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Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester discontinued Posted by: hassonja / December 13, 2017 Image: Downtown Tacoma for TIES study away program on Monday, June 6, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) December 13, 2017 TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our

of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney.   Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for

systems. There are no constraints on fields of study which can include science, engineering, law, business, public policy, social sciences, etc. Areas of study and focus include: all forms of renewable energy grid evolution, modernization, energy storage, and flexibility energy efficiency electrification to replace fossil fuels Students are eligible for the scholarship if they are studying: at any college or university in our “home” area: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, or Alaska at any college or

training and research experience in data science, statistical modeling and machine learning, and scientific communication. Topics on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and their role in data science form the foundations of this program, emphasized early through DEI modules and discussions. Students will analyze data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, the largest longitudinal study on adolescent development in the United States. Find more details about the program here

Growing into her own: Sarah Davis ’23 discovers her passion for plant biology at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / April 26, 2023 Image: Sarah Davis ’23, a biology major and Hispanic studies minor, was drawn to PLU for several reasons — both her parents are alumni, the study-away opportunities were exciting and the community was welcoming. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 26, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterSarah Davis began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine

On Exhibit (Virtually): Wang Center Contest Winners Posted by: Holly Senn / April 13, 2020 April 13, 2020 While Mortvedt Library’s building is closed during the COVID-19 pandemic our exhibits continue–we are highlighting PLU students’ work online. Follow this link to the virtual exhibit of the Wang Center’s photo and video contest winners. The Annual Wang Center Photo & Video Contest is an opportunity for students to reflect upon their study away experience and to share images with the PLU

Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put

is one actually in Vail, Colo., that I’d love to be a part of because I love that town. Ultimately,  I’d eventually like to be a professor somewhere, but that would be later on in life. What do you plan on doing immediately after you graduate from PLU this spring? I’m applying for a program called YAGM, which is Young Adults In Global Mission. It’s through the Evangelical Lutheran Church. It’s a year of service abroad. I’m hoping to be accepted into the program based out of Hungary. It would be a

leadership across the university to nurture a clear Lutheran center that is, at the same time, wonderfully and hospitably open to other traditions. To teach this delicate skill of bilingualism to our students, faculty and staff members, we hold regular lecture series and retreat series, require religion courses, and there is also the important work of renewing our Campus Ministry. We measure and set goals for volunteering in the community, studying abroad with an emphasis on service learning, and other

sound of our mother talking,” Moon said in 2012. “This is the first study that shows we learn about the particular speech sounds of our mother’s language before we are born.” That insight earned international attention—and a very prestigious ranking: Science News picked Moon’s research on language learning in infants before birth as the No. 8 science story of 2013. This fall, Moon is starting another study on the very early perception of speech sounds with the help of two PLU psychology majors. Moon