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  • Undergraduate Research at Caltech https://www.plu.edu/chemistry/news/2017/11/02/undergraduate-research-at-caltech/

    experience and can articulate how their research interests align with Caltech’s research areas. Support: WAVE Fellows will receive a $6000 award for the ten-week program and an additional $500 housing/travel supplement. Application: Online applications are due January 12, 2018. For more information, visit http://www.sfp.caltech.edu/programs/wavefellows  AMGEN SCHOLARS PROGRAM Caltech’s Amgen Scholars Program is geared towards students in biology, chemistry, and biotechnology fields. Some of these fields

  • PLU Students Host Forum to Determine Legislative Advocacy Agenda https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/02/10/student-legislative-forum/

    about their political interests and issues the student body should advocate. The task force—Dan Stell ’15, Carly Brook ’15, Katerina Volosevych ’17, Caitlin Dawes ’16, Anne-Marie Falloria ’15 and Naomi Bess ’15—then selected one area of interest popular among the 308 students who responded to the survey and found corroborating bills that might be of interest to students. The popular areas of interest include environmental legislation, healthcare, wellness/community health, tax reform, higher

  • Wellness https://www.plu.edu/human-resources/wellness/

    a free problem assessment and referral service where you and your immediate family members can go for help in solving a variety of emotional, behavioral, family, relationship, financial, elder care and mental health or chemical dependency concerns. Complete confidentiality is assured.Kaiser PermanentePLU employees enrolled in PLU’s medical plan can visit the Kaiser Permanente website to access online health information, tools, and services that make health care accessible and convenient, 24

  • Students Speak https://www.plu.edu/gender-sexuality-race/student-resources/students-speak/

    pursuing a career in non-profit development. My goal is to work as the West Coast director of major gifts for the Global Fund for Women. Selina Mach, Class of 2014I entered college unsure of the direction my education at PLU would take; my first year was spent dabbling in everything from economics to chemistry. I finally found my niche in a Women’s and Gender Studies course disguised as a first-year writing seminar. I found myself absorbed in the material, often relaying studies and statistics to

  • Founders Statement https://www.plu.edu/wang-center/founders-statement/

    California and the Pan-Pacific countries, he has given special attention to the teaching of Chinese language and the training of Chinese language teachers. Beginning in May 2010, the Wang Foundation has become actively engaged in the discussion and formulation of the “California Language Road Map”. This focus as been on contributing ideas to improving the foreign language proficiency of elementary and high school students and ideas in the areas such as Chinese teacher training, teaching materials, fund

  • On Exhibit: Library Resources about Homelessness https://www.plu.edu/library/news/on-exhibit-library-resources-about-homelessness/

    knowledge, and codes of behavior, which help them survive and cope with the adverse conditions under which they live. Nevertheless, most members of mainstream society who encounter homeless men and women neither understand nor appreciate the root causes of homelessness, the intelligence and resourcefulness of the homeless community, and the daily struggles for survival on the street.” — From Deutsch, J. I. (2013). Homelessness. In C. G. Bates, & J. Ciment (Eds.), Global social issues: An encyclopedia

  • Joanna Gregson – Resolute Online: Fall 2017 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/author/gregsojg/

    : teaching students and engaging in scholarly pursuits. For many academics, these are distinct activities. Like the student-athlete who spends time in the classroom and on the field — but doesn’t juggle a soccer ball in class or write papers during practice — the teacher-scholar at most universities teaches courses and carries out a scholarly research agenda, with little overlap. At Pacific Lutheran University, the teacher-scholar identity means something different. Yes, faculty members at PLU teach and

  • Paid Engineering Internship with Tacoma Power https://www.plu.edu/physics/news/paid-engineering-internship-with-tacoma-power/

    Paid Engineering Internship with Tacoma Power Posted by: nicolacs / April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023 As an Engineering Intern you will assist in providing and maintaining the departmental computing and functional systems capability for the Resource Operations & Trading group, which is a mission critical 24/7 operation. The Resource Operations & Trading group optimizes Tacoma Power’s Resource portfolio through efficient, reliable dispatch of generation resources to maximize wholesale energy sales

  • The Future of Classics at PLU https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/the-future-of-classics-at-plu/

    retiring this year, pictured during his sabbatical on the Via Appia in Italy. We wish our colleague Eric Nelson a joy- and rest-filled retirement, well-deserved after thirty years of teaching and collegiality and work at PLU. His dedicated service, his strategic thinking, and his generous sense of humor will be missed. But we are happy that he and his wife Susan Rowan-Nelson—also a PLU graduate and a veteran professor— will be enjoying time on their boat on the Puget Sound. And we are very pleased that

  • Lectures in Religion https://www.plu.edu/prism/lectures-in-religion/

    support the university’s commitment to a just and peaceful society? A broad range of topics were considered, including: the origins of the social justice tradition, the call to resist structural evil, the music of social justice, food justice, the vocation of justice-making, and contemporary Lutheran commitments to economic and environmental justice. Dr. Samuel Torvend, PLU A PLU Student Listens Intently Dr. Paul Westermeyer, Luther Seminary Dr. Samuel Torvend, PLU PLU Web App. Developer Sean Horner