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February 8, 2012 Sol y Luna is a center in Mexico that serves severely disabled children. (Photos by Greg Williams) Drawn to serve By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU professor Greg Williams Mexico is more than a spot to vacation – it’s a place to continue his service to children with disabilities. Williams has made more than a dozen trips to Mexico over the last four years to volunteer at a local center for severely disabled children called Sol y Luna. Williams, a professor of Instructional Development

encourages everyone to go, whether you’re looking for an internship or job, or just trying to network. “Its just so important for your future,” Noble said. “It’s really good to get your people skills out there.” Employers, like Lauren Snyder, Human Resources Coordinator for Medical Consultants Network, agree. “I think it’s good to have the experience of actually talking with employers,” Snyder said. “They could even establish a relationship with a company so when they do graduate they can follow-up and

University of Illinois at Chicago. “We must acknowledge our middle-class bourgeois character and embrace it and perfect it. Greed is not good. We should take our roles as innovators — the market judges of innovators — and court it the respect it’s due,” McCloskey said. McCloskey presented a lecture entitled, “Bourgeois Virtue? Why being Middle-Class is Good for us,” on Monday, October 15, at the 8th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The annual lecture series was established

PLU’€™s Visiting Writer Series Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Posted by: Marcom Web Team / November 6, 2014 November 6, 2014 By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 7, 2014)—In 2005, two new professors in the Pacific Lutheran University English Department came up with an idea for the Visiting Writer Series (VWS). This year, the series celebrates its 10-year anniversary—with a dedicated budget from the Provost’s office and a group of new writers

PLU engineering student earns competitive fellowship Posted by: Kari Plog / May 18, 2017 Image: Michele Anderson May 18, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 18, 2017)- You could argue that Michele Anderson's head was in the stars when she chose to pursue an engineering degree. “I’ve known that I want to pursue engineering for a long time now, due in part to my love of ‘Star Trek’ and all things related to space in science fiction,” she said. “However, I knew

present to a larger audience,” Cunningham said. “I thought, these are the kinds of experiences that are missing for our students (of color): the development experiences. “This is a chance to intentionally create space for a marginalized community here on campus, especially because the majority of folks that attend here are white women. It’s important that we pause and make it visible, so that we all understand the value of what we contribute to this campus life.”“Butterfly Confessions” runs Nov. 1

(Re)Building Community RHA president Hezekiah Goodwin ’22 discusses the year ahead Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Zach Powers '10ResoLute EditorThe PLU Residence Hall Association, or RHA, brings students together for social events, community forums, and to advocate for residence hall-related issues. RHA president Hezekiah Goodwin ’22 thinks of his role in building a vibrant student community as a campus vocation. We met with him on the first day of class to

interdisciplinary,” she explains. “I wanted to be prepared for an open-ended career.”  As an undergraduate, Butters interned with the Oregon Environmental Council and Citizens for a Healthy Bay. After graduation, she spent a year as the Community Engagement and Marketing Coordinator at Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity, followed by almost four years as a marketing manager at the Alaska Airlines Credit Union.  Butters is now the recruitment marketing team leader at MultiCare Health System. She oversees