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Puyallup, first visited her tribe in 2003 and explored her culture by riding in a traveling canoe with her father. After declaring her major as a sophomore, she received a Wang Center grant to go help research involvement in cultural events. At first, she said she felt like an outsider. She didn’t know anyone and had to learn important aspects of the culture. But then last summer, Hall went on her first youth-led Tribal Canoe Journey, where she met many young people from other tribes who also are

scenarios involving struggling students, Skipworth said. “It was very practical,” she added. Skipworth, who grew up in Graham and Puyallup, came to PLU after completing a bachelor’s degree in integrated educational studies from Chapman University in southern California. While her undergraduate degree included some observation and research in schools, it did not include state teacher certification. PLU’s graduate program allowed her to obtain a master’s degree and Washington state certification. At PLU

-term kinesiology career goal is to help individuals maximize their athletic performance and enjoyment through mental skills training, with a specific interest in working with outdoor adventure athletes. My final applied project helped me work toward this goal, as the project was titled “Research to Practice: An Examination of Youth Sport Coaches’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Use of Mental Skills Training.” For this project, I interviewed youth climbing coaches across the country to learn about their

context of relationships with the people who are closest to you. Because Marriage and Family Therapy focuses at the systems level of human experience, this therapeutic approach helps the individual explore the connection between their human challenges and the systems around them and encourages people to find growth and healing in the midst of these ongoing relationships. This type of therapy is solution-focused, effective, and brief. Research indicates that this type of therapy can be more effective

compassion towards the global circumstance that would one day become manifest in the body of his work. In Katmandu, Youtz and Unsoeld landed a gig housesitting for John Seidensticker who was, at the time, conducting post-doctoral research on tigers and jaguars in the Tibetan backcountry. Seidensticker, who is now the head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, subsequently introduced the pair to another survey tracking nearby rhino populations. Assisting in both

time when … I decided to switch my religion major to a music major—it seemed like the perfect excuse to practice piano more! How do you hope to use both majors in China as you pursue your master’s? I’m applying to music schools in China so I can be immersed in the Chinese language and still continue my studies in piano. I am interested in Chinese interpretation work, and of course I want to continue teaching and playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on