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PLU Alumni Named Pierce County Nurse of the Year Posted by: marcom / May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 By Amanda Mackey – 2015 PCNA Nurse of the Year!PLU alumni, Amanda Mackey ’04, has been named the Pierce County Nurse of the Year. Mackey currently works at St. Clare Hospital in the Orthopedic Medical Surgery Unit and has been with St. Clare Hospital for the past ten years. Congratulations Amanda! Read Previous Congratulations to Dr. Woo and Dr. Robinson! Read Next Poster Presentations LATEST POSTS Dr

Applied-Physics REU at the University of South Florida Posted by: alemanem / January 20, 2022 January 20, 2022 The NSF-funded REU in Applied Physics at the University of South Florida in Tampa is about to enter its twelfth summer! The program runs May 20th through July 29th and includes projects with faculty in experimental, theoretical, and computational physics.  They cover travel expenses to and from Tampa as well as a $5,000 stipend for the ten-week program.  Review of applications will

Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona Posted by: nicolacs / October 21, 2021 October 21, 2021 The Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona is holding a virtual information session (via Zoom) regarding their five graduate programs. They are currently accepting graduate applications for the Fall 2022 semester with a priority consideration deadline of December 15th and hard deadline of January 15th. Monday, November 9 from 2:00

Virtual Career Fair with the U.S. Dept of State Posted by: nicolacs / October 27, 2022 October 27, 2022 The U.S. Department of State is excited to host its second virtual STEM Diversity Career Fair on Thursday, November 17, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  This year’s event will again focus on STEM careers in the Foreign and Civil Service as well as student programs and professional fellowships within the Department. We seek architects, engineers, IT professionals, electronic

William Carlos Williams pointed out, a poem is a machine made out of words. In the classroom, then, the poem can be discussed the way machines are discussed, with reference to the technical features that make the machine what it is. To speak of poems in this way, however, requires a scholar’s commitment to studying the genre’s history, its masters, as well as its formal and thematic dynamics. In my poetry-writing courses, it turns out that reading and studying poetry end up taking more time than the

PLU digital campaign explores the meaning of the words “anti-racist,” “anti-Blackness,” “decolonize” and “BIPOC” Posted by: Zach Powers / September 21, 2020 Image: Members of PLU’s “MLMC: Words Mean Things” team include (from left to right) Angie Hambrick (co-producer), Ami Shah (discussion facilitator), Kenzie Gandy (co-producer) and Lace Smith (co-producer). September 21, 2020 “My Language. My Choice. Words Mean Things” is a dynamic digital campaign being launched this month by Pacific

Teaching in the Pandemic: How Three Teachers Made the Best of an Unprecedented Time Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 27, 2021 Image: Alonso Brizuela ’14, Sarah Lord ’00, Caitlyn Zwang ’09 May 27, 2021 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterHigh school choir and guitar teacher Alonso Brizuela ’14 was in Spokane at a national choral directors conference in mid-March of 2020. Just a day and half days into events, the conference shut down early—due to a mysterious new illness that