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  • 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

  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    said. In the weeks leading up to J-Term, all 14 students agreed to community guidelines, including two specific to Inauguration Day. For one, they vowed to stick together, making the decision to navigate the event in one or two groups. Second, as their instructors suggested, they planned to be “neutral observers.” The morning of the inauguration, Sill, Schletter and eight students boarded a Metro train at Bethesda Station and headed downtown. Six other students in the class left more than an hour

  • Ignite your career at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Attend this four-day virtual event and speak with staff and recruiters about career opportunities available across the lab. Career Connections is free and open to all potential applicants, regardless of career level, grade level, or academic program.…

    ). Breakout sessions include topics like: Computational and Data Science, Decision Science and Analytics, and Applied Mathematics. Please register using this link: https://pnnl.cventevents.com/event/ce641675-648a-4c03-8553-571bb9fa7e6b/summary Read Previous Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education (BSME) Read Next Lathisms Scholarship LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program October 29, 2024 Sports Analytics Data

  • What would be awesome? By Steve Hansen It would be easy to say that, over his career, PLU graduate Peter Parsons has found himself in the right place at the right time. He was on the Xbox development team when there were fewer than a…

    the development team of Halo 2 and Halo 3 – also known as The Greatest Video Games in the World. What makes Peter Parsons, the former executive producer of Halo 2 and 3, tick? One thing, and one thing only. To say that Pete Parsons has been in the right place wouldn’t quite be accurate. He’s been making it the right place. It has always been an essential part of his core philosophy. “I always ask myself ‘What would be totally awesome to do? Then I should go do that,’” he said. What was true in his

  • Ignite your career at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Attend this four-day virtual event and speak with staff and recruiters about career opportunities available across the lab. Career Connections is free and open to all potential applicants, regardless of career level, grade level, or academic program.…

    ). Breakout sessions include topics like: Computational and Data Science, Decision Science and Analytics, and Applied Mathematics, Power Systems and Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, and Material Sciences. Please register using this link: https://pnnl.cventevents.com/event/ce641675-648a-4c03-8553-571bb9fa7e6b/summary Read Previous Paid Engineering Intern Positions, Tacoma Water Read Next Reimagine Indians into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2023 LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science

  • A pair of nursing students in grey scrubs knock on the door, wash their hands, and greet little Jillian, who rests in a bed connected to beeping monitors. The child opens her eyes and whimpers, then coughs. As the students listen to Jillian’s lung sounds,…

    up clinically, including high risk-scenarios that you want a student to be educated in how to handle,” says School of Nursing Dean Barbara Habermann. Research indicates that more higher-level decision-making happens in simulation than in a clinical setting, Kushner says. In a clinical setting, students are often involved in care but are accompanied by a nurse who makes most decisions. In a simulation lab, the students are assessing the situation, interpreting data, and making decisions. Thanks to