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along with a ticket. A question-and-answer session and book signing follow Oliver’s presentation. Oliver’s address is part of PLU’s annual Earth Week celebration from April 19 to 26. The student groups the Climate Change Ambassadors and Grass Roots Environmental Action Now (GREAN) have planned events throughout the week targeting global climate change and alternative forms of transportation. The activities began with a sustainability-themed Outdoor Rec backpacking trip to Lake Ozette this weekend
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. “Technological changes have favored those with the highest technical skills,” he said. And some of the workers haven’t acquired those skills fast enough.” And their paychecks show it, he noted. As for what the United States should do about it? It was here that Lindert laughed. You’ll have to show up to his lecture for his thoughts on that. Lindert, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, will be speaking on this very topic next week at the fourth annual Dale E. Benson
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August 23, 2010 Brues put ‘exclamation point’ on their time at PLU In his words, former Professor of Economics Professor Stan Brue, along with his wife Terri, wanted to “put an exclamation point” on their long association with PLU. This past May, the university accepted their gift of $500,000 that will endow annual scholarships and offset study-away expenses for several students in the Social Sciences. Stan and Terri arrived in Tacoma in 1971, he as a new assistant professor and she as a
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May 27, 2012 PLU President Loren J . Anderson congratulates Mycall Ford ’12 at the Spring Commencement in the Tacoma Dome on Sunday. More than 650 graduates received degrees at the annual ceremony. Anderson leaves PLU this week after 20 years of service. (Photo by John Froschauer) Pay attention…be astonished…tell about it, Anderson tells graduates By Barbara Clements, University Communications In his last address as the president of Pacific Lutheran University, Loren J. Anderson told the 680
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critical life skills: time management, risk taking and, most of all, patience.”Spring also works at Springtide Press, runs the Elliott Press at PLU and is part of the creative duo the Dead Feminists broadsides, a series of letterpress prints highlighting historical feminists. Her work is included in collections around the globe. Spring is currently taking a year of absence from PLU and plans to return in Fall 2015. Along with her fellow award recipients, Spring will be honored at the annual Tacoma Arts
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PLU Alumna and Gospel Music Superstar Returns to Campus Posted by: Sandy Dunham / February 10, 2015 Image: Crystal Aiken ’97 returned to PLU in December 2013 to perform at the annual holiday luncheon. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) February 10, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ‘18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 10, 2015)—On Thursday, Feb. 12, Pacific Lutheran University alumna and gospel music star Crystal Aikin '97 returns to campus for a signing of her sophomore album, All I Need.Aikin
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swap in December. UnPLUgged has been an annual series at PLU since 2009, but this is the first time the events have been so well attended, Huff said. Huff said the greatest attention-getter for this year’s series will be the forthcoming recycling fashion show. Teams made up of clubs, sports and organizations will come together and be challenged to make clothing out of recyclable paper, plastics and mixed waste. “The event is really supposed to educate people about all the clothes in landfills
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reviewed a record number of applications, representing a 30% increase from the previous year, to select the 2022 Fellows. Richardson was one of 250 individuals selected to be inducted. The 2022 Fellows represent 35 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 17 countries. The 2022 inductees will be recognized for their significant contributions to health and health care at the Academy’s annual Health Policy Conference, taking place on October 27-29, 2022 in Washington
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Lost and Found in Translation Posted by: alex.reed / May 21, 2022 May 21, 2022 Excerpted in Prism from Shadows and Echoes, the Language and Literatures Department’s publication, in 2004.In what Shadows and Echoes hopes will be an annual feature, “Lost and Found in Translation” takes a poem by Emily Dickinson and translates it through a number of languages (German, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Latin) before bringing it (or something!) back into English. Each of the translators worked only from
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campus visit and I was totally won over by the environment. I loved the nurturing and challenging space. I loved the liberal arts, but professional approach. It was not too big and not too small. I really do credit PLU for giving me the foundation for what I’m able to do and hopefully I’m able to give back.”Over Power Africa’s seven-year history, the partnership has helped create nearly 19 million electrical connections, which means more than 87 million people gaining access to electricity for the
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