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intensity. We’ve had other types of unknown factors that have come in during my career. Like when the AIDS epidemic came in, it was unknown. It was slower and maybe didn’t cause the same level of hysteria in such a concentrated period of time. We have significant challenges around shortages of PPE (personal protective equipment) and the lack of testing abilities. Just a lot of unknowns that vary from day to day, that then need to be addressed. PLU: What do you think makes a good leader in a time like
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Born and raised in the Philippines, Maria Surla ’23 is now a PLU grad and a nurse at MultiCare Good Samaritan Emergency in Parkland Posted by: Zach Powers / June 9, 2023 Image: Maria Surla ’23 presents at an event she co-organized titled “Tubes and Lines.” The event was planned and run by PLU’s Delta Iota Chi Nursing Service Club and invited students from University of Puget Sound’s Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy program to learn the proper way to move and ambulate patients who have
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March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life
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written and oral forms,” Auman said. “In this day and age, it is becoming increasingly important for experts to be able to communicate with the general public. Capstone, then, serves as a transition point between students being receivers of knowledge to students becoming teachers of knowledge to their peers and to the general public.” Capstones aren’t necessarily unique to PLU – many universities have them – but the level at which professors are involved with the students certainly is, according to
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coach provides open hours for athletes. “But it’s nice to have the opportunity for students to have the direct availability to talk to somebody, or have a cool ongoing relationship and see a therapist regularly,” Bingay says. Required to respect the state’s confidentiality rules, the app’s licensed mental health providers can offer regular counseling on common causes of college stress, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addictions, trauma and panic disorders, or respond to each
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shop on the same level as the two stages gives stage craft a chance to design and build entire sets that can easily be transported to the main stage and studio theater. “The magic that happens behind the scenes to supply both these spaces is really cool,” Clapp said. “It opens up a world of possibilities.” Phase II of the project will include work on the main auditorium, Tower Chapel, theater office and the building’s entry and lobby spaces. It opens up programming too, said Cameron Bennett, Dean
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the next level in science and health science education at PLU so that we can best fulfill our mission.” If you would like to learn more about these projects and how you can support the success of the health sciences at PLU in service of others, please contact advancement@plu.edu. Read Previous PLU’s culturally sustaining STEM program helped prepare Becca Anderson to be a dynamic teacher Read Next Beautiful mutants: a PLU biology class harvests for the future LATEST POSTS Three students share how
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start with the A&P lab,” Auman says. “Continued community investment and support will take us to the next level in science and health science education at PLU so that we can best fulfill our mission.” If you would like to learn more about these projects and how you can support the success of the health sciences at PLU in service of others, please contact advancement@plu.edu. MEETING CAMPUS – AND COMMUNITY – NEEDS“The upgrades we’re planning for the sciences will help PLU students better serve the
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need where governments cannot or have not. Stephen Lewis, the former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, delivered the keynote address, “Time to Deliver: Winning the Battle Against Poverty and Disease in the Developing World” at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center. Lewis is currently the chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada, which works to ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level, and he is a professor in global health in the
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Alum combines passion for art and community with Tacoma Creates Posted by: vcraker / August 5, 2022 August 5, 2022 Clarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU’s art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn’t easy—she had a child during her senior year, and juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as a gallery assistant, Museum of Glass associate, and gallery exhibitions manager for the next seven years. All
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