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  • Eager to expand your research and establish productive collaborations with renowned scientists at a Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory?  This is your opportunity! Through SRP, faculty and students contribute to multi- and inter-disciplinary research that is changing the world.  Berkeley Lab staff are looking…

    renowned DOE national laboratory scientist and other faculty and students.  Some of the exciting research areas include: AI for chemistry and materials Science, computer science, and math for quantum computing Acceleration and predictions for climate change Ice sheet modeling Deep phylogeny Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Multiphysics modeling and simulation Distributed performance analysis and optimization Hardware architectures and accelerators Cybersecurity for high performance computing Machine

  • The U.S. Department of State will host its first dedicated virtual career fair featuring applied science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and STEM policy careers in the Foreign and Civil Service on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET. The virtual career…

    than 270 diplomatic facilities worldwide. They develop, enhance, and manage interconnected, and secure IT networks and computer systems worldwide. They promote and safeguard the health and wellbeing of America’s diplomatic community. They are at the forefront of addressing some of the world’s most challenging issues like climate change, sustainable energy, global health, arms control, and nonproliferation. Women, people of color, LGBTQI+, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and interested

  • 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…

    , electronic and electromechanical technicians, law enforcement and security technology professionals, cybersecurity professionals, data scientists as well as those interested in STEM-related policy issues such as climate change, emerging technologies, global health, and the supply chain among others at home and abroad! During our virtual career fair, you will have the opportunity to engage with Foreign Service and Civil Service professionals across a broad range of STEM fields.  Learn how your STEM

  • College: First in family Maurice Eckstein was riding home in a cab after his shift as the night concierge at a hotel in his native Trinidad last year, when his eye stopped on an advertisement. It offered local students a chance to mix with a…

    ” at PLU too – though the circumstances were obviously better. Even as a first-year student he got involved and started the Lute Explosion African Dance Group. He handles public relations for the International Club on campus and is an ASPLU senator for international students. He helped organize the Campus Carnival in 2008, which emphasized the culture of Tobago and Trinidad. Big steps for someone who, a little more than a year ago, saw his life’s possibilities change in a taxi cab. PLU can do that

  • “Tyranny of Oil” author to appear at PLU A nationally-known expert and critic of Big Oil will speak at PLU on Saturday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. The address is free and open to the…

    Georgetown University as well as a degree in public policy from Brown University. She has been associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Ida Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International, and is also the author of “The Bush Agenda” (William Morrow, 2006). Juhasz has served as congressional aide to two members of Congress and as the project director of the International Forum on Globalization. She has published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times

  • 11:15 a.m. – Mr. MacDougall’s seventh grade language arts class “I can wait.”With those three words, silence drops on the class of Joel MacDougall ’97.The 25 students know that for every second they continue to jabber, that time will be taken from lunch break or…

    in the first place? One student points out a typo on the handout. “Great, I’ll change that next year,” MacDougall responds. This is MacDougall’s fourth year of teaching, after a seven-year career in broadcast journalism. Though the job and the money was good, MacDougall started to chafe. What difference was he making by giving the sports report each night? So he decided to go back to school to get his masters and start teaching. His wife is supportive, he said. His friends are another matter

  • President Loren J. Anderson gives his 20th Convocation address, opening the 122nd year of PLU. Convocation 2011: “Lead Boldly” By Chris Albert President Loren J. Anderson welcomed students – new and returning, faculty, staff, regents, PLU corporation representatives and local ELCA clergy to the opening…

    change the world. He also reminded the incoming first-years of others who have sat in the same seats in past decades, such as Brad Tilden ’83, the president of Alaska Airlines, Seattle Parnell ’84, Alaska’s governor or Joyce Barr ’76, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. More than 1,000 incoming first-year, transfer and graduate students will join a student body of 3,400 total students. “The mission of Pacific Lutheran University is to educate students for a life of thoughtful inquiry

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 10, 2019) — Governor Jay Inslee will be holding a town hall at Pacific Lutheran University’s Karen Hille Phillips Center auditorium on Monday, May 13th, at 9 a.m. Gov. Inslee will field student-submitted questions from an ASPLU Lute Vote moderator on a…

    -submitted questions from an ASPLU Lute Vote moderator on a wide array of topics, ranging from homelessness and the opioid epidemic to his opposition of the Tacoma LNG plant currently under construction, climate change and his presidential campaign. The governor’s visit is part of a three-part celebration of PLU’s student body for winning the state-wide Governor’s Student Voter Registration Challenge this past November — the PLU flag was flown in front of the state capitol building, Lute Vote student

  • Cover art by Sheila Agee Intersections, Number 48, Fall 2018 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching…

    these intersect with contemporary challenges, opportunities, and initiatives. This issue explores “civil discourse in a fragmented world,” and features articles by two of PLU’s own, Dr. Jeffrey Bell-Hanson and Dr. Lynn Hunnicutt!   Preview essays in this issue with the individual links below: View the Full Issue Online Vocation and Civil Discourse: Discerning and Defining by Lynn Hunnicutt Polarization, Incivility, and a Need for “Change” by Guy Nave Putting the Kind Back in Human by Sarah Ciavarri

  • Eager to expand your research and establish productive collaborations with renowned scientists at a Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory?  This is your opportunity! Through SRP, faculty and students contribute to multi- and inter-disciplinary research that is changing the world.  Berkeley Lab staff are looking…

    renowned DOE national laboratory scientist and other faculty and students.  Some of the exciting research areas include: AI for chemistry and materials Science, computer science, and math for quantum computing Acceleration and predictions for climate change Ice sheet modeling Deep phylogeny Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Multiphysics modeling and simulation Distributed performance analysis and optimization Hardware architectures and accelerators Cybersecurity for high performance computing Machine