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Boeing Company STEM Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / December 17, 2018 December 17, 2018 The Boeing Company is a worldwide leader in airplane and aerospace design, engineering, and manufacturing and is also one of the most generous donors in the history of Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW), having provided more than $9 million to Washington’s independent colleges and universities during ICW’s first half-century of service. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary if ICW in 2003, the
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PLU senior and triple major Allison Sheflo discusses her PLU experience Posted by: shortea / May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Senior Allison Sheflo will graduate this spring with a triple major in geosciences, environmental studies and religion and a minor in mathematics. She forged her own trail at PLU, welcoming the adventures that piqued her curiosity and let that lead her way. “It’s definitely not the course I thought I would take
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May 2, 2008 Sustainability Fellows to tackle bikes, recycling Juniors Lauren Buchholz and Eric Pfaff were named the 2008-09 Sustainability Fellows last week. Awarded annually by the Sustainability Committee, the fellowships give students an opportunity to further the campus sustainability effort by researching existing practices and the use of resources on PLU and at other college and university campuses. Buchholz will work with Environmental Services to determine strategies to perpetuate the
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was my admiration for how Icelanders view the earth and how those values affect their conservation efforts. When there is a deeply rooted connection to your land and its history, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand.What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future?AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental
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April 20, 2014 Pacific Lutheran University Introduces New Director of Military Outreach PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University welcomes its first-ever Director of Military Outreach, Army veteran and Tacoma resident Michael Farnum. PLU has a long history of collaboration with and service to the local and regional military community, and Farnum, 46, brings his own vast experience—with the military community and with PLU—to his new position in the Office of Admission. Farnum
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Learn More: Luba PipeThis wonderfully carved wooden pipe with a beautiful patina depicts a female figure holding her breasts, which is a common image in Luba art that is said to symbolize respect, nurturing, and motherhood. It is also that women hold the village’s secrets and history in their breasts and they are holding them to symbolize protecting these secrets and the people’s history. She is sitting upright, with her knees with legs folded straight behind her above a wonderfully carved bowl
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October 17, 2014 3 Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University honors the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl’s birth with three events that celebrate the impact he made on PLU, environmental scholarship, anthropological theory and Norwegians around the world. Heyerdahl, who first came to the world’s attention in 1947 for his
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determined, persistent, and practical that real things come from his adventures.His character is perhaps most obvious in his writing. Three books – Wild Echoes: Encounters with the Most Endangered Animals… (1996), Orion’s Legacy: …Man as Hunter (1996), and Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River (2002) – required both consummate research and hard, gutsy field work. His dozens of articles in prestigious nature periodicals – Smithsonian, Audubon, Natural History, National Geographic
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Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for Albion Books, his micropress. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry, nonfiction, environmental writing. Statement: As a mentor
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Margaret Marcusonis an ordained American Baptist minister, a teacher and student of human systems, and a respected consultant and coach from Portland, Oregon. Author of Leaders Who Last: Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry and Money and Your Ministry: Balance the Books While Keeping Your Balance Learn More Samuel Torvendis Professor of the History of Christianity, Director of Vocational Reflection in the Wild Hope Center for Vocation, and Director of the Center for Religion and Culture in the
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