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What does it mean to innovate wherever you are? “To innovate everywhere means to think ahead and find new ways to answer new and old questions. It’s finding new ways to make even the mundane fun. Wherever I am I look for the next step,…
means you’re always looking for efficiencies and creative ways to bring ideas to fruition, or ways to rethink what has been stagnant or has fallen behind modernizations.” -Ardys Curtis ’86 PLU Chief Information Officer “Innovators are those who take risks and chances wherever they are. As individuals, we must self-reflect to identify new and creative solutions within any environment. We must be brave enough to push past the confines of our expectations in order to find new solutions to pre-existing
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In a 2017 issue of PLU’s ResoLute magazine, alumnus Jacob Taylor-Mosquera ’09 shared about his experience as an adoptee, finding and reconnecting with his biological family in Colombia, and the tension he still navigates today as a citizen of two countries and a member of…
returning to the orphanage where he was adopted as an infant, appearing live on Colombian television in his search for his biological family, reuniting with his biological mother, and being embraced by his biological family after 20 years apart. We recently connected with Taylor-Mosquera to learn more about his book, his experience writing and publishing it, and his future plans. Congrats on your new book. Tell us about it and the captivating title. The title of my memoir comes from meeting my
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TACOMA, Wash. (April 14, 2015)—If you were to mix Indiana Jones with Steve Irwin and sprinkle in extensive knowledge of Shakespeare and the English language, you just might get Pacific Lutheran University Professor of English Dr. Charles Bergman. From climbing into wolf dens in Alaska,…
credit for: personalities, intelligence, language [and] feelings,” said Bergman, who’s working on a project titled “Speak, Parrot,” which details his conversations with the highly intelligent birds. “I love penguins because they are irresistible. I love them because they remind us so much of… US!” Bergman has a wondrous passion for the natural world and uses his mastery of the English language—and his camera—to capture it all. “I love to be in the company of wild animals, and [I] have used my writing
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The School of Business at PLU offers a broad range of courses and skills. We offer areas of specialization (what we call concentrations) in marketing, management, accounting and finance. Students who are interested in international business may use any one of those concentrations as a…
had a recent IMPACT Award winner for the School of Business share that in a future career, everyone will be asked to do new things. In his career, he was asked to do some new things that had never been done before. And to do those things, he drew upon those skills that he had developed at PLU (creative problem solving, strategic communication, collaboration with others, and other foundational skills).BusinessLearn more about studying business at PLUHere’s one more example of how a graduate used
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Get ready, Relay for Life set for April For the third time in as many years, PLU will host a Relay for Life event on campus. The annual fund-raising event for the American Cancer Society also celebrates cancer survivors and caregivers and remembers those who’ve…
year’s theme, TV shows, has already garnered some creative names, such as Campus Ministry’s “God’s Anatomy,” a play on ABC’s popular drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” As of Feb. 15, there were 34 teams signed up – more than half the committee’s goal of 60 teams. Once again, the relay planning committee has high hopes for the event, setting the fund-raising goal at $60,000 with 600 participants (10 people on each team). Last year, PLU and the University of Puget Sound hosted a combined relay and raised over
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Tacoma, WASH. (August 29, 2016) — Washington Monthly’s annual college guide ranks Pacific Lutheran University 15th nationally on its list of “Best Master’s Universities,” according to a report published Monday. It also ranked PLU the 72nd “Best Bang for the Buck” institution among western colleges.…
may be thanks to consideration of new data released last year by the Obama administration. For the first time, the publication’s 2016 rankings included incomes of students 10 years after enrolling at a given college, how likely they are to be paying down principal on loans and the percentage of first-generation students at each college. Earlier this summer PLU was named one of the top colleges in the country for awarding creative arts scholarships by LendEDU, the PLU School of Nursing was ranked
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Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran…
interdisciplinary minor. The program equips students to find creative solutions to pressing problems and ethical dilemmas, such as providing equitable access to high-tech instruction. Alice Steinglass, President of Code.org Speaker Biography At Code.org, Alice Steinglass manages teams that build curriculum, tools, and software to support introductory computer science classes for students from kindergarten through high school. In addition, her team partners with education and software companies across the high
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Does a college essay really make a difference? Absolutely! But the hardest part is often deciding where to start and what to write about. In this 30 minute webinar, Natasha Lemke, our Senior Assistant Director of Admisson for Equity & Access, covers how to pick…
read? You can also check out this ‘5 Tips for Writing a College Essay’ post! 5 TIPS FOR WRITING A COLLEGE ESSAY Read Previous College Prep 101 Webinar: College Applications Read Next YouTube Short: PLU Parkland Night Market & Taste of Garfield Street LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We
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Pacific Lutheran University’s soon-to-be Art and Design graduates will be featuring artwork in the upcoming senior exhibition, Palimpsest: Evidence of the Artist , opening April 24th, 2019 in the University Gallery. Art admirers and families are invited to join the artists and faculty for a…
is defined as the manuscript, art, or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. “This show is for us, this is our show. The people who show up, are showing up for us. We are taking ownership of graduating and everything we have learned at PLU, and continue to learn in our future endeavors,” Monica Payne ‘19, submitting artist and BFA in graphic design concentration. A total of 19 seniors will be exhibiting
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At PLU, we’re building up the next generation of Lutes — ones who will be called to lead us into an uncertain future. On Bjug Day you joined together in ensuring students are fully equipped to answer that call. Despite navigating a global pandemic, we…
a lot of creative conversations this year, thinking about how programs can join together to offer more integrated curricula, where we can collaborate on senior capstone projects, and how we can make it more possible for students to double-major. Many of our degrees complement work that students are doing elsewhere, and we want to do what we can to make that holistic, integrative learning a possibility. How has the pandemic and social unrest impacted our academic programs? The most immediate
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