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When college students dream up the perfect summer, it usually doesn’t involve getting up at 3 a.m. to take water samples, living out of your backpack, and sleeping in the trees. But for geosciences major Nathan Page, there was no better way to spend the last summer of his undergraduate education. Page set out on a series of research trips with four of his peers and Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Claire Todd to study waste management on Mt. Rainier. It was a great way

with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of  Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was one of the things that I was most

come from is the reason why they now can’t successfully do X, Y and Z at their university. But a growing number of us understand that this is deficit-minded thinking that serves no one, least of all our students.What would be the antithesis of a deficit-minded mindset? Equity-minded?Yes, exactly. When it comes to retention, specifically, deficit-minded thinking solely imposes the responsibility for a student’s success on the student, not the institution. Equity-minded thinking examines the

his “teacherly” footsteps. “PLU’s been on my mind for a long time,” Gerhardstein says. “The size of the University, the size of the department, and as a liberal arts University, it’s really a great place to be.” Coming from the hectic schedule as a high school band director (he directed concert band, jazz band, and marching band), Gerhardstein says it’s nice to have more breathing room to plan, research and collaborate with students and faculty. At PLU, not only is he able to spend more time

described that way, animals are. “It wasn’t the journalist being derogatory,” Ramos, an assistant professor of English, said of the article. “But it was animalizing the immigrant. It’s one way of dehumanizing people – for sure.” In fact, Ramos noted that using the word “crawling” to describe an immigrant was not simply limited to this one instance – it had become accepted. For Ramos, that was troubling. “Language says a lot about how we see the world,” she said. Ramos has been fascinated with language

11 PLU Students Attend Amazon’s First Annual PNW Career Day Posted by: Sandy Dunham / February 26, 2015 Image: PLU Communication majors, from left, Anne-Marie Falloria ’15, Taylor Lunka ’15 and Amanda Brasgalla ’15 were part of the PLU group that attended Amazon’s first annual Pacific Northwest Career Day Conference on Feb. 23. February 26, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 25, 2015)—When my advisor first emailed me over J-Term about an opportunity to go

of getting a callback.  It was stressful, expensive, and out of reach for most struggling artists. While this is still the practice most theatres adhere to today, more and more are realizing that the technologies that were once so cost prohibitive—high definition video recording with a quality microphone—is now within the fingertips—and phones—of most actors.  Because of this, and wanting to entice the greatest number of auditioners possible, many theatres now allow actors to send in high-quality

a free public Veterans Resource Summit on Dec. 6 designed to connect veterans communitywide with local resources on everything from post-traumatic stress disorder to GI Bill military education benefits. Presenters at the high-profile event include representatives from: Photo: John Froschauer/PLU U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s office; the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, with information on benefits such as education, healthcare, mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder and

Prize Nomination is the fourth nomination he’s received. “The work we do does not get much media attention,” Bryn said. “To get nominated is then, ‘Yes, somebody is noticing.’” Bryn’s relationship with PLU began in 2004 when he co-taught with Amanda Feller, associate professor of communication, and Edward Inch, former dean of the School of Arts and Communication. Since that time, Bryn and Feller have taught together at PLU and at the Nansenskolen in Lillehammer, Norway. “One motivation for me to

academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and PLU study away was put on hold for 2020-2021. The Annual Wang Center Photo Contest is an opportunity for #LutesAway students to reflect upon their study away experience and provides a way for students to share the world’s images, from their perspective, with the PLU community. The print photos are displayed in PLU’s Mortvedt Library lobby and the digital photos are displayed below as a