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  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 28, 2015)-  It’s safe to say Forrest Griek ‘00, ’02 loves being at school. Currently the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary, Griek has spent his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer…

    in the trenches and practice the art of teaching and leading from day one. Is there a PLU experience, course or faculty member that stands out to you as profound in shaping your passion for education or the direction you took in the education field? On one end, I competed in Track and Cross Country for PLU. This experience taught me how to endure and essentially compete day in and day out for results. Our work as educators is not done at the end of the day; you often don’t get long-term results

  • If you polled people, chances are few would raise their hands and volunteer to go back to middle or high school. For many, those were awkward times in just about every way imaginable. For folks that struggled with reading, writing, communication or other subjects, even…

    atmosphere of ‘co-learning,’ in which students from Washington and Keithley and students from PLU are approaching the activity of learning from an equal playing field,” said student assistant director Nick Templeton ’19. “As a result, the atmosphere aims to be as welcoming as possible, eliminating hierarchies of learning and creating a space where learners of all ages come together to study,” continued Templeton, an English and Hispanic studies double major.Now that the co-directors have solid footing

  • Dr. René Carrasco is the new Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, who began at PLU in Fall of 2019. Originally from Mexico City, René came to the United States when he was 15. After he graduated high school, he went on to community college and…

    in my HISP 301 class last semester that were enrolled in the School of Nursing. And I was thinking about the importance of studying narratives, and how important it can be in the field of healthcare. When you talk to a patient, how do they communicate their ailments? Like, how do they tell you what happened? How did they get hurt? What is the reason that they’re here, what happened? What happens, then, is that the patient starts weaving a narrative. “Well I was doing this… and then this happened

  • Elizabeth Sloan, Senior Capstone Seminar Using Biolog Ecoplates analysis of microbial communities from canopy soil in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was analyzed.

    , Comparison and Use in Oriented Lipid Bilayer Studies of Piscidin Shiela Jones, Senior Capstone Seminar The problem of RF heating in biological ssNMR samples is addressed here through comparisons of total average electric and magnetic field over a sample volume, defined as 12-mm by 6-mm by 4-mm. Six different Low-E coil capacitor designs at 630 MHz are simulated and compared with a typical four-turn, flat-wire solenoid to minimize the E/B ratio over the sample volume, thus reducing RF-induced heating

  • Application for an award shall be initiated by faculty members in close consultation with their college dean.

    Park: investigating the evolution of the Puget Lowland through creation of virtual geology field trip experiences” Past Recipients *awarded, research project not funded/completed YearRecipients 2023 - 2024Holt, & McFaddenSmith, J.UlusoyVianna 2022 - 2023CaoFanFlickPowersShneidmanThomas 2021 - 2022LiRitchie 2020 - 2021CarrascoToddWiley 2019 - 2020Crawford O'BrienEbbingaShahSimic-MullerTorvendWang 2018 - 2019CaoChenHaJusticeLymanShore 2017 - 2018CallEdgarHayMulderShahWileyWilliamsZhang 2016

  • ‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of…

    adrenaline.” For me, Senn gave meaning to a disaster whose influence I never fully understood. I was in the fifth grade when 9/11 happened. I remember seeing the planes crashing on the news, but I couldn’t comprehend how horrendous the tragedy was until I heard it in Bobby’s words. His words were real, unlike anything I heard on the news. Our own fatigue While I learned a lot about compassion fatigue from our interviews and field experiences, I also learned a lot about my teammates, and myself because of

  • Thomas W. Krise arrived as Pacific Lutheran University’s 13th president on June 1. He was chosen for his passion for a liberal arts education, as well as being a strategic thinker and first and foremost a teacher and an academic. (Photos by John Froschauer) What’s…

    also some of the same attributes he values personally and ones that attracted him to PLU, he said. In one way, he feels that coming to PLU, with its strong academic programs, as well as being near Joint Base Lewis-McChord has intertwined the threads of his life. “I feel like everything in my life is coming together,” he said, adding that both his academic and leadership credentials will be valued here. Thomas W. Krise joined PLU softball Head coach Erin Van Nostrand and the team at Safeco Field to

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2016)- Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him. Instead of walking with his head down past the crying stranger in the lobby of a residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University, he…

    of her favorites shows him smiling just after arriving in Afghanistan. He rarely smiled in photos, Mary recalled; he specialized in silly faces.Honoring veteransMary and Paul Bradshaw will be on the field ahead of PLU’s annual Military Appreciation Football Game on Nov. 5. Visit to read more about this event and the university’s Veterans Day Celebration.“It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years,” she said. The Bradshaws are now considered Gold Star parents, part of a group of families who lost

  • PLU's mission is reflected in teaching and learning excellence in the Division of Humanities. We celebrate the accomplishments and hard work of our students who have gone on to conduct lives of

    corporations are recognizing that they can no longer continue with business as usual. It is often assumed that these changes are driven by consumer preferences, but I have come to find that investors are the major player when it comes to moving the needle on social and environmental responsibility. This realization led me to my current position in the field of responsible investments at a leading proxy advisory firm. Increasingly, institutional investors are concerned with Environmental, Social and

  • Four PLU women from the Department of Economics present their research at a national undergraduate conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

    University of Memphis in April. The students, who graduated a month later, were chosen from a nationwide pool of 4,000 applicants, said Karen Travis, associate professor of economics. Anna Jessen '17 “What is more remarkable is that all four are women,” she said. “Economics remains a heavily male-dominated field, even at the undergraduate level.” (In 2016, Travis said, only 37 percent of undergraduate economics majors nationwide were women.) In addition to her own personal connection as a regular