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field studies are an integral part of both introductory and advanced courses in earth science at PLU. The Cascade Mountains, the Columbia River Basalt Plateau, Puget Sound, the Pacific Ocean coast and the Olympic Peninsula are all within a few hours of campus. Longer field trips are taken to geologic sites such as Death Valley, Hawaii, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. The student/faculty ratio in the Department of Earth Science at PLU allows students
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Looking for fun virtual activities? Need a break from classes? A few moments to de-stress? Check out links below to destress, explore, listen, and more. Curated Collections by the Campus Life Engage Ambassadors Virtual Tours Take a Virtual Tour of Tacoma Underground Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Travel Tacoma Tacoma Arts & Culture Virtual field trips to Mars, Yellowstone National Park, San Diego Zoo, The Louvre, and more! Explore different famous museums like Guggenheim, National Gallery Art
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consulting services about the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and initiatives. APP provides customized services to parents, students, programs, and institutions of higher learning and its programs seek to propel underrepresented minority students along their educational journey by providing programming related to research, career and life preparation. Mason’s visit to PLU is sponsored by the PLU Center for Graduate and Continuing Education, Department of Psychology, Division of
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its top 2012 professional draft prospect currently playing NCAA Division III baseball. Following a surgical procedure to remove both of his testicles, Beatty was hopeful of returning to the Lutes for the 2012 season, but post-surgery blood work found cancer tracers. With months of chemotherapy treatment ahead, Beatty moved back to his hometown of Vancouver, Wash., and faced both the cancer and the chemotherapy as he would an opposing batter – with the determination to get a strike out. “Throughout
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Society in Washington, D.C., works alongside Sylvia Earle, a pioneering marine scientist. “I’ve done no fewer than six reports on this woman and dressed up as her for career day in third grade,” Mooney said with a laugh. “She sits just down the hall from me.” Mooney, who earned a degree in biology at Pacific Lutheran University, is a senior program manager at the National Geographic Society. She’s tasked with building a new program called Beyond Yellowstone, a conservation program in the greater
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membership year. Mike Snyder has spent the last three years as PLU’s Director of Athletics and Recreation, guiding the department to eight Northwest Conference titles across five different sports. Snyder spearheaded efforts that resulted in men’s soccer hosting its first ever NCAA Regional, made PLU an industry leader at the Division III level in Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), and was instrumental in adding women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport, becoming the department’s first new sport since 1996.PLU
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can be an inspiring and thought-provoking practice, philosophizing to a wide online audience brings its own challenges. Responses to public philosophy come from the public directly, and this can lead to negative interactions with a philosopher’s audience. After the initial publication of Dr. Shanks Kaurin’s article on Just Security, the national magazine Newsweek republished and retitled the article without Dr. Shanks Kaurin’s knowledge. Newsweek and Just Security have a contractual agreement that
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struggles with a rapidly growing economy, new technology and how its growth impacts the environment, Manfredi argues that it’s vital for Americans to understand how China’s changes impact us all. “There’s no more important culture to study than China, right now, in the coming years,” Manfredi said. “What happens in China actually affects all of us on the planet. Fully appreciating what’s going on with China is really fully appreciating what’s going on here.”
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course and led students through the Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan and Native American genocides. Each genocide is its own unit with its own texts, explored both individually and comparatively, through a combination of historical texts, films, memoirs, and first-person testimonies. This fall, Marcus and Griech-Polelle had funding to invite survivors and/or descendants of survivors from each genocide studied in the course, thus giving students a more personal and immediate way to think about
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Social work major and working mom Teranejah Lucas ’23 explores the politics and power of Black hair in her senior capstone Posted by: shortea / April 21, 2023 Image: Image: Teranejah Lucas ’23 is a case worker at a behavioral health clinic, a full-time student, and will be beginning graduate school this fall. Her 6-year-old daughter, Alanna, is a talented dancer and wrestler. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 21, 2023 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Teranejah Lucas, 28, is
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