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  • Articles Posted by https://www.plu.edu/physics/news/author/nicolacs/

    Renewable Energy Scholarship The Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation expects to award sixteen scholarships in 2024 based upon academic merit, accomplishments in the field, and demonstrated interest. Three individual scholarships are reserved for a community college student, an undergraduate student, and an early graduate student, respectively. Two scholarships have… January 4, 2024

  • Part III. – APPLYING FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FUNDING https://www.plu.edu/faculty-handbook/section-v-special-institutional-policies-and-procedures/part-iii-applying-for-internal-and-external-funding/

    Engaged Education (https://www.plu.edu/wang-center/faculty-staff/). For grants administered through a particular school, college, or inter-disciplinary program, contact the relevant dean and/or chair. Section 2. EXTERNAL FUNDING Grant Application Procedures In order to facilitate the process, assist in proposal preparation, and to coordinate efforts, it is recommended that early in the formation of the proposal, the author explore the idea with the dean, department chair, colleagues, and the Office of

  • The End of an Era https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2014/05/21/the-end-of-an-era/

    Russell gave the first naming gift to launch the new Music facility, which would be named the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Mary Baker Russell listens to Dave Robbins Even in the early seventies, the department had clearly outgrown the small space they shared with theatre and communication in Eastvold. Youtz remembers buckets catching drips of rainwater while he lectured. Robbins wrote the very first report justifying a new fine arts music building, which was approved by the regents in 1978. “The

  • William Foege ’57: Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/04/27/william-foege-57-presidential-medal-of-freedom-recipient/

    the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s.  He was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, with colleagues, founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin may cause the sometimes deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has

  • Cancer survivor inspires teammates with spirit, perseverance and a mid-90s fastball https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/04/01/cancer-survivor-inspires-teammates-with-spirit-perseverance-and-a-mid-90s-fastball/

    the overwhelming nausea suffered by many patients undergoing chemotherapy. He felt so good, in fact, that he continued to play catch with his older brother Sam, himself a former PLU baseball player and a 2011 PLU graduate, and he also played with Sam on a recreational basketball team. “Throughout the whole process, I stayed completely positive. I knew I was going to beat this, it was only a matter of when.” –Max Beatty When Beatty made appearances at early season PLU games in Portland, and later

  • PLU student recounts election-night experience in TV newsroom https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2016/11/17/election-night/

    since the early 2000s. Here is a first-hand, real-time account from one of those students, Lucas Schaumberg.Nov. 8, 2016 Pacific Lutheran University has a hidden tradition on Election Day. Tonight, nine communication students and I join a select group who’ve experienced elections at KCPQ-TV, a Seattle-based news station. We dress in our best professional attire and cram ourselves into a van, the close proximity amplifying our shared nervous energy. No one knows what to expect — from the election or

  • Cover Story ‹ Resolute Online: Fall 2014 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2014/deacons/

    ); and notched a No. 1 hit (OK; so The Beatles had more than one, worldwide, but The Deacons hit No. 1 in Puyallup, once!). There might be one little bigger difference, though: It’s probably unlikely The Beatles took in a Deacons show—but The Deacons definitely watched The Beatles. Jim Sola, left, and John Sandvig reminisce about The Deacons’ early years, and look ahead to the group’s Homecoming reunion. Check out the 2014 Homecoming Highlights >> During a campus visit in advance of The Deacons

  • Listen https://www.plu.edu/listen/

    with early high school dropout. Journal of Adolescence, 32, 651–670. The need to belong Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 497–529. “I am us” Cohen, G. L., & Garcia, J. (2005). “I am us”: Negative stereotypes as collective threats. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 566–582. The continuing significance of race Feagin, J. R. (1991). The continuing

  • 2022 Awards https://www.plu.edu/scifair/awards/2022-awards/

    & Environmental Science1stJaylen Shawcross12BellarmineModeling Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation in Nitrate Deposition on Early Mars Earth & Environmental Science2ndBrieanne Iaia and Hailey Dillow​12BellarmineDetermining the Presence of Phytophthora Species in Soils of  Diseased Alder Trees at Titlow Park Earth & Environmental Science2ndLeo Bessler12BellarmineModifying the Extended Column Test to Decrease Variability and Error Earth & Environmental Science2ndSaul & Ekaterina Kontos-Cohen12BellarmineDetermining

  • ‘There are no excuses’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/02/03/there-are-no-excuses/

    continents.  Kilimanjaro in Africa, Aconcagua in South America, Denali in North America, Elbrus in Europe and now Everest in Asia. Reaching the highest peaks in the world has cultivated an attitude that anything is possible. “People often ask me ‘Why do you climb?,’” he said, “the answer, I think, is actually simple. I climb these mountains because it reminds me I can do things I think I may not be able to do.” Gary Nelson stands in front of a prayer flag monument on Mt. Everest. “When I first started