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PLU awarded $15,000 from NSF for COVID-19 DEI Challenge Posted by: Silong Chhun / July 12, 2022 July 12, 2022 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University was named a winner in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Challenge. PLU received a $15,000 prize for its work in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.“This important challenge rewards institutions for

Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 3) Posted by: kaufmard / January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Sara Piatnica, 91, describes making a new life in Uruguay. She explains her identities as a survivor and a Jewish Uruguayan. She talks about her husband, children, and grandchildren. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Next Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 2) LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Mariana

yes, will you be able to combine that with your work at ASPLU? I would like to find more ways to intertwine my academic passions and ASPLU. I’m really interested in social justice and advocacy in an academic sense. I just finished a Wang Center research grant in Oaxaca, Mexico. I did an internship with a microfinance organization and did research about a small town in Oaxaca. That seems like it would be totally different than ASPLU, and in many ways it was, but I also did a lot of the same

and Nelson was able to get financial aid and a scholarship to make the financial transition. Instrumental in her development of her passion for service was a psychology class with Professor Jon Grahe and working with children at Thompson Elementary in Parkland. “Working with those children, and in that program, it changed everything for me,” said Nelson, who graduated with a degree in psychology. “I knew that I wasn’t going to be a research scientist then.” The climate at PLU also encouraged

finding the institution’s next leader. He also helps usher the partnership between PLU and Franklin Pierce Schools, which yields community service opportunities that benefit Lutes and Parkland residents alike. Among those opportunities are Club Keithley and Winterfest. The former connects PLU students to young people in the Parkland community through volunteering and mentorship; the latter is a holiday event that provides low-income families access to a free meal, social service resources, new toys

her Capstone project in Political Science, April Rose M. Nguyen created a documentary on the 10,000 untested rape kits in Washington, and helped raise awareness of the issue with a post-screening panel featuring two state representatives, Tina Orwall (D) and Gina Mosbrucker (R). In her first year, the tireless Nguyen planned a six-week series of discussions on religious diversity, spanning six faith traditions, which won Social Justice Program of the Year. “It was an ambitious project,” she

gun than a car, yet buying a gun does not require providing a social security number, vision test or a competency test (such as a driver’s test) in most states. Wireless carriers will deny you a cellphone contract if you don’t provide a social security number. Most credit card issuers also require a social security number, yet you are not required to give your social security information to purchase a gun. The least we can do is require training and licensing, as we do with cars. Furthermore, we

May 13, 2014 Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and Communications It’s that time of year again: What do you do with that couch, or mattress or lamp you no longer want? And what about that unopened box of gluten-free

Pacific Lutheran University premieres new original opera: Fiery Jade Cai Yan Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 18, 2016 October 18, 2016 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach Manager PLU Music Professor Gregory Youtz teams up with prominent Chinese poet Zhang Er, Professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, to create this new work around the life of an extraordinary woman poet of ancient China, Cai Yan. In this new opera, Fiery Jade: Cai Yan, we see the collapse of a dynasty, the sack of a city

our assumptions. Can we call the work of equity at PLU — or anywhere — “innovative?” And what does innovation even mean in this context? As a white woman who works with other white people to increase racial literacy — and as a ‘21 graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop, PLU’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program — I’m interested in the semantics of social justice and the idea of challenging default definitions and linguistic habit. A couple of months ago, via Zoom, I met with four