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  • on our world. This year, the 10th Biennial Wang Symposium comes full circle, with a focus on “Healing: Pathways for Restoration and Renewal.”“Even as I was planning the 9th biennial symposium two years ago, I was already thinking that the next symposium would be on a topic that would bring forth ideas and practices about how to bridge polarization,” said Tamara Williams, Ph. D., executive director for the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education.  The topic of healing soon took on

  • Students at WorkEach year PLU students are hard at work doing independent research, working with faculty on their research, doing internships in local museums and businesses, and otherwise being of service to the community. On this page we highlight a few of their recent accomplishments. Severtson AwardS. Erving Severtson/Forest Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowships are presented to students in the Social Science disciplines to allow them to conduct research with faculty mentors

  • their university. Where does the summer course in Norway take place?Students spend their first week in training in Oslo with time at the Peace Institute’s student cabin. The focus of these first days of the course is dialogue and peace. The next six weeks, students are part of an international student body of participants from over 90 countries. The course on peace studies is one of many offered at the Oslo International Summer School on the University of Oslo campus. Students live in a campus

  • Humanities series. Both presentations will focus on the complexities, evolution and future of family diversity in the United States. Read Previous PLU Hosts Free Resource Summit for Veterans Communitywide Read Next From First-Year Communication Student to Election Night Reporter With the Pros COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes

  • Quick Facts Why PLU? PLU provides the context and the opportunity for hands-on work and thoughtful consideration of psychology in the liberal arts and the sciences. Because of the faculty’s commitment to collaborative work with the students, they know the majors as individuals. Students and faculty work together as colleagues on research projects, community activities and internships. Why Psychology at PLU? The psychology department’s mission is to foster a community of scholars committed to

  • ACS Graduate School Readiness & Professional Development Boot Camp Posted by: nicolacs / June 17, 2022 June 17, 2022 The ACS Bridge Project (ACS-BP) is partnering with the Genentech Foundation and the ACS Leadership Institute (ACS-LI) to launch the Graduate School Readiness and Professional Development (GSRPD) Boot Camp for 25 selected undergraduate students from underrepresented racial and ethnic (UR) groups who are currently enrolled in a US-based institution. Traditionally, UR groups refer

  • ) out of almost 500 schools ranked nationally.PLU’s MBA prepares leaders to be innovative and socially responsible in a global society. Over 60% of MBA students come from the workforce, and our faculty and staff provide instruction in the classroom that students can apply to real-life situations. “PLU prides itself on offering a top-ranked MBA program that accommodates the schedules of working professionals and equips students with a strong foundation in theory while providing professional

  • that couldn’t fit with earlier schedules, gain research and/or laboratory experience, learn a language, demonstrate a well-rounded and versatile course of study, develop transferable business skills such as finance, marketing and people management or explore options that might lead to a new professional or academic direction. With more than 400 courses in 50 subject areas taught by senior faculty across the University, students have the flexibility to choose options that sustain their intellectual

  • they liked and disliked about how Sakai was used in their courses. All students interviewed said they had taken courses where some tools on the Sakai site menu were not used. They described their frustration as a scavenger hunt where they clicked on the tool menu item but found a dead end with no content, wondering why the tool was even there or if they had missed something. When you create your Sakai site, it includes a default set of commonly used tools that appear in the left menu. But you can

  • which she took classes about European sustainable design and food systems. She also says that she was able to take exciting General Education classes such as European Storytelling: From Homer to Harry Potter, Nordic Culinary Culture, and Criminology in Scandinavia. Through DIS, students are placed into small groups in order to easily connect with other students in the program, and are given the opportunity to go on study tours together. DIS also provides students the opportunity to live with a