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  • business, you will likely be able to find interesting and challenging entry-level positions that seek people with strong quantitative skills. Your studies here can also prepare you for different graduate-level work including masters programs in mathematics, data science, and bioinformatics, that will prepare you for more advanced careers with major businesses or at national laboratories. Our graduates have paired their study of mathematics with majors such as Hispanic studies, English, or music and

  • Choir of the West International Tour 2019 About the Tour Choir of the West is currently on a performance tour of Scotland, England, and Germany from May 26-June 12, 2019. Cities along the way include Edinburgh, York, Cambridge, London, and Oxford in the UK – along with Marktoberdorf, Germany. Choir of the… May 21, 2019

  • Jenny JohnsonJenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet, published by Sarabande Books in 2017. Her many honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, New England

  • Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, New England Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. His new novel, Between You and Me, will be published by Engine Books in 2015. Monday, Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m. Rick Barot

  • impact of the pandemic was of course the shift to online learning. In Spring 2020, it meant an abrupt shift to virtual classes, and that was challenging for everyone. By Fall 2020, however, faculty had been able to spend the summer learning about virtual classrooms and crafting their courses and felt much more comfortable with the online format. The pandemic also had a big impact on our experiential learning programs. Most of our programs require study abroad, study away, or internships. Students

  • of publishing and related fields. While other undergraduate programs focus only on the history of the book, publishing studies, or traditional printing arts, PLU’s program combines all three areas of study with elective credits in the most comprehensive book studies program in the United States. PPA readily complements majors like English, communication, foreign languages, public relations, journalism, marketing, and graphic design. But students in other disciplines also benefit from PPA’s links

  • internship abroad. What do I do?There are a number of forms required for internships abroad, and students must submit all forms before starting their internship. So, start early by scheduling an appointment with a Career & Internship Advisor. They can help you review the process of receiving credit for an international academic internship and answer any questions.  How do internships impact financial aid?For financial aid purposes, it is important that you submit your paperwork on time to ensure you are

  • we continue to pursue our meaningful work in the face of so much misinformation about what we do? In this cover story, we attempt to address some of these questions. We will see through the eyes of four PLU faculty members representing every department in our Humanities Division that humanities work is not so very easy to define. We work in classrooms, yes. We do research and publish, of course. But we also work in the community, we volunteer our time, we take our students abroad, and we

  • Mycal Ford Mycal standing on a bridge in Taiwan PLU Class of 2012 Chinese Studies and Political Science Double Major Studied away in Hamar, Norway and Chengdu, China; Wang Grant in China Completed Fulbright in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Will begin Masters of International Affairs in Global Governance, Politics, and Security I graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies and Political Science. In Fall 2009, I studied conflict resolution abroad in Hamar, Norway under Nobel Peace Prize

  • November 30, 2011 Alyssa Henry ’12 found herself pedaling across Massachusetts for what she later called the most amazing summer she’s ever had. “It inspired me to get busy and not be afraid to fail.” I never thought I’d spend my summer biking 800 miles across Massachusetts By Steve Hansen Alyssa Henry ’12 was already doing something different. The environmental studies major from Kent, Wash., had already spent her spring term in Denmark as a part of a study-away program through PLU’s Wang