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March 14, 2008 Fighting violence with kindness In response to recent campus shootings in Illinois and Louisiana, a student-driven campaign is working to bolster the university’s sense of community and improve access to support services. The “1 to the 5th” campaign seeks to intentionally build a stronger, more supportive campus environment by empowering students to reach out to their peers and connecting them campus resources. The campaign’s mission statement asserts “the positive impact that
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Ugandan students living in Kampala in order to empower, ignite, and impact global change. “I’ve never seen a show that focuses so much on questions about development and cross-cultural interaction, and really leaves the audience like grappling with questions and thinking about these issues,” said Katherine Wiley, PLU’s Peace Corps Prep Program Coordinator and an integral part of bringing this event to campus.Event details: Artists: Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews Date: March 6 Time: 6:30-8 p.m. Place
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impact that the violence of natural resource extraction has on ecosystems, communities, and individuals.Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service
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Pacific Lutheran University. From serving as ASPLU president her junior year, to spending a semester in Trinidad and Tobago, to using film as a catalyst for change, Chan has spent her time at PLU highlighting the experiences of her community members—especially those who haven’t traditionally held a seat at the table. Notably, Chan has spent several seasons working with Hmong flower farmers in Seattle as part of her PLU journey, complementing her double major in communication and gender, sexuality, and
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. Williams says the experiences supported by Wang Center grants serve as final stepping stones for PLU students preparing for post-graduate endeavors. “They’re high-value, high-impact projects for students at the end of their PLU experience to help prepare them for things like graduate school and Fulbright, Peace Corps, Marshall and Rhodes scholarships,” Williams said. “This is the opportunity for our top students to take their global education to the highest level PLU has to offer.” Founders of the Wang
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health and community wellbeing. A year post-graduation I began my graduate education in Mental Health Counseling at Seattle University. My hunger for social justice and eagerness to learn how I may best impact my community began during our passionate discussions in the classroom at PLU. My Hispanic Studies classes challenged me to identify the social injustices taking place within and outside of our community and empowered me to search for positive change. The rich and extensive history of the
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NSF REU at the University of Alabama Posted by: nicolacs / March 8, 2019 March 8, 2019 Interdisciplinary Application of Advanced Polymers for Engineering InnovationThis new ten-week REU Site supported by NSF will be held May 20th – July 26th, 2019. Participants will be engaged in fundamental research projects that incorporate polymer synthesis and processing, including through biological methods. Projects also focus on applications of polymers in tissue culturing, electronics, sensors, additive
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health educator for the Regional Department of Public Health. Together with my Albanian coworkers and other volunteers we give presentations and present activities for a variety of health related topics. Some of these projects include: prenatal care classes, stress and depression groups, health fairs, anti-smoking lessons, and cancer awareness and prevention seminars. But beyond health projects I have also worked on a handful of secondary projects such as English teaching, a women’s empowerment group
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for venues ranging throughout the Seattle/Tacoma region, worked in a corporate audio visual setting, completed location audio recording projects for television and video and worked on recording and touring with his musical projects. He looks forward to using his varied experience across the spectrum of audio and video in order to enhance the learning ecosystem at PLU.
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support the museum’s mission of preservation, outreach, and education. Sara Stiehl's Anthro Department Reflections“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead. A small group of thoughtful, committed citizens that can change the world is exactly what Pacific Lutheran University has in its Anthropology Department. Having had the pleasure to interact and take classes from each of the Anthropology
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