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at a street market than out of a catalogue, where prices were jacked up by 300 percent. Her staff were “voracious” learners, and quickly trained up. But she often found that doctors and nurses went right from the American equivalent of high school, straight into a specialty for the next six years. There was very little general medical or science training. There were also the cultural differences. Doctors were expected to take one look at a patient, and know instantly what was wrong. To simply say

programs that earned the university its honor. In general, “PLU has made a conscious decision to talk about “study away” rather than “study abroad,” Sobania said. “We do so because the south Puget Sound is so richly diverse that one does not need to travel more than a few blocks to have a cross-cultural experience.” Many of those cross-cultural experiences happen right on campus. For instance, more than 230 international students study on-campus, representing 24 countries. On-campus groups also focus

mural in The Cave and received the Sustainability Fellowship to design and propose a sustainability course as part of PLU’s general requirements. “My liberal arts education equipped me to be a well-rounded, conscious citizen and taught me the skills to do something about it,” said Rousseau. After graduating in 2012, Rousseau was determined to continue her personal education by investigating issues surrounding unsustainable agricultural systems. To do this, she set out to gain hands-on farming

security. “We need to be teaching our kids these languages,” Yaden said, adding that the language learners taught by the certificated teachers in the program may hold key government jobs in the future. But for Park, it’s simply a headstart on teacher training. “Mostly, I want to know how to improve as a teacher in general and as a world language teacher,” she said. “I think people forget that learning a new language is about the same as learning a language that is spoken at home, it just takes time and

knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience

reflects on her personal and educational experiences at PLU in our Q&A with her.How did you discover your passion for chemistry? When PLU went online, I took organic chemistry after general chemistry and loved that class, because it’s about figuring out different types of puzzles. I know organic chemistry is the class everyone is supposed to hate, but it’s my favorite, and I will die on that hill. Honestly, I knew chemistry was right for me after taking organic chemistry and having a ton of fun with

wave of the pandemic. Instead, she decided to apply for medical school at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, where she was eventually accepted. Since classes wouldn’t be starting for another year and a half, Chell looked for other ways to keep busy. She found a one-year AmeriCorps role with Massachusetts General Hospital, which runs a Rural Health Leadership fellowship for internal medicine physicians in partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Indian Health Service in

graduated from PLU, both in 2010, while fourth member Sam Duchin graduated from Bowdoin College in 2010. They all met during Utley’s volunteer days and have been performing together since 2010. As part of Muh Grog Zoo, Utley’s artistic goal is, “to keep doing shows and keep pushing boundaries of what improvisational theater can do, for the connection between not only ourselves and the audience, but also people’s perceptions of life in general.” At TEDxTacoma, the group will be doing a 15-minute

, and War: A General Theory and 900 Years of Empirics from Ancient Rome,” which asks and helps answer the question,  “How do political institutions shape the incentives to go to war?”‘ Among the most convoluted of the social sciences, PLU Professor of Economics Norris Peterson explains, Economics is founded in inquiry, research and critical thinking. “Economics develops skills in taking very complex problems and breaking them down to understand them better and ultimately to help solve them,” he says

public, to communicate relevance and to open lines of communication with other communities and audiences. Do you think faculty members will welcome the opportunity to be guests? I hope people will want to come and do the podcast with me. I can imagine some might feel hesitant about doing a podcast in general or hesitant that I’m trying to stump them. I’m not, at all. This only goes well if we have a sort of rhythm and conversationality. How does hosting this podcast relate to your scholarship? I have