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Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom,…
Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first generation Chinese immigrant Posted by: Zach Powers / March 15, 2024 Image: Brian Sung ’23 is a double major in business and economics. He recently interned at Russell Investments. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) March 15, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom
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PLU Student-Faculty Research on Health Care and High Technology A conversation with 2016 Benson fellows Marc Vetter and Matthew Macfarlane The following excerpts were gathered from a May 26, 2017 conversation between Benson Family Chair Michael Halvorson and the 2016 Benson research fellows Marc Vetter…
I’m doing an individualized major with a focus on global health and economics. Over the past year, I’ve done a Global Studies capstone in relation to this major, and I’m organizing the curriculum so that it prepares me for medical school and (hopefully) a future career in medicine and public policy.” Matt: “Well done, Marc. Everyone: I’m Matt Macfarlane. I am majoring in Economics and History, and for the last several years I’ve also competed with the track and cross country teams here at PLU. For
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Why did you decide to study music? What sparked your interest in music and how did your academic path and career develop from there? It was a family business for me, so to speak. My father was my first teacher in both piano and trombone,…
fruit option. Mac or PC? I go both ways; right now I’m a PC guy. I do sort of miss the old DOS days. I even learned some UNIX commands once upon a time. Instagram or Twitter? Instawhoawhat? I am sometimes all atwitter after a good rehearsal. Does that count? Read Previous Faculty Feature: Meet Dr. Edwin Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands Read Next Fall 2020 Masterclass Announcement LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to
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Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 majored in biology and chemistry at PLU, played at nationals with the men’s soccer team, and prepared for a career in the medical field. D’Onofrio recently sat down with PLU News to discuss his PLU experience. How did you learn about PLU?…
change, things happen. Read Previous Student-athletes Nasier Ford ’24, La’akea Ane ’24, and Jesse Canda ’24 utilize communication capstone to boost mental health awareness Read Next Heven Ambachew ’24 combines her passions and experiences to design major in innovation studies COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela
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Originally published in 2014 One of the things that studying Indigenous stories and situations has shown me is that knowledge isn’t neutral. Our systems of knowledge grow out of our ways of being in the world and are all culturally-specific—that is, they are all created…
product of a very specific European cultural foundation. The problem, though, is that we are trained to pretend that these culturally specific ways of knowing have somehow moved beyond the limits of the culture that produced them. What this really means is that Western tradition ends up being seen as universal, and all other systems of knowledge are seen as lesser, as culturally-specific exceptions to the norm. Professor Troy Storfjell during a panel discussion on Sámi culture in 2013 Seen from my
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Tyson Bendzak ’10 clowns around at Nike before leaving for the Olympics in London. Persistence, passion and his skills on a unicycle paid off for the alum, who majored in physical education.(Photo provided by Tyson Bendzak) Focus, persistence land alum at Nike, and this week,…
corporation after graduation. Colleen Hacker, professor of movement studies and wellness education at PLU, encouraged Bendzak to write down his goals, but also to go on information interviews even if no job was available. Bendzak on Nike campus. (Photo provided by Tyson Bendzak) This persistence and goals setting paid off when Bendzak finally landed a job at the child development center in 2011.“I would just say pursue your passion,” Bendzak said of students trying to figure out what they want to do, and
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 10, 2020) — Nicole Jordan ’15 is back on campus, this time using the degree she earned in social work to help educate and lead others in her new position as coordinator for PLU’s Center for Gender Equity. The center began as…
Center for Gender Equity.The center began as the Women’s Center and is celebrating 30 years in March. Its new name better represents the plethora of services and programs offered. “As the CGE coordinator, I do bystander trainings, Sista Circle, queer programming, and support advocacy,” Jordan said. “Bystander training brings awareness to concerning behaviors and encourages students/faculty/staff to step in when they see potentially harmful situations arise. Sista Circle strives to be a safe space for
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Chinese Studies program receives grant The university has received a $200,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to continue work begun in 2002, when it gave $786,000 to broaden and strengthen the PLU Chinese Studies Program and enrich Chinese studies in local elementary and high schools.“The…
September 29, 2008 Chinese Studies program receives grant The university has received a $200,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to continue work begun in 2002, when it gave $786,000 to broaden and strengthen the PLU Chinese Studies Program and enrich Chinese studies in local elementary and high schools.“The follow-up grant competition was by invitation only, indicating that PLU was among the most successful of the 84 institutions that shared the original $100 million from the foundation
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I never thought I’d study away four times – and still graduate on time Maryn Johnston ’12 and some of her new friends in South Africa. By Katie Scaff ’13 When Maryn Johnston ’12 came to PLU , she knew she wanted to study away.…
South Africa, she studied the transition from apartheid to democracy. And when in China, she performed with PLU’s Wind Ensemble. PLU made it easy for Johnston, a global studies and religion double major, to reach her personal and academic goals. PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education is dedicated solely to that purpose – it helps students find the programs they are interested in, the scholarships that are available, and the center helps them get the appropriate academic credit, too. For Johnston
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Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…
animals seriously is pervasive, and not always subtle. To study nonhuman animals in ways that try to accord them value and dignity is still likely to strike most academics as quaintly marginal, even risible, an easily dismissed sentimentality. Shortly after returning from Mexico, for example, I participated in a conference on animals and representation. Attended mostly by professors in the humanities and in cultural studies, the conference drove home to me the difference between my experience of
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