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Professor Claire Todd and team of six students hiked up to a glacier at Mount Rainier to study the changes in the glacier due to climate change. (John Froschauer, Photo) Students hike up the flanks of Mount Rainier to study glacial runoff and the connection…
September 8, 2014 Professor Claire Todd and team of six students hiked up to a glacier at Mount Rainier to study the changes in the glacier due to climate change. (John Froschauer, Photo) Students hike up the flanks of Mount Rainier to study glacial runoff and the connection to climate change For one Lute, summer research is a prequel to Antarctica By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications This is one group of Lutes that really rocks. While most students may have spent their summers
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According to recent PLU grad Nick Etzell ’23, vocation is “creating a life which balances monetary needs, service to the world and outlets for joy. Sometimes all of those can be the same thing.
Center for Vocation. In honor of our 50th reunion, we invite you to join us as classmates to invest in the futures and vocational discernment of all those who come through PLU. As a member of the Class of 1973, you understand the seriousness of purpose and desire to live a life of deeper meaning and contribution. We graduated from PLU during a highly conflicted time in U.S. history. Within this context, we made decisions about our future career paths, many of us feeling called to make an impact on
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Institutional Equity and Anti-racism at PLU At the June 17 University Assembly for faculty and staff, Vice President Joanna Royce-Davis shared a set of seven actions the university will take next to “make sustainable change in the experience of our community for our members who experience marginalization.” Words without action are empty, and compromise our...
change, are core to our life together moving forward. This is a dialogue that requires us to sit together in our humanity, and, for those of us who participate in whiteness—myself included—to hear, hold, and be accountable for the harm that white supremacy at PLU has perpetuated for our Black colleagues and students and colleagues and students of color as a whole, and that we have allowed it to perpetuate… Even as we grapple with an uncertain financial situation and the impact of COVID-19, this is
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The Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching recognizes a member of PLU’s faculty who embodies a commitment to excellence in their ability to communicate knowledge and inspire students. The award was presented to Emily Davidson, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies . The university sponsors…
legitimizing students’ Spanish language abilities is evident, as she provides them with the tools to expand their linguistic repertoires. A colleague described Davidson’s teaching as transcending conventional boundaries. They wrote that “her courses destabilize fixed notions of identity and prompt students to critically examine history and culture. The transformative impact of her teaching is palpable, as students emerge empowered and equipped with a critical perspective that challenges oppressive dynamics
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Human impact on the natural world is impossible to ignore. From severe flooding in Africa, melting of the arctic poles, and fires across Australia, recent years have seen a drastic increase in anomalistic climate events. In response to these problems, Pacific Lutheran University values “thinking…
Environmental Ethics at Holden Village Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 By Lee Sullivan '21Business MajorHuman impact on the natural world is impossible to ignore. From severe flooding in Africa, melting of the arctic poles, and fires across Australia, recent years have seen a drastic increase in anomalistic climate events. In response to these problems, Pacific Lutheran University values “thinking green”. Our university takes pride in being environmentally conscious stewards of
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An appealing new concentration awaits incoming PLU students this fall after a restructuring of departments opened the door for change. Effective September 1, the theater and dance programs will combine forces and become the Department of Theatre and Dance. One immediate benefit? The introduction of…
touched off a multiyear investigation into whether PLU could (or even should) offer such a program. “If you’re going to add a new degree program, you really want to make sure that the demand is consistent and not just a trend,” Smith said. “This one’s really been sustained now for between five and 10 years. So it’s no longer a trend. It’s just a new reality.” The impact has been immediate, with the incoming theatre major class for 2018 triple the size of last year’s. The new department’s blend of
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Cameron Bennett, DMA, is well-known as the Dean of PLU’s School of Arts and Communication , but from 2019-2021 he also had another title — Chief Innovation Officer and chair of the Presidential Commission on Innovation and Change . Established in fall 2019, the commission’s…
students, representing 40 university departments, were appointed to serve. In the end, a set of “highest priority” recommendations were identified and are continuing in various implementation stages today. Bennett was inspired by the work of the commission, and gets excited when thinking about the potential for similar projects to come. “The incredible campus-wide enthusiasm for this process clearly demonstrated the necessity of PLU’s continued work for innovation and change,” Bennett says. “This
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1 Office of Naval Research Award Redipients were selected from several candidates by Captain Matthew Harper, U.S. Navy.
, Engineering and Mathematics.CurtisElastic Search On Rails11 Monisha UritiASM Materials FoundationOutstanding Exhibit in Materials ScienceBest materials engineering projectPuyallupThe Development of a More Accessible UVC Air Purifier to Mitigate the Covid-19 Virus12 Mia EscobarUS Agency for International DevelopmentScience Champion Projects with the potential to make an impact on international development challengesAnnie WrightTouching Pixels: a Braille Machine for Digital Reading12 Amy VierUS Agency for
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