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  • school,” she said. “I was interested in medicine and disease and I still am, but I found a different route to that interest. “I’ve been really happy about my decision to come to PLU for that very reason,” she said. What happens when you think you’ve got the skills to be a doctor, then you find that it is your PASSION? Andrew Reyna ’11 Can Tell You. Read Previous Bank president shares PLU experience Read Next Lute enters Folgers jingle contest and wins COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

  • on D-Day in 1941. The motivation of  company officials, including IBM’s president Thomas Watson, was not so much ideology, as money. “It was a business decision,” he said. Read Previous The value of the bourgeoisie Read Next Care for the world, service to mankind 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

  • right decision, he admits now, 10 years later, it still turns over like a well-worn stone in his mind. “It was the right thing to do, but I’m going to have to live with that for the rest of my life,” he said. The book chronicles Hrivnak during his time in the in Iraq, when Hrivnak was a captain and flight nurse in an Air Force medevac unit charged with caring for U.S. casualties. Hrivnak first started writing the book – although he had no idea his musings would end up in newspapers, a documentary

  • , or after the normal retirement age. An employee who plans to retire from university employment should advise the supervisor of that decision as far in advance as possible. In any case, the normal notice of resignation (ten working days for nonexempt staff and twenty working days for exempt staff employees) is the minimum notice period expected. The following information is provided to assist those who are contemplating retirement from the university. Please note that this is a summary for general

  • Welcome Kevin O’Brien, dean of humanities, discusses the decision to host The Saint John’s Bible at Pacific Lutheran University. O’Brien explores the ways in which featuring the Bible in the university’s magazine fits with the inclusive mission at PLU. Read More The Saint John's Bible Kari Plog, senior editor of ResoLute , describes her personal journey coming to terms with the ‘L’ in PLU and how The Saint John’s Bible  mirrors the university’s mission. Her first-person account of interacting with the

  • website. It now has more than 350 employees, has raised $100 million in 19 months and has a partnership with Lowe’s. Gates was one of the first employees of the company and now is responsible for setting up speaking engagements for the company’s CEO and COO. Gates said he might not be where he is today if he hadn’t made the decision to transfer to PLU his sophomore year. “PLU made all the difference for me when it came to finding success after college,” Gates said. “I had a lot of stress coming out of

  • Thank you for supporting Lute Cross Country and Track & Field! Q&A with Coach Adam FryeWhat are some highlights of this year that shows your team succeeding, facing a challenge, and supporting each other? A highlight of the year was being able to do a pre-season “breakaway” trip for the first time since 2019. We spent two nights at Mt. Baker Bibleway Camp. It was awesome to see the group making strong connections with teammates and enjoying their time together. We also had a first-year student

  • : Prehistoric Art, French Patrimoine, and the Chauvet Cave2:30-3:00 pm - Olivia PetersenThe Making of a Peace Nation: Likhet, whiteness, and Settler Colonialism in Norway3:00-3:15 pm - Break3:15-3:45 pm - Andrés Felix3:45-4:15 pm - Melaina Hayes4:15-4:30 pm - Kirsten Hedlund3:15-3:45 pm - Andrés FelixTowards Reproductive Sovereignty: Decolonizing Menstruation in Chicane Communities3:45-4:15 pm - Melaina HayesDisgusted: Ebola Containment in the North American Imaginary4:15-4:30 pm - Kirsten HedlundLost in

  • in the first place? One student points out a typo on the handout. “Great, I’ll change that next year,” MacDougall responds. This is MacDougall’s fourth year of teaching, after a seven-year career in broadcast journalism. Though the job and the money was good, MacDougall started to chafe. What difference was he making by giving the sports report each night? So he decided to go back to school to get his masters and start teaching. His wife is supportive, he said. His friends are another matter

  • September 1, 2009 Class Acts The everyday triumphs, joys and challenges of eight dedicated educators – all Lutes – at a single bustling middle school. Who would want to teach hormone-laced, boundary-pushing, in-your-face, preteen and teenage students? The teachers at Cascade Middle School, that’s who. Their number includes eight PLU graduates who have shown an uncommon passion for teaching, for making a difference in the world and, in some cases, for becoming surrogate parents to students in a