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8th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility
crisis, human and non-human trafficking, in particular? Learn More Speakers and Panels See a detailed panels list and bios of the 8th Biennial Wang Center Symposium speakers. Learn MoreSchedule Find out times and room locations of each session for the Mar. 8-9 symposium. Learn MoreReading/Viewing Challenge The PLU community is invited to participate in a Migration Reading Group Challenge. Learn MoreSessions & Schedules Check back soon for the list of presenters and complete schedule. Reading
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A path of discovery By Katie Scaff ’13 For Austin Goble ’09, volunteering after graduation was anything but a gap year. Goble wasn’t ready to jump right into the workforce, so after graduating in December 2009 Goble spent a year volunteering with Lutheran Volunteer Corps…
crisis, and by night, he spent time with his housemates, fellow LVC volunteers, exploring their values and perspectives. “There was a lot of room for personal growth and self-examination of what my values are,” Goble said. “We all have this like mindedness of wanting to serve and the excitement of living, with a low income.” The relationships had as much if not more of an influence on Goble than the service component. After his year in Omaha, Goble came back to Tacoma and signed up for a year of
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Scientists discover new species of enigmatic marsupial Along the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador , Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11 and a team of scientists discovered a new species of shrew-opossum. Their dive into discovery started more than two years ago, when Ojala-Barbour had…
example, Sangay National Park is threatened by land conversion associated with a new highway that bisects the park. The article, “A new species of shrew-opossum (Paucituberculata: Caenolestidae) with a phylogeny of extant caenolestids,” Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 94, No. 5, October 2013 Read Previous Life of the Mind Read Next MediaLab filmmakers wade into global water crisis COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:30 pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building
with an eye to wider and longer trends, this talk will explore some of the ways that religion and oil together shaped existence for modern Americans, amid constant crisis, at the moment of their nation’s heightened authority. It will pay particular attention to evangelical Protestants who, in disproportionate degrees, inhabited and worked America’s oil patches, weathered the violent disruptions of life on these boom-bust terrains, and theologized and politicized their encounter with soil and its
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Shamil Idriss is President and CEO of Search for Common Ground, a global conflict transformation organization with offices in 35 countries.
to unify us. They can set the tone, but it is primarily in the hands of the American people to rebuild a basic level of mutual respect and dignity… Breakthroughs usually come out of crises, and we are in that crisis. So there is not better time for We, the People, to build a new order: one based on mutual respect and care for our fellow citizens, a commitment to social justice, and a defense of civil liberties that give us power to build that order in the first place.”Shamil Idriss Tedx Marin
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The Pepro Tech Diversity Council’s seeks to foster a more equitable and inclusive future-within our own walls and in the greater scientific community. The scholarship awards up to $40,000 to one current or incoming college student who self-identifies as a minority. The recipient will demonstrate…
deadline is January 31, 2021. Full details are available here: https://www.peprotech.com/en/bringing-diversity-to-discovery Read Previous NIEHS Scholars Connect Program (NSCP) Read Next Washington Sea Grant Graduate Science Communications Fellowship LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program
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Welcome to the PLU Press Room, your one-stop shop for discovering—and connecting with—all the amazing stories happening every day at Pacific Lutheran University.
For the PressMedia InquiriesWelcome to the PLU Press Room, your one-stop shop for discovering—and connecting with—all the amazing stories happening every day at Pacific Lutheran University. From here, you can check out our published news stories, find the perfect faculty expert for practically every topic, link directly to our always-active social-media sites and scan our continually updated calendar for year-round campus events. PLU’s Director of Communications, Zach Powers, will happily
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CFTC Sr. Administrative Assistant | Marriage and Family Therapy | paigeka@plu.edu | (253) 535-8782 | I am thrilled to join the CFTC team as your new Senior Admin Assistant.
B.A. in Speech Communications with an emphasis in Gender Studies from San Francisco State University, and my intention is to pursue a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in the near future. Outside of this new role, I am a coach and workshop facilitator, specializing in the Human Design personal development system, and centering the experiences of Women of Color. When I’m not working, I enjoy hanging out with my husband Moleek and our dog Bill, watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, and
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Department of Computer Science faculty and staff.
Christine Nicolai Administrative and Communications Coordinator Full Profile she/her/hers 253-535-7400 nicolacs@plu.edu
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Despite the challenges and uncertainty of life during the pandemic, PLU student Gurjot Kang ’21 is finding ways to build her skills and improve the community through her internship with Tacoma Housing Authority. Kang—a communication and political science double major from Auburn, Washington—was connected with…
policy innovation and evaluation (PIE) and communications intern. “It’s great work!” she said. “I maintain and manage the Tacoma Housing Authority’s social media, and I help with website updates. I’ve even been able to do some in-person work taking photos of local small business owners.” Kang aims to help make THA’s online presence feel accessible and approachable. “I’m really enjoying sharing the things I’ve learned at PLU with my coworkers, and online,” she said. “I think it’s important that we
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