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The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates . The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of…
frameworks that lend to the understanding of race, including and especially whiteness. 2. Place and belonging: the transformative power of learning particularly in a place of deep connection and community. 3. Narratives: the power of story to serve as a form of both enlightenment and non-violent resistance for social change. 4. Development: familial relationships and their influence on the arc of development from childhood to adulthood. If you have any questions about the book or if your department or
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Student Engagement is committed to providing leadership opportunities that create spaces for students to gain experience through hands on learning and navigate creating solutions.
event administration and facilitation.Student Engagement leaders are passionate about: Creating connections between students, faculty, and staff Providing an introduction to academic and personal resources Fostering awareness and equity Promoting relationships with the campus and community LUTE Welcome Orientation Guides – Applications Open in MarchNew Student Orientation is made up of about 30-50 diverse and enthusiastic LUTE Welcome Week Orientation Guides. Guides learn skills in leadership
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Students of Color, Queer Students, & First in Family Students The Spirit of Diversity Awards is excited to recognize ALL graduating seniors who identify as Students of Color, Queer Students,
Rick’s 30+ years of service, Rick, who was described by Diversity Advocates as “classically fierce” cultivated intentional mentoring relationships with students, faculty, and staff that allowed us to see that, we too, are great. 2024 Recipient: Mary Lou YeomansPast Recipients 2023Wild Hope in Social Justice Stephanie Zambrano & Sahara Jones Faculty + Staff: Paul Sutton Nicola Justice Andrew Lum Christine Nicolai Emerging Leaders: Taezha Watson Katherine Gunter Juan Flores Del Toro Justin Singh Logan
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…
exhibition.Munch, a Norwegian artist, is best known for the famous painting “The Scream,” but much of his art encompasses the same approach. The artist focused on love, relationships, anxiety and other deeply emotional themes that resonate in the names of the pieces, in addition to the art itself: Lovers at the Seaside, Alpha’s Despair, Separation II, Angst, Two Human Beings: The Lonely Ones and more. The exhibit at TAM focuses on Munch’s relationship with the sea and its symbolism in his works. “His
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Louis Hobson ’00 is an accomplished actor on stage and on screen. His next act includes building a production company that he hopes will infuse innovation into the entertainment industry.
(Photos by John Froschauer, PLU) “Louis understands the importance of building relationships and so he gets to know people and he invests time and energy into the relationships,” Hagen said. “He is a risk taker as well — he knows that risk is a part of this business and without being willing to take risks, chances are you will miss out on something special.” Hobson continues to connect with his alma mater. He returns to campus to meet with students or teach master classes, and serves on the School of
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Students are encouraged to do research with a faculty member during their undergraduate experience at PLU.
ecology of bivalves. These projects involve undergraduate student researchers at PLU and collaborators from the University of Washington and Harbor WildWatch. Jacob Egge As an evolutionary biologist and systematist, my primary research interests involve using the tools of phylogenetic systematics to help answer questions about speciation, phylogeography, relationships among species, and morphological evolution. I am an ichthyologist by training and I work primarily with North American freshwater
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In the spring of 2021, Kenzie Knapp ’23 was awarded a Udall Foundation scholarship. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships, fellowships, and 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…
to do my best to prevent that. There are a couple of legislations for student government that I am super excited to keep writing. I would love to work on providing more widespread free public transit by using student government funds. I know my experience as a freshman who didn’t have a car and Tacoma is a 30-minute bus ride away and it’s $2 one way like it really adds up for students and it takes time. I hope to make that more accessible for everyone so we can explore Tacoma more. I would also
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Professor Emeritus | Earth Science | benhamsr@plu.edu | Dr.
and faculty from Geosciences and other departments for over two decades. Over the past couple of decades, Steve’s scholarship has focused on the carbonate deposits and fossil records of ancient methane cold seeps, especially those found in Western Washington. He was recognized for his invaluable contributions to his research team’s work, especially his use of the scanning electron microscope, by having a fossil named after him in 1996. It is a gastropod mollusk called Ammonicera benhami that is
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Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom,…
concentration in finance. What prompted that switch? Accounting just wasn’t for me. I am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with
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PLU Chemistry professor Dean Waldow hopes to one day become useless. After all, as an educator, his job is to empower students to work confidently and independently in a field that is constantly innovating. He does this by bringing students into his lab to help…
was very stressful. I, like my coworkers, lacked lab experience due to the pandemic and everything was intimidating at first,” engineering major Sandy Montgomery ’23 says. “Once I had a couple of weeks to figure out where everything was and to practice basic techniques, I felt much more comfortable working independently.” Jackie Lindstrom ’22, a chemistry major and fellow student researcher, said that after the year of remote learning, the in-lab experience was invaluable. “I am more appreciative
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