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of plants in our lives,” Quigg said. “In short, they are essential to our lives.” In December 2014, the project was funded at $880,000. In February, the Board of Regents granted permission to begin construction of the greenhouse between Rieke and the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, and construction began Feb. 18. Westmark Construction and Precision Greenhouse Construction, Inc. are building the aluminum and glass-pane facility.  After consultation with Horticulture Services, the

has informed the way she continues to seek out a vocation of service. “One of the things I loved about PLU was the mission — ‘educating for lives of service,’” she said. “The education I got at PLU on how to be a good leader…was really helpful. I’m always glad I went to PLU.” Read Previous Arts and technology center would bring new opportunities to Parkland Read Next Pageantry and Protests: PLU students experience ‘messiness of democracy’ at President Trump’s inauguration COMMENTS*Note: All

Fast Track setting PLU graduate students on right path Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 9, 2018 Image: The School of Business is located in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, PLU’s newest academic building. January 9, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 8, 2018)- Graduate school can be a daunting prospect for anyone. Students fresh off their undergraduate sprint are faced with a complicated application process and daunting

make me proud once this is over? Read Previous At on-campus food pantry, a nutritious meal is a swipe away Read Next Prof. Bridget Yaden on using technology to make remote learning inviting and accessible COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June

chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice.“I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said. “I sincerely believe that no matter what I majored in or what career I started in, I would have ended up programming.” Today, Conover is a senior software engineer at Rainway, a Seattle-based video game streaming service. He works from his home in San Jose, California Before taking the job at Rainway, he worked at Wiser Solutions, an information and technology firm specializing in ecommerce and

graduate school at Portland State University to gain her master’s degree in education with a concentration in counseling. She then went on to earn certification in personal management from Portland State in 1986. As one of her closest friends and PLU college roommate for three years, Nowadnick said, “we knew early on that [psychology] was her first love.” After graduating from Portland State, Wold worked in the counseling field for six years, helping kids and teens who had been sexually abused or had

Professor Giovanna Urdangarain (Hispanic Studies). Discussion will also be led by the student organization Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management. After attending the conference, both McCracken and Correa will attend the Peace Scholars program in Oslo for seven weeks during the summer. The students will be spending time at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue in Lillehammer, where they will be participating in dialogue sessions with students from the Balkans and the Middle East. The

neighborhood. In 1997, U.S. Bank merged with First Bank System in Minneapolis, intending to take all of the trust assets back to Minneapolis. “I said ‘No thank you. I’m not going back to the Midwest,’” Benson said. Instead he created his own company and began managing money for some of his clients from U.S. Bank. During the next six years, Benson Associates became a very successful investment management company. In 2003, just after Dale joined the PLU Board of Regents, Benson Associates was sold to Wells

Office; Parkland community organizations; and representatives from PLU’s Art Department, Sustainability Department, Center for Community Engagement and Service, ASPLU, Facilities Management, Auxiliary Services, Office of Finance and Operations, G.R.E.A.N., Students of the Left, Office of Residential Life and Wang Center for Global Education. And painters—lots of painters. “What’s been most enjoyable is meeting community members and students and hearing their stories,” said Refaei. In the end, the

relationship between human communities and between people and the Earth. “As a black person, I have been living it my entire life,” Finney said. “Even though I’ve been fortunate enough to do work around these issues, I may leave my computer in my office at night, but I can’t take my skin off at night and put it away.” Finney is a professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California-Berkeley. Her book, Black Faces, White Spaces