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  • Applications are now open for summer 2024 opportunities at COPE Scholars Pacific Northwest sites in Portland, Tacoma, Puyallup, Spokane, and Seattle. The curriculum of this program focuses on patient care competencies, introduction to regulatory agencies, leadership development, and basic medical terminology. This academic partnership allows Scholars…

    COPE Health Scholars Summer Opportunity Posted by: nicolacs / March 27, 2024 March 27, 2024 Applications are now open for summer 2024 opportunities at COPE Scholars Pacific Northwest sites in Portland, Tacoma, Puyallup, Spokane, and Seattle. The curriculum of this program focuses on patient care competencies, introduction to regulatory agencies, leadership development, and basic medical terminology. This academic partnership allows Scholars to build clinical experience while interacting with

  • Visit the USM School of Polymer Science and Engineering REU website www.usmspsereu.com to apply via the NSF ETAP System.

    USM School of Polymer Science and Engineering 2025 REU APPLICATIONS OPEN! Posted by: alemanem / October 2, 2024 October 2, 2024 Visit the USM School of Polymer Science and Engineering REU website www.usmspsereu.com to apply via the NSF ETAP System. Read Previous ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR) Scholarship Read Next Summer 2025 Appointment with Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Laboratory Now Accepting Applications! LATEST POSTS Mississippi State

  • Though the library building has been closed, PLU Library faculty and staff have been hard at work bringing new services online to improve access to library resources. Find them at the PLU Library and Archives and Special Collections websites: New Library Search Interface What’s changed?…

    Rights LATEST POSTS Black History Month: Black Art Matters Exhibit January 31, 2023 Mortvedt Library materials for HEALING: PATHWAYS FOR RESTORATION AND RENEWAL symposium February 16, 2022 On Exhibit: Women’s History Month March 9, 2022 Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 March 30, 2022

  • “Our place in this world is to be of service to other people,” notes Eric Watness, a descendant of PLU’s founder and first President, Rev. Bjug Harstad. Bjug is also the namesake of Bjug Day , PLU’s day of giving, which started in 2013 and…

    ’ footsteps, vocation, philanthropy and service remain the foundational pillars of Watness and his family. Regarding his heritage, Eric says, “I’m proud to be a descendant of Bjug Harstad, but it’s really just genetic happenstance. A truly meaningful thing we did inherit is the ethical, moral and religious framework for our lives. I’ve done what I can to pass it on to our daughters and grandchildren.” Watness and his wife Carolanne have two kids who now have children of their own. Watness enjoys watching

  • Nearly a year into his new role as PLU Associate Vice President of Advancement, George Zeno and I took a walk through Parkland and discussed one of my favorite questions, #WhyPLU? Zeno is essentially a community matchmaker for social progress. Mentored at the University of…

    example of this. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s response team learned quickly that it needed additional support in meeting its community objectives. The team learned from its challenges of lower response rates due to community trust levels of government, health systems, and the vaccine itself.  To be effective, efficient, and culturally appropriate, TPCH needed to convene community leaders in education, health, civic, and religious organizations in a stakeholder partnership to rapidly

  • Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…

    them. After she left, she created a cultural-musical exchange program between Sunshine Private School’s All Girl Marimba Band and the PLU Percussion Ensemble. Once back at PLU, she created a multimedia exhibit featuring music and video from the marimba band and local batik art masks. Later that year, in October, the Percussion Ensemble played some of the Sunshine marimba band’s songs at its fall concert. When PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education told her about the Fulbright program in 2021

  • Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…

    she left, she created a cultural-musical exchange program between Sunshine Private School’s All Girl Marimba Band and the PLU Percussion Ensemble. Once back at PLU, she created a multimedia exhibit featuring music and video from the marimba band and local batik art masks. Later that year, in October, the Percussion Ensemble played some of the Sunshine marimba band’s songs at its fall concert. When PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education told her about the Fulbright program in 2021, Larios saw the

  • From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back again In 1994, Mike Halvorson was the first one to write a book about something nobody else cared about. The book? How to use a little-known software program called Microsoft Office. We can guess how that turned out.…

    described it, he “pushed the re-set button.” He decided to earn his master’s – then his Ph.D. – in European history. And soon thereafter, he found himself back at his alma mater teaching about Martin Luther and Reformation Germany (and writing books about the subject, of course). He realizes it is an odd combination: Not many people are experts in cutting-edge computer programming and 500-year old political and religious history. He’s also aware that some people might suggest that, in studying 16th

  • Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and…

    May 13, 2014 Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and Communications It’s that time of year again: What do you do with that couch, or mattress or lamp you no longer want? And what about that unopened box of gluten-free

  • Meet virtually with representatives from Cope Health Scholars on Thursday, April 7th from 6-7pm, or in-person on April 13th from 9:30-11:30am in Rieke 112. As a Health Scholar, you’ll gain firsthand experience in a clinical setting, impact patients’ lives and become an integral part of…

    Cope Health Scholars Info Session Posted by: nicolacs / April 1, 2022 April 1, 2022 Meet virtually with representatives from Cope Health Scholars on Thursday, April 7th from 6-7pm, or in-person on April 13th from 9:30-11:30am in Rieke 112. As a Health Scholar, you’ll gain firsthand experience in a clinical setting, impact patients’ lives and become an integral part of the patient care team. This unique program allows you to assist with basic care for patients alongside nurses, doctors and other