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Amazon Locker locations debut on campus for Lutes, community members seeking convenient self-service delivery options Posted by: Kari Plog / September 27, 2016 Image: One of two Amazon Locker locations on PLU’s campus in the Anderson University Center. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 27, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 27, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University is a new location for Amazon Locker, a self-service delivery pitstop for students, faculty

lecture presented arguments from Halvorson’s most recent book, Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (2020). It can be viewed now on PLU’s YouTube Channel, at https://youtu.be/mqsrEYMwR6w. Code Nation is a five-year research project that grew out of Halvorson’s work with the Innovation Studies program and his duties as Benson Family Chair of Business and Economic History at PLU. The book explores the business and technical history of computer programming in

packed. On Nov. 27, while the rest of us are still watching movies, eating leftovers or browsing for a few bargains at the mall, this pair will be heading off to New Zealand, and then on to McMurdo Station on Dec. 1. On Dec. 13, the team will head out to the field research site and then for the next 40 days, be collecting and analyzing rocks – with the exception of taking a well-earned break on Christmas Day. “We already shipped our Christmas presents and treats down there,” Todd said. “We’ll be

university operating in his backyard partly because he has no plans on leaving ― but also out of what amounts to almost a personal obligation to serve and give back to the place that raised him. “There are so many people that I went to high school with, so many kids in our community that don’t feel empowered to stay here because they’re not satisfied with their situation,” he said. “It’s super important to me that no matter where you’re from, you try to find what’s beautiful in that place and make it a

, one of the safest cities in the country, which is kind of entirely contrary to what you would hear about it,” Wiersma said, adding that was “in contrast with Juarez, which is one of the most dangerous cities on the face of the planet. We really wanted to get to the bottom of it and be like ‘What’s it actually like living in a border community?’” The second episode to screening on Feb. 17 will focus on women who work in the construction trade. Construction is an industry typically dominated by

professor Jerrold Lerum. What started as a medical mission morphed into a Ugandan East African Neurosurgery Training Program in August 2009, with Haglund (left) and Dr. Michael Muhumuza of Mulago Hospital serving as co-directors. Haglund said Lerum told him his 3.0 GPA as a biology major after his freshman fall semester  wouldn’t be good enough to get into medical school, and that motivated Haglund to switch to a chemistry major to prove him wrong – which he did. Haglund understood the motivating factor

explore the intersection between global initiatives and technology with many renowned international leaders and activists. I’m also going to be featured on the U.N. Foundation website and recognized as a Why We Care Youth Champion.” Why We Care Youth serves as a platform for young people nationwide, ages 18-25, to raise their voices and spark change globally. To enter, emerging young leaders shared powerful personal stories about what access to reproductive health and contraception has meant in their