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  • NWAEP Diversity in Environmental Professions Scholarship Each year, NWAEP awards a scholarship that aims to support the professional development of students who are underrepresented in environmental careers (i.e., BIPOC, women, minorities). The DEI Scholarship is open to undergrad or graduate students of any environmental science/STEM field, and covers: one year of… December 19, 2023 Opportunity Blog

  • life sciences or other STEM fields is eligible to apply for the SPUR program. You should be in your freshman, sophomore or junior year at the time of application and should be interested in exploring careers in research and graduate school opportunities. You are encouraged to apply if you attend an institution that does not have substantial research opportunities or are underrepresented in the biological sciences. This includes underrepresented minorities, first-generation college students

  • assignment as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Kenya (Greenwood, 2003), a broad introduction to the rich cultural, geographic, ethnic and linguistic diversity of this vibrant country, and a major contributor to the research and catalogs of Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw (2005) and Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity (1999) that accompanied the traveling national exhibitions of the same names. Additionally, he has curated museum

  • Intensive PLU program prepares future principals TACOMA, WASH. (May 7, 2018) — William Peterson took a non-traditional path to the principal’s office. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a teaching credential, he jetted off to Ecuador where he taught English and expanded his linguistic abilities and cultural knowledge. Returning… May 7, 2018 Research & AcademicsStudent Life, Resources, Community

  • Oct. 30 lecture led by Jennifer Pozner, executive director and founder of the Women In Media & News, an organization which tracks media bias and portrayals of women and minorities in newspaper and television stories. The lecture, titled “When Anchormen Attack!: Gender, Race and the Media in Election 2008,” will begin at 6 p.m. in the Regency Room of the UC. It is free and open to the public. A journalist and author herself, Pozner will look at how sexist backlash and racial prejudice have

  • combination of these approaches, according to my observations, have the most noticeable effect in counterbalancing the financial, social, and linguistic challenges faced by Latinx-serving arts organizations. 4:35-4:45 pm - Break4:45-5:15 pm - Celeste WilliamsSalud, migración y la narración digital: La migración a través de los relatos de primera mano y su poder curativo / Health, Migration, and Digital Storytelling: Migration and the Healing Power of First Hand Accounts The purpose of this project is to

  • January 28, 2013 Grad lands dream job By Emilie Thoreson ’15 After travelling to Macedonia on a Fulbright Student Fellowship and working for the National Albanian American Council, Kelly Ryan ’10 has landed his dream job — working for the State Department. Ryan made the trip to Skopje, Macedonia shortly after graduation to carry out his Fulbright. There, he analyzed the dialogue process of the Nansen Dialogue Center and its efforts to promote linguistic and ethnic integration in schools. “Right

  • used to educate the audience about the realities faced by unaccompanied children rather than provide entertainment value to the viewer. 4:45-5:15pm - Emily SolanLa complejidad de los retos lingüísticos en Cataluña: Un análisis sociolingüístico de la literatura catalana-marroquí / The Complexity of Linguistic Challenges in Catalonia: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Catalan-Moroccan Literature Due to the rivalry between Castilian Spanish and Catalan, Catalonia presents unique linguistic obstacles for

  • December 1, 2012 Newborn memories of the “oohs” and “ahs” heard in the womb By Barbara Clements University Communications Newborns are much more attuned to the sounds of their native language than first thought. In fact, these linguistic whizzes can up pick on distinctive sounds of their mother tongue while in utero, a new study has concluded. Research led by Christine Moon, a professor of psychology at Pacific Lutheran University, shows that infants, only hours old, showed marked interest for

  • economy from the rise of big business and labor unions after the American Civil War through the era of globalization. Topics include technological change, government regulation, business organization, economic thought, business ethics, the role of the entrepreneur, and the place of women and minorities in American business society. (4) [Spring 2025]HIST 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society – ESAn interdisciplinary course on the history of innovation in the American economy, and the ethical