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  • Mycal Ford ’12 deep dives into global challenges for a living. A double major in political science and Chinese studies at PLU, Ford is now an international affairs and economics analyst who has worked for both private firms and government agencies, including the U.S. Department…

    International Complexities: Mycal Ford ’12 discusses how he thinks about global policy Posted by: Zach Powers / November 3, 2022 November 3, 2022 By Zach PowersResoLute EditorMycal Ford ’12 deep dives into global challenges for a living. A double major in political science and Chinese studies at PLU, Ford is now an international affairs and economics analyst who has worked for both private firms and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a global consulting firm

  • Actor finds community, continuity fuels his work Danforth Comins ’97 is an Old Timer. He is, at least, compared to many other resident actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In his ninth year at the country’s largest resident theater, he has spent a comparative lifetime…

    March 24, 2011 Actor finds community, continuity fuels his work Danforth Comins ’97 is an Old Timer. He is, at least, compared to many other resident actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In his ninth year at the country’s largest resident theater, he has spent a comparative lifetime at the Ashland, Ore., company. The ability to settle-in and become a part of the local community is one of the things he loves about his work with the company. “I’m unlike so many people in my profession – I

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2016)- Erik Hammerstrom, assistant professor of East Asian and comparative religions, teaches Pacific Lutheran University students the fundamentals of Buddhism from the shores of Honolulu, Hawaii, to the streets of Chengdu, China. Now, the course has arrived in a more familiar…

    PLU professor launches new class that immerses students in the local Buddhist community Posted by: Kari Plog / April 25, 2016 Image: Erik Hammerstrom’s class visits Tacoma’s Hongwanji Buddhist Temple on April 24. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 25, 2016 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2016)- Erik Hammerstrom, assistant professor of East Asian and comparative religions, teaches Pacific Lutheran University students the fundamentals of Buddhism from the

  • Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation decided to add a fifth scholarship to the four we had advertised. One is reserved for an early undergraduate (preferably community college) student; one for a late undergraduate; one for an early graduate student; the last two are available to students…

    will be awarded to a diversity candidate, defined as ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students; and students with physical disabilities. They have also expanded the geographic eligibility of applicants.  In addition to students studying in Oregon and Washington, they now include students who are studying elsewhere, but are from one of those states, and intend to return to the Pacific Northwest after their studies are complete

  • Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation  decided to add a fifth scholarship to the four we had advertised. One is reserved for an early undergraduate (preferably community college) student; one for a late undergraduate; one for an early graduate student; the last two are available to students…

    will be awarded to a diversity candidate, defined as ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students; and students with physical disabilities. They have also expanded the geographic eligibility of applicants.  In addition to students studying in Oregon and Washington, they now include students who are studying elsewhere, but are from one of those states, and intend to return to the Pacific Northwest after their studies are complete

  • Originally Published in 2014 Sometimes being sick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, what it means to be sick —or to be healthy for that matter— might surprise us. As the growing field of Religion and Healing shows, our understanding of what…

    marketplace helped inspire a new set of courses at PLU. During the 2015-2016 academic year, the Religion department will be offering a new set of linked courses: Religion and Healing in Comparative Religions (Fall 2015, taught by Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien) and Health and Healing in Christianity (Spring 2016, taught by Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen). The courses will be linked, so that the same groups of students will be automatically enrolled in the second course. This will not only foster consistency

  • Lindsey Clark ’24 came to PLU knowing it was where she wanted to be. But Clark—a double major in mathematics and gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way…

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  • Pacific Lutheran University Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Tiffany Artime, Ph.D. has been approved for a $2.5M funding award by the  Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute  (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings on Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Therapy (STAIR-NT)…

    recipient of this funding, PLU will be able to lead this important work and participate as an implementation site, extending STAIR to our students.”STAIR-NT is a skill-based treatment with flexibility that can be adapted to the college counseling setting. It was developed to address post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and it has demonstrated efficacy in several randomized control trials and across many populations exposed to trauma. Even the most impactful findings from clinical research studies can

  • Pacific Lutheran University Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Tiffany Artime, Ph.D. has been approved for a $2.5M funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings on Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Therapy (STAIR-NT)…

    participate as an implementation site, extending STAIR to our students.” STAIR-NT is a skill-based treatment with flexibility that can be adapted to the college counseling setting. It was developed to address post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and it has demonstrated efficacy in several randomized control trials and across many populations exposed to trauma. Even the most impactful findings from clinical research studies can take years to become widespread clinical practice. This PCORI-funded project

  • Studying the laws behind international adoption Trained as an historian of the American Revolution and blessed with an abundance of sources, I saw no scholarly reason to travel abroad, although I had wanted to see England, the mother country from which America was born. My…

    comparative dimension. My attitude and practice changed dramatically, however, in 2005 when, out of the blue, the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario, Canada, hired me as a legal consultant, in the case of Marchand v. Ontario in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. I was asked to research and write an affidavit on the history of adoption legislation, focusing on secrecy and disclosure in Ontario’s adoption records, and placing Ontario’s experience in a wider context. In practice, this meant