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career in communications?The Department of Communication, Media & Design Arts offers a strategic and creative curriculum to prepare students for careers in diverse fields, including print and digital design, journalism, PR & advertising, film & media production, and studio art. Keep reading to learn more! Read Previous New Student Orientation & Move in day Read Next New Lutes share their hometown LATEST POSTS Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce

speak at the career fair, and I went in and felt really good about the message and the feedback. It felt great. I got a little more involved, and was asked to join the board as president.” The Network, led by School of Business Director of Graduate Programs and External Relations Theresa Ramos, has experienced quite an evolution. “It used to be membership-based,” Smith said. “Students and alumni would have to pay (an annual fee) to join.” Panelists at the 2013 Career Pathways event address the

years that followed he worked in sales, marketing, and operations for a variety of marine cargo companies and agencies. Eventually, he was appointed executive director of the Port of Olympia and later served as CEO of the Port of Tacoma. Since 2015, Wolfe has been the CEO of the Northwest Seaport Alliance, a marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma.We met with him recently to discuss his career in the maritime sector, his approach to international relations, and

. “Economics is fundamentally a discipline in which we study how and why we make decisions,” says Associate Professor of Economics Karen Travis. “It is the wide range of applications that tends to draw a very broad pool of students, including those interested in finance or developing economies.” “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

poverty is real. You just don’t advance without it.”  Carrato and the U.S. Foreign Service is rooted in the idea that strong foreign policy includes not only defense and diplomatic relations, but development because when countries struggle, especially with serious issues such as electrification or food production, the issues manifest themselves beyond that country’s borders.  There’s a lot of different ways you can make the case for this work,” Carrato says. “Some people see the value for ‘doing the

Punjab region in the 1980s, when government police picked up and killed young Sikh men and orchestrated military operations on Sikh holy places. In class, she wrestled with the history of international relations—and why the global system allowed this to happen.“I try to bring the Punjabi Sikh topic into the classroom, as it’s under-studied,” she says. “I want to make a difference and have an academic understanding of these issues.” Sikhs can face discrimination in the U.S. due to appearances. They

Senator Patty Murray and other members of Congress on Capitol Hill during a Social Science Advocacy Day on May 1, 2019, as a representative of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Government Relations Committee. The event was sponsored by the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), whose mission statement in part is to “monitor the full range of federal issues impacting the social and behavioral science community as a whole, from funding to new research policies and

Loren J. Anderson joined hundreds at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard for a vigil to remember victims of last week’s attacks in Norway.  These are the remarks he made during the service. Read Previous New ’employer relations’ position connects students with employers Read Next Light Fantastic COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how

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

media guides. “I worked in sports in an era in which there was almost daily face-to-face contact with the news media,” Kittilsby said. “This doesn’t happen anymore, and that’s not because Jim Kittilsby left and everything went to pot. That was before high-tech, and press relations were totally different. People say, ‘Gee, Jim, when you were publicist, the Lutes got a lot of ink in the papers and time on the Seattle stations.’ I can’t take credit for that. (The late, legendary coach) Frosty Westering