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Virtual convening of The People’s Gathering to facilitate timely conversations about race Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsOn July 9 PLU’s Campus Ministry and Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will be hosting a virtual edition of The People’s Gathering, a dialogue-based event series focusing in-depth on the topic of race.The People’s Gathering is an annual professional/personal development experience and

made and what they might have done differently to achieve a different outcome.When we study what motivated individuals to make the choices they did, we can then challenge ourselves and our students to consider what other options were present in that historical moment. We can then postulate what types of options are now available to us under similar conditions. If we want a different outcome, then we must decide to take actions that differ from what was done in the past.  For some, asking tough

PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center selected for Registrars to the Rescue service project Posted by: Julie Winters / July 28, 2016 July 28, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (June. 23, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) is one of two Tacoma-area museums selected for a service project by Registrars to the Rescue (R2R), an initiative of the Washington Museum Association.Curators with R2R will visit the SCC on June 22 and work in

substance. Yakelis gives the students a rundown on how to order the machine to drop the sample into the depths of the NMR, and then await test results on how protons are oriented in the unknown liquid. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the machine. There, a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field spins the compound at super-fast speeds. As

March 29, 2010 Alternative Spring Break takes group back to Guatemala By Loren Liden ’11 This year, ten PLU students and five PLU staff will return to Antigua, Guatemala for the first time in five years on an Alternative Spring Break trip. In fact, Antigua is where PLU first traveled for Alternative Spring Break, led by three of the leaders for this year’s trip.   This year’s alternate spring break will take 10 students and four faculty to Guatemala. There, the group will see famous carpets

to be taken seriously as a woman, student and professional. And no, it’s not something that her husband, and convert from Roman Catholicism, makes her do, she adds with a smile at Carlos Sandoval, ’13, who is sitting across from her at a picnic table in Red Square. Both Alazadi and Sandoval were spending a rare sunny afternoon this spring talking about their efforts to create a Muslim club at PLU this fall, their faith path, as well as their path that led them to PLU in the first place. Both are

.”  They were divided into three teams, PLU-3, PLU-2 and PLU-1, and took fifth, 11th, and 16th respectively at the University of Portland. Within the entire region, PLU-3 took 42nd, PLU-2 took 66th and PLU-1 took 82nd out of 111 teams. “I’m so proud of the job they did,” Kenneth Blaha, professor of CSCE The contest is held over five hours across six different campuses in British Columbia, Oregon, Hawaii, California, and Washington. Unlike sports, these competitors don’t need to be in the same room or

June 6, 2013 What are you reading this summer? Join the ‘Full Campus Read’ Patty and President Tom Krise are participating in the Common Reading Program. Are you? The PLU community will be reading ‘Into the Beautiful North’ this summer as part of the Common Reading Program By Steve Hansen For the second consecutive year, every incoming student is being asked to read  “Into the Beautiful North,” by Luis Alberto Urrea. But it won’t just be first-year students taking part. PLU faculty members

March 24, 2014 PLU Vs. The Plow PLU’s men’s basketball team will help horses prepare the fields at the Emergency Food Network’s Mother Earth Farm in Puyallup on April 12. (Photo courtesy of EFN) Basketball Team Takes on Clydesdales to Prepare Mother Earth Farm for Planting By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University’s men’s basketball team will pit manpower against horsepower April 12 as part of the inaugural PLU Vs. The Plow event at the Emergency Food

Unlocking the Magic of Colloidal Nanocrystals Associate Professor Andrea Munro and students Aidan Hopson ’24 and Rebecca Smith ’24 spend the summer studying colloidal ZnSe nanocrystals. Posted by: Marcom Web Team / August 11, 2023 Image: Double major in chemistry and environmental studies, Rebecca Smith ’24, chemistry major Aidan Hopson ’24, and associate professor of chemistry Andrea Munro examine how liquids and tiny particles affect nanocrystal growth, mastering the art of precise material