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are not always comfortable conversations, but I’ve found great joy and a sort of liberation in the opportunities for honesty, resolve and direction they can provide.” The first People’s Gathering in February 2017 was attended by roughly 200 people. By the third installment in April 2019, attendance had increased to more than four hundred. Plans for a fourth on-campus event were set aside when COVID-19 hit in early 2020. However, as the pandemic accentuated health discrepancies within marginalized
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The ‘L’ is not silent Posted by: Thomas Krise / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016 Recently, I received a letter from a concerned parent and alumna commenting on how completely amazed and surprised she is at how different PLU is now, compared to her time here in the early 1980s. She has since returned to campus many times, but more in the past four years as her two daughters have both attended PLU, one graduating last year. Her concern stems from the fact that as she walked around campus, went on
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national government, and organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, Earth Economics, the League of Women Voters, and various political campaigns. Did you know? Ready to get involved? Join PLU’s Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (the largest national professional law fraternity), the politically affiliated student groups on campus, PLU’s own student government (ASPLU), or participate in the Lute Vote project! Did you know? PLU is ranked a top 10 best college for Political Science in Washington
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a prop making nerd with an interest in both the practical effects and artistic ends of the sculptural spectrum. He is particularly interested in multiply-produced works and the individual paths of reproduced objects.Portfolio Dambi ParkBFA, Studio Art Dambi’s career began at an early age and she now serves as a Social Services Supervisor. As she has always loved to help out the people of her community, she is striving to earn another degree in Psychology to become an Art Therapist.Portfolio
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early childhood illness. To this day, I think about the different lives these brothers have likely lived due only to unfortunate circumstances compounded by inadequate healthcare. It also makes me reflect on the loss to the community due to the potential missed contributions by this boy, as well as the macro-economic missed opportunities due to the global burden of disease. +Enlarge Photo Malloy attended Seattle University Law School, studied intellectual property law and took a position at the
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director the Women of the Red Clay collective. Surla’s class visited Martinez in the Zapotec village of San Marcos Tlapazola, where Martinez shared her story with the PLU students, demonstrated how the red clay is processed, and took the class up to the hills to experience the harvesting of the red clay. Surla and classmate Jessica Herklotz ’23 on a visit to the textile studio of Maria Bautista in Teotitlán del Valle, a Zapotec village known for its textiles and rugs. Students received a cooking
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Earth Science and Environmental Studies are focused on the study of human interactions with the earth and its environments. 253.535.7744 www.plu.edu/earth-science/ lechlear@plu.edu Alex Lechler, Ph.D., Chair The major and minor in Earth Science focus on the scientific study of the processes that shape the earth. The program offers courses that explore earth materials and what they can tell us about past climates, tectonic activity, and mountain building. We also study natural hazards and other
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Notes Obituaries Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Highlights First in the Family What it Means to be First PLU administrators — all the way to the president’s office — embrace and celebrate the first-generation student experience. Learn about the stories of four first-in-the-family campus leaders, and how those backgrounds inform their mentorship. View the story Faculty proudly wear first-generation experience Heritage speakers embrace firsts together The Prologue: Lute teaches from place of
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and efficient machine learning technique k-means clustering to categorize over 60 years worth of popular music. Using data from the Billboard Top 100 charts, we were able to train our machine learning model with over 17,000 different songs and their audio features (acousticness, danceability, loudness, liveness, instrumentalness, energy, and speechiness). Clustering songs with similar features allows us to make predictions by comparing a user’s favorite tracks to our clusters and picking
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working in conflict resolution and on programs empowering women in rural communities. Speaking of internships, your resume is jam-packed with them. Is there a first internship that stands out to you as representing the beginning of your professional journey? It wasn’t exactly an internship, but actually a really cool volunteer opportunity at Fern Hill Elementary (Tacoma) when I was at PLU. I worked as a Spanish tutor and helped out at the afterschool program there. After that, I worked on Rep
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