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  • A group of PLU students interning with the Tacoma Tree Foundation spent the summer increasing the number of trees in the city to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and heat during the summer months and improving the livelihoods of those who live in urban areas. The…

    a lack of trees, so increasing greenery in underserved areas is a social justice issue.”  The students have been working with the Tree Foundation for the past year, learning how tree coverage in urban areas can combat climate change.  “Our generation is tasked with the mending of the earth in many different ways due to climate change,” psychology major Todorov said. “Our only power is knowledge and understanding of our local communities, because only at that level can we make dents in the

  • If you polled people, chances are few would raise their hands and volunteer to go back to middle or high school. For many, those were awkward times in just about every way imaginable. For folks that struggled with reading, writing, communication or other subjects, even…

    serve as a hub for writing- and reading-related community activities,” Rogers said. The proposal wasn’t selected for funding in 2016, but did two years later.That’s when Bridget Yaden joined as co-director with the intention of broadening the scope of the center’s offerings. “We adopted a vision of ‘literacy’ as more encompassing — more than just reading and writing, but also speaking, and strategies for learning and communicating in the world,” Rogers said. Rogers is an assistant English professor

  • Innovation in the classroom: “I do, and I understand” If you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D. , you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a…

    rewarding is bringing his students alongside and sharing with them the value of hard work, hands-on learning and timely scholarship. “One of my goals at PLU is to promote early engagement of undergraduate students – especially for women and underrepresented students – in machine learning, bioinformatics, and the data science field,” he says. “I want to inspire students to pursue advanced STEM education and research careers.”  Cao explains: “Not only is research interesting for the students, I think it’s

  • Originally published in 2012 There’s something strange that goes on with texts, readers, writers, and time. I mean, look at you: there you are, reading this now, in the spring of 2012. And here I am, in your past, and it’s not even (technically) winter…

    Ebenezer’s, you know. And, like Ebenezer’s, it changed his future – and the world. Learning Greek guided Luther back to revisit the texts and ideas that shackled his present to a foregone conclusion. What he discovered, there, was that these ideas were not determined by truths that he could not come to grips with: rather, he found that they had been imposed by the limitations of his own language. The Reformation was the result. The original language of a text harbors, ironically, its greatest potential

  • Jenna Serr in her kindergarten class at James Sales Elementary. (Photos by John Froschauer) A calling to teach By Chris Albert Jenna (Steffenson) Serr ’06 ’10 takes account of her flock of kindergartners. Her eyes assessing every corner of the room, she sees her students…

    excited and happy to be here,” said Cindy (Chipman) Miller ’88, a learning specialist. “I think the more people we have involved in our school the better.” In many ways, current PLU students who volunteer at the school do the same. Through engagement like the Big Buddy program, college students buddy-up with elementary school students to help mentor, nurture and live an example of what is possible. They give students a glimpse into who college students are, what is possible through education and show

  • 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…

    learning for image reconstruction, quantum image processing, and graphical deep learning Experimental quantum test bed For more information, visit:  https://shinstitute.org/srp-2021/ To apply, visit: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/SHInstituteSRPF/ Read Previous Graduate Study in Applied Chemistry at UC Davis Read Next Help Solve Urgent Environmental Challenges LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of

  • Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb, 79, discusses her experiences of sharing her story of surviving the Holocaust and her obligation to testify. Giza was born in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. She was smuggled out of the Ghetto as a toddler in a suitcase and was…

    , heroically, against the Nazis in the Resistance Movement. Once the war ended, Giza was ripped from Danusia and her family’s arms after learning of her biological parents’ death in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Giza and Danusia never forgot one another, never learning to overcome the other’s absence. This is a novel conceived as a project of investigative journalism which progresses through interviews and documents revealing the fears, the losses, the silences and the incessant fight to recuperate the lost

  • Transfer students bring wealth of experience Jake Taylor’s college career began a bit differently – he started at another four-year college, Evergreen State College. He decided he wasn’t that wasn’t the best place for him, so he decided to take the long road, taking courses…

    laughs at that, but notes that it’s been a great teaching experience – he’s teaching some of the fellow players Spanish, and he’s learning some Norwegian. Taylor plans to major in global studies and journalism, and take those skills back to Tumaco, Columbia, where he plans to do volunteer work in literacy camps. The area is very important to him. He was adopted at an early age, and lived in Gig Harbor, Washington, but Tumaco is where his birth parents are from. He relishes the opportunity to return

  • 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…

    my privilege to frame our hopes for the year ahead, to encourage your full engagement in the learning process, and also to challenge your imagination as you begin to envision,  and then to build a foundation for your future,” Anderson told the crowd who packed into Olson Auditorium. Only one percent of the world’s population receives a college degree,” Anderson noted, adding that the new Lutes gathered in Olson have the rare privilege to study and then go out into the four corners of the globe to

  • PLU named a 2011 Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation The Arbor Day Foundation has named PLU a 2011 Tree Campus USA in honor of its commitment to effective community forestry management. This is the second year that PLU has been recognized. PLU…

    observance and the sponsorship of student service-learning projects. “Students throughout the country are passionate about sustainability and community improvement, which makes Pacific Lutheran’s emphasis on well-maintained and healthy trees so important,” said John Rosenow, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “By achieving Tree Campus USA recognition, Pacific Lutheran University will continue to set an example for other colleges and universities and give students a chance to give back to both