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Communication Specialist Aaron Sherman and student debater Mariah Collier will speak for the proposition, “a vote for a third party is a wasted vote.” Ben Meiches, University of Washington-Tacoma professor of security studies and conflict resolution, and student debater Tate Adams, will argue for the opposition. “I think that the viability of a third-party vote is one of the most important problems that we face, as Americans, in the context of this upcoming election,” Adams said. Collier agreed, voicing she
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giant universities lacks the critical-thinking skills and interpersonal savvy offered at PLU—a more-integrative experience exhibited, in part, by the speed-dating exercise. It seems to have paid off. “Both the Chinese and the PLU students told me afterward they thought it was really fun,” Meyer said, and the visitors’ director of teacher recruitment and program coordinator said they enjoyed the PLU activity more than the lecture they heard at a much larger university. Read Previous Lute Plays Piano
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students on campus for a few days before the performance and even played piano during the premiere. PLU has been the site for a number of world premieres, including works done by PLU faculty, like Greg Youtz, but this one’s a little different. To have a composer visit the premiere and sit in the audience for the concert is fairly common, Powell said. What made this unique was while Gjeilo was here he worked with the students before the final performance. Having the opportunity to work with the composer
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Murdock College Science Research Program in November in Vancouver, Wash. The Mount Rainier research was funded through a PLU Division of Natural Sciences and the Wiancko Charitable Foundation grant through the environmental studies program at PLU. Read Previous New Center for Media Studies takes the classroom into the community Read Next PLU Highly Ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Colleges 2015’ Guidebook COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you
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Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 18, 2023 Image: Margaret Murdoch ’24 spent the summer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center researching acute myeloid leukemia cells. (All photos provided by Murdoch.) October 18, 2023 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsMargaret Murdoch ’24, a biology and religious studies major with a minor in gender and sexuality studies, spent their summer in Seattle alongside some of the nation’s best
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decolonization process requires looking at objects differently and asking different questions.” Case StudiesIn the fall of 2023, visitors began to stop by the museum to view the exhibit’s cases throughout the museum, including Llewellyn Ihssen’s cases. As an academic who primarily writes for peers, she found it interesting to learn to share knowledge with a new audience—the casual museum visitor without a background in religion, ancient history, medical history, or disability studies. The case “Surgical
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us about your favorite psychology professor. “Dr. Taylor has been an excellent psychological research & statistics professor. Learning from her has ignited my interest in a branch of psychology I did not previously realize I would have any interest in: research. Under her supervision, I have thoroughly enjoyed designing studies, writing them up, and integrating statistics to interpret results.” – Suzi S. ’24 What are your plans after PLU? “Getting my Bachelors in Psychology at PLU is preparing me
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$75 million mark in May, and on to just over $80 million today. Milestones last year included new endowed chairs in Holocaust studies and Elementary Education as well as an endowed professorship in Lutheran studies. Project Access, part of our commitment to enhanced student scholarship support, reached its $1 million goal. In summary, stable enrollment and fund-raising success, when combined with clear spending priorities and careful attention to fiscal matters, allowed us to balance our operating
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. “As long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to do something to protect animals and work with them,” Whalen said. “I liked animal law, not only because of the great protection that the law and lawyers can give animals, but I like that sort of work. I like reading, I like writing, and I like problem-solving and dealing with places where animals or the environment face troubles, and finding protections for them.” Whalen is an environmental studies major and political science minor with plans to add
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campus so beautiful and all the staff and faculty were welcoming and excited for my future! My PLU experience: At PLU I have been academically challenged and enriched in subjects from gender studies, environmental justice and jazz. I’ve learned to take risks and always found a community to fall back on. Because so much time is devoted to looking at issues and topics from a perspective other than my own, I have been challenged to discover my own capacity for compassion. What’s next? I’m hoping to get
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