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conference was attended by more than five hundred participants from all over the country and the world, including Indiana, Texas, Illinois, California, South Africa and Ghana.×Cunningham approaches The People’s Gathering as a professional and personal development platform that allows people to grow their skills in navigating conversations around race. And she has plans to bring the conference to you. “What we want to do next is take the successes that we’ve realized with race dialogue and make them
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experience, as well as the humanity sprinkled throughout the collections I handle.” We talked to her about her career.Make Library DonationsDonations of materials related to the history, development and operations of the university may be accepted. Connect by emailing archives@plu.edu.What attracted you to PLU? Before joining PLU, I worked as the Archivist & Digital Initiatives Librarian at Simmons University in Boston. When I saw the job posting for my current position, I thought it would be a great
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of culturing our microorganisms. From a small 1 mL portion of a growing culture, we could grow dense cultures in only a matter of weeks!” “Additionally, using methods like optical density scanning allowed us to visualize how our cultures grew over time, which was amazing to watch,” continued Fisher. Read Previous PLU Department of Anthropology completes repatriation of materials to the Nisqually Tribe Read Next Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development
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, applied for and received a $250,000 grant from the Pierce County Economic Development Department to fund the PLU School of Business work supporting underserved rural communities via the Pierce County Navigator Program. Pierce County Navigator Program The Pierce County Navigator Program is an outreach and referral program with one-on-one assistance and mentoring for entrepreneurs in the South Sound area. It operates as a “hub” and “spoke” model with seven different organizations as the spokes. These
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development, and foster cross-sector collaboration on issues related to student access and readiness. “It’s important that, if we want a strong democracy, we must have inclusion from all voices,” Chavez said. Inclusion of all voices is paramount to educational success for all students, marginalized or otherwise, she added. “The more connected we are, the better able we are to improve society. Diversity in profession and education benefits everyone.” Chavez said her speech at the conference will focus on
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at many of these foundries that were merged into ATF. Mark Barbour, International Printing Museum director and curator, conducted an appraisal before PLU acquired the collection. He described it as “one of the better 19th and early 20th century collections in the country, showcasing the graphic heritage of the Pacific Northwest to create commercial printing products.” Another notable item in the collection is the iron Washington Hand Press, produced by Samuel Rust in 1821. It was restored by
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, H&P works hard to build relationships and personalize the experience, making them seem more like a boutique style research firm than the international powerhouse that they are. “It’s no longer enough to be just researchers. We need to be forward thinking for our clients.” The personalization is accomplished in part by H&P’s communication platform, The Hub, that connects researchers to clients. It is through this platform that Riley and her team can share not only research results, but also
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Business Finance, Marketing, and International Studies! He enjoys listening to music, playing video games, and cooking! Fun fact: Viet is a dog person. “I am excited to expand my knowledge in the data analysis area and to be able to do it in 9 months is a challenge I am looking forward to completing.”Guanming QuGuanming graduated from University of California – Davis with a degree in Managerial Economics. Fun facts, Guanming goes by Johnny and is originally from China!Yingwen RobertsonYingwen graduated
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everyday.” After wiping away his tears, Marzano washes off his makeup and heads back to campus, where the vocal performance major has a full schedule between classes and leading PLUtonic, PLU’s men’s a cappella group that won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinals competition in February. The Tacoma-native admits it’s not easy to manage so many commitments, but he says it’s well worth it. “Me not being the greatest multi-tasker in the world it is a challenge, but it is a
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years, I’ve developed a course for our International Honors program, and I’ve learned all sorts of amazing new music doing that. I’ve done the same for our Nordic Studies program and learned all sorts of great Scandinavian music (from Grieg to Heavy Metal) that I would not have known about without teaching that course. Now I’m working on a similar course in film music for our new Film Studies program. Would you share your favorite memory from a performance? When I was eight years old, I performed
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