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Care is a central component of the PLU mission “to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care–for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.
All-Gender Restroom Map contains the locations of all gender inclusive restrooms and showers, as well as lactation rooms, on campus. What medical services are available at PLU?Medical Services provided by the PLU Health Center include gender-affirming care for acute illness, minor injuries, contraception, management of side effects from hormone therapy, sports physicals and travel medicine consultation. Many routine immunizations are available for a fee. Influenza vaccine is available at no charge
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Below are a variety of readings, podcasts, websites, and videos to help prepare for the end of life. Liturgies for the end of life (ELCA) from In Sure and Certain Hope: A Funeral Sourcebook (Augsburg
Resources for Preparing for DeathBelow are a variety of readings, podcasts, websites, and videos to help prepare for the end of life. Liturgies for the end of life (ELCA) from In Sure and Certain Hope: A Funeral Sourcebook (Augsburg Fortress, 2017) Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (Profile Books Ltd, 2015) Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune. Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 24, 2015)—Courtney Lee ’15 applied for an internship with the U.S. State Department four times. After missing the mark three times and not hearing back the fourth, Lee had all but forgotten about it and was already looking at other positions. Then…
difference in the world, Lee is in Washington, D.C., for her high-profile internship in the Educational Affairs department, where she will work with a Senior Policy Officer to examine programs and their effectiveness. “It just hasn’t kicked in yet,” Lee said before she left Sept. 20. “I’m sure once I’m on the plane and on my way, I’ll realize it’s really happening.” Originally aiming to study veterinary medicine, Lee found passion in foreign affairs and policy after studying away in China. While she was
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The 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference is titled “Where the Waters Begin: Indigenous Education, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Legacy of Cecelia Svinth Carpenter.” This year’s conference will honor the life, work, and commitments of PLU alumna Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, connecting PLU’s past, present, and future…
Team, all working together to document our history with tribal people to better discern our future obligations to this place and its people. Significant Anniversaries and Celebrations The 2024 conference coincides with many important anniversaries, including the 120th anniversary of the 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty, the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Native American Voting Rights Act, the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Boldt Decision, and the 20th anniversary of Chief Leschi’s exoneration in 2004. This
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PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.
Music and Medicine: Elizabeth Larios ’21 returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m… November 2, 2022 Alumni, Internships, CareerResoLute
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PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.
Present & Future Providers After graduating from PLU, Melissa Wollan Francis ’02 spent two years in a University of Washington genetics lab before joining the Air Force and attending Yale School of Medicine, where she became a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN). “I’ve always been drawn towards challenges… September 10, 2024 ResoLute
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Major in Philosophy Minimum of 32 semester hours, including: PHIL 499 Two courses from: PHIL 311, 312, 313, 314 Five additional PHIL lower- or upper-division courses (20 semester hours) GLST 325 may
the relationship between science and religion. May be repeated once for credit, once with a different topic. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. (4) PHIL 314 : Topics in the History of Philosophy - VW Study of selected topics or historical figures in the history of philosophy. May be repeated for credit once with a different topic. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. (4) PHIL 327 : Environmental Philosophy - VW Examines concepts such as wilderness, nature/natural, and consciousness. This examination
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Join the national celebration of international education & exchange. PLU International Student Services and the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education invite you to a week of
cannot make this event, please still register and we will send you a recording of the session. For questions, contact Dr. Bridget Yaden at byaden@plu.edu Pictures of the three speakers. Indigenous Experience in Medicine Place: Morken 131Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM As PLU aims to graduate globally minded Lutes, it is also important for us to educate ourselves and build relationships with the local people of our place. With this, STEMinist & the Native Indigenous Student Association would like to invite
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Ash Bechtel has always wanted to be in healthcare, but she wasn’t sure which direction to take — nursing or medical school. So, Ash counseled with family and academic advisors before deciding to pursue a biology major that would lead her to becoming a doctor.…
helped me understand that with science and human bodies, nothing is a closed loop,” she recalls. “The way we work with the environment, the world and other organisms affects how we function as humans.” A holistic worldview has served Ash well. When diagnosed with long COVID her sophomore year, Ash used the experience to frame her capstone project, “Exercise is Medicine.” Because studies of the frequent impacts of exercise on patients with long COVID are few and inconclusive, Ash says she was
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…
to have a profound impact. Gavidia decided to major in computer science, redirecting his career trajectory toward tech instead of medicine. Gavidia immersed himself in his new field from the start, becoming a computer lab teaching assistant during the spring semester of his first year. “It was rewarding getting to help students and having them get to that ‘ah ha’ moment.” He continued to tutor other students during his sophomore and junior years. In the spring of this sophomore year, Gavidia
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