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  • Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food.…

    politics; the second paper called “Cooking, Celebrity Chefs, and Public Intellectuals,” examines the roles of Celebrity Chefs (think Wolf Gang Puck and Rachel Ray), who are products of consumer capitalism, verses the Public Chef Intellectuals, whose focus is on teaching cooking techniques. Young and Eckstein have been working on these articles since March 2014, the idea devised over warm tomato soup and a grilled cheese, and maybe a rant about Guy Fieri. The articles are just the start, next, they

  • This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here  on the Provost…

    we see enrollment trends developing, the easier it is to respond.  We’re aiming to establish a steady enrollment year-to-year, but we’ll plan as fast as we can to manage any surprises.  Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) will also help challenges like these, since more decision-making authority is devolved to the schools and divisions. *Note: All comments are moderated The discount rate continues to rise each year. When does that become unsustainable and how do we stop that trend?I

  • Preparing to Pitch for PLU Incoming first-year student-athlete Marissa Miller was a star on her high-school softball team. (Photo courtesy Marissa Miller) Incoming Softball Star Looks Ahead to Lute Team—and Education By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Puyallup High School senior and softball star Marissa Miller is…

    basketball team made it to State last winter (that’s now her favorite high-school memory). She always knew she wanted to play sports in college, but she did not decide on a sport until her junior year of high school. Many were surprised by her decision to play softball, but she said she looked at where she could succeed the most. “I’m not really that tall,” she said. “I’m 5-11, and my parents told me I was too short to play post (in basketball), so I decided on softball,” Miller said. “I knew I would be

  • During her senior year at Pacific Lutheran University, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She soon met with PLU Peace Corps advisor, Dr. Katherine Wiley to learn more. She was excited…

    idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as a public health educator.She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. Initial communication from the Peace Corps was that volunteers could choose to stay or return home and exit the program. Chell welcomed the news

  • In her free time, professor of religion Dr. Bridgette O’Brien likes to participate in ultrarunning—completing runs longer than a marathon (26.2 miles). While Professor O’Brien is out on the trail, she often takes that time to think about her connection to the outdoors, a connection…

    reverent care.” Upon noticing this connection, Professor O’Brien applied for and received a Kelmer-Roe grant, with student Collin Ray, to study the connections that she saw between ultrarunning, Dark Green Religion, and concepts like gender, race and class.   Professor O’Brien believes the activity of ultrarunning, the combination of testing the body and returning to outdoors to do it, speaks to a spiritual relationship between runners and nature. “You’re returning to a more primal behavior where

  • PLU wins Simon Award This spring, PLU received a powerful acknowledgement that it continues to be seen as a leader in globally focused education. The university was awarded the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on…

    programs that earned the university its honor. In general, “PLU has made a conscious decision to talk about “study away” rather than “study abroad,” Sobania said. “We do so because the south Puget Sound is so richly diverse that one does not need to travel more than a few blocks to have a cross-cultural experience.” Many of those cross-cultural experiences happen right on campus. For instance, more than 230 international students study on-campus, representing 24 countries. On-campus groups also focus

  • The finish line The call came from Japan as Masahide Nishimura was finishing up his degree in Chinese Studies at Pacific Lutheran University a decade ago. His grandfather, Jisaburo Nishimura, 92, had had a stroke. Masahide felt he needed to come home and support his…

    Tuesday, and presented his capstone on the Chinese automobile market and the struggle by Toyota dealers to enter and engage that market. After the presentation, Nishimura reflected on his career, the family business and the decision to come back and finish what he started. “This was always on my mind,” said the thoughtful Nishimura. “It was a dream,” he said of his wish to finish his bachelor’s degree. At first, Nishimura had planned on pursing a business or economics degree when he arrived at PLU in

  • Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology, recently announced a Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) research proposal (https://osf.io/gdske/) to study beliefs and coping responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal was authored by Dr. Corey…

    LATEST POSTS Ricky Haneda ’22 | Psychology Major February 18, 2022 The Evolution of Behavior November 12, 2021 Dr. Laura Shneidman awarded research grant from Templeton Foundation November 24, 2020 Enrico Jones Award in Psychotherapy & Clinical Psychology November 6, 2020

  • Earth & Diversity Week  is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    : 170th anniversary of Medicine Creek Treaty 100th anniversary of the Native American Voting Rights Act 20th anniversary of the exoneration of Chief Leschi 50th anniversary of Boldt Decision 100th birthday of Nisqually historian and PLU alumna Cecelia Svinth CarpenterAbout the Lecture: The Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture is named after Dr. Walter C. Schnackenberg (1917-1973), who graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1937. One of Dr. Schnackenbergs most frequently expressed wishes was

  • Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    : 170th anniversary of Medicine Creek Treaty 100th anniversary of the Native American Voting Rights Act 20th anniversary of the exoneration of Chief Leschi 50th anniversary of Boldt Decision 100th birthday of Nisqually historian and PLU alumna Cecelia Svinth Carpenter About the Lecture: The Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture is named after Dr. Walter C. Schnackenberg (1917-1973), who graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1937. One of Dr. Schnackenbergs most frequently expressed wishes was