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  • leadership opportunities available through the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. Research grants and short-term off-campus course leader and program assistant positions are just a few of the global experiences available. Learn more here.

  • Antonios Finitsis’ approach to biblical literature is deeply socio-historical. Since this literature was shaped under the shadow of powerful empires, his research revolves around the lasting impact of colonial interests and power structures in the expression of religion and religious tradition. His most recent book is a collection of essays that examine the numerous ways in which dress communicates power in the Hebrew Bible. He is currently working on a second volume of Dress and the Hebrew Bible

  • 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

  • global education, student research, embracing lives of service and fostering PLU’s Lutheran Heritage. “Working together the campus community has realized so many important dreams,” Anderson said. “All of us together have sharpened and focused our mission as a Lutheran university. Together we have achieved our goals to cultivate academic excellence, to enhance our global perspective, to build an engaged community and to nurture life as vocation in the fullest sense. “Our community has turned these

  • better way to go. Another health benefit proven by research funded by Mars, a candy company that earns $30 billion annually, showed that chocolate actually lowers cholesterol. Despite these claim that chocolate is healthy, it is not the reason we eat chocolate. It’s simply delicious. Read Previous Mount Rainier Lutheran High School will make PLU East Campus facility home Read Next These pipes are playing COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad

  • difficulties and challenges through learning, the conference is the annual gathering of the Transformative Learning Network (TLN), an organization that aims to create opportunities for scholars and practitioners to present ideas, research and case studies regarding transformative learning. TLN defines transformative learning as “a living theoretical discipline which seeks to discover and explain how learning engages individuals so that they grow, evolve, and progress and in so doing engage human systems in

  • commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. Previous topics include “Climate,” “Gender,” “Violence” and “Advocacy.” Episodes of OTI are released once per month. If you have feedback, comments or ideas for episodes, please email producer Zach Powers at powerszs@plu.edu. Previous Episodes Read Previous PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior Read Next Symposium uplifts collaborative student-faculty research COMMENTS*Note: All

  • Sports and Recreation” (March 2010). In non-symposium years, the Wang Center hosts on-campus “World Conversation” events which highlight the global learning of students and faculty, and brings to campus what they have learned through study away and research around the world. The first of these World Conversations took place in 2007 following PLU being nationally recognized as the first U.S. university to have students studying simultaneously on all seven continents. This occurred in January term 2006

  • Best Medical School in Primary Care & Research by U.S. News. Approximately 92% of MAMS graduates go on to a health professional school (i.e. DO, MD, PT, OT, PA, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Optometry, Podiatry) Program PrerequisitesDoctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) Prerequisite Courses: English composition and literature: 6 semester hours/9 quarter hours ​​​​​​​General chemistry: 8 semester hours/12 quarter hours Organic chemistry: 8 semester hours/12 quarter hours (4 semester hours can be biochemistry

  • business and marketing. The approved Business or Communication courses give students the opportunity to focus on aspects of the publishing industry like business management, accounting, marketing research and strategy, and public relations. Some examples of classes in this category include Principles of Marketing, e-Marketing, and Media, Ethics, and the Law. Design/Production This category of elective courses focuses on students’ artistic and craft skills concerning forms of design and production. The