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is now we are not limited by physical space.  People from all over the world can join us for this edition of The People’s Gathering.”   Speakers and conversation facilitators will include educators, nonprofit leaders, and consultants from the Tacoma are as well as across the country. Local leaders and educators will include Lua Pritchard, executive director of the Asian Pacific Culture Center; Danica Sterud Miller, American Indian Studies professor at UW Tacoma; and Troy Storfjell, a PLU Nordic

an outstanding curriculum, excellent faculty, great facilities, and is accredited by the American Chemical Society. Its faculty and staff will be happy to help if you need more information about the department or PLU.The internship also gave Le the opportunity to work daily with her mentors, Bioinformatics project leader Dr. Hannah DeBerg and Bioinformatician Dr. Mario Rosasco.  “They are excellent, they challenge me every day to think critically, and I’m happy to get to work with them and

enjoys. “That experience helped me grow as a person and in my chemistry career,” she said.   In the classroom, her aptitude was quickly noticed, leading to her becoming an organic lab teaching assistant in the fall of 2020 and 2021, and an invitation to be a student guest of the American Chemical Society at the Linus Pauling Award Symposium Banquet. “Yaquelin impresses you with her work ethic, diligence, and academic abilities,” Craig Fryhle, chemistry professor, said. “She is a very personable

create a formal minor to meet student needs.The curriculum utilizes the American Bar Association’s guidance on undergraduate preparation for law school. Current students will have the opportunity to pursue the new minor with guidance from faculty.  “We believe strongly that this minor is consistent with the mission of care emphasized by the university,” Michael Artime, assistant professor of political science, said. “The law can be used to advance efforts to care for others, for their community and

an award-winning science journalist, microbiologist, and author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure. As a science writer at Newsday from 2000 to 2007, Nelson wrote frequently about the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, stem cell research, conservation, global warming, ecology, and the West Nile virus. As a freelance writer, Nelson has written for the New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, CNN Travel, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, ENSIA, and bioGraphic. Among his

currently sits on the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Haley holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University, Sacramento, a Master of Nursing (family nurse practitioner) from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of San Diego. Haley will succeed Interim Dean of Nursing Carol Seavor, whose service began on August 30, 2023, after former Dean of Nursing Barbara Habermann left the role.  Haley will

includes artifacts from all five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), is a testament to the connection and trust the Puget Sound’s Scandinavian American community shares with PLU. “The collection in the Scandinavian Cultural Center is a reflection of this (Scandinavian) community. They entrust us with precious family heirlooms,” Ward said. “Items have been donated to PLU since the late 1970s, many of them hundreds of years old.” The artifacts and literature housed by the SCC

, sister and brother died there. She was young, yet old enough to be put to work in the camp and survived not only the camp, but a forced labor camp in Germany, where she sabotaged bombs she was supposed to be creating to fight American troops, and then living in the woods after escaping with some friends from a forced march. But the story that brought out tissues to many in the audience Friday was the farewell glance from Ban’s mother. The last time she saw them, an S.S. officer was directing those

up, and then seeing the torn-down, unkempt tombstones where they buried African-American people, that was meaningful and impactful to see. I am reminded of how much we still have to do.” Dobies said the Lutes visited Savannah, Georgia and the South Carolina cities of Charleston and Saint Helena Island, where students visited the Penn Center that was one of the first abolitionist schools for freed slaves. Other stops included museums, historical civil-rights era buildings and the two cemeteries

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