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came onto campus as a first-year, I had no idea what was recyclable—I didn’t really have a definition of what sustainability was,” Patterson said. “In school, we never had recycling. It was never really something talked about to me.” Coming to PLU and getting a job with the Sustainability Department changed all that. Patterson was hired as a sustainability technician during her first semester in the fall of 2010, just before Chrissy Cooley was hired as the sustainability director. At the beginning
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Justin St. Germain Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Justin St. Germain is the author of Bookmarked: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, part of IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series, and the memoir Son of a Gun (Random House, 2013), which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Library Journal, and others. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The
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Life Under Drones Symposium On September 18th and 19th, 2019, the Innovation Studies Program co-sponsored the Life Under Drones Symposium , which took place on the PLU campus and featured students, faculty, and an array of national experts on the subject. Life Under Drones was the first of its… September 12, 2019 drone symposiumethicsfilminnovation studiesresearch
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PLU Global Studies Statement Against RacismWe, the Faculty Committee of the Global Studies Program at Pacific Lutheran University, stand in solidarity with those protesting racism, white supremacy, and state violence across the world. These events demonstrate local-global connections, which we continually strive to emphasize within the Global Studies curriculum. Locally, police killed Manuel Ellis here in Tacoma. Beyond Washington State, the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and
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June 29, 2010 Student learns disaster’s impact firsthand By Kari Plog ’11 Boats remain docked in Venice, La. as oil continues to gush from a ruptured BP oil well offshore in the Gulf Coast. “I would love to talk to y’all, but my job is my number one priority,” one fisherman said to me when asked to comment on how the spill has affected him. “I want to tell you what I think, but this is my livelihood.” Oil seeping into the Gulf of Mexico has caused a wide-spread impact of the coast from
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March 28, 2012 Hong Kong native Winston Zee rises in global law firm while retaining close PLU ties By Dwight Daniels ’79 Attorney Winston K.T. Zee ’76 says he has learned one truth in decades of practicing law on the international level from his office in Hong Kong. “No one and no nation is an island,” he said. “Countries and economies are complexly intertwined and we are truly all in it together.” Now serving on the top executive committee of the global law firm Baker & McKenzie, the lawyer
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wanted to support the sciences.“George sort of felt like he owed his success and his career to PLU,” said Lauralee Hagen, senior director of advancement. “He was very nostalgic about professors and his here and really wanted to do something to give back.” Hagen worked with the Longs to secure an endowment fund that supports two to three student internships in the natural sciences each summer, as well as an annual lecture. This is the second year that the George and Helen Long Science, Technology and
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March 18, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCBwlijVuw4 “PLU’s location close to Mt. Rainier is a huge resource for me and for students. For me, as a glacial geologist and as a professor, it’s really an easy place for me to go and convince students how geology affects our everyday lives, how natural resources are involved in our everyday lives and how the natural systems are inevitably going to be part of our backdrop as we move through our day-to-day lives,” said Claire Todd, assistant
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PLU engineering student earns competitive fellowship Posted by: Kari Plog / May 18, 2017 Image: Michele Anderson May 18, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 18, 2017)- You could argue that Michele Anderson's head was in the stars when she chose to pursue an engineering degree. “I’ve known that I want to pursue engineering for a long time now, due in part to my love of ‘Star Trek’ and all things related to space in science fiction,” she said. “However, I knew
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