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Previous A new space for neurodiverse students on campus Read Next Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in

June 4, 2009 Celebrating Shabbat with the PLU family Why would Lauren Eaton rebuild the Jewish club at a Lutheran college? WHEN SHE ARRIVED on campus as a first-year student, Lauren Eaton set out looking for the Alijah Jewish Club that she had read about. She didn’t find it. There hadn’t been any members for two years. I cried during my first Shabbat, because without my family it seemed very empty to celebrate by myself. It had always been a mark of solidarity in my family that we would always

Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon Posted by: halvormj / January 31, 2018 January 31, 2018 By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations. Interested PLU students get a tour, free lunch, and the

GlaserAxolotlArtist: Autumn VosSeahorseArtist: Esther KimBlack FishArtist: Madeline RueBlue Angler FishArtist: Trinity-Grace RamirezMermaidArtist: Kasey KindzerskiTurtleArtist: Stuart GavidiaSea SpiderArtist: Talitha ArnottSea CucumberArtist: Ivan WilsonManta RayArtist: Talia LeuzziGreen Angler FishArtist: Marley BjornstadBrown FishArtist: Oliver MayberryRed FishArtist: Cedar Graham Read Previous On Exhibit: Resources for ‘The Matter of Loneliness’ Wang Center Symposium LATEST POSTS On Exhibit: LGBTQ+ Authors and

What’s in our room? Take a tour in Kreidler. Posted by: shortea / May 8, 2023 May 8, 2023 Leanne Emmi ’25 shows us around her room in Kreidler Hall. Kreidler, located on upper campus right next to the Mary Baker Russell Music Center, is home to our unique Global Community, which has a focus on global studies and language immersion. CLICK HERE to learn more about Kreidler. Read Previous Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience Read Next You

. Photo by Irene Takizawa Because Hawaiʻi is seen as a tropical vacation spot, many people come and go, ignoring the complexity of the cultures and peoples who struggle daily to foster and practice their religions. For Katherine Sinclair, a senior nursing student, this course offered the opportunity to dig into the history and diversity within Buddhism. Specifically, she learned how hard Japanese sugar plantation workers fought “to keep their religion prevalent” and “how many variations there are in

Boeing Company STEM Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / December 17, 2018 December 17, 2018 The Boeing Company is a worldwide leader in airplane and aerospace design, engineering, and manufacturing and is also one of the most generous donors in the history of Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW), having provided more than $9 million to Washington’s independent colleges and universities during ICW’s first half-century of service. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary if ICW in 2003, the

December 1, 2009 Freedoms “When I’m in a press conference at the U.N., I feel like the world is literally at my fingertips. I find it is impossible to be apathetic when I have the awesome opportunity to be a first witness to history.”While at PLU, Jennifer Henrichsen ’07 studied away four separate times. To say that was influential would be an understatement – the experiences changed her life. She traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked as a freelance journalist at the United Nations

in the world in science and engineering. UMBC was founded in 1963, the year Hrabowksi — a wide-eyed ninth-grader who loved learning — participated in what’s known in history books as the Birmingham Children’s Crusade. Commencement 2018Learn more about the ceremony and related events“For 50 years, it’s been an experiment,” Hrabowski says of the institution he’s led since 1992. And the experiment is working. UMBC leads the country in producing black students who complete science and engineering

March 8, 2010 Victim advocacy brings visit, praise from Department of Justice By Barbara Clements An Assistant Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice will visit PLU’s Women’s Center on Thursday, March 11, as a part of a nation-wide tour honoring programs that have showcased exceptional campus programs geared to address violence against women. Women’s Center receives praise from Justice Department for advocacy against domestic violence. Tony West will be on campus Thursday morning