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PLU Named Top Fulbright Producer By Chris Albert Pacific Lutheran University ranks among the top schools in the nation for the number of students selected for a Fulbright Student Fellowship in 2010. Eric Buley and Nicolette Paso were selected as student Fulbright Fellowship recipients.…
students, scholars and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. To read more about how the Fulbright program encourages its participants to find innovative solutions to global issues such as climate change and pandemics, visit The Chronicle of Higher education Oct. 29 story “Fulbright Puts Money Where Problems Are.” This year the three PLU students who received the prestigious U.S
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 31, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University students interested in creative media such as film and television no longer will have to wait for “the real world” to start learning about those industries, or how to generate content for their portfolios. Through the Center for…
questions and global stories to tell and are currently missing an important outlet to do so,” added Adams, an English major. “Students should be able to experiment with all avenues of interest in college, and this is a major area that is just waiting to be developed at PLU.” They said such a program also could have extensive community impact for PLU, such as establishment of film festivals, film competitions that could involve local public schools and other universities, and student-produced creative
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By Damian Alessandro. Innovation . If you read the popular press, you’ll see that this word is constantly thrown around in professional settings. But what does it mean? For some, innovation is all about progression and disruption. One of the defining ideologies of our time,…
flashes of inventiveness (when the impossible becomes doable) and more incremental change, such that subtle improvements in a product or process that makes things better. In either case, innovation raises the bar for how we live, think, and connect, and it has become an expectation and goal within business, government, university life, sports teams, entertainment, the performing arts, and most walks of life. All this sounds pretty good, but how do people or teams innovate? And what are the
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Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business continues a half-century of excellence by extending its accreditation from AACSB International for its undergraduate and graduate programs. “This is a major accomplishment and signifies academic excellence at PLU,” said Mark Mulder, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business.…
2021, this project gives business students an opportunity to understand, identify and reflect on areas of structural inequities in business and society, and learn to advocate for positive change. 100 Voices Project: This project focuses on gaining valuable insights from prospective employers and industry’s expectations of 21st century skills. At the same time, it gives faculty an opportunity to examine and reflect on the appropriateness and relevance of social issues embedded in the business
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Translating the Enlightenment The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock,…
demonstrating transformative care LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024
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State association recognizes student When she started her undergraduate degree at Western Washington University, Amanda Montgomery decided to major in physics. However, she quickly realized that while she liked studying electrons, fission and atomic numbers, it wasn’t what she wanted to do for the rest…
secure during therapy sessions. “She truly is someone who desires to understand people, she wants to make significant and meaningful change in the lives of people who sometimes are missed in society,” said David Ward, assistant professor of marriage and family therapy. In the past four years, a PLU student has received the award three times. “It’s a validation for our belief that we’re providing students with quality education,” Ward said. “We continue to attract student who will have an impact in
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When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said.…
. PLU Department of Computer ScienceWith a degree in computer science, you might end up writing code for software simulations of proteins, creating the next big video game, or developing a social application that connects people in new ways. The possibilities are limitless. Click to learn more.My current task is to be a leader of change as we rewrite a good portion of our platform in order to help stabilize and harden it before bringing it to market. For those interested: We are porting a good
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When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said.…
the center of planning discussions. Now, at Rainway, I often find myself reviewing code, answering questions, and occasionally driving the planning. My current task is to be a leader of change as we rewrite a good portion of our platform in order to help stabilize and harden it before bringing it to market. For those interested: We are porting a good portion of code to the Rust language. How were you drawn to this sector? For me, software engineering is fun and it is something I am good at. I feel
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PLU student Jessica Waiau (‘08) used her time at PLU to work with the Diversity Center, Hawai’i Club, the Education Program, and then started working immediately after graduation. She recently joined me for an interview in which she discussed how the Diversity Center impacted her…
”. Do you remember if you were involved in any particular projects there? I know that we, in my time at the dCenter, had the first drag show while I was there. And it was one performer at the time, she was gorgeous, of course. (…) But the dCenter was really where I found my community. People who cared about the same things that I cared about and also looked like me. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, and really isn’t a big deal to me now, but as a brown girl leaving a mighty miles, it totally makes
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 24, 2019) — Research has become Pacific Lutheran University grad SarahAnn McFadden’s life. This year, McFadden ‘11 landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors…
different way to provide better patient education and better education in the community,” she said. McFadden put the research skills she honed at PLU to good use, writing her dissertation on variations in county-level toddler immunization rates, a topic she continues to explore at the Yale Institute of Global Health. She also assists the center’s director, Saad Omer, on projects that examine the impact of immunization policy changes on vaccination rates, vaccine hesitancy among health care workers in
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