Welcome
Acting Provost Joanna Gregson discusses how PLU faculty members embrace their identity as teacher-scholars, and the value of “learning by doing” for students who engage in collaborative research opportunities.
Shaping Health Care
PLU’s first doctoral program trains nurse practitioners for lives of leadership. The Doctor of Nursing Practice cohort members share their practice-improvement and program-development projects and how they affected patient outcomes.
Protectors Turned Perpetrators
Sophia Mahr ’18 analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects.
Summer of Science
For some, summer is a time for play. For others, it’s a time for work. But for many at PLU, it’s a time for a little bit of both — through science. The Division of Natural Sciences at PLU offers rigorous opportunities for inquiry and discovery each summer through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Here is a collection of some of this year’s participants.
Emotional Labor
Landon Packard ’17 says it’s time to rescue the rescuers. The sociology major researched first responders’ emotional labor — the process of managing emotions to satisfy the requirements of a job.
Economics Students Expand Possibilities
Four PLU women from the Department of Economics present their research at a national undergraduate conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Learn more about their topics, ranging from public transportation to professional golf.
A Different Kind of Whale Watching
While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii watching whales. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research.
Rigorous Project Inspires First-Year’s Path
A happy accident landed Sandra Estrada ’20 in her “Global Human Rights” course. It resulted in research on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, which she presented at an academic symposium at PLU.