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  • Editor’s note: Speakers from the Nobel Peace Prize forum will be livestreamed at three events March 8,9 and 10 on-campus at PLU. Bruno Correa ’15 and Anna McCracken ’14 will represent PLU as Peace Scholars, accompanied by Claudia Berguson, the Svare-Toven Professor of Norwegian and…

    , father of the micro-lending movement and Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist known as “Mother of the Revolution.”  Journalist Robin Wright, who spoke at PLU last week, will also be at the conference, as will lawmakers and scholars at the cutting edge of peace building.“I like the fact they bring in speakers from business and science as well,” said Claudia Berguson, associate professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies, who will accompany the students. Berguson is also the Svare-Toven

  • Capstone Title: “Leaving it Open”

    situating the novel in the context of early nineteenth-century ideas about manners, I show how Jane Austen’s use of free indirect discourse is at the service of her critique of the upper class.Kathryn Einan4:30-5:00pm Capstone Title: “The Distance is Nothing”: Socio-Economic Movement in Pride and Prejudice ePortfolio: Abstract: This project develops a reading of spatial representation in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to reveal how Elizabeth Bennet’s movement effectively bridges socio-economic

  • Sarah Davis began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion. “I have a family history of agriculture, my grandfather…

    security. The other aspect of this to take into account is sustainability, accessibility and outreach to growers and consumers. With more research, the long-term impacts of farming and agricultural techniques can be found, and more responsible farming techniques can be implemented to help protect food growth and security. Outreach is another important component of plant biology and agriculture, because there are many misconceptions about genetic engineering in plants in particular, so direct

  • Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,

    explore how this living tradition understands the meaning of human life. Lutheranism is a movement within the Christian tradition and the course examines it within the context of our diverse, pluralistic, and secular world. The course includes topics such as: the history of this tradition and its impact, grace and freedom, church and secular authority, and social advocacy in politics, race, and gender. (4) RELI 226 : Christian Ethics - RL, VW This course introduces and explores moral arguments in

  • Ann E. Buchholz, Senior Capstone Seminar The Nipah virus belongs to the family henipaviridae, a class of deadly zoonotic agents, isolated mainly from fruit bats in Asia and Indonesia.

    CDC’s “One Health” aims to teach individuals in affected areas about zoonotic viruses and help reduce the spread of disease. Other laboratory techniques are used to analyze genes and proteins without working with live virus. These include Western blotting, Coomassie staining, PCR, and crosslinking assays. The ultimate goal is to better understand the Nipah virus in order to lead to the development of effective vaccines and other therapeutics. Promising results came out from a 2004 paper which had

  • The Computer Science Department senior capstone presentations will take place Friday and Saturday.  If you’d like to join the capstone Zoom session, please email Professor Laurie Murphy at

    reactstrap frontend. Saturday, May 15th9:30am – PLU Varsity Sports App Blake Uyehara (BA), Emily Sugimoto (BA) The PLU Varsity Sports App replicates the golutes website in a creative and user friendly design for mobile devices. Utilizing web scraping techniques, features such as team rosters, game statistics and game results are displayed in real time. Users will have greater accessibility to PLU sports while on the go through the direct link to the PLU streaming platform. The front end is built in Dart

  • In June, 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 achievement is significant to us and PLU because it shows how great our undergraduate program is and…

    the study of human movement. It is a dynamic and growing field with applications to a wide array of allied health, medicine, fitness, education, sport, and recreation related professions. An undergraduate degree in Kinesiology will provide you with the breadth and depth of knowledge you need to successfully pursue graduate programming or entry level professions in the field. Read Previous Discipline Dash: Professor Ami Shah on Global Studies Read Next PLU Media Lab students win Emmy for

  • Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb, 79, discusses her experiences of sharing her story of surviving the Holocaust and her obligation to testify. Giza was born in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. She was smuggled out of the Ghetto as a toddler in a suitcase and was…

    , heroically, against the Nazis in the Resistance Movement. Once the war ended, Giza was ripped from Danusia and her family’s arms after learning of her biological parents’ death in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Giza and Danusia never forgot one another, never learning to overcome the other’s absence. This is a novel conceived as a project of investigative journalism which progresses through interviews and documents revealing the fears, the losses, the silences and the incessant fight to recuperate the lost

  • Save the date to see our Christmas concert broadcast To bring PLU’s 125th anniversary year to a spectacular close, PLU’s annual Christmas concert “A Christmas Invitation” will be broadcast into homes on Christmas and Christmas Eve in the Seattle, Tacoma and the greater Portland area…

    Christmas Eve in the Seattle, Tacoma and the greater Portland area for the first time ever. Check below for broadcast times and channels near you and save the date! This year’s program features the exclusive world premiere of prolific Hollywood film composer J.A.C. Redford’s A Christmas Invitation, a three-movement work composed for the Choir of the West, University Chorale and our University Symphony Orchestra. The anniversary broadcast spotlights vocal soloist acclaimed Metropolitan Opera soprano

  • Peace forum livestreamed at PLU Three speakers at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum will be livestreamed at PLU on March 8,9 and 10. Discussion by faculty will follow. March 8: The first lecture will be by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the father of the micro-credit…

    March 1, 2013 Peace forum livestreamed at PLU Three speakers at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum will be livestreamed at PLU on March 8,9 and 10. Discussion by faculty will follow. March 8: The first lecture will be by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the father of the micro-credit movement, and it will be streamed live at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 8  in room 133 of the Anderson University Center. Faculty-led discussion will be led by professors Priscilla St. Clair (economics), and Mark Mulder and Fern