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pressure from myself to hurry up and figure out what I’m going to do with my life. Angenette P. Call (Program Manager for Partnerships & Professional Development in the School of Education) What gets you up in the morning? Knowing there is a hot cup of tea waiting for me downstairs. Also, trying to find how I can inject what I love into what I am doing. How does your work at PLU impact the PLU community? I wear a lot of different hats. I coordinate summer sessions, help find courses taught, market the

) Loading... It’s FREE to apply to PLU When you're ready, we're here. Apply now and fulfill your potential! Get Started Related Programs: Business Criminal Justice Education Environmental Studies French & Francophone Studies Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies Global Studies Hispanic & Latino Studies Philosophy Pre-Law Sociology @PLUPolitics My favorite class so far has been POLS 387: The Presidency. It was one of the most interesting classes I could have taken. Dr. Michael Artime was my professor for

her studying away during her sophomore year and including her senior recital that begins in just about an hour! – and won the Student Soloist competition last year, performing one of the most fearsomely difficult violin concertos – the Violin Concerto by Erich Korngold. She is a perfect example of PLU’s incredible institutional commitment to the arts, linking them firmly to the liberal arts and international education, and making all of these opportunities available for every student at PLU

problems and breaking them down to understand them better and ultimately to help solve them,” he says. Economics Major Presents at National Conference Nellie Moran’s capstone research project examines how political candidates’ expenditures affect the outcome of their campaigns. Learn More “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

practice partners.” Seavor says the entry-level master’s program is intense: within 15 months students complete the equivalent of a rigorous undergraduate nursing education, and are eligible to sit for the national licensure exam; then, for the second half of the program, the registered nurses begin their graduate-level studies. It’s not lost on Larsen how far he’s come since his 46-year-old self decided to embrace the intensity. “Nursing school was probably the most humbling thing I’ve done,” he said

National Academic Advising Association National Academic Advising Award. At various times, he was PLU’s dean of natural sciences, biology chair, a member of the General Education Council, the Admission & Retention Committee, and the Campus Life Committee. “Tom immersed himself in pre-med and pre-dental advising and was instrumental in strengthening PLU’s reputation as being ‘the place to go’ for pre-med and pre-dental students,” said Matt Smith, PLU associate professor of biology. “He was truly

outlets along with corporate clients. Way back when — in 1977 — John graduated from Ohio University with a B.F.A. in photography and an emphasis on photojournalism. John mostly spent his working life as a photojournalist with newspapers or news agencies. Debbie Cafazzo, Constituent Communications Manager Debbie Cafazzo, a communications manager in PLU’s University Relations Division, was a longtime education reporter at The News Tribune in Tacoma before moving to the public information office at

great example of the approach of the “New American University”: linking liberal arts education with civic engagement and professional programs. A significant amount of collaboration driven by the community of El Limonal preceded the PLU team’s arrival and continues, now, after the PLU team’s departure. This collaboration touched not only the construction of the well, but also the hygiene training that will help those trained spread this knowledge throughout the community. Upon return to campus, the

distribute the kits, Røskeland said. Since the organization’s beginnings, the all-volunteer group has produced and delivered approximately 18,000 birth kits, she said. Kits have been distributed in the countries named above and Congo, Guinea and Sierra Leone. In addition Røskeland has given trainings in emergency obstetric methods and her organization has distributed medication in Liberia and Sierra Leone to assist women with postpartum bleeding. Røskeland credited her “rigorous education” in Biology at

lot from being a member of the API Club. It created a domino effect that later resulted in pursuing leadership roles in other areas of campus, including Student Involvement and Leadership, ASPLU and Residential Life. My experiences at PLU led me to a career of more than 11 years in higher education coordinating multicultural programming and working directly with students of color. I’m no longer in higher education, but I continue to work in the nonprofit world serving the local community and