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create art, transforming audience perspectives on climate change. Where did you grow up, and why did you choose PLU for undergraduate studies? Ruggeri: I grew up in South Florida and wanted to go out of state for college, specifically a liberal arts college offering a theater program with a directing focus. I hoped to find a smaller community and had summer camp friends who had gone to PLU. And PLU gave me a good scholarship! Knapp: I grew up in Bellingham. I loved growing up there but wanted to

. Work with trained faculty and graduate student mentors to develop your research skills and prepare to apply to graduate school, Participate in an engaging research community and experience what it is like to be a professional chemist, Participate in collaboration with Prof. Kevin Binning at the Department of Psychology at Pitt, and Enjoy exploring the fun city of Pittsburgh, PA! We hope you will join us in Summer 2024! We expect to fund more than 10 positions in 2024. Program date: May 28 to Aug 2

What’s in our room? With Leanne Emmi ’25 Posted by: vcraker / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 Leanne Emmi ’25 walks us through her room in Harstad Hall, to show how it’s organized to be a comfortable place to study, hang out with friends, and enjoy the view. Harstad Hall is the most historic building on campus, named after Bjug Harstad, PLU’s founder and first president. Today, this community is home to the Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Learning Community (LC), promoting this theme through

exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. Previous OTI topics include “Climate,” “Gender,” “Violence” and “Advocacy.” × × Previous Episodes Read Previous PLU faculty members Claire Todd, Seth Dowland and Amy Young discuss the word ‘irrefutable’ (podcast) Read Next PLU professor helps USA Women’s Hockey become champions COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker

Welcoming Our 2018 MSMR Candidates Posted by: wagnerjc / November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017 We would like to welcome the 2018 Master of Science in Marketing Research Candidates. This cohort of nine with backgrounds in business, psychology, communications, and more is looking forward to a year of learning what it means to be a marketing researcher. Please join us in welcoming our new candidates to their new home for the next 10 months!Segun AmosunSegun graduated from University of Washington

connections. Instead, she found support in her interactions with faculty, including now-Dean of Inclusive Excellence Jennifer Smith and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Giovanna Urdangarain. Benge, who has a background in theater and interdisciplinary studies, was awarded a doctorate in gender studies in April by Arizona State University. While at ASU, Benge won a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies in 2019. She has recently been named a Robert A. Oden Jr

Welcoming First Cohort: Kallan Campa Posted by: Catherine Chan / June 15, 2020 Image: Kallan Campa (Photo courtesy Kallan Campa) June 15, 2020 Kallan Campa is excited to learn more about the complexities of the relationship between behavior and participation in physical activity. She shares about what inspired her to join the MSK program and what she is looking forward to learn. 1. What is one fun fact about yourself? I taught myself to recite the alphabet backwards when I was 3 years old. 2

Semester. During this meeting we will show the highly acclaimed Netflix Documentary by Ava DuVernay 13th, which centers on race in the United States criminal justice system. After the movie we will have a discussion on the themes of the movieFEB 16 “A Seat at the Table” Listening PartyThe Center for Gender Equity – 5:30pm Join the Center for Gender Equity as they listen to Solange Knowles’s album “A Seat at the Table” and have a follow-up discussion about the album’s themes around Blackness, Black

graduate school at Portland State University to gain her master’s degree in education with a concentration in counseling. She then went on to earn certification in personal management from Portland State in 1986. As one of her closest friends and PLU college roommate for three years, Nowadnick said, “we knew early on that [psychology] was her first love.” After graduating from Portland State, Wold worked in the counseling field for six years, helping kids and teens who had been sexually abused or had

landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors that have caused child vaccination rates to decline in many parts of the country.Not that poring over such data was always her forte. Her passion was kindled years ago as a psychology undergrad at PLU — even if she had to overcome her initial dread of statistics and methods first. “I was terrified to take that class because I never considered