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  • PLU offers a number of direct transfer degree opportunities from community colleges, that provide automatic junior status upon enrolling at the university.

    WHAT'S A PLU EDUCATION LIKE?Hear it from those who know best, our students and alumni. "At PLU, the classes are small, and you get to know your classmates and your professors, so you have access to the support you need. You will be challenged and have to work hard, but PLU prioritizes access to student wellbeing services, accommodations, but also and importantly, inclusivity, and identity." Dannie Class of '22 "PLU graduates are difference makers who engage the world in all its complexity with open

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  • History students at Pacific Lutheran University develop the skills needed to ask important questions, collect and evaluate evidence, work collaboratively with others, and offer clear and

    ? Traditionally, the discipline of history has focused on the critical analysis of text-based evidence from the past and seeks a detailed, complex understanding of individual and collective human behaviors as they have changed over time. PLU students of history develop lifelong habits of critical thinking, inquiry-based reading of texts, effective research and technical skills, and the appreciation of complexity and diversity in human behavior. History majors also develop the skills needed to work

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  • From the opposite sex, to light refraction to puppies – all is explored at regional science fair By Loren Liden ’11 Hundreds of students, of all ages, and from schools all across the region, participated in this year’s South Sound Regional Science Fair on March…

    does a punch have the most force?), appropriately naming his project “Pack O’ Punch.” During the hours of judging, students listened to their iPods, read books, and nodded off _ and who can blame them, sitting alone next to their projects for a couple of hours _while the various judges made their rounds. Parents waited, anxious and hopeful for their students’ success. With the high school portion of the science fair came greater complexity, though the entrants were fewer. Among several notable high

  • Professor Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies. (John Froschauer, Photo) A Report on Scholarship and Activities in 2013-2014 Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies During the past two years, Bob Ericksen has given ten lectures in five nations on three…

    delivered in Cape Town, “Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity.” It will appear in Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations in Holocaust Scholarship. A paper he presented at the University of Minnesota, “Göttingen: A ‘Political University’ in the Mirror of Denazification,” will appear in Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich, a volume Bob is co-editing with Bernard M. Levinson. Bob continues his connections with the U.S. Holocaust

  • Michael Burris ’09 worked at the intersection of business and healthcare since before even graduating from PLU with a business major and economics minor . While in his third year at PLU, he began an internship with MultiCare Health Systems, working as the CFO’s “right-hand…

    well. Both PLU and Sound invest in their people, which he says drew him to Sound as a long-term career move.   PLU’s healthcare programs to “grow nurses, advanced providers, and most importantly, critical thinkers” is deeply needed within the industry, he observes.  “We need a pipeline of talent that understands the complexity of problem-solving, who can apply critical thinking and compassionate care for our communities,” he says. “At the end of the day, we’re all just people taking care of people

  • 3/17/2015 Strategic Planning Work Group edits 3/31/2015 Strategic Planning Work Group edits 5/27/2015, SNO Meeting, Approved

    . Appreciating the complexity of the health-illness relationship is key to diagnosing and intervening with human experiences of and responses to health, illness, and disease. Collegiate Nursing Education The PLU Nursing faculty believes collegiate nursing education contributes to shaping and stewarding the profession and practice of nursing. Service, leadership and scholarship are essential components in the formation of mature and highest quality professional practitioners of nursing. Academic nursing

  • Questions and issues relevant to popular culture and national discourse are frequently and intentionally engaged by PLU’s Philosophy Department.

    Embrace?: On Whether Computers Can Create Poetry and Art” Joe Norton, “Poetry: A Response to Modern Technology” Robert Shaw, “Passing the Turing Test: Machines, Minds, and Inquiry” Stu Weaverling, “How Does Technology Encourage Evil?” McKenzie Williams, “Complexity in the American Food System: A Relativist Response to Martin Heidegger” Back: Philosophy and Economics in Opole

  • We are Pacific Lutheran University. Inquiry. Service. Leadership. Care. PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their

    the Earth. WE ARE PLUA TRADITION OF EXCELLENCEPacific Lutheran University by the numbers. 0 FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS SINCE 1975 #0 WASHINGTON’S BEST SMALL COLLEGE TO HELP GRADUATES FIND JOBS 0% STUDENTS STUDY AWAY 0:1 STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO IN THE AVERAGE CLASSROOM PLU graduates are difference makers who engage the world in all its complexity with open minds and caring hearts. They’re engaged citizens who strive to serve the common good, and who are local, regional and global leaders in fields like

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  • The Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University is looking for excellent students for our graduate program. Our faculty perform research in diverse areas from organic chemistry to structural biology to materials science, energy-related research, and environmental chemistry. Kevin Smith’s group continues its longstanding work…

    infrared laser spectroscopy, and computational studies of graphene oxide-liquid interfaces. Donghui Zhang and Gerald Schneider apply X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to soft matter research. The Superfund Center concentrates on newly identified pollutant-particle systems including environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs). We have a large (141 students) and diverse group of graduate students in our program, essentially all supported on assistantships or fellowships. We put a large

  • As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, U.S. CMS is excited to announce the next edition of the RENEW-HEP USCMS SPRINT/ USCMS PURSUE combined  undergraduate internship program . The internship program is intended to address the under-representation of women and minority students in…

    internships is at  https://internships.fnal.gov/u-s-cms-undergraduate-internship/ and will be updated as soon the application opens. Focus of internship: The internships will offer female and minoritized undergraduate students an opportunity to perform a project under the mentorship of scientists working at the frontier of physics at one of the 50+ institutions in the United States. Students will use computational tools and data-science methods to learn about fundamental particles and their interactions