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  • Raechelle Baghirov ’05 teaching in Azerbaijan with the Peace Corps. (Photo provided by Raechelle Baghirov) In pursuit of wild hope in Azerbaijan By Katie Scaff ‘13 Discovering your wild hope doesn’t end when you leave PLU,  just ask Raechelle Baghirov ’05. After graduating, Baghirov spent…

    March 20, 2013 Raechelle Baghirov ’05 teaching in Azerbaijan with the Peace Corps. (Photo provided by Raechelle Baghirov) In pursuit of wild hope in Azerbaijan By Katie Scaff ‘13 Discovering your wild hope doesn’t end when you leave PLU,  just ask Raechelle Baghirov ’05. After graduating, Baghirov spent three years volunteering with the Peace Corps in Azerbaijan, where she learned much more than a foreign language. “The phrase ‘a life of service’ was thrown around a lot. Professors would talk

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 18, 2018) — One of the first cohorts of Pacific Lutheran University’s nascent Peace Corps Prep program will soon embark on a journey from the West Coast to West Africa. The three humanitarians — Madeline Wentz ’18, Haley Bridgewater ’18 and Margaret…

    highest volunteer participation.Learn more and applyLearn more about the Peace Corps Prep program and application detailsThe three graduating Lutes will live and work in Guinea, located in West Africa, for up to 27 months. Wentz and Bridgewater depart in July, while Chell follows in November. For the first few months, each volunteer will complete an intensive course facilitating integration into local communities and administering pre-service safety and technical training. “At first, we will be living

  • 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…

    connections are made, how to find service opportunities. I know I was someone who struggled on my own to find out about these things. So I wanted to offer a campus resource for underclassmen to learn from upperclassmen, and for all of us to learn from physicians, what this all can look like and what the medical field is all about.  Is connecting with working doctors and others in the field a big part of what the club does? Yes it is. Recently we’ve had a lot of alums come in who are currently in medical

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…

    -term study away programs. But Lutes didn’t have to study away to get similar eye-opening experiences. Caitlin Johnston, a first-year who hopes to study biology and French, participated in the Parkland Immersion program, which was co-sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES), Associated Students of PLU (ASPLU) and Residential Life. This program took three students on a five-day journey to explore Parkland and to learn more about the area surrounding PLU. Johnston said she

  • Seattle AWIS awards scholarships to several undergraduate women who are majoring in science, math or engineering fields at colleges and universities in Washington State and will enter their junior or senior year in the Fall. Scholarship winners are selected based on academic achievement, financial need,…

    AWIS Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / February 26, 2024 February 26, 2024 Seattle AWIS awards scholarships to several undergraduate women who are majoring in science, math or engineering fields at colleges and universities in Washington State and will enter their junior or senior year in the Fall. Scholarship winners are selected based on academic achievement, financial need, motivation to pursue a science-based career, and a record of community service. Seattle AWIS has awarded scholarships

  • This exhibit of student work is based on an art class assignment in which students created aquatic lifeforms, both real and fictional, using paper mache. There were 17 total art pieces ranging from dolphins to mermaids to seahorses Class : 3-D Design, Spring ‘24 Professor…

    On Exhibit: Veterans Day: A Salute to Service November 1, 2022 Black History Month: Seeking (a Supreme Court) Justice February 2, 2022 Mortvedt Library materials for HEALING: PATHWAYS FOR RESTORATION AND RENEWAL symposium February 16, 2022 On Exhibit: Women’s History Month March 9, 2022

  • The University of Washington PREP (Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program) is currently accepting applications for the class of 2022-2023. They seek individuals who are members of groups underrepresented in biomedical sciences, including those with disabilities, who are US citizens or hold permanent resident status, have great potential and enthusiasm…

    Fellowship – National Park Service LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program October 29, 2024 Summer Research – Army HBCU-MI SPARK October 29, 2024 IMOD Summer Research Opportunity for Undergrads October 17, 2024

  • While at PLU, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She was excited about the idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she…

    a public health educator. She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. One morning, she woke up to a flurry of messages informing her that the pandemic would be changing her life in an instant. “It was probably five in the morning. I looked at my phone and I had 130 text messages. I’m not exaggerating there were a bunch,” Chell says. She was part

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 19, 2016)- Jen Cohen ’94 is all smiles. But the University of Washington athletic director, appointed to the position May 24, smiles the biggest while talking to, and about, student athletes. “We feel like our students are students first,” said Cohen, who…

    grade. “I never really looked back,” she recalled. “I wanted to do exactly what I’m doing today.”PLU AthleticsLearn more about PLU teams and the community service work they perform.Cohen said the support from the legendary coach and others means a lot, especially as a woman in her male-dominated field. She’s only the second female AD in UW history and the only current female AD in the Pac-12 Conference. Cohen said PLU was a perfect fit for her. She served as a graduate assistant, working primarily

  • Nancy Nelson’s path to a career in education was a nontraditional one. So it’s no surprise that her journey led her to a special kind of school. Since fall 2020, Nelson has served as director of career and technical education (CTE) at Chief Leschi Schools,…

    what they might do for a job.” The program offers student five career pathways, all aligned with tribal entities. A pathway on natural resources connects students with tribal fisheries and land use departments. A culinary arts pathway has students learn commercial cookery through the school’s food service or from chefs who work in the restaurants at the Emerald Queen Casino, one of the tribe’s businesses. A medical careers pathway puts them in touch with professionals from the tribal health service