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efforts to the theme of inclusion, with projects focusing on unity among the Athletics Department, the university and the surrounding community. Many of the topics covered, specifically LGBTQ inclusion in athletics and the Tunnel of Oppression “R-word” scene, have challenged SAAC representatives to ask some questions about their values and their behaviors. “Our goal was to focus on how we could become better members of the PLU community,” said SAAC President Amy Wooten. “SAAC wanted to make sure our

manager of the Alaska Airlines blog. I also work very closely with Bobbie Egan, who is our director of Media Relations, whenever we have an event or something newsworthy happens. Have you met anyone at Alaska Airlines with ties to PLU? A really cool tie that I have here is to Dianne McGinness, who is a PLU graduate and had a very similar internship when she was a student. She now works here, full time, in the internal communications department. We get lunch almost every day together, and she’s my

October 22, 2012 PLU professor selected as Chair of the Curti Prize committee PLU Professor E. Wayne Carp has been selected by the Organization of American Historians as Chair of the 2013 Curti Prize Committee. The Merle Curti Prize is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians, the most prestigious and influential U.S. historical organization, for the best book in American social and/or intellectual history. Carp is a professor of history at PLU and holds the Benson Family

opportunity to stay on as long he, and the bank, felt like he was contributing. Whitney plans to stay through graduation – after that, maybe it’ll turn into a job. Whitney sees his internship as a practical application of what he’s learning in business school. He does a lot of number-crunching and reviews a lot of raw financial data. He also checks financial portfolios to make sure they are compliant – for example, if a client doesn’t want a stock portfolio that includes tobacco companies, he makes sure

Global Studies major pursues medical school to support health equity PLU alum Margaret Chell ’18 reveals how Peace Corps transformed her life Posted by: vcraker / November 3, 2021 November 3, 2021 While at PLU, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She was excited about the idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as

who would immediately die to one line and those who could work to another. Each in their separate lines was ushered to a barracks to strip from their clothes, then to another to have all the hair on their bodies completely shaved from them and then to shower. In Ban’s shower water came down. In the “shower” where her other family members were, poisonous gas filled the room. After their murders, their bodies were burned to ash in the furnaces of Auschwitz. As Ban worked in another part of the

& CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 17, 2015)— Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Tacoma on Sept. 23—and Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Music Greg Youtz is playing a significant role in the international event. As chair of the Tacoma-Fuzhou Sister City Committee, Youtz was instrumental in creating the connection between a Chinese high school and Tacoma’s Lincoln High School, which Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, will visit. “This is usually a very quiet post,” Youtz said. “But I am suddenly

substance-abuse diagnosis. My time is split between helping clients work on their symptoms and connecting them to resources to help aid in their recovery. How did studying Psychology at PLU help prepare you for your graduate studies and your current career? Studying Psychology helped form my clinical background prior to going to social-work school, which was helpful because social work largely focused on systems and policies, rather than the individual. I have to say that my ethics came largely from my

.” During Krise’s tenure, PLU launched its first-ever professional doctorate, the Doctor of Nursing Practice, plus three new graduate degrees in finance, marketing research and accounting, as well as a new minor in holocaust and genocide studies. The university also extended its outreach to high-need students in the region by launching the 253 College Bound Scholarship, and the Parkland Promise Scholarship for students from PLU’s immediate neighborhood. “I feel very good that we have raised the

engineering fields are welcome. We are now accepting student applications for Summer 2021 REU opportunities! Interested students should visit: reuapply.rice.edu to begin their application.  Priority consideration will be given to students who apply by our priority deadline of February 15, though we will review all applications received by March 1. Read Previous University of Idaho Graduate School Openings Read Next STEM Summer Research with Arcadia Abroad LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and