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  • PLU professor adds ‘board game inventor’ to his résumé.

    research meeting time,” said Ward, program director and associate professor of marriage and family therapy at Pacific Lutheran University. He worked with Grahe, professor of psychology, on an interdisciplinary research project validating Ward’s previous research on a relationally focused measurement of hope. The findings were recently accepted for publication in The American Journal of Family Therapy. Throughout the collaborative process of gathering data — with the help of two former PLU students who

  • Throw a dart at a world map, and it’s likely to hit a location where Pacific Lutheran University students or faculty members have conducted research.

    in 2013-14 and used it to return to Oaxaca, Mexico, where she previously studied away for a semester. She examined the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the formation and continuation of artist collectives there. “My Wang Center research grant enabled me to expand the areas of interest I had in my Hispanic studies courses and semester in Oaxaca with my personal interests,” said Refaei, who earned a degree in environmental studies and now serves as PLU’s coordinator for

  • It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.

    be hurt. There are things I value from the culture of South Sudan and the culture of America, and I think that is going to be a tough conversation to have…I just hope they see I’m still the same human being. Still their same son. That concern runs deeper for David. He has long worried that he may never feel fully at home here or in South Sudan. When he travels there later this month, he anticipates being treated as an American — an outsider. And in the states, he says, he is seen as African — as

  • Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The…

    jersey with the team’s name, “Abes,” on it and the number 1. After he joined us in the elegant 1913-style auditorium, the choir sang an American song and a Chinese song (in Chinese!), joined by five students from Lincoln’s partner school in our Chinese Sister City of Fuzhou. A film began, featuring a number of us involved with Tacoma-Chinese affairs speaking to the importance of our many relationships with China.President Xi was the tip of the iceberg of perhaps 1000 Chinese dignitaries and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (January 12, 2016)- Sylvia May ’18, a doctoral student at Pacific Lutheran University, was one of just eight students in the country to receive the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship in 2015. The prestigious scholarship will cover her tuition, books and other fees…

    may not ever had been able to experience as a civilian nurse. For me, serving my country in whatever capacity it may be is honorable and respectable, and it allows me to be a part of a larger picture of American history and that is a big deal!PLU School of NursingPLU Welcomes Doctor of Nursing Practice Cohort as First Doctoral ProgramPLU Named a ‘Best in the West’ University by The Princeton ReviewPLU’s School of Nursing Ranked Among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools Read Previous

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 17, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by…

    and affirm all kids from all backgrounds at all times. “Many students are not engaged with caring adults who value their experiences and who validate them as well,” Cushman said. “I feel honored to be the teacher/mentor/coach of similar students because…they will be the future leaders of our communities.” In particular, Cushman concentrates his efforts on nurturing young African-American and Latino men. It is them, Cushman says, who perhaps face some of the worst forms of misrepresentation and

  • PLU rowers reminisce about their daring journey in Puget Sound 50 years ago.

    , the University of Washington lent shells to colleges to promote the Husky Clipper, the famous boat rowed by the 1936 Olympic gold-medalist UW team immortalized in the novel, The Boys in the Boat. The Seattle TimesIf you loved ‘The Boys in the Boat,’ don’t miss this tale of adventure. KOMO 4 NewsPLU rowers reunite 50 years after incredible feat. After PLU rowed the Clipper to victory in the boat’s final race against the University of Puget Sound and Seattle Pacific on American Lake, UW wanted its

  • Sirine Fodstad spent nearly two decades traveling the world for work. But her story starts and ends in Norway, where she is a global human resources director for the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.

    Grand Hotel on the city’s main street, she fondly recalled running into Chuck Nelson, the man responsible for attracting many Norwegian international students to Pacific Lutheran University. During their meeting in 1993, Nelson recited his pitch to Fodstad about the American institution of Lutheran higher education — founded by Norwegian immigrants — and she was sold. “A couple of months later I was enrolled and started my first class on a beautiful fall campus,” she said. “My first trip to America

  • For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.

    violence and trauma from varying causes, she added. Housing is provided to those in transition, part of the general housing program — one of 82 departments within the tribal government. “Nobody should be stuck where they’re at,” Williams said. Additionally, oral history is harder to maintain, said Arnold, the tribal council member. As elders die and technological distractions engulf youth, social interaction diminishes. “All that messes with your ability to interact with nature,” he said. “But, it’s

  • Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran University. Online and blended programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders,

    (5060) EDUC 853 English Structure ENGL 398A Studies Lit / Body LT, C ENGL 241 American Traditions in Lit LT HISP 101 Elementary Spanish HISP 101 Elementary Spanish HISP 102 Elementary Spanish HIST 388 ST:Early West Civilizations SO MUSI 101 Introduction to Music AR MUSI 120 Music and Culture AR,C NURS 901E RN Re-entry into Practice PHIL 125 Ethics and the Good Life PH PHIL 125 Ethics and the Good Life PH PLUS 320 Effective Tutoring Methods PSYC 101 Intro to Psychology SO RELI 229 Christian Health