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Cultural/Environmental Expert Returns to Campus for Earth Day Lecture Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 19, 2015 Image: Dr. Carolyn Finney of UC-Berkeley spoke at PLU’s Fall Conference in September 2014 and returns April 21 for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture (photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 19, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (March 19, 2015)—Author, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney is the keynote speaker for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture at

about five hours a week on top of the meetings that we do.” Growing up in Yakima, Temple enjoyed performing, but the thought of scripting, acting and shooting skits was intimidating to him at first.  Henry Temple ‘21 (Photo by Jake Parrish) “I didn’t know if I could do it or not until I sat in my room and opened up my laptop,” he said. “My first two years (at PLU) gave me the confidence that I could do this if I really worked at it. I think, yes, I’ve always wanted to do it, but I hadn’t had the

elevate the national profile of Lute athletics. Mike was the overwhelming choice of the hiring committee made up of students, staff, faculty, and alumni.” Snyder heads to Tacoma after spending the previous seven years as Director of Athletics at fellow Division III institution Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. While at Illinois College, Snyder oversaw an athletic department with 23 varsity sports and nearly 500 student-athletes. (PLU has 19 varsity sports and more than 450 student-athletes

Moving Moments | PLU Commencement 2023 Posted by: Zach Powers / May 27, 2023 May 27, 2023 PLU students, parents, alumni and friends gathered at the Tacoma Dome this afternoon for our 2023 commencement. PLU alumnus and filmmaker Joshua Wiersma ’18 captured moving moments from the ceremony. Read Previous Culture wars are making it harder than ever for the small number of Latino professors (PLU professor Maria Chávez interviewed) Read Next Everything PLU Business Dean Mark Mulder Does in a Day

Quality Control Intern – Calllisons Posted by: nicolacs / April 13, 2021 April 13, 2021 Job Title: QC Intern Department: Quality Control Open position: Seasonal Internship Supervisor: Manager, Quality Control Schedule: Weekly commitment of 20-40 hours per week. Duration 6 weeks to 6 months, agreed on upon hire. Actual schedule determined per selectee availability. Qualifications: Degree seeking student or recent Graduate. Minimum of 20 hours of science coursework, with an emphasis in chemistry

December 8, 2008 Former ASPLU VP tagged as Rising Star This November at the NASPA Awards Luncheon, Tamara Power-Drutis ’08 received the Undergraduate Rising Star Award for Region V. The award is given to a undergraduate annually based on service to others, demonstrating outstanding leadership skills, significantly contributing to their institution by planning an activity or program that benefits students, involvement in research that would benefit the student affairs profession, helping to make

campus for liquid-nitrogen ice cream and desserts, hands-on chemistry activities and flashy chemical demonstrations by faculty and Chem Club students. This year’s event was held April 15 in the Rieke Lobby and Open Chem Lab, where science projects popped, banged, flashed, glowed and even oozed—and science fans oohed and ahhed (and covered their ears).—Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Read Previous PLU Forensics Team Places Among Top 30 in the Nation Read Next Pacific Lutheran

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

.”  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

Answering the call: PLU nursing alum volunteers for COVID-19 testing unit transfer Posted by: Marcom Web Team / May 5, 2020 Image: Kathy (Welsh) Krogstad ‘85, a registered nurse at Providence Hospital in Torrance, California, volunteered for one of her state’s first mobile coronavirus testing units. May 5, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 5, 2020) — After a lifetime devoted to care and service, Kathy (Welsh) Krogstad ‘85 wasn’t going to stand on the