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  • David Yun ’22 has been busy throughout his four years at Pacific Lutheran University. The pre-med student and chemistry major has been an academic standout, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held…

    , serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held down a variety of jobs, including working as a medical scribe, tutor, and scholar lead/mentor for Washington state opportunity scholars. He’s also been a campus leader, serving as the Vice President of the PLU Habitat for Humanity chapter, At-large senator of ASPLU, and founding the university’s Global Medical Brigades/Pre-med Club.Global Medical Brigades is

  • Get ready, Relay for Life set for April For the third time in as many years, PLU will host a Relay for Life event on campus. The annual fund-raising event for the American Cancer Society also celebrates cancer survivors and caregivers and remembers those who’ve…

    February 14, 2008 Get ready, Relay for Life set for April For the third time in as many years, PLU will host a Relay for Life event on campus. The annual fund-raising event for the American Cancer Society also celebrates cancer survivors and caregivers and remembers those who’ve died from the disease. Relay events are held in communities across the nation. Teams of students, faculty, staff and alumni are already forming for PLU’s 18-hour walk around the university track on April 25 and 26. This

  • Relay for Life at PLU Raises Money—and Awareness Students walk during a previous Relay for Life at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Valery Jorgensen ’15 The international fundraiser Relay For Life, for the American Cancer Society, will be held at PLU beginning Friday, April 25.…

    April 24, 2014 Relay for Life at PLU Raises Money—and Awareness Students walk during a previous Relay for Life at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Valery Jorgensen ’15The international fundraiser Relay For Life, for the American Cancer Society, will be held at PLU beginning Friday, April 25. Relay For Life is an overnight event that raises money for cancer awareness. It takes place in more than 20 countries around the world. Relay For Life has been held at PLU for a number of years, and

  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s, an estimated 25 to 35…

    Schnackenberg Lecturer to Discuss the Removal of Indigenous Children From Their Families Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 26, 2015 Image: Dr. Margaret Jacobs (Photo: Craig Handler/University of Nebraska-Lincoln) January 26, 2015 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 23, 2015)—Over J-Term, Pacific Lutheran University seniors Hailey Olafson and James Van Alstine presented their mathematics research at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, Texas. JMM, put on by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, is the…

    Antonio, Texas.JMM, put on by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, is the largest mathematics meeting in the world. The research Olafson and Van Alstine presented, on changing the base of numbers, was conducted over the summer with PLU Assistant Professor of Mathematics Tom Edgar. Edgar says that numbers we know are “usually easy” to understand because the base is 10: We count in 1000s, 100s, 10s and 1s. For their research, though, the trio started to replace

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 24, 2015)-The Pacific Lutheran University Chorale’s 2015 spring tour, April 15-18, will include a performance in Longview, Washington and four performances in Oregon. The Chorale tours annually and has performed recently for conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association and American Choral…

    University Chorale Tour to Include Four Performances in Oregon Posted by: Zach Powers / March 24, 2015 Image: (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 24, 2015 TACOMA, WASH. (March 24, 2015)-The Pacific Lutheran University Chorale’s 2015 spring tour, April 15-18, will include a performance in Longview, Washington and four performances in Oregon. The Chorale tours annually and has performed recently for conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association and American Choral Directors Association

  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 22, 2015)—According to research by the American Association of University Women, women earn 82 percent of what their male counterparts earn one year after graduation, and the gender wage gap widens over the next 10 years. Over the course of her life,…

    Student Organizes April 24 Salary-Negotiation Workshop to Combat Gender Wage Gap Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 22, 2015 Image: According to research by the American Association of University Women, over the course of her life, a woman will earn roughly $1 million less than a man, simply because she is a woman. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 22, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 22, 2015)—According to research by the American Association of

  • Earlier this month, PLU’s Kinesiology Team—Emily Whittaker ’21, Alyssa Pociernicki ’22, and Brianna O’Malley ’21—finished third in the 2021 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) National Knowledge Bowl. “This experience was one for the books. I used to compete on a knowledge bowl team in…

    PLU’s kinesiology team places third at 2021 national sports medicine knowledge bowl Posted by: Silong Chhun / June 22, 2021 Image: 2020 PLU NW Regional ACSM Knowledge Bowl champions Nate Adams ’20, Brianna O’Malley ’21 and Sam Crompton ’20 June 22, 2021 By Silong ChhunPLU Marketing and Communications Earlier this month, PLU's Kinesiology Team—Emily Whittaker '21, Alyssa Pociernicki '22, and Brianna O'Malley '21—finished third in the 2021 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) National

  • David Yun ’22 has been busy throughout his four years at Pacific Lutheran University. The pre-med student and chemistry major has been an academic standout, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held…

    chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held down a variety of jobs, including working as a medical scribe, tutor, and scholar lead/mentor for Washington state opportunity scholars. He’s also been a campus leader, serving as the Vice President of the PLU Habitat for Humanity chapter, At-large senator of ASPLU, and founding the university’s Global Medical Brigades/Pre-med Club.Global Medical Brigades is an international

  • The French-American Foundation has announced that PLU Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin is one of the winners of the 2024 Translation Prize. Wilkin and her co-editor and translator Angela Hunter, an English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the nonfiction prize…

    PLU French professor Rebecca Wilkin wins the 2024 Translation Prize Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / June 7, 2024 Image: PLU Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin teaching a course titled “French / Francophone Feminisms.” (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) June 7, 2024 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & Communications The French-American Foundation has announced that PLU Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin is one of the winners of the 2024 Translation Prize. Wilkin and her co-editor and translator Angela Hunter, an