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  • From Oxford, England to Oaxaca, Mexico, Jackie Lindstrom ’23 uses math to understand migration Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a Wang Center Research… June 12, 2023 AcademicsChemistryMathematicsPLU

  • Elijah Paez ’24 developed passions for environmental justice, mathematics and bird watching during his PLU years Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in  environmental studies  and  mathematics . While at PLU, he founded  Birders of PLU , served as a  Peace Scholar , and  studied abroad in Oxford, England, and Oslo, Norway. We recently met with Paez to learn more… March 27, 2024 Environmental StudiesMathematics

  • Global Opportunities After GraduationThere are many opportunities to live, work, study, teach and volunteer abroad after graduating. Alumni and Student Connections also offers advising and a variety of resources to help you find the right global post-grad opportunity.Post Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships Look through the Scholarships and Fellowships Database for funded international opportunities. Fulbright1) Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA)           Available in 150 or more

  • September 2, 2009 Studying the laws behind international adoption Trained as an historian of the American Revolution and blessed with an abundance of sources, I saw no scholarly reason to travel abroad, although I had wanted to see England, the mother country from which America was born. My subsequent research on the history of adoption, which produced three books over the course of 20 years, focused entirely on the United States. I had little interest in writing or teaching history in a

  • Gateway Program DirectorA Gateway Program Director has ongoing responsibility for monitoring the philosophical, cultural, and pedagogical design, as well as the academic integrity of a PLU-operated semester-long study away experience in one of the following locations: China, England, Mexico, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago, and Namibia. As the PLU Gateway faculty representative, the Program Director assists the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education in identifying and recommending

  • Posted on December 1, 2017October 31, 2018 The Environmental Politics of Study Away: a US citizen’s role in the lives of indigenous Mexicans Scroll down to see more content As an Environmental Policy minor, it is of great importance to me to understand the viewpoints of local people, conceptions of geography, cultural practices, and general ideas about people’s relationship with the land in the context of certain ecological issues and phenomena. Throughout my activities studying very specific

  • Elijah Paez ’24 developed passions for environmental justice, mathematics and bird watching during his PLU years Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in  environmental studies  and  mathematics . While at PLU, he founded  Birders of PLU , served as a  Peace Scholar , and  studied abroad in Oxford, England, and Oslo, Norway. We recently met with Paez to learn more… March 27, 2024 Environmental StudiesMathematics

  • From Oxford, England to Oaxaca, Mexico, Jackie Lindstrom ’23 uses math to understand migration Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a Wang Center Research… June 12, 2023 AcademicsChemistryMathematicsPLU

  • In Their Words “I am so grateful for my study abroad experience. I am blessed to attend a university that makes global engagement such a high priority.” – PLU study away participant, anonymous program evaluation Student StoriesThe Student ExperienceLearn about study abroad programs from PLU students about their semester study away experiencesAlumni StoriesWhere are they now?Learn how global education has impacted the careers and post-grad opportunities of PLU alumniStudent BlogsStudy Away

  • library all your life and somebody says, ’Oh, there’s a second floor.’” For PLU, the study away programs have become a mark of distinction. At graduation, more than 50 percent of students will have studied away. About two-thirds travel during J-term. About a third of undergraduates choose a semester-long program, and that option is becoming more popular. The experiences take students all over the world. Gateway Study away programs to Mexico, Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, England and China are