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  • Thursday, March 4 - Symposium in Downtown Tacoma Opening Reception (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm) Location: Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, Foyer Keynote 1 (7:00 pm - 8:45 pm) The Olympic Games,

    Namuwongo” Matt Kennedy and Margaret Chang will relate how in the summer of 2008 the program called “Empowerment Soccer” came to Namuwongo, an urban slum less than 2 miles from Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This sport based, life skills soccer program is designed to improve quality of life urban youth and men. In late spring 2009 Matt and Margaret returned to Uganda and ran the 2nd Annual Empowerment Soccer Tournament, living their believe that sports helps maintain unity between people of all cultures and

  • Jump to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

    EDUC 974D Mindful School Leadership(898) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974L Mindset Matters (731) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974Q Five Skills Success (5041) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974R Close Reading Classroom (5040) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974S Stronger School Comm (5037) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974T Reaching Success (5014) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 974W Incorporating Mndfulness(5018) 2 Continuing Education Online EDUC 975Z Reading Instr Head

  • TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…

    . Internships help students discover what they appreciate in an employer; what they would like to avoid; and what skills, experience and knowledge they want to develop prior to graduation. Many students find that their internship host is, in fact, their dream employer. In fact, many Lutes’ first jobs are with businesses and organizations where they served as interns. Still others will have a great experience but also realize that their dream job may be in a different sector or setting than they had thought

  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)— On Saturday, March 21, a diverse and distinguished group of speakers will present “ideas worth spreading” at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma. Among that group will be three Pacific Lutheran University faculty members representing a variety of PLU’s…

    know we are on the brink of sacrificing quality for quantity?” We’re starting to herald these large organizations that have 65,000 students and 17,000 students online earning degrees. The question that I have is what kind of product are we actually putting into the marketplace when we have professors who don’t have the chance to know their students – know them, meaning to actually be able to teach them effectively? Are we actually developing attributes and qualities, including soft skills, that the

  • Two PLU professors were recently invited to teach a summer intensive course at Sichuan University, a 70,000-student public university in Chengdu, China. PLU and Sichuan have a decades-long relationship that dates back to the 1980s. PLU faculty visits took place in 2023, and in summer…

    high school and only for a few years. In China, and most of the rest of the world, they take language classes early on because they see the value of bilingualism. How was it different from teaching at PLU? Auman: We met for three to four hours each day, for five days. It was kind of like teaching a week of J-term at PLU. I broke the class into small groups, but I felt like they did not have a lot of experience with that. Students all spoke English, but their skills and comfort level varied

  • The university sponsors Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring, research, and service.

    forefront of theoretical physics, seamlessly navigating the intersections of Einstein’s general relativity, cosmology, high-energy physics, string theory, and loop quantum gravity. His outstanding achievements are not only reflected in his 28 refereed publications since 2006 but also in the recognition earned through three invitations to serve as a keynote speaker at major conferences and workshops. Bret’s exceptional problem-solving skills, coupled with his humble and patient approach, have not only

  • The Department of Global and Cultural Studies is a dynamic curricular hub for global education made up of the following programs: Chinese and Chinese Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Global

    and actively with contending perspectives on global issues, their origins, and possible solutions to global problems, drawing on methods and perspectives from multiple disciplines. To this end, the program offers courses and experiences designed to equip students with the skills and analytical methods needed to comprehend and engage with contemporary global problems and possible solutions, particularly those related to development and social justice, transnational movements of people and ideas

  • This week we sat down with Dr. Zachary Lyman to talk about everything from recording issues and Bach, to the new Lyric Brass CD and everyone involved in this project. Read on! What can we find in this CD? The CD contains 4 works by…

    , member of Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass Quintet and is a former member of the New York Brass Quintet), Stephen Hendrickson (principal trumpet of the National Symphony) and international recording artist Allen Vizzutti. Gina Gillie, French horn, is an Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn and aural skills, conducts a horn choir, and performs frequently with faculty groups and in solo and chamber recitals. As an orchestral player, she is currently Assistant

  • By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 21, 2014)—All over the world, Pacific Lutheran University alumni are serving in a wide variety of roles in hospitals, clinics, research centers and public-health agencies, sharing a steadfast commitment of delivering world-class medical care, treatment and…

     right after graduating? PLU provided me with an abundance of clinical, hands-on experience that helped make the transition from school to work life less daunting. The nursing program really hones critical thinking skills and prepared me to take a more creative approach to problem solving. How did you choose Nursing as a field and a career? Nursing kind of jumped out at me when I looked at career lists. It was the career that I felt fit me best: flexible hours, good pay, physically active

  • By Michael Halvorson ’85, Professor of History.  When Dwight D. Eisenhower was a young officer in the U.S. Army, he was responsible for protecting his troops during the 1918 Pandemic that threatened military bases in the U.S. This is one of the fascinating stories about…

    War I was fighting the second wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that engulfed Camp Colt.  Responding to this medical crisis, Eisenhower’s extraordinary skills as a military manager matured.  Characteristically, he went all out to fight the flu virus, meeting the emergency with firmness and innovation. First, he did not meddle with the medical staff, but placed full confidence in his chief surgeon Lt. Colonel Thomas Scott of the Oklahoma National Guard.  Eisenhower authorized the doctors to