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ceremony there is a 51-year history of pride in our country which was ignited by (the Stonewall) rebellion against police brutality and discrimination. Leaders in the initial movement included Marsha P. Johnson, Stormé DeLarverie, and Sylvia Rivera,” said Luke Ruiz assistant director of commuter and transfers student connections.  “This year we are truly living the most authentic version of pride, despite the cancelation of the festivals and the closing of the streets, we have a unique chance to lean

to leaving no stone unturned when it comes to financial aid and making our university as accessible as it can possibly be,” said Mike Frechette, PLU’s dean of enrollment management and student financial services. In the report, LendEDU analyzed financial aid data from 2018 – 19 of nearly 500 four-year colleges. PLU received a total score of 86.187 after recording a need-based score of 81.793, a non-need-based score of 99.97, and an international score of 52.02. “Each year, LendEDU uses the most

2018-19 FYEP Common Reading announced Posted by: hassonja / December 11, 2017 December 11, 2017 The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of a raw, emotional and at times poignant letter to his teenaged son depicting the feeling, symbolism and violent reality of being black

of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney.   Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for

MS program in Environmental and Green Chemistry at George Washington University Posted by: alemanem / February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 This unique 2-year program was created  purposefully to combine both environmental and green chemistry in order to train students to both evaluate and proactively address sustainability challenges. The program includes unique coursework in green chemistry, such as Design of Safer Chemicals, Green Industrial Chemistry and Sustainable Energy,  as well as a

October 22, 2012 PLU professor presents keynote at premier sports and exercise psychology conference PLU Professor, Colleen Hacker presented the keynote at the annual meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) in Atlanta, Ga. Her speech, “Gold Medal Partnership: Collaboration and Integration for Sustained Excellence,” was delivered to a standing room only crowd of more than 800 sports and exercise psychology professionals. Her keynote was received with a rare and

J-Term@Sea Posted by: Thomas Krise / January 28, 2016 January 28, 2016 Our group at the Frederick Lutheran Church, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary this year, making it the oldest Lutheran church in the Western Hemisphere. #lutesawayDr. Nancy Albers-Miller, Dean of the PLU School of Business, and I have been teaching courses on board cruise ships sailing the eastern Caribbean this January Term—we call it “J-Term@Sea.”  Dean Miller is teaching two versions of a marketing course and I’m

to financial aid and making our university as accessible as it can possibly be,” said Mike Frechette, PLU’s dean of enrollment management and student financial services. In the report, LendEDU analyzed financial aid data from 2018 – 19 of nearly 500 four-year colleges. PLU received a total score of 86.187 after recording a need-based score of 81.793, a non-need-based score of 99.97, and an international score of 52.02. “Each year, LendEDU uses the most up-to-date financial aid data to rank which

surprise, I was missing a lot of what PLU would’ve offered. So much so that I left after that first semester to go back home, this time to community college. I figured if PLU was in Parkland, there was no way it was offering more than what a community college could give me because the area didn’t seem “special” enough to be like a “real” college. In the end, many years later, I ended up right back at PLU for the absolute best 5 years (thank you, PLUS year) of my life where I not only learned about my

, August 7, 2017 (Start and end dates are flexible on a case by case basis) Qualifications: Must be 18 years or older Must attend PLU, SPU, Seattle U or be a military veteran attending any local university Entering junior or senior year in Fall 2017 Pursuing a degree with a concentration in Biology, Biochemistry, or Chemistry. There is one position available for a math, physics or engineering student. Minimum of two wet lab courses with emphasis on pipetting, PCR, sterile technique, good lab notebook