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Economics and Careers Posted by: halvormj / April 20, 2018 Image: Cameron Emerson April 20, 2018 Interested in a future job at a major tech company? Come and meet a Pacific Lutheran University graduate who successfully followed that career path. Cameron Emerson ’08 graduated from PLU with a degree in Economics. These days the Oregon native works out of Chicago as the Midwest manager of Google’s Cloud — and he’s returning to campus to talk about his career, share his experiences at one of the

throughout the school, and the curriculum is infused with the tribe’s cultural heritage. Chief Leschi is one of the largest tribal schools funded by the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), and it operates under both a BIE Tribally Controlled Grant and a Washington state Tribal Education Compact. Three PLU alumni serve as Chief Leschi administrators, leading programs dedicated to student support and success. Melanie Helle ’97, Director of Special Services Melanie Helle believes that every student

May 9, 2008 Grant brings Earth science workshop to PLU Next summer, K-12 and community college teachers will congregate at PLU for a five-day workshop on Earth science. Along with classroom and computer sessions, the teachers will trek through salt marshes on the coast looking for ancient tsunami deposits and examine past mudflow deposits from Mount Rainier in the Puyallup Valley near Orting and Buckley. Led by University of Washington professor and U.S. Geological Survey geologist Brian

A view-at-the-table with the Federal Reserve Posted by: tpotts / July 13, 2021 July 13, 2021 The Department of Economics was honored to host First Vice President and COO, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Mark Gould, PLU Regent and Economics alumnus, to campus on April 8th, 2021. Mr. Gould shared his experiences in Federal Open Market Committee meetings where the monetary policy for The Federal Reserve Bank was set. The event, which was hosted over Zoom and open to the public, was well

Washington Sea Grant Science Communications Fellowships Posted by: nicolacs / December 17, 2020 December 17, 2020 Washington Sea Grant offers two Science Communications Fellowships: one for graduate students and one for undergraduate students. WSG fellows work for two academic quarters on a range of communications projects, from writing articles for the Sea Star newsletter to developing web content. Fellows are given the opportunity to develop their portfolios as writers and communicators

March 2, 2009 Making study away possible A new $2 million scholarship fund will increase study abroad opportunities for low-income students at Pacific Lutheran University. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university a $1 million challenge grant to initiate the endowment fund a year ago. Since then, a matching $1 million has been raised from donors, including the estate of Arthur H. Hansen, Loren and MaryAnn Anderson, Charles Bergman and Susan Mann, and Iver and Ginny Haugen

Notes’ Coffee Company: A coffee house seeking community on Garfield Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / December 7, 2018 Image: John Gore, owner of Notes’ Coffee Company, chats with customers as he prepares their order. Gore is planning on turning Notes’ Coffee Company into a meeting place for the community, complete with live music, open mic night, board games and plenty of space for lively discussion and intermingling. December 7, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH

interdisciplinary minor. The program equips students to find creative solutions to pressing problems and ethical dilemmas, such as providing equitable access to high-tech instruction. Alice Steinglass, President of Code.org Speaker Biography At Code.org, Alice Steinglass manages teams that build curriculum, tools, and software to support introductory computer science classes for students from kindergarten through high school. In addition, her team partners with education and software companies across the high

interdisciplinary minor. The program equips students to find creative solutions to pressing problems and ethical dilemmas, such as providing equitable access to high-tech instruction. Alice Steinglass, President of Code.org Speaker Biography At Code.org, Alice Steinglass manages teams that build curriculum, tools, and software to support introductory computer science classes for students from kindergarten through high school. In addition, her team partners with education and software companies across the high

yes, will you be able to combine that with your work at ASPLU? I would like to find more ways to intertwine my academic passions and ASPLU. I’m really interested in social justice and advocacy in an academic sense. I just finished a Wang Center research grant in Oaxaca, Mexico. I did an internship with a microfinance organization and did research about a small town in Oaxaca. That seems like it would be totally different than ASPLU, and in many ways it was, but I also did a lot of the same