Page 7 • (1,029 results in 0.049 seconds)

  • After a rare heart condition cut her soccer career short, Shelby Daly ’13 found her calling as an athletic trainer.

    campus). “I thought, ‘this would be cool to get into,’” Daly said. After making a few connections, she learned that the Fury sought an athletic trainer. She interviewed with the head coach and got the job. Today, she is the organization’s head athletic trainer. Beyond her full-time work with the Fury, Daly is an assistant athletic trainer at the California Institute of Technology (known colloquially as Caltech). Despite her part-time status at the Division III institution, she is approved to work up

  • William Davis ’06 is co-founder of FabLab Tacoma, a makerspace dedicated to project-based learning, entrepreneurship and tinkering.

    immediately thought something similar would thrive in Tacoma, a do-it-yourself community full of creative minds. He wasn’t wrong. Since it opened in 2012, FabLab has grown to serve roughly 100 members who sell products on Etsy and at public markets, among other venues. And then there are members who graduated to top-selling status with retailers such as Amazon. Dustin Smith, a founder of the Tacoma-based company C4 Labs, says his business started as an idea and a prototype in FabLab’s workspace. “We

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 12, 2016)- Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., says Pacific Lutheran University already exhibits academic excellence in a variety of ways: rich global education, robust student-faculty research, world-class faculty members and, of course, eager students who are ready to change the world. But Brown…

    with the status quo. “It’s about engaging in difference,” she said, stressing that the university as a whole must ask big questions — including asking why there isn’t more faculty of color. “We all own this,” Brown said. “That is critical.” To do that, she explained, PLU must do two things: embrace implicit bias training across the board and critically look at hiring practices to see what’s missing. She says implicit bias training combats the tendency of people to hire those who look like them and

  • Lutes are dedicated to global education, and student athletes are no different. This fall, two Lutes who studied in Norway managed to balance their studies and training abroad, while PLU welcomed

    people. “It’s gorgeous here. I’m not a big city person.” Additionally, Floyd’s coach was very supportive of her desire to travel abroad: “She’s really supportive of global education.” Three Norwegian international students studying at PLU say similar support on the Parkland campus helped with their transition. Unlike Ivey and Floyd, their study-away experience collided with their student-athlete experience as members of the men’s soccer team, which earned co-champion status in the Northwest

  • More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.

    -Åkerlund said. But Syse’s esteemed status doesn’t mean he is super serious. “He’s really goofy,” Barkman said of Syse, who taught “Ethics of War and Peace” in the fall. “He’ll quote Monty Python in class. It’s a cool experience to be learning about these heavy issues and developing who you are while also being under the guidance of these really established people.” Dale-Åkerlund says the approach prepares students for a higher level of learning. “We really challenge our students intellectually and

  • Newsletter: LGBTQ+ Mental Health and the Role of Minority Stress La salud mental LGBTQ+ y el papel del estrés de las minorías June 2024 Supervisor Newsletter: Support for LGBTQ+ Community in the Workplace Apoyo a la comunidad LGBTQ+ en el lugar de trabajo June 2024 Webinar: Beating Procrastination Client Bulletin988 National Suicide Prevention LifelineEmployee Home Ownership Program  Click here to make an appointment.

  • Chasiotis. "Parental Influence on Fertility Behavior of First Generation Turkish Immigrants in Germany." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health Vol. 12(1), 2010: 60-67. "The M - Shaped Dilemma: Life Strategies and Fertility Trends among Working Women in Contemporary Japan." Ethnology Vol. 48(1), 2009: 21-38. "Coresidence and Geographic Dispersion of Adult Children and Their Mothers in Germany: Variation in Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Status." Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

    Contact Information
  • Chasiotis. "Parental Influence on Fertility Behavior of First Generation Turkish Immigrants in Germany." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health Vol. 12(1), 2010: 60-67. "The M - Shaped Dilemma: Life Strategies and Fertility Trends among Working Women in Contemporary Japan." Ethnology Vol. 48(1), 2009: 21-38. "Coresidence and Geographic Dispersion of Adult Children and Their Mothers in Germany: Variation in Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Status." Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

    Contact Information
  • Chasiotis. "Parental Influence on Fertility Behavior of First Generation Turkish Immigrants in Germany." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health Vol. 12(1), 2010: 60-67. "The M - Shaped Dilemma: Life Strategies and Fertility Trends among Working Women in Contemporary Japan." Ethnology Vol. 48(1), 2009: 21-38. "Coresidence and Geographic Dispersion of Adult Children and Their Mothers in Germany: Variation in Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Status." Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

    Contact Information
  • Chasiotis. "Parental Influence on Fertility Behavior of First Generation Turkish Immigrants in Germany." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health Vol. 12(1), 2010: 60-67. "The M - Shaped Dilemma: Life Strategies and Fertility Trends among Working Women in Contemporary Japan." Ethnology Vol. 48(1), 2009: 21-38. "Coresidence and Geographic Dispersion of Adult Children and Their Mothers in Germany: Variation in Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Status." Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

    Contact Information