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plant science and data science at the University of Arizona’s School of Plant Sciences Emmanuel Gonzalez may be an accomplished young scientist on track for an impressive research career, but as a high school student, he struggled. After attending Mt. San Jacinto College and Tacoma Community College, he arrived at PLU still feeling “a little bit lost.” “It was at PLU that I decided that college was for me, and that I’d give it my all,” he said, citing the guidance of “inspirational and motivational

Department of History to the Division of Social Sciences derives, ultimately, from some such view of the historian’s labor.)There has always existed a certain skepticism about history’s claims to offer positive knowledge of the past. Such skepticism has usually been founded upon a deep-seated anti-intellectualism or irrationalism, and reflects the suspicion that history is not philosophy teaching by examples, but “an agreed upon fable” (Napoleon), “merely gossip” (Oscar Wilde), or, more provocatively, “a

Big picture learning: Physics major Julian Kop ’24 studies the universe and his family background

Makaela Whalen ’23 adds a pre-law minor to full schedule as she prepares for law school Posted by:

PLU will launch into Earth and Diversity Week with the Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture and the Steen

the process–they have a health sciences team that helps with medical school applications. If all goes well, I hope to enter medical school in the Fall of 2018. But before then, I also plan to travel some and work abroad in various health care settings. Eventually, I hope to continue working on health care policy issues. This is a topic that I first studied in Oxford as a junior, and have gained additional exposure with during the Benson fellowship. I am very grateful to Dale and Jolita Benson for

training and education in the professions which modern society requires” [my italics]?To date, we have begun discussions about new programs in which courses offered by faculty in the professional schools would be combined with courses traditionally offered by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professors in the professional schools are also being drawn into foundational courses, such as the Freshman experience. Potential cross-disciplinary programs that result from such creative overlaps are

Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first

Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than ho

, since junior high and high school, during Running Start, and well into my community college years, I had frequently used the PLU library for research and personal enrichment. As a result, I began to wonder what a it would be like to be a student of the university that this library belonged to and, as such, I have come to enjoy knowing what it means to be a student such as that. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU is two-fold; for one who majors in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences must