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Mary Beth Sheehan ’00, Immigration Law Attorney Posted by: Zach Powers / November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015 Mary Beth Sheehan ’00 is an award-winning attorney specializing in immigration law, including removal defense, asylum, U visas, VAWA claims, family-based petitions, adjustment of status and naturalization. Sheehan is one of 11 notable alumni currently featured in a billboard campaign that asks “what can you do with a PLU degree?” Others featured in the campaign include Android co-founder

,” Brian Stacy, an engineer with Pierce County Public Works, said in the news release. The project will include 6-foot sidewalks and concrete curbs and gutters on the east side of Park Avenue between 122nd Street South and Garfield Street, as well as new curb bulb-outs and ADA-compliant ramps. New ramps also will be built on the west side of Park Avenue at those locations, the news release states. Tree root growth has created significant buckling along the existing sidewalk, making it challenging to

PLU’s Website, Online Magazine Win Web Marketing Awards Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 22, 2015 September 22, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 22, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s website has won a 2015 Outstanding WebAward from the Web Marketing Association, and the spring 2015 edition of the university’s flagship magazine, ResoLUTE, won its Magazine Standard of Excellence Award. Judges wrote of www.plu.edu: “Beautiful site, great layout

Highlights of the King of Norway’s PLU Visit Posted by: Sandy Dunham / May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 TACOMA, Wash. (May 25, 2015)—It’s not every day a king comes to Pacific Lutheran University, but on May 23, an especially special one did—and hundreds of Lutes put together an exceptionally warm, royal welcome for him.Here are some of PLU photographer John Froschauer’s photo highlights of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway’s visit to PLU and the 2015 Commencement ceremony: From the excited crowd

with the local nonprofit Climb the Mountain to present the first annual Climb the Mountain Speech and Debate Camp at Pacific Lutheran University.From Aug. 3-8, 15 members of the community joined 66 high-school and middle-school students— from state champions to first-timers from Thomas Jefferson, Puyallup High School and Mount Vernon —to participate in activities including Student Congress, Extemporaneous Speaking and Public Forum debate. A parent of one Thomas Jefferson student reported: “Our son

been recent graduates of PLU.” Furthermore, PLU recently re-established a campus chapter of Habitat, which has come and gone throughout the years. Through the chapter, students can easily get involved with work at the Woods and other Habitat for Humanity projects. The campus chapter’s Secretary and Public Relations Officer Melissa Munson ’18 recently headed “Cookies for Humanity.” With the help of fellow students, Munson baked and sold more than 500 chocolate chip cookies to raise money for

program during the summer of 1999 during a sabbatical leave, and Lindsey in the summer of 2006. During the apprenticeship program we learned how to care for captive chimpanzees and assisted with ongoing research projects. Now we continue to volunteer at the Chimposiums held at CHCI. These are educational programs that inform the public about the sign language studies this particular family of chimpanzees has been involved in as well as providing information about the plight of free-living chimpanzees

world’s most powerful companies and give advice to Lutes preparing to enter the workforce. ———- May 3, 7:00 p.m. | Ingram 100 This event is free and open to the public. Read Previous Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon Read Next Healthcare Economics: An Interview with Teresa Hackler and Karen Travis LATEST POSTS Recording of Glory M. Liu’s 2023 Benson Lecture Released November 21, 2023 Benson Research Fellows to Present March 31, 2023 Summer Research Fellows Share Results October 15, 2021 Summer

June 16, 2009 Matters of Faith By Patricia O’Connell Killen, Ph.D. Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Professor of Religion At PLU, students talk about spirituality. They think about the meaning of life – human experiences of love, joy, creativity, success, suffering, death, of making and keeping commitments, of extending oneself on behalf of others. Students grapple with the meaning of integrity. They seek to find a purpose, something that is, in the words of some of my former students

, for which psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics. It proposes that people aren’t always trying to maximize benefits, but are paying attention to a benchmark. In this case, the benchmark is par. “Do golfers pay attention to par? Yes, they sit in it,” Reiman said. This is in contrast to neoclassical economic theory that says that people are always trying to better their situation given the constraints they face. The Economics of Golf was split into two sections in order