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the 200 medley relay. We spoke with Hamilton about her success in the pool, and how she finds time for her sport as a senior nursing student. When did you start swimming? How did you know it was something you wanted to do in college? I started competitive swimming when I was 11 years old. I didn’t know at the time how important the sport would become in my life. I knew it was something I wanted to do at the collegiate level when I wasn’t ready for my senior year of high school to be my last year

Student-athlete finds a community more than 2,600 miles from home Posted by: vcraker / November 14, 2022 November 14, 2022 Rylie Wada ’25, a nursing major from Honolulu, Hawaii, shares her experience finding community on the mainland. The softball player says she’s fortunate to have found a home at PLU in the classroom and field. Why did you choose to attend PLU? I really wanted to play softball, and the Division III aspect of it would allow me to focus on school in my education, which is

Classroom Podium Videos Just Launched! Posted by: Jenna S / August 26, 2014 August 26, 2014 Instructional Technologies is proud to announce that three new “Classroom Podium” videos just went live via our YouTube channel and web site. Instructors can now easily familiarize themselves with classroom technology they will be using at the start of the semester, from the convenience of their own offices.   Three New Videos! Each video is around three to four minutes in length and covers topics such

PLU music majors produce free music camp Posted by: vcraker / November 8, 2022 November 8, 2022 It’s a warm summer morning and the scent of scrambled eggs drifts from the kitchen at Trinity Lutheran Church into an adjoining room where more than a dozen campers busily make beaded jewelry. Ranging from second to sixth grade, the kids are participants in the Artist Mentoring Program music camp, an operation run by Pacific Lutheran University students. This morning, the PLU counselors move from

practice or take another direction with their training, having an understanding of innovation can help bring flexible problem solving skills into their future careers. “Being able to look at things beyond what they actually are meant for, and not being as susceptible to functional fixedness–this is an aspect of psychology that fits so well with the idea of innovation,” said McLaughlin.   PLU Students interested in minoring in Innovation Studies, or learning about campus resources that foster creative

the national tournament for the first time ever. This August in Beijing, she’ll serve the field hockey team as a sport psychology consultant and mental skills coach. “This has that extra-special emotional component to it,” she said. “I really feel it on a personal level.” Hacker is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of peak performance. At the Olympic level, there aren’t significant differences in the physical abilities of the athletes, she said. The difference is in an

most urgent needs,” said Thomas W. Krise, PLU president. United Way of America is a non-profit organization that works with more than 1,200 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support. “I LIVE UNITED by working with and donating through my workplace,” said Rick Eastman, co-campaign coordinator. “The PLU community is committed to the belief that we can make a difference by participating in strong, effective

program includes an introduction to the many opportunities related to the study of material response under extreme conditions. The summer school aims to strengthen ongoing interest and to enhance the long-term intellectual vitality of dynamic compression research. We encourage exceptional applicants with a desire to pursue a career or advanced degree, and who would contribute to the development, implementation and deployment of such technologies in practice. What is Dynamic Compression Science

, Melody Ferguson worked 40 hours a week to help pay her way through the University of Washington – 20 hours at the academic advising office, plus 20 hours off-campus in the Seattle Supersonics’ media relations office. Now, in her role as PLU associate dean of admission, she still feels the weight of her heartstrings when students from her old neighborhood receive the support they need to attend PLU.  “I’m passionate about working here because we value serving our regional community,” she says. “Of

participants will identify symbols that represent the divine within themselves, and use them to make collages, drawings or poems. We will ask ourselves, as visual thinkers and makers, how do we communicate our ideas effectively, with intention to the world, and yet, still create an opening for our viewers to include their own narrative in our work?The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in more than 500 years.Part of the 2017 Focus Series on