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Tiffany Wong ‘23 discusses transferring to PLU, her experience as an RA, and her plans to become a Certified Nurse Anesthesiologist Posted by: Zach Powers / April 25, 2023 April 25, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterPLU senior Tiffany Wong was drawn to study nursing after spending 10 years caring for her grandmother — a special woman who taught her about empathy and compassion.“My heart broke when she passed away this fall semester. There were numerous stories

normal. One size fits all is not going to work. We are collectively building a new future that requires fully alive humans who are connected to themselves, one another, and who carry hope.  What are students saying they need from PLU? PLU students are a microcosm of the communities from which they came, reflecting the varieties of strengths, pains, health, struggles, and desires of their communities. They are looking for a place of belonging where they matter and their voice matters—in a real

state-administered proficiency exams would also be professional, even though it is housed in a school typically identified with the liberal arts.While religious and psychological traditions have long recognized the inevitable need for all humans to develop a me, which they equate with the ego or the self-conscious individual, they also tell us that the fully developed person grounds and even selects this me upon a previously honed I. In religious traditions, the I is the deeply founded spirit or

fireworks blasting from the top of the Space Needle, chemists can envision things differently compared to other people. Inspecting a snowflake, I can envision the shape arising from the H2O molecules lining up in beautiful geometric arrays that are intrinsically, but invisibly, beautiful. When I’m munching on a spicy, deep fried jalapeño popper, I often recall the structure of capsaicin, why it’s “hot” and so deliciously fat-soluble. Chemistry describes the way that we, as humans, look at things at an

life.” Dahms was asked to join Sonnenberg – a professed “plant nut” – and Assistant Professor of Biology Neva Laurie-Berry to investigate altered forms of the receptor for the plant hormone jasmonate, a chemical that controls a plant’s response to infection and injury. In essence, the trio is trying to find out if, by manipulating its receptor, they can make the plant resistant to infection without residual side effects. Plants have fewer chromosomes than humans, so mutating one part to fight

1994 genocide is so important. It is only when we connect with people in meaningful ways that we begin to see not only how flawed humans can sometimes be, but also the compassion and resilience that can develop because of it. As a closing to our dinner, Jean Michel thanked PLU President Thomas W. Krise for allowing them to share their message and mission with PLU with a saying in Kinyarwanda that roughly translates as: “Bless the back that carried you, for without your mother you would not be the

through war, rape, murder or just practiced callousness of doing nothing about the worlds ills. But God dances in joy when he sees humans deciding to take a step for good, as 12-year-old Craig Kielburger did in 1995, when he decided that child slavery should stop. A youth activist and the three time Nobel Prize nominee, Kielburger told the crowd that he was scared to come before his seventh-grade class in 1995 and demand they do something to stop child slavery in the world. That spark of outrage

increases as we are surrounded by others who support our hope, whether those “others” are humans, a higher power, or even pets. Applying the Theory to Relationships Given this definition and these four foundations, several interventions emerge to help individuals and couples increase their hope for improving their relationship. First, your available options for achieving your desired outcomes are greatly influenced by how you view the situation, particularly the apparent obstacles that stand in your way

beyond their assumptions. When Heath was designing the class back in 2016, he asked people what they thought were the most damaging things humans were doing and how they would redesign those systems. “I noticed people would get stuck on the fact that ‘This is just the way it is,’ ” Heath says. “The starship, and getting students to believe they are designing it, is essentially a trick to get them out of that box of ‘This is how things are.’” “(The goal is) to get students to really see some of the

of class, Heath’s goal is to convince students that they are actually building a starship. It’s the most important part of the course because the starship concept forces students to think beyond their assumptions. When Heath was designing the class back in 2016, he asked people what they thought were the most damaging things humans were doing and how they would redesign those systems. “I noticed people would get stuck on the fact that ‘This is just the way it is,’ ” Heath says. “The starship, and