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titled “The Beautiful Mind: A Journey from Thought to Page.” A book signing will follow her lecture. Charles is the author of the children’s book “All Because You Matter.” Described by her publisher as “a lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and brown children everywhere,” the book received wide acclaim, including being named one of Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, and NPR’s Best Books of 2020.Charles has authored multiple other children’s, middle-grade, and young adult books
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New partnership leads to new opportunities for PLU pre-health sciences graduates Are you thinking about going into pre-health sciences - medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine and other related fields? Posted by: mhines / June 26, 2023 Image: A PLU student works on pipetting skills in a lab at PLU. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) June 26, 2023 PLU just launched a new partnership with the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) to help PLU students apply to medical or
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November 10, 2008 Coalition works to raise awareness Inaction is one of the toughest barriers to break in fighting sexual violence. Last week, victims’ advocates from universities around Washington converged on PLU to discuss their respective programs at the Washington Sexual Violence Prevention College Coalition. They worked on how to bring knowledge about the issues to people, change people’s behaviors and instill positive attitudes that lead to the prevention of sexual violence. “The key is
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1950. In 1955 she graduated in nursing from Pacific Lutheran College (now PLU) and Emanuel Hospital in Portland. After college graduation Karen served as a nurse in her hometown. She then worked at Swedish Hospital in Seattle before helping to open the new University of Washington Medical Center in 1959. She was its first nurse and worked there for 30 years in clinical nursing and as head of the outpatient clinics for heart, cancer, Alzheimer’s and AIDS patients. After retirement, Karen moved back
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April 11, 2012 H2O Project Beginning Wednesday, April 11 a group of PLU students from various campus organizations – including Campus Ministry, Sustainability, G.R.E.A.N., and the Wang Center – are launching the H2O Project. From April 11 until Earth Day April 22, students are taking the H2O challenge and making tap water their only beverage. This effort will seize the purchase of beverage products from large corporations during the pledge, reduce waster, and add to the consciousness of global
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April 26, 2013 PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and raised nearly $20,000. Relay For Life is a volunteer-driven cancer fundraising event of the American Cancer Society. Each relay team is required to have one person walking on the track at all times during the event. Mackenzie
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January 21, 2014 PLU students Karyssa Allbritton and Kristin Neuneker get a lesson in blowgun use from Bolivar Endominga in Ecuador on a 2012 Study Away program. (Photo by Kyle Monahan.) PLU ranks in Top 10 for Study Away Pacific Lutheran University ranked ninth in the nation in the 2013 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, with 59.4 percent of its undergraduates, or 392 students, participating in a study-abroad program in 2011-12. In the report, released by the U.S
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Homeland Security reverses course on international student directive Posted by: Marcom Web Team / July 14, 2020 Image: Flags of nations from around the world hanging in PLU’s Anderson University Center. (Photo/John Froschauer) July 14, 2020 We are pleased that earlier today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescinded its July 6 policy directive that would have required international students to take in-person college courses in order to remain in the U.S.At PLU, we are deeply committed
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PLU Awarded $14,000 for Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund Posted by: Silong Chhun / December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsSchool’s Out Washington and the Washington State Department of Commerce has awarded Pacific Lutheran University a grant for $14,000 from its Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund. The grant will go toward the Tacoma/South Puget Sound MESA program, which prioritizes early exposure to STEM topics and
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Summer Research Fellows Share Results PLU Students Share their Research Findings on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 Posted by: halvormj / October 15, 2021 October 15, 2021 By Michael Halvorson ’85, Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History Are you curious about innovative historical research projects that are transforming PLU? PLU’s Business and Economic History Program invites you to learn more at a presentation of creative scholarship by the 2021 Benson Foundation Summer Research
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