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  • Senior Physics capstone presentations will take place Monday, May 6th starting at 2pm in Rieke 103B. 

    , variable stars are affected by various different phenomena, and hence it requires different equations to model these varying trends in the light curves. Creating light curves and applying mathematical models was most easily done using the coding program Python, which was greatly reliable with many data manipulation and modeling libraries and packages. Variable star light curve data was acquired from the ASAS-SN atlas database and was subsequently applied with theoretical mathematical formulae

  • Join the Computer Science Department to hear the senior capstone presentations. Student presentations will take place Friday and Saturday. All talks are scheduled in Morken 203.

    sorted for the purpose of monitoring changes in topographical structure over time. 9:35am – OnTime: Scheduling Website Jeankie Aczon (BACS), Miguel Castillo (BSCS) OnTime is a web application that helps students with managing a busy lifestyle. We decided upon this project because we know how stressful time management can be with an endless list of tasks to complete and only so much time to complete it all. A major portion of our project is devoted to database management for low and medium sized

  • Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…

    gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with many front-end and back-end technologies.” Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team during the summer following his sophomore year. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project, but it was very rewarding, too,” Gavidia says. During the fall of his junior year

  • The University Gallery opened its fall semester’s final show with the annual Juried Student Exhibition on November 16, 2016. Works will be on display until December 14, 2016. The exhibition is open to the university community, as well as the general public. Students not only compete to…

    craftsmanship integrating form and function. Exhibition Run: November 16, 2016- December 14, 2016 Location: Pacific Lutheran University, University Gallery. On the edge of north campus on the corner of 8th Ave. Ct St. and 121st St. S. Suggested parking lot:  Wheeler at Wheeler and 121st, lot is open to the public after 4:30p.m. Regular Hours: 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri* First place award, "Queens of te Land and Sea" by Jenny Kimura and Tahle Oestby in the juried student art show at PLU, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016

  • We are grateful to the family of Jeanette Pilgrim, who donated her personal harpsichord to the Music Department. This unique instrument constructed by Kenneth Bakeman in 1980 has two keyboards and a pedal division with painted motifs on the lid and soundboard. Instruments built by…

    level of strings operated by pedals and an upper level manipulated by two keyboards. The underside of the lid has been painted with six angels each playing an instrument. Two are hidden when the lid is fully opened and folded back. The soundboard nature motifs under the strings include flowers, birds, mushrooms, butterflies, and a slug. On the outside of the instrument, a solid dark green paint is decorated along each edge with a graphic gold border. The Pilgrim family’s ties to PLU run deep—Mrs

  • Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. He also knew…

    , Gavidia gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with a lot of front-end and back-end technologies.” During the summer following his sophomore year, Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project but it was very rewarding, too.” Gavidia says. During the fall of his

  • PLU music major decides to jazz up his life For Bryan McEntire, choosing to be a jazz player wasn’t much of a choice. In fact, the Pacific Lutheran University junior feels the craft chose him. He remembers his grandfather had an old saxophone in his…

    national talent on a blustery evening recently. As the first true evening of fall arrives in Seattle, with rain pinging off the pavement, McEntire and his crew – PLU juniors Luke Sumerfield, Graham Logen and Daniel Baskin – stroll through the crowds in the Seattle neighborhood known as Belltown, to Tula’s, marked by a bright blue neon lights. They edge through the biker bar crowd next door, and enter the dark, narrow restaurant, flanked by brick walls and they are greeted by Mack, the owner, who seems

  • Professor Colleen Hacker brings experiences working with world-class athletes to students at PLU. Athlete. Coach. Educator. By Katie Scaff ’13 PLU professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker rarely uses hypothetical situations to help her students learn new concepts —as an athlete that…

    being a kid in a candy shop.” In April, Hacker traveled with the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team to Burlington, Vt. to help the athletes prepare for the 2012 USA Hockey World Championships, where they won the silver medal. After the competition, Hacker came back to campus and offered her students a rare glimpse of cutting-edge practices from applied settings with world-class athletes. These examples make the coursework all the more meaningful to the students, who are inspired by her passion for

  • Stuart Gavidia is a first-generation Latino student who spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU. He knew he wanted to come here for college so he could remain close to his family. He also knew from an…

    year, Gavidia gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with a lot of front-end and back-end technologies.”During the summer following his sophomore year, Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project but it was very rewarding, too.” Gavidia says. During the fall

  • At PLU, we don’t call our living facilities “dorms - residence halls are so much more! PLU provides quality on-campus living and learning environments that encourage and enhance engagement in and

    Hall is an apartment-style complex, located on the south edge of campus.  Students must be 20 years old or have junior standing by September 1st to reside in South Hall. The hall has a view of the Olympic Mountains to the west and Mount Rainier to the east. In addition, South Hall provides alternative choices to the regular residence halls, for example, South is the only hall on campus providing married student housing. For more information about South Hall’s eligibility and application process