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  • 2014, the LRC moved from the library into the Hong International Hall living-learning community.  Our move was the result of several years of planning with Residential Life leadership and the Hong Task Force.  This move was the perfect fit – housing a center that supports language study within a residence hall focused on languages and international studies.  As a result of the move, both the LRC and Hong enjoy the benefits of an upgraded space: new furniture, including booths, couches, and

  • | Rebecca Wilkin | FYEP 101 Section 06 Democratic Citizenship | James Albrecht | FYEP 101 Section 08 Asian American Experience | Rick Barot | FYEP 101 Section 09 Banned Books | Lisa Marcus | FYEP 101 Section 13 Linked Residence Hall(s)Ordal Hall (two wings)Example ProgramsBelow are a few examples of programs that have occurred in First in the Family in the past! If you have an idea for a wing or hall program, contact your Resident Assistant or Community Advocate to see about planning it! #PLUFIF Series

  • awareness of topics from evolving language to bias incidents to current events have increased access to peers and faculty outside of the classroom to support their learning about social justice and identity development Linked Residence Hall(s)Ordal HallExample ProgramsBelow are a few examples of programs that have occurred in the Lavender Community in the past! If you have an idea for a wing or hall program, contact your Resident Assistant or Community Advocate to see about planning it! Queer Student

  •  Southwestern Amgen Scholars will use state-of-the-art equipment in advanced labs to help to solve complex health challenges. Conducting projects similar to those encountered during graduate research training, students will gain invaluable insights into the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in innovative biomedical research. UT Southwestern Amgen Scholars will become active, contributing members of our collaborative, cross-disciplinary scientific community. In addition to research, Amgen Scholars

  • evident in the stands. PLU, along with UPS, was a key sponsor of the event. A year ago, President Loren J. Anderson, along with his wife and chair of the GTCF, MaryAnn Anderson, began helping plan Friday’s celebration including bringing Tutu to Tacoma for his last U.S. tour. “We wanted to give a gift back to the community that was unique and powerful,” President Anderson said at a private dinner for Tutu before the main event. Tutu one was of the leaders of the push to end apartheid in South Africa

  • to a generous $2 million lead gift from an anonymous PLU alum and a $1.25 million investment from Pierce County, progress is well underway. But significant partnership is yet needed to accomplish the planned remaining improvements. They include, in 2023, conversion of a lecture hall into three classrooms, an additional exam room and an improved student-faculty research lab. Plans call for renovation and upgrades to the Open Lab in 2024. If you would like to learn more about these projects and how

  • full and vibrant life?  Is it a priority?” The concerns that this alumna so eloquently voiced are the same ones with which we continue to grapple on a near daily basis. A strong sense of vocation, service to neighbor and the common good, curiosity and intellectual rigor, a sense that God is present throughout the entire creation, the freedom to ask questions and challenge authority, and all the other things that make up the great gift of Lutheran higher education are important “fruits” of the

  • leave with an honorarium and a parting gift.” When asked to recollect their most memorable moment from the decade-long Series, both Skipper and Barot laugh. “Every year we have amazing writers who come, and there’s always a wonderful moment that happens with each one,” Barot says. At each and every reading, Skipper points out, there is always one moment where the room is just quiet except for the author reading, and there is this stillness… It’s a moment where here we are gathered for a poem or for

  • imposed by the IRS for employee business expenses, see IRS Publ. 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift and Car Expenses). Per this publication, “To be an accountable plan, an employer’s [or student’s] reimbursement or (expense) allowance arrangement must include all of the following rules: Your expenses must have a business connection—that is, you must have paid or incurred expenses while performing services as a student representative of PLU. You must adequately account to the Office for Student

  • Pacific Lutheran University in much the same way as we carry out our mission of Lutheran higher education. One of the wonderful gifts of the Lutheran Reformation that – like Solomon’s temple – people outside the Lutheran church are most impressed with is the Lutheran commitment to education and especially higher education, i.e., Lutheran colleges and universities like PLU. It’s funny because in my experience, it is outsiders who often appreciate this gift more than many Lutherans who either take it