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  • Congratulations to the 2019-20 Faculty Excellence Award Recipients! PLU sponsors Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring, research, and service. The recipients have been nominated and selected by their peers, signifying their high regard among those who know them well. Congratulations… January 10, 2020 faculty newsletterfaculty spotlight

  • Tacoma Rainiers baseball. PLU Night at the Rainiers has become a wonderful tradition for celebrating our PLU community and the end of summer. The Office of Alumni and Constituent Relations invites you to join our current students, incoming students, alumni, friends, faculty and staff in one big end-of-summer bash as the Tacoma Rainiers take on the Omaha Storm Chasers on Friday, Aug. 28, this year’s PLU Night at the Rainiers. For only $11.50 apiece, you get admission to the game, a hotdog, bottled

  • that provide for program sustainability. For example, in recent years, we’ve added programs mostly in areas where we have current strength (MSF, MSMR, DNP). But, PLU has also created a new program and hired an entire department to run it (MA in Marriage and Family Therapy back in the ‘70s); and we adopted a program from outside the university (MFA in Creative Writing). Both of those have been very successful. The only program discontinued in recent years is the major in Computer Engineering, and

  • . Others did domestic work, or other forms of manual labor. Katherine WileyStanding and smiling while holding her book: Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania. Like in the US, however, slavery in Mauritania was racially marked — Haratine are typically of black African descent, while slaveowners claimed Arab or Berber lineage — and its legacy endures in present-day discrimination. When Wiley began her research, she thought she’d study dress and clothing — particularly the malahfa, a

  • communities only saw their masters once a year. Others did domestic work, or other forms of manual labor. Katherine WileyStanding and smiling while holding her book: Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania. Like in the US, however, slavery in Mauritania was racially marked — Haratine are typically of black African descent, while slaveowners claimed Arab or Berber lineage — and its legacy endures in present-day discrimination. When Wiley began her research, she thought she’d study dress

  • Causeway Postbaccalaureate Certificate Program Posted by: nicolacs / February 7, 2023 February 7, 2023 The Causeway Postbaccalaureate Program is a yearlong experience that seeks to increase the number of doctoral students in competitive programs in the mathematical sciences, from groups historically under-represented in these disciplines. Causeway provides foundational coursework, research advising, and career mentoring in the context of a strong and supportive community of participants

  • , thermodynamics, electromagnetic theory and even quantum mechanics, and regularly apply what you’re learning in hands- on laboratories taught by professors (never teaching assistants!). When you graduate, you’ll be well- prepared for graduate study in many areas of the physical sciences and engineering, or to pursue professional careers in the industry. Graduates from the last 5 years: Their jobs Engineer Officer, United States Army Reserve Systems Design Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific Test Engineer

  • community-wide events marking Veterans Day: Saturday, Nov. 8: The second annual PLU Military Appreciation Football Game begins at 1 p.m. Nov. 8 at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup, where a service member will perform The National Anthem. The game is free to all military ID cardholders and their dependents—the ID card serves as a ticket to the game and earns a free cocoa at the concessions stand. Gates open at 12 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: All PLU classes are canceled from 10:55 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. during the free

  • Strings Professor Svend Rønning shares his teaching and his music Mandi LeCompte September 30, 2016 Faculty, Faculty Updates 286 Views Read more

  • Coach Dickerson retires after 14 years of support on, off the court Posted by: Kari Plog / February 24, 2017 Image: Steve Dickerson, head coach for men’s basketball, retires in May after 14 years at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) February 24, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 24, 2017)- Emotions ran high for senior Brandon Lester in his final basketball game at Pacific Lutheran University.Lester and his teammates fought hard through a lingering double