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October 25, 2010 Oil Literacy panel After the screening of “Oil Literacy” there will be a panel discussion with these guest panelists answering questions and talking about the literacy of oil. Diana Gibson, Research Director for the Parkland Institute Gibson is a Canadian researcher for a think-tank in Edmonton that seeks to study the economic and social implications surrounding oil sands development and production. She is featured in the film. Matthew Johnson, Media Education Specialist for

Professor Maria Chavez selected for 2021-23 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau Posted by: tpotts / July 2, 2021 July 2, 2021 The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Professor Maria Chavez has been selected as a Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau Presenter for the 2021-23 season. https://www.humanities.org/program/speakers-bureau/ In communities throughout Washington State, Speakers Bureau presenters give free public presentations on a wide variety of specialized

Jp Avila – “Office Hours” Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / August 9, 2016 August 9, 2016 In our new series, “Office Hours,” faculty open their doors and give you a look into their creative spaces. Join these faculty for their own office hours at PLU. Come in, sit down, have a conversation, you might just learn something new! Associate Professor Jp AvilaOffice: Ingram 106 Email: jp.avila@plu.edu Courses taught: Upper level graphic design Topics of Interest: Design, Service, New gadgets Tip: Loves

January 3, 2014 PLU Earns Prestigious Mortar Board Chapter By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU is populated with outstanding student leaders and meaningful, campuswide ways to recognize them—from Emerging Leaders to the Ubuntu Award and Pinnacle Society—but until now, there was no opportunity for national recognition. That’s where Mortar Board comes in. PLU now has its own chapter of the premier national honor society, which recognizes college seniors for superior achievement in scholarship, leadership

Three Lutes headed to Guinea through Peace Corps Posted by: Kari Plog / April 18, 2018 Image: Haley Bridgewater ’18, Margaret Chell ’18 and Madeline Wentz ’18 are all headed to Guinea through the Peace Corps. The seniors are part of the first cohort of the Peace Corps Prep program. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) April 18, 2018 By Mackenzie Cooper '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 18, 2018) — One of the first cohorts of Pacific Lutheran University’s nascent Peace Corps Prep

Intensive PLU program prepares future principals Posted by: Kari Plog / May 7, 2018 Image: The cohort of graduating principals at the School of Education’s Principal Intern Recognition Ceremony on Friday, May 18. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) May 7, 2018 By Debbie CafazzoContributing writerTACOMA, WASH. (May 7, 2018) — William Peterson took a non-traditional path to the principal’s office.After earning a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a teaching credential, he jetted off to Ecuador where he

Ask The more prep you do in advance of a meeting with a new contact, the more smoothly it will go. Consider these questions, along with those based on your research into a field. Depending on your career level, your questions may be more or less specific. A Day in the Life How did you enter this field? What has your career path been like? Do you use any of your graduate training in your job, and if so, how? On a typical day (or week) in this position, what do you do? What are the toughest problems

encourage Jake K.M. Paikai to embrace the faith of his Jewish grandparents? That hands-off approach proved essential to Paikai. “It allowed me a little space to breathe – to ask deep faith questions on my own.” When he arrived at PLU, he was still asking a lot of questions. After a few years, he fell in with the Alijah Jewish Club. For Paikai, it was what he needed – a community of fellow students with similar traditions, all who seemed to be asking a lot of questions about their own faith. “I like

June 29, 2010 Student learns disaster’s impact firsthand By Kari Plog ’11 Boats remain docked in Venice, La. as oil continues to gush from a ruptured BP oil well offshore in the Gulf Coast. “I would love to talk to y’all, but my job is my number one priority,” one fisherman said to me when asked to comment on how the spill has affected him. “I want to tell you what I think, but this is my livelihood.” Oil seeping into the Gulf of Mexico has caused a wide-spread impact of the coast from

March 28, 2011 The Rose comes home Sunbeams stab out through the dust and darkness in Tower Chapel, as Ramon Coranado carefully eases the 30-inch heart of the Rose Window from its lead fittings in the window frame where he had just placed it. The other pieces already have been fitted into place. This is the last and final piece. The fit isn’t quite right, so both Coranado, and his boss, Paul Martinez, of the stained glass specialist Judson Studios in Los Angles, will trim a bit more, before