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focuses on Fulbrights. They are simply a product of PLU’s dedicated focus on global education – the honors just naturally follow. Jenn Henrichsen’s experience seems to verify that. As she tells the story, Henrichsen didn’t truly fall into the topic of press protection – the basis of her Fulbright proposal – until she Googled a report by the Press emblem Campaign. The group’s report documented press deaths and called for strengthened international humanitarian law provisions. “I e-mailed one of the
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back to a spectacular view of Anchorage, a city ringed by the Chugach Mountains, now tipped with the first flecks of snow – called “termination dust” by the locals. After the 18-month turmoil of the national spotlight on former governor Sarah Palin, Parnell did his best to steady the political ship here and reach out to alienated legislators in Alaska, who hadn’t been on speaking terms with the governor’s office after Palin returned from the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. As he cruises
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Firmly Committed: In Response to DACA decision Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 6, 2017 Image: In the spring of 2016, students, staff and faculty joined in on the PLU4US: For and With Undocumented Students crowd funding campaign to raise over $30,000 for undocumented PLU students (Photo: PLU/Hansel Doan) September 6, 2017 Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm
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. Derek Kilmer’s campaign for Congress in 2012. That was my first big internship where it was connected to what I was studying at PLU and I felt like “oh okay, this is one thing I could see myself doing after this.” What was your first job after you graduated? I did the Washington Bus summer fellowship right after I graduated from PLU. The bus is a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports young people in engaging in local and state politics. I spent that summer campaigning, canvassing, and registering
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Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community Posted by: mhines / June 13, 2024 Image: PLU Biology major Ash Bechtel poses for their Senior Spotlight portrait, Thursday, May 9, 2024, at PLU. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) June 13, 2024 By Nikki McCoyPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Ash Bechtel has always wanted to be in healthcare, but she wasn’t sure which direction to take — nursing or medical school. So, Ash counseled
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Brian Sung ’24 talks business, econ majors, Oxford adventure, and his unique PLU journey as a first-gen Chinese immigrant Posted by: mhines / March 21, 2024 March 21, 2024 By By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23 PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Meet Brian Sung, a business major from the class of ’24 at PLU. When he’s not taking international honors courses or diving deep into his double majors in business and economics, he’s all about data science and statistics through his double minors
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On the Court and in the Classroom: A Brother and Sister Find Success at PLU Posted by: shortea / March 23, 2023 March 23, 2023 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer On the day of high school class choices, a middle school teacher noticed the normally outgoing Jackson Reisner sitting quietly, acting withdrawn. Jackson grew increasingly anxious as the morning progressed. A movie buff, the Burlington eighth grader had seen all the difficult depictions of high school. Teens
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Grayson Nottage ‘23 prepares to become a teacher who excites students about science Posted by: shortea / May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 By Grant Hoskins ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Student WriterGrayson Nottage ’23 has wanted to become a middle school science teacher ever since she was a middle school science student. She admired many of her own science teachers, and aspires to become the sort of educator that inspires and excites students about science. Next month Nottage will graduate from
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Growing into her own: how Sarah Davis ’23 discovered her passion for plant biology Posted by: shortea / May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Sarah Davis, a biology major and Hispanic studies minor, began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion. “I have a family history of agriculture, my grandfather
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follow his passion, and a journalist was born. Since then, Wells worked for the TNT, Congressional Quarterly, and the Seattle Times. He arrived at PLU in the fall of 2003, as a fill-in for now-retired communications professor Cliff Rowe. Wells found himself delaying, and delaying, his return to the Times. Finally, he admitted to himself he just didn’t want to leave PLU. “There’s something about this place. It gets into your blood,” Wells mused, now going on 10 years at PLU. In that time, Wells has
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