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  • Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a  Wang Center Research…

    the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration.Traveling under a Wang Center Research Grant, Jackie worked with agency representatives to locate a dataset on Iraqi migration from a survey about access to basic needs such as water and shelter. “It’s really hard for people to look at a giant dataset and identify the main takeaways,” Lindstrom said. “So I was just excited to be able to serve this organization and

  • Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a Wang Center Research…

    International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a Wang Center Research Grant, Jackie worked with agency representatives to locate a dataset on Iraqi migration from a survey about access to basic needs such as water and shelter. “It’s really hard for people to look at a giant dataset and identify the main takeaways,” Lindstrom said. “So I was just excited to be able to serve this organization and hopefully give

  • By Matthew Salzano ’18 PLU Communication Student I woke up at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 7, 2014, to an email from Michael Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication degree on public relations…

    Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication degree on public relations and advertising. By the end of October, passionate faculty members and even more enthusiastic peers convinced me I was made to be a journalist. In late October (after just declaring a Communication major with an emphasis in journalism), I visited my academic advisor, Professor of Communication Joanne Lisosky. With wide eyes and hands suspended

  • International Paper’s Innovation Center has an opening for a scientist in their analytical department. They are looking for someone with GC experience, any other analytical instrumentation is a plus. Learn more about the position and apply at: https://jobs.internationalpaper.com/job/Federal-Way-Scientist-WA-98001/943936400/?from=email&refid=7337384900&utm_source=J2WEmail&source=2&eid=671-202232090532-14801131100&locale=en_US

    Job Opening – Scientist International Paper’s Innovation Center Posted by: alemanem / November 9, 2022 November 9, 2022 International Paper’s Innovation Center has an opening for a scientist in their analytical department. They are looking for someone with GC experience, any other analytical instrumentation is a plus. Learn more about the position and apply at: https://jobs.internationalpaper.com/job/Federal-Way-Scientist-WA-98001/943936400/?from=email&refid=7337384900&utm_source=J2WEmail

  • Update on Jan. 15, 2015: PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board from Pacific Lutheran University contingent faculty to form a union has been withdrawn. This means that the current union election is…

    PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition Posted by: Lace M. Smith / December 22, 2014 December 22, 2014 Update on Jan. 15, 2015: PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board from Pacific Lutheran University contingent faculty to form a union has been withdrawn. This means that the current union election is over, and the challenged votes will not be counted. “As we have stated before, we believe

  • College: First in family Maurice Eckstein was riding home in a cab after his shift as the night concierge at a hotel in his native Trinidad last year, when his eye stopped on an advertisement. It offered local students a chance to mix with a…

    ” at PLU too – though the circumstances were obviously better. Even as a first-year student he got involved and started the Lute Explosion African Dance Group. He handles public relations for the International Club on campus and is an ASPLU senator for international students. He helped organize the Campus Carnival in 2008, which emphasized the culture of Tobago and Trinidad. Big steps for someone who, a little more than a year ago, saw his life’s possibilities change in a taxi cab. PLU can do that

  • For the graduating class of 2024, freshman year was online and confined. So by the time fall came around for sophomore year, they embraced in-person classes, study groups, lunches, dinners, and more. That’s true at least for political science major Kaden Bolton ’24, who graduated…

    separate times – two spring semesters and a J-term. As a double major in political science and global studies with a concentration in international relations, Bolton felt that he wanted to dive in and start learning as much as he could about the world abroad. He even did an independent research project at Oxford.“There’s a region there that they made a pedestrian-only zone,” says Bolton. “My research project was about the public’s reaction to that, and if that significantly affected their view of their

  • Area leaders discuss fighting disease worldwide The Wang Center for International Programs tackled the issue of global health at the symposium, “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations,” in February 2008. As the name suggests, the two-day event highlighted the work of non-governmental organizations currently…

    , representative from PROSA (Promotores de Salud en Defensa de la Vida del Pueblo), providing healthcare in remote areas of Oaxaca, Mexico Scott Jackson, vice president of the external relations team at the international nonprofit PATH Carol Koller, with 27 years of fund raising and development leadership experience, she is presently with Medical Teams International Lindsay Leeder, family nurse practitioner, Krista Colleague and former Jesuit Volunteer Corps member Connie McCloud, who has worked for the

  • Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology, recently announced a Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) research proposal (https://osf.io/gdske/) to study beliefs and coping responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal was authored by Dr. Corey…

    Collaborative COVID-19 Research Posted by: guerreay / July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020 By Anna Leon-GuerreroDean, Division of Social SciencesPsi Chi, the International Honors Society for PsychologyPsi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology, recently announced a Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) research proposal (https://osf.io/gdske/) to study beliefs and coping responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal was authored by Dr. Corey Cook (PLU Psychology) and

  • Studying the laws behind international adoption Trained as an historian of the American Revolution and blessed with an abundance of sources, I saw no scholarly reason to travel abroad, although I had wanted to see England, the mother country from which America was born. My…

    September 2, 2009 Studying the laws behind international adoption Trained as an historian of the American Revolution and blessed with an abundance of sources, I saw no scholarly reason to travel abroad, although I had wanted to see England, the mother country from which America was born. My subsequent research on the history of adoption, which produced three books over the course of 20 years, focused entirely on the United States. I had little interest in writing or teaching history in a