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students how to cook — but everyone agrees it’s been a pretty tasty side effect.Munro, an associate professor of chemistry, intended the general education summer term course to appeal to students without a declared science major as a way to gain a lab experience and learn about her discipline through a fun, non-intimidating lens. “I was trying to think of how to do some sort of Gen-Ed course,” Munro said. “It was Thanksgiving, and I watched a lot of Great British Baking shows, and I was like, ‘Oh, we
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January 1, 2010 Heroes by permanent marker In December 2009, PLU students, and co-founders of the Progress Club, Harold Leraas and Andrew McGuiness on behalf of the club accepted the 2009 Hero Award from the Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. The co-founders of the PLU club said the efforts by the members of Progress have raised more than $13,000 for the children’s hospital’s Free Care Fund, which helps pay for care for uninsured children. Leraas and McGuinness took some time to
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introduction to Houston, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in the nation. Sessions are available in the following fields: Applied Physics BioSciences: Biochemistry and Cell Biology BioSciences: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Chemistry Electrical and Computer Engineering Materials Science and NanoEngineering Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Physics and Astronomy Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology The GCURS 2020 application deadline is October 5, 2020
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PLU’s warm, sunny greenhouse, watching for genetic traits that help millet grow taller or produce more seeds. “The Danforth Center is crowdsourcing genetic research,” Laurie-Berry says. “We’re helping Danforth go through thousands of seeds, identifying which are worth studying. No one knows how each one will behave.” PLU students are joining high school and undergraduate students in analyzing lab-generated mutant seed populations in partnership with Danforth. Students care for the plants, recording
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March 19, 2012 Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and she would teach them English songs. (Photo courtesy of Karissa Bryant) Alumna works to teach, train students in India By Katie Scaff ’13 Since graduating from PLU in 2003, music and vocal performance major Karissa Bryant has travelled the
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June 14, 2012 Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila reads “Into the Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea. Editor’s note: Luis Alberto Urrea, author of “Into the Beautiful North” will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in Lagerquist Concert Hall. The book you need to read this summer By Steve Hansen When first-year students showed-up to campus this June for the class registration sessions called Charting Your Course, they left with more than course catalogs and
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PLU student-media members to present at College Media Association’s national conference in New York Posted by: Kari Plog / March 5, 2018 Image: McKenna Morin ’19 (left), Courtney Miranda ’19 (center) and Natalie Mooney ’19 (right) are heading to New York City this week to present at a national conference for the College Media Association. (Photo by Molly Ivey ’20) March 5, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 5, 2018) — Student journalists nationwide get to
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New federal grant boosts PLU doctoral nursing students serving in underserved WA areas Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / September 3, 2019 Image: Graduate Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Nursing Kathy Richardson instructs a PLU nursing class on suturing. September 3, 2019 By StaffMarketing and CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 3, 2019) — A new $2.8 million federal grant will help increase the number of PLU Doctor of Nursing Practice students who can serve rural and underserved
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A Trip to the Archives? Book It, PLU Librarian Says Posted by: Zach Powers / March 28, 2023 Image: Lauren Loftis is the archivist & special collections librarian at PLU. (Photos by Sy Bean/PLU) March 28, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterSometimes you’re drawn to a career path, and other times you discover it by serendipity, as Lauren Loftis, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Pacific Lutheran University, did.“I carelessly stumbled into it. In fact, the
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October 28, 2009 Much more than event planners Student Involvement and Leadership isn’t just a department that plans events, but rather a partner and active participant in learning, in supporting the complete college student. That couldn’t be truer than at Pacific Lutheran University and a lot of that has to do with the leadership of Eva Johnson ’95, director of Student Involvement and Leadership. She’s been a leader in integrating how the department integrates learning into campus life, as
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