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  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat…

    , built houses and “called it good.” However, Zylstra’s former colleague piqued his interest when he started to speak of a new Habitat housing development located a little more than a mile from PLU’s campus. The more Zylstra heard about the Woods at Golden Given — a sustainable 30-home housing community — the more he wanted to get involved. “The Woods is a real community being formed instead of just one house, and that was appealing to me,” Zylstra said. “My thought was that even when these 30 homes

  • A year after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, Mark Carrato ‘94 had been island hopping around rural southwestern Japan teaching English to junior high school students. But now he had a decision to make—return to the United States and begin the law school he had…

    continue to teach for another year?“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.  Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power

  • Applications are now being accepted for  SCI Scholars , a summer internship program supported by  Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) , the  American Chemical Society (ACS) , and the  American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) . In this prestigious program, up to 32 chemistry and…

      $6,000-$10,000+ stipend, depending on the internship   Certificate of recognition   $1,000 professional development stipend   Opportunity to nominate an inspiring high school chemistry teacher for recognition. Teachers will be awarded a certificate and $1,000, which can be used for professional development or classroom materials. The application deadline is November 30, 2017. If interested please visit:  www.acs.org/SCI  SCI Scholars flyer Read Previous Medical Terminology for Allied Health Read Next

  • Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS)  is hosted annually by top-ranked Rice University. GCURS provides current undergraduates the opportunity to present their original research discoveries to scholars from around the world. First hosted in 2008, GCURS is proud to be one of the longest-running and most prestigious undergraduate…

    States. The Chemistry section is open to junior and senior undergraduates. Applications are open. GCURS will be held for 2 days, October 8-9, 2022 at Rice University. Saturday, October 8 – Student presentations & reception Sunday, October 9 – Professional development talks presented by Graduate and Postdoctoral Students (GPS) and scholars For additional information please see the GCURS 2022 Chem Flyer. The deadline to apply is September 1st! Read Previous ACS Graduate School Readiness & Professional

  • Alum to address changing face of global health Epidemiologist William Foege will speak on campus Feb. 22 at the Wang Center for International Programs’ symposium “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations.”The symposium will highlight the work of non-governmental organizations that are searching for global…

    1957 PLU graduate, Foege’s talk, titled “From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: The Changing Face of Global Health,” is slated for Friday, Feb. 22 at 11:15 a.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall. Foege is widely recognized as a leader in the successful eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. He has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. A strong proponent of

  • This is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen.…

    recipients in the United States. DACA grants temporary visas to young people who arrived in the United States with their parents as undocumented immigrants. While Kim might not be an American legally, he is certainly a Lute. Kim graduated in 2015 with degrees in mathematical economics and psychology and a minor in statistics. Currently, he is in his third year at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law School at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ.“PLU really set things well for me,” Kim said. But the

  • Professor Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies. (John Froschauer, Photo) A Report on Scholarship and Activities in 2013-2014 Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies During the past two years, Bob Ericksen has given ten lectures in five nations on three…

    Library. While in London, he was able to attend a conference hosted by the Institute for Jewish Studies, University College London, on the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem. As a side benefit, he also attended a reception at the House of Lords for his graduating class at the London School of Economics. Read Previous Relay for Life Read Next International ‘Speed-Dating’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or

  • The  2018 SCI Scholars Summer Internship program   application deadline is  November 30, 2017. SCI Scholars  is a summer internship program supported by  Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) , the  American Chemical Society (ACS) , and the  American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) . In…

    selected for 10-week Summer 2018 internships at 14 companies. Winners will receive  $6,000-$10,000+ stipend, depending on the internship  Certificate of recognition  $1,000 professional development stipend Opportunity to nominate an inspiring high school chemistry teacher for recognition. Teachers will  be awarded a certificate and $1,000, which can be used for professional development or classroom materials. If interested please visit:  www.acs.org/SCI  or see the SCI Scholars flyer Read Previous 2018

  • Interested in flavors and fragrance chemistry?  Did you know that Washington is the top-producing spearmint and peppermint region in the world?  I.P. Callison & Sons in Lacey, WA has recently announced that they have expanded their internship program.  A current PLU chemistry student  has already…

    the industry.   I.P. Callison & Sons will now be constantly on the lookout for new interns. Attached is a general Job Description for the Internship program. Interviews will be conducted and positions filled on an ongoing basis in all departments (Flavor Development, Flavor Research, Mint Varietal Development, Applications, and Analytical Services). Interested students should e-mail a cover letter and resume to Catherine Maurseth (Flavor Coordinator)  callison@ipcallison.com and be prepared to

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — Jessica Anderson ’07 is hunkering down at home in Montana with husband Chris, kids Bryer and Jase, and Jethro the dog while working for an EdTech company supporting educators across the country as they transition to distance learning. As…

    PLU alumna is helping educators nationwide adapt to teaching from a distance Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 14, 2020 Image: Jessica Anderson ’07, Montana’s Teacher of the Year in 2016, has been helping fellow teachers transition to distance learning in her role as Manager of Learning & Development for Virtual Instructional Coaching for an EdTech company. April 14, 2020 By Lisa Patterson ‘98Marketing & Communications Guest WriterTACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — Jessica Anderson ’07 is