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Each election cycle I’m reminded of how incredibly multi-disciplinary the responsibilities of our elected officials have become. Similarly, the challenges faced by the leaders of the world’s most successful corporations and NGOs grow ever more global, complex, and nuanced, seemingly by the day. Very few,…
understanding. PLU students volunteering at the Emergency Food Network in Tacoma.× It is one thing to offer general education courses. It is quite another to integrate the range of disciplines and design an educational experience that makes clear to students what their business management course has to do with their anthropology course, and what their anthropology and business courses have to do with the weekend they spent volunteering at a food bank, and what all three experiences have to do with the
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Nayonni “Nai Nai” Watts has autism, and she’s not afraid to be open and honest about it. “If people want to learn about autism, it’s best to learn from an autistic person rather than a non-autistic person,” she says. In January Watts debuted her student-led…
time, Watts enjoys hosting game nights and watching movies with her friends — creating a space where her friends of color can feel free to be themselves. Nayonni Watts '19, pictured here with her project exploring the history of the Black Student Union and African-American students at PLU, hoped her student-led production “Spectrums of Color” would shine a light on people of color with neurological disorders. She enjoys watching cartoons such as “Steven Universe,” “Craig of the Creek,” and wants to
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The Fall 2020 semester had its challenges for PLU students and faculty alike. However, one of the bright spots to lift our spirits has been learning virtually from guest artists who graciously shared their wisdom and knowledge with Theatre and Dance students over the course…
talked a lot about the technical aspects of camera work relating to dance films and dancing for the camera. I used the information I gained from the master class and applied it to my classwork, especially the dance film final project for Composition and Choreography. It helped me think about how to both choreograph and dance for a camera and how this is different than dancing on a stage. —Brooke Nelson ’23, Dance minor Though the circumstances of the year are not what any of us would have chosen, I
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Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom,…
my classes—especially economics—and how my professors taught me if I can survive complex economic concepts, I can survive a complex project. I’m forever thankful for them giving me a bar to strive for.Do you have any plans for after commencement? There are several opportunities I am entertaining for post-commencement. However, first and foremost, I will be taking a short break and solo traveling to somewhere sunny with good food. A recharge is needed before I pursue my next goals in life. Read
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PLU Chemistry professor Dean Waldow hopes to one day become useless. After all, as an educator, his job is to empower students to work confidently and independently in a field that is constantly innovating. He does this by bringing students into his lab to help…
of all the hard work that goes into improving technologies such as batteries,” she says. “It was exciting to work on a project that could help to support the switch away from fossil fuels.” The work centers on polymers — large molecules made up of smaller molecules linked together like a chain — which make up everything from nylon and polyester clothing to Teflon pans. In the future, it may improve lithium-ion batteries.Currently, most lithium-ion batteries use an organic liquid (made of
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Computer science major Chris Holland will graduate with a degree in computer science this December. Throughout his PLU years, Holland has taken advantage of seemingly every learning and resume-building opportunity he’s come across, which have included multiple internships, mentors, and freelance work for local businesses.…
whether you’re doing something wrong, and figuring out why it’s wrong is rewarding,” Holland says. “The whole experience is continuous learning.”For his capstone, Holland and two other students created an analytics platform for a competitive online game called Rocket League. Players can review stats, key moments, and playback with this platform. “We’re trying to bring order to the chaos,” he saysInternships and Mentorships He delves into any project with equal enthusiasm. Even as he refines the
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What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones,…
off any bugs that may be remaining on the bones. “Erin (McGinnis, director of culinary services) said she had the best phone message ever when she listened to me say “I need a walk in freezer for a whale,”’ Behrens laughed. Eventually the bones that were packed off by animals will be replaced via plaster casts and the entire skeleton will be hung from the ceiling when Rieke is renovated. Thornburg said that when the project was first proposed, no one had any idea how to prepare a whale skeleton
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Best Foot Forward By Kari Plog ’11 When first-year students came to campus for orientation weekend this past September, organizers made sure that, on that first Saturday, those students were promptly sent off campus. About a dozen first-year students rolled up their sleeves and got…
agencies. Another group took part in a habitat restoration project on the PLU campus. Another trip introduced first-year students to PLU’s own community garden, which donates organic vegetables to members of the Parkland community. Kirk Rose, one of the employees for Left Foot, said he learned about the spirit of service while in college, and it was his love of volunteering and his farming background that brought him to Left Foot about a year ago. Trips to places like Left Foot encourage students to
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The Andersons are leaving PLU Tuesday May 31, 2011 Loren and MaryAnn Anderson have announced their intent to leave Pacific Lutheran University in the spring of 2012, at the end of the academic year. “The time is right for the university,” Loren Anderson, 65, said.…
precious life?’” she said. “It’s been PLU’s Wild Hope Project theme and it’s now our theme – describing Lutheran vocation and living lives of service.” “We look forward to building our very own array of new ventures that will include a variety of professional assignments and volunteer projects as well as more time on the farm in North Dakota and at our northern Minnesota lake home,” Loren Anderson said. “Our years at PLU have been both a great gift and high honor,” he said. “We give thanks each day for
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Into the clouds By James Olson ’14 On the rare cloudless days, from PLU’s campus, Mt. Rainier can be witnessed asserting its sublime dominance over the Pacific Northwest. The day I met Allison Stephens ‘01 was not one of those days, but its call could…
marathon. “Knowing there’s a reason for this, it changes your mindset,” she says about training, “It’s not just working out, you’re working towards something.” As far as the psychological aspect is concerned, Stephens says that, at first, she had “a ton of reservations,” “but not enough to stop me,” she adds quickly. Her parents, she says, were in denial at first, and “my sister thinks I’m crazy.” But the climbers will not be summiting alone. The project will be guided by Rainier Mountaineering
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