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, and then with Nike and the development of basketball shoes. He’d still like to design/develop shoes for Nike someday. One of the reasons he picked PLU was because of its marketing and business program, as well as its focus on helping students find their vocation and passion.  He later switched from business to physical education and focused on teaching, but still had a laser interest in Nike. He told everyone he knew he wanted to work for the company, and applied for several jobs at the

, Monica Holtclaw and Suzanne Moore. The symposium is hosted both on the campus of PLU and University of Puget Sound. Attendees will travel to the PLU campus in the afternoon to tour the Elliott Press, visit The Art of Wayzgoose in the University Gallery, browse the Boge Library, and hear talks in Ingram. Graphic Design II and Art of the Book students will be assisting, and student Hyunhee Kim ’15 is preparing keepsakes for the attendees to print at Elliott Press. In addition, the Puget Sound Book

school—and also study Japanese—really appealed to me.” Carrato began PLU with plans to follow in his father’s professional footsteps, but his post-college travels cemented his passion for service over law or business. He became interested in human rights and NGOs and earned a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Oregon.  “I love service,” he says. “I thought for sure I’d be working for an NGO. I was going to be out there living in a village—which I now realize was a bit of

The William M. Lapenta NOAA Student Internship Program Posted by: nicolacs / October 10, 2023 October 10, 2023 The William M. Lapenta NOAA Student Internship Program is offering paid summer internships targeted towards current 2nd and 3rd-year undergraduate and enrolled graduate students to work in areas that will provide robust research and/or operational experience that will prepare the student for further study in NOAA fields, for application to fellowships or for the NOAA-mission workforce

September 1, 2008 Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players on the now-gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The event has been beyond description, Hacker said in an e-mail interview from Beijing this week. But she gave a go at it anyway, in an

uses of surveillance related to safety.  How do you encourage and equip your students to ask —  or answer — tough questions about surveillance or other human rights issues? I think a big part of it is encouraging them to use an interdisciplinary approach to connect what they’re learning in class with their own experiences, and to what they can learn from the lived experiences of people around them. For example, in this post-Roe surveillance area, we can’t think of the anti-abortion movement without