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. As China is already emerging as the new center of the East Asian economy (eclipsing, among others, Japan), the role of economic and cultural relevance will in our lifetimes begin to pass from Manhattan and Paris to cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the book states.  Jacques contends that it is the American relationship with and attitude toward China that will determine whether the twenty-first century will be relatively peaceful or fraught with tension and instability. “America seems relatively

integrating the book into their curriculum. Lisa Marcus, associate professor of English, plans to teach the book in her Writing 101 seminar on “Banned Books.” She wants students to recognize that Urrea’s book has been banned in Arizona as part of a push to suppress ethnic studies, particularly works that address Mexican-American history and experience. Students in her course – after reading about several controversial banning cases around race and sexual orientation – will take up Urrea’s book in the

of Regents. Her PLU beginnings, however, weren’t without some uncertainty. “When I first came here, a little more than 30 years ago, I came from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the shadows of race riots of the late 60s and had not done a lot of traveling outside of the Midwest,” Long, who is African American, told an attentive on-campus crowd at PLU’s Day of Vocation in 2016. Long is a firm believer that being pushed out of your comfort zone — the discomfort of new surroundings, new challenges

monetary means. What is the unique perspective that you bring to the internship? I am an Asian American woman who grew up in Montana, which is a Republican state. I definitely think there are unique experiences there. I am the only daughter in a household with three brothers. There is a lot that can be derived from that experience. Coming out here to Washington, and meeting, speaking, and connecting with people who hold many different beliefs than I do, my thought processes have shifted a number of

, rather than just for monetary means. What is the unique perspective that you bring to the internship? I am an Asian American woman who grew up in Montana, which is a Republican state. I definitely think there are unique experiences there. I am the only daughter in a household with three brothers. There is a lot that can be derived from that experience. Coming out here to Washington, and meeting, speaking, and connecting with people who hold many different beliefs than I do, my thought processes have

Manchester. The education half I would describe as interesting and the abroad part I would describe as amazing. I also think studying abroad helped me a lot because some of my closest coworkers have either been in Europe or from Europe, also South America. Having this experience behind me I think helped with connecting and not being “that American” as much. In our field it is becoming increasingly common to not just have teams in different countries, but to have a single team composed of people in

, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan and Native American genocides. Each genocide is its own unit with its own texts, explored both individually and comparatively, through a combination of historical texts, films, memoirs, and first-person testimonies. This fall, Marcus and Griech-Polelle had funding to invite survivors and/or descendants of survivors from each genocide studied in the course, thus giving students a more personal and immediate way to think about each genocide and its legacy in the present

services in the United States. The awards program is an initiative within Edison Universe, a 501(c)(3) organization that strives to recognize business leaders and product teams for their breakthrough products and ideas. Unsurprisingly, the awards are named after Thomas Edison, who, along with his Menlo Park inventing team was able to create an unprecedented number of machines, devices, and technologies for American industry. Edison’s success helped to establish at least four different industries that

adolescent naivete, with his final blueprint formed with suggestions from both his parents and close friend, Krag Unsoeld, who would later join Youtz on his wanderings abroad. Youtz’s eventual route began with the accrual of a financial launch pad in Europe, and concluded with a Tibetan finale. It was time spent discovering and shaping his passions – music and China. “First of all I wanted be an astronomer. Dad was a physicist. I grew up with telescopes and I still read Scientific American every month. I

professional conferences. This spring, a group of student chemists will travel with their mentors to San Francisco to present their work at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society – perhaps the premier chemistry conference in the world. It’s always good to meet up with your fellow “goggle-wearers” from around the world to see what problems they’ve been looking at. Once students begin to see things through their own goggles, we encourage them to share their new knowledge and unique view of the