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Conference 2017 Alumni Awards PLU Celebrates 500 Years of Re•forming Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights Calendar Highlights Upcoming Events Benson Lecture Oct. 17 Brad Tilden, alumnus and CEO of Alaska Airlines, will present the 13th annual Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. More Information Knutson Lecture Nov. 7 Ulrich Duchrow, professor of theology at the University of

soil, their bottles contains only a tiny, nearly undetectable drop. “It’s so little, right?” Aung says to a puzzled girl. Grants fuel innovation at PLUGrant funding from the National Science Foundation and Puget Sound Energy support projects in science and business education at PLU. The lesson Aung and Escobar are teaching is part of a pilot project launched this year by PLU’s Division of Natural Sciences and the School of Education and Kinesiology. Funded by a $71,000 Robert Noyce Teacher

phones may be monitored and/or recorded by PLU to assist with incident response.Protecting YourselfIf you sense a potential threat, consider your options and take action immediately to get away from the danger. Yell or scream. Attract attention. Yell “Call the Police” and run toward a lighted public area. Go into an open business or building and call Campus Safety (x7911) or the Police/Sheriff (911). Describe what happened and where. Give a detailed description of the suspect, as well as a

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average day, he responds to high-level questions about some of higher education’s toughest challenges: retention of marginalized students, tuition affordability, shrinking enrollment, balancing mission-based values with the bottom line. “There are, and there always will be, people in higher ed who say ‘We’re not a business,’” Belton said. “But, if we don’t have money, there’s no mission.” And, at the other end of the spectrum, he responds to calls about locks improperly installed on bathroom stalls

it’s like running a small city. On an average day, he responds to high-level questions about some of higher education’s toughest challenges: retention of marginalized students, tuition affordability, shrinking enrollment, balancing mission-based values with the bottom line. “There are, and there always will be, people in higher ed who say ‘We’re not a business,’” Belton said. “But, if we don’t have money, there’s no mission.” And, at the other end of the spectrum, he responds to calls about locks

promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery. The DNP Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Prepares nurses to provide a wide range of psychiatric and mental health care services to individuals and families across the lifespan. The DNP/MBA Nurse Executive program is designed for nurses with a MSN degree to earn the Doctor of Nursing Practice and Master of Business degrees simultaneously. This dual-degree program integrates coursework from both disciplines, allowing

humanities against STEM, business models, and other charges that such study is a self-indulgent luxury, impractical, and won’t ever lead to a well paying job.In the philosophy department, we are at Ground Zero for these debates; but I am happy to report that while it’s not Much Ado About Nothing, reports of the demise of the Humanities (at least at PLU) are a bit overblown. There are clearly serious issues and challenges, but I do not see these issues as any better or worse than when I arrived in the

Studies.   Within our department we teach courses that draw on other areas like medicine, business, gender studies, critical race theory and art and bring philosophy into dialogue with those areas and to facilitate critical examination of those areas.  We do not see this work as an add-on to our ‘real’ work in philosophy, but rather as an expression of how we practice and engage in the work of philosophy as a discipline. This means is that we must have a clear understanding  of and be firmly rooted in

difference is a mandatory skill in today’s world. “(The seminar) strengthened my belief that religious literacy is an essential requirement for American citizens,” he said. “Whether you work in nursing, the military, business or some other field, you will encounter people of different religious backgrounds whose commitments impact the choices they make.” Hammerstrom is a practicing Buddhist, serving on the outreach and education committees for the Tacoma Buddhist Temple. But he says he’s been trained “to