 29, 2016 Read Previous Ramstad Scholarship Applications Invited 2016 Read Next Desserts and Demos 2016 on Thu. March 10th, 7 PM! LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer
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Desserts and Demos 2016 on Thu. March 10th, 7 PM! Posted by: yakelina / March 4, 2016 March 4, 2016 Read Previous Mathematics/Chemistry seminar this Wednesday 3/2 featuring Profs. Justin Lytle & Tom Edgar Read Next Chem. Seminar: Joel Baker, Monday, March 14th LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate
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YouTube Short: Keep up the kindness Follow Zari as she asks the PLU community: What is the nicest thing someone at PLU has done for you? #LutesCenterCommunity Posted by: mhines / April 8, 2024 April 8, 2024 Read Previous You Ask. We Answer. How is your Psychology Program? Read Next Take a peak inside Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy 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
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