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  • While not new to PLU, Sue Loiland (parent of a 2012 graduate) and Jennie Griek have recently joined the planned giving team, bringing with them extensive experience in major gifts. Planned giving allows donors to make impactful contributions through their estate plans or financial strategies,…

    , new awareness programs like National Estate Planning Awareness Week, Make-a-Will Month, and digital tools like FreeWill have broadened the audience for planned giving.  FreeWill, a trusted free digital platform for creating wills, enables individuals to easily include PLU in their estate plans. This has led younger alumni and friends, even in their 30s, to plan their estates with PLU in mind.  Jennie: FreeWill users are typically younger and may not fit the traditional planned gift donor profile

  • “Capturing astronomy images is rewarding but can be challenging,” said professor of physics Katrina Hay. “It requires long exposures or stacked images, focusing in cold dark conditions, climbing a ladder to access the telescope, tracking objects as they move across the sky, and merging several…

    to capture the best images for use in their investigations- observing dynamics, temperatures, and luminosity of celestial objects,” Hay concluded. Seeing Stars:Dr. O'Neill is assembling the 3D-printed Bahtinov Mask, unique for PLU's telescope. The mask makes focusing the telescope on a star easier before image capture.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while interns discuss celestial image processing. Kop is making light curves, showing how the brightness of several variable stars changes over time

  • Since the summer of 2017, the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2), has established a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site designed to provide undergraduate students a chance to participate in industry-directed fundamental research opportunities in the fields of bioplastics and biocomposites. The students…

    , processing, and characterization of biobased plastics and composite materials. Each year, 10 students will work on research conducted by the CB2, with 5 students conducting their research at Washington State University and 5 students doing their research projects at Iowa State University. Full details at: http://www.cb2.wsu.edu/reu.html Application deadline is February 22, 2019. Read Previous ACS Scholars Application is Open! Read Next WSU & ISU REU Internship Opportunity LATEST POSTS Mississippi State

  • The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymer Science and Engineering is now accepting applications for its 2021 summer REU program. They offer 10 weeks of valuable hands-on research experience in one of the nation’s top polymer science programs. Research Areas: Design for Recyclability and…

    Sustainable Polymers: (Bio) Renewable Feedstocks and Resource-Efficient Processing Benefits Include: $6000.00 summer stipend on campus housing limited travel budget team-building activities and field trips Program Dates: Monday, May 24th – Friday, July 30th 2021 Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 More information is available here: https://www.usm.edu/polymer-science-engineering/nsf-research-experience-undergraduates-reu.php Read Previous SUMMER, 3-CREDIT, ALL-OUTDOOR FIELD SCIENCE COURSE Read Next

  • The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymer Science and Engineering is now accepting applications for its 2021 summer REU program. They offer 10 weeks of valuable hands-on research experience in one of the nation’s top polymer science programs. Research Areas: Design for Recyclability and…

    Sustainable Polymers: (Bio) Renewable Feedstocks and Resource-Efficient Processing Benefits Include: $6000.00 summer stipend on campus housing limited travel budget team-building activities and field trips Program Dates: Monday, May 24th – Friday, July 30th 2021 Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 More information is available here: https://www.usm.edu/polymer-science-engineering/nsf-research-experience-undergraduates-reu.php Read Previous INMED – Reimagine Indians Into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2021

  • The generous spirit of Norm Forness With some books you don’t have anything like the complete story until you finish the final chapter. So it was with the life of Norm Forness, who passed away last April. After graduating from Pacific Lutheran College in 1958,…

    organized a campaign to raise the $100,000 for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their graduation in the fall of 2008. “The whole thing was Norm’s idea and it all came from his generous spirit. No one knows this, but he was so determined to succeed that he put up an anonymous gift – an additional $10,000 – to be the last money raised should we get within striking distance of our goal,” Berntsen said. At the reunion, 130 of their 200 classmates were in attendance, including current PLU regents Neal

  • The City of Tacoma is recruiting for a temporary part-time to full-time (up to 960 cumulative hours) position of limited duration (six months with the potential to extend an additional 6 months as long as the cumulative hours do not to exceed 960 hours) as…

    Environmental Lab Scientist in Training Posted by: nicolacs / May 2, 2024 May 2, 2024 The City of Tacoma is recruiting for a temporary part-time to full-time (up to 960 cumulative hours) position of limited duration (six months with the potential to extend an additional 6 months as long as the cumulative hours do not to exceed 960 hours) as an Environmental lab Scientist-in-Training.  A person in this position will be assisting laboratory,  and project staff, in sample processing, coordination

  • This document has been designed to aid hazardous waste generators in meeting labeling requirements for waste accumulated at their site within the State of Washington.

    Using the Hazardous Waste LabelsVersion 2.2This document has been designed to aid hazardous waste generators in meeting labeling requirements for waste accumulated at their site within the State of Washington. This version should work with Microsoft Word 97, or with other Word 97 compatible word processing software. This document is free ware and is available for distribution by anyone. Please pass it along. Affixing a label to a container: We recommend laminating the labels, and then tape the

  • Admission to PLU’s Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program is competitive and each application is considered holistically.

    one of the above disciplines and you want to see if you have met the minimum 15 semester hours or 22.5 quarter hours of course prerequisites, please complete this Prerequisites Review Form and submit it with your unofficial transcript(s). The processing time depends on the volume of received requests. Submit your request early to ensure that you can receive the review results prior to the application deadline.How to Apply FEBRUARY 1 Application Deadline Interview & Decision Timeline Interview

  • The Scandinavian Cultural Center Collections holds over three thousand  cultural artifacts and art works related to Nordic lands and people, Nordic-Americans, and PLU’s Nordic heritage.

    documentation, and (3) utilize its artifacts for interpretation in a public forum. The following standards shall be satisfied for the acquisition of artifacts, whether acquisition by gift, bequest, purchase, transfer, exchange, commission, or field collection: No materials or artifacts shall be knowingly or willfully accepted or acquired which are known to have been illegally imported into, or illegally collected in the United States, contrary to state and federal laws, regulation, treaty, and convention or