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  • Moening-Swanson ’15 and spend almost two months doing research. Leaving on Nov. 23, the pair will meet up with two other scientists in their quest to examine the retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. On the National Science Foundation-funded trip, Todd and Moening-Swanson will camp on a glacier and spend their days climbing the nearby mountains in search of rocks left behind by retreating ice. Africa PLU students in the School of Education are traveling to Namibia for four or eight weeks; both

  • -granting institutions of higher education, 4 percent of full-time faculty members are Latino (2 percent male, 2 percent female); Latinos account for 7 percent of our nation’s Congressional representatives (38 members). Additionally, they account for 1.4 percent of all elected officials nationwide.    Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Bar Association, National Science Foundation, American Medical Association, National Center for Education Statistics, National Association of Latino Elected Officials

  • I was trying to get the campaign into other schools it was really easy to do it through my friends and have access to all kinds of schools across the state,” she said. And there’s no slowing down for Anderson, who also serves on Resident Hall Council in Harstad — where she lives — in addition to serving as a senator in student government. “But don’t worry,” she joked. “I’m getting eight hours of sleep a night.” Unsurprisingly, Anderson is a political science major. She hopes to run for political

  • senator in Olympia, passion for political science and future career COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new Chief

  • will be in Kelley Café, after it reopens. All in place thanks to sustainability initiatives led by Hachet.The second-youngest of five siblings, Hachet grew up in Orient, Ohio (population: 252), where climate change isn’t always widely accepted as a fact. After taking AP Environmental Science, Hachet became fascinated by sustainability—and also joined the gardening club. He started “Operation Green,” a student group that collected recycling from classrooms for recycling and canceled school junk mail

  • , philosophy, political science, psychology, and others. The course will also include a panel of three PLU alumni that are emergency room physicians. The course is being coordinated by PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and co-facilitated by Teresa Ciabattari, interim dean of interdisciplinary studies, and Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center. Williams recently answered a few questions about the new course.Why program this course now, while the pandemic is still ongoing? A college or

  • within a health system, collaborate with interprofessional teams to improve health outcomes, and be leaders in the nursing profession.  Our DNP program prepares nurses at the highest level of proficiency as they learn to translate science into clinical practice. Students develop the skills to lead collaboratively, integrate research into care, and design better healthcare delivery systems. PLU offers four pathways to earning your Doctor of Nursing Practice degree:BSN to DNP program track Nurses with

  • Sustaining STEM Teacher ProgramThe CS-STEM Teacher program provides forgivable loans from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The program aims to increase the number of teachers prepared to teach in engaging, intellectually and culturally responsive ways; connect STEM content to students’ lives, communities, and the world; and are committed to equitable teaching in high-need schools. Attend Info SessionSign up for an info session to see if the MAE program is right

  • prevent climate change.” More involvement in sustainable living is on the way for Tegels. He is currently preparing to install a hot water panel, which is designed to minimize electricity used to heat hot water in a home. Tegels said there is a lot of misinformation circulating in an attempt to disprove the scientific research done about climate change. He said that enough scientific information points him in the right direction, and moving beyond science he said caring about the planet is simply

  • The Key to Innovation Innovation Studies program director Michael Halvorson discusses how understanding the past can unlock the future Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach PowersResoLute EditorMichael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology. He went on to earn