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TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2016)- Co-founder of Android and Pacific Lutheran University graduate Nick Sears took the technology world by storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for…
’ new book will be available in the fall and the first thousand students to sign up at SeriousBiz will receive it for free. Sears will also teach a core management class in a School of Business master’s program next fall. Read Previous PLU’s Gospel Experience works to bridge cultural gaps and connects campus to larger community Read Next PLU religion professor Seth Dowland discusses his new book “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right” (Podcast) COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated
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New Student Orientation, also known as PLU orientation or LUTE Welcome. Whether you are a first-year, transfer, or international student, LUTE Welcome orientation will assist in a smooth and
the GET app & learn about meal plans & dining options GET app> Dining Plans >Parking PassIf you drive during your time at PLU, you’ll need to register your vehicle and get a parking pass. Parking at PLU >TextbooksPurchase the common reading book & your books for class. You could even read ahead! Online Bookstore >Moving InLove where you live: Learn more about living on-campus and moving into your residence hall. Living On Campus > FALL 2024 FIRST YEAR STUDENT SCHEDULE FALL 2024 TRANSFER STUDENT
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PLU professor adds ‘board game inventor’ to his résumé.
interdisciplinary conversation and collegiality.” Griswold, now a graduate student at Penn State University studying industrial organizational psychology, was a junior when she joined the project and collected data using an online survey of her peers. It was part of statistics coursework for a class with Grahe. “I like working with other researchers on one document,” she said. “It takes a lot of interpersonal skills.” Griswold said the student-faculty research opportunity prepared her for the rigorous process
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Kate Monthy ’04 and Dmitry Mikheyev ’10 empower fellow artists at Spaceworks.
enterprise. Today, Monthy and Mikheyev fill two of the program’s five staff positions. Spaceworks TacomaSpaceworks offers artists and creative entrepreneurs training and resources. It's a joint initiative of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber and the City of Tacoma. Spaceworks has grown into a backbone of the Tacoma arts community in the past seven years. The organization has partnered with hundreds of do-it-yourself artists, small businesses and fledgling nonprofits, injecting the city’s creative class
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)— On Saturday, March 21, a diverse and distinguished group of speakers will present “ideas worth spreading” at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma. Among that group will be three Pacific Lutheran University faculty members representing a variety of PLU’s…
: There are two that stand out to me. One is about transformational moments by Jose Calderon, a Latino professor at Pitzer College who talked about moments that completely transformed his life and led him from being a migrant seasonal farm worker to a professor at Pitzer after receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. Another is one by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that I use in my “Intro to American Government” class. It’s called “We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim,” and it’s about the effect of
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My best friend and I met in our residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University. The band he and I started performed for the first time in its lobby. I can remember with equal fondness all-nighters spent cramming for finals and all-nighters playing video games. Earlier…
moment will quickly pass, because I have volumes of adored memories from every corner of the PLU campus: challenging courses taken in nearly every academic building; raucous intermural sports competitions throughout Lower Campus; world-class concerts and stage performances on Upper Campus; and, dare I admit, cherished memories of great times with friends in other residence halls. Though it will soon be gone, Foss will not be forgotten. Not anytime soon, at least. Thousands of its former residents are
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 16, 2016) – Just three short weeks after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, Denae McGaha ’16 will embark on the journey of a lifetime. The communication major will travel for three consecutive months, visiting five continents and more than 10 different countries.…
(@telos.tesla) on May 27, 2016 at 4:54pm PDT //Pack Your Bags\\ The beginning of a 5-continent, 10-country, one-of-a-kind summertime adventure. #thankthelord #studentuniverse #DenaesSnapGap A photo posted by Denae McGaha (@telos.tesla) on May 12, 2016 at 3:13pm PDT Denae's PLU study away videos Read Previous PLU master’s graduate earns Women of Influence Award after pivoting from professional soccer to finance Read Next First class of 253 PLU Bound Scholarship recipients passionate about community, music
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Troy Storfjell is a member of the Sámi community, the only indigenous group in Norway that’s been historically marginalized. It’s why Storfjell, who passes as white in the U.S.
. before moving back to Norway as a young adult. Storfjell also served as a guest researcher at the University of Tromsø in 2011 and 2012. When Storfjell first arrived at PLU in 2005, Nordic studies courses were scant on Sámi teachings; he now teaches a Nordic studies course titled “Sámi Culture in Global Indigenous Contexts.” He has welcomed a Sámi indigenous student every time he has taught the class. That course will count toward the NAIS minor. The program is interdisciplinary, so most of the
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It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.
,” he says. “Pain is something that I don’t like to show, so I’ve learned to just internalize it. It’s how I’ve learned to keep living despite all that I’ve gone through.” “This is not a vacation. This is a trip that will redefine who I am.” I met David nine years ago, in an international conflict resolution class at Pacific Lutheran University. We quickly became friends and, eventually, roommates. The following summer he invited me to move into a house three blocks from campus, affectionately
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Chris Holland ’24 balances class, internships, mentorships and countless hours building new software Posted by: nicolacs / August 15, 2023 Image: Computer science major Chris Holland will graduate this December. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) August 15, 2023 By Lora ShinPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterComputer science major Chris Holland will graduate with a degree in computer science this December. Throughout his PLU years, Holland has taken advantage of seemingly every learning and resume
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