Search

significance of Lute athletics from the media perspective. Global Health Panel Sponsored by the Nursing Alumni Association: Also at the University Center, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. you’ll have a chance to listen to nurses talk about their experience overseas. Speakers include Dr. Kathleen Flarity ’97 on flight nursing in Afghanistan, Helen Holt ’97 on setting up clinics in postwar Vietnam, Karen Fagerstrom ’97 on serving Inuit communities in Alaska and Mary Barber ’02, on working in Liberia. Saturday: Coffee

February 28, 2011 Caring course work Anna McCracken ’14 is preparing to hand out prepackaged salad in the bottom level of Food Connections – one of the services housed in the Catholic Community Services building by St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Hilltop Tacoma. Beside her other volunteers are distributing canned food, produce, bread and other items. As a line of people coming for food file through, a man stops at McCracken’s spot. He asks, “What’s this?” “It’s salad,” McCracken says, a global

in their first time ever participating in the event? “The challenges, emotions and achievements my students experience in the competition are pretty close to what I experienced in the business world,” he said. They took first place. To read about PLU’s 2011 International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition award-winning team, click here. Read Previous PLU prof named as “Highly Honored” photographer in global photo contest Read Next Get involved and lunch is on us COMMENTS*Note: All comments

in Washington, D.C. The bank assists with the exporting of U.S. goods to international markets. Read Previous Juggling His Way to a Career in Global Health Read Next MSF Team’s Stock Rises at Major Financial Competitions COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how

all this less than one year after acceptance into the CFA Institutes University Recognized Program. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition—the “investment Olympics” for university students—that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis. Students gain real-world experience as they assume the role of a research analyst and are judged on their ability to value a stock, write an initiation-of-coverage report and

indoors, working at internships or simply working, six geosciences majors spent June through August taking several hikes up to Mount Rainier to study climate change, the possible impacts of global warming and glacial runoff. For Isaac Moening-Swanson ’15, this summer’s research is a precursor to a research trip he will take this fall to Antarctica. Once there, Moening-Swanson and Geosciences Professor Claire Todd will study the Tucker Glacier for possible signs of glacial retreat and the impacts of

across several blocks that all look different and have nothing cohesive about them. With a public relations and advertising background, this surprised me. We did get a really awesome view of Lake Union from the top of one of the buildings. It was a gorgeous February morning. After the tour and partner resume reviews, Vice President of Global Talent and Acquisition Susan Harker took our questions about applying for a job; we learned tips and tricks to help us stand out and improve the way we sell

other very well.” The two will be spending a lot of time together as they travel around Norway. They each have a research project to complete during their time with the International Summer School, where they will study with students from 80 countries around the world. The global connection was one of the highlights for Peace Scholar alumna Ellie Lapp ’17. “A casual dinner conversation or walking down the hallway can be more like cultural experiences and experiences of diversity,” Lapp said. “These

series, titled “A World of Difference,” explores issues of diversity, including gender, race, immigration and social class. The first two segments, about immigration and gender, will screen at 4 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the Seattle Central Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. in Seattle. The other two portions of the series will premiere in Tacoma later this spring. “A World of Difference” was jointly sponsored and supported by PLU’s School of Arts and Communication, the Wang Center for Global Education and

sidelines during the COVID-19 global health crisis if she could help it.“I just always wanted to be a nurse,” she said. “I like taking care of people, so it’s something I’ve always wanted to do as far back as I can remember, back to sixth grade.”Krogstad, a registered nurse at Providence Hospital in Torrance, California, graduated from PLU with her nursing degree and promptly headed south, working in the Providence intensive care unit for almost 30 years before transitioning to cardiac rehab — where