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environments with a focus on understanding issues related to inclusivity and diversity in STEM. This summer we have an exciting portfolio of research projects for REU students to join, led by a supportive and collaborative group of faculty mentors who are committed to building students’ knowledge and skills in educational research – as well as provide a rewarding and fun summer experience in the lovely Palouse! Deadline for applications is February 21, 2023! Please contact Dr. Erika Offerdahl

Legislative Days Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 28, 2019 March 28, 2019 By Jeannette ShimkoCommunications Coordinator/Administrative Assistant, SOCSOLYMPIA, Wash. - WA State Legislative Internship Faculty Coordinator DayPLU Political Science students (and their Prof. Maria Chávez-Pringle) attended Washington State Legislative Faculty Coordinator Day at the legislative building in March. Among some of the activities, “Stepping into Roles“, where interns discussed what it’s like to take on

environments with a focus on understanding issues related to inclusivity and diversity in STEM. This summer we have an exciting portfolio of research projects for REU students to join, led by a supportive and collaborative group of faculty mentors who are committed to building students’ knowledge and skills in educational research – as well as provide a rewarding and fun summer experience in the lovely Palouse! Deadline for applications is February 21, 2023! Please contact Dr. Erika Offerdahl

documentary, “Building Connections: Reclaiming the Lost Narratives of the Alaska-Canada Highway,” which premiered at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. The film chronicles the lives of the soldiers who built the highway, as well as the residents and First Nations people who were irrevocably changed by the project. The yearlong odyssey took the pair to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., up the Alaska-Canada Highway twice, and to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers archives in Virginia

, challenging and rewarding things they will do at the university. It will combine just about everything they have learned over their time at PLU – and then some. “Actually, a lot of the stuff we are encountering we never even learned in class,” said Ellison, a computer science and computer engineering major from Gig Harbor, Wash. That is no reflection of the classes Ellison took. Instead, it shows that the students are building upon their class lessons as they embark on their capstone. George Hauser

What’s in our room? With Leanne Emmi ’25 Posted by: vcraker / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 Leanne Emmi ’25 walks us through her room in Harstad Hall, to show how it’s organized to be a comfortable place to study, hang out with friends, and enjoy the view. Harstad Hall is the most historic building on campus, named after Bjug Harstad, PLU’s founder and first president. Today, this community is home to the Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Learning Community (LC), promoting this theme through

On Exhibit (Virtually): Wang Center Contest Winners Posted by: Holly Senn / April 13, 2020 April 13, 2020 While Mortvedt Library’s building is closed during the COVID-19 pandemic our exhibits continue–we are highlighting PLU students’ work online. Follow this link to the virtual exhibit of the Wang Center’s photo and video contest winners. The Annual Wang Center Photo & Video Contest is an opportunity for students to reflect upon their study away experience and to share images with the PLU

alone. 4. Points toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines. 5. Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry. 6. Requires support and justification, not just an answer. 7. Recurs over time; that is, the question can and should be revisited again and again (p.3). Using these criteria, a natural science course might pose the question, “What is the relationship between science and technology?” or a physical education course might ask, “What makes someone an

encourages everyone to go, whether you’re looking for an internship or job, or just trying to network. “Its just so important for your future,” Noble said. “It’s really good to get your people skills out there.” Employers, like Lauren Snyder, Human Resources Coordinator for Medical Consultants Network, agree. “I think it’s good to have the experience of actually talking with employers,” Snyder said. “They could even establish a relationship with a company so when they do graduate they can follow-up and

by the Benson Family Foundation during the 2005-2006 academic year and brings to campus outstanding members of the academic and business community. The topic for the Monday night’s lecture came from McCloskey’s series of books, The Bourgeois Era, which explore the relationship between moral virtue and capitalism. She argued that innovation, ingenuity, and the drive of societal change are characteristics of the middle-class, and that it was from the liberation of this class that the modern world