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to meet somehow, somewhere, while they were there. While sitting in the Anderson University Center on campus it came to them. They’ll meet up in Tanzania and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. Leave it to a few Lutes to celebrate by climbing the highest peak in Africa, at 19,341 feet. None of them had done something like that before, but that wasn’t going to keep them from trying. “Even while we were talking about it we were like ‘is this really going to happen?’,” said Markuson, a biology major. “It’s

October 7, 2011 Benson lecturer poses question: Would slavery have ended without the Civil War? If the Civil War didn’t end slavery, something else would have, said history professor Peter A. Coclanis. By 1861 slavery was dying out,” Coclanis said , who teaches at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Slavery probably would not have survived much longer. Coclanis presented a lecture entitled, “Would Slavery Have Survived Without the Civil War? A Counterfactual Analysis,” on Monday

April 4, 2008 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 of her life. She discovered she liked people and changed her major to psychology. After graduating, Montgomery enrolled in PLU’s Marriage and Family Therapy master’s program, from

, pointing to Hurricane Katrina as an example. Shortwave radios may be the only means of communication available. “There has never been a time in any disaster when amateur radio operators weren’t operating,” Benton said. The radios are portable and don’t rely on a network since radio waves exist in the natural world. PLU’s station will have two radios that can operate simultaneously on various frequencies. The operators will be able to connect with Willamette University in Oregon, PLU’s emergency partner

at least as much about seeking meaning and purpose in life.A New York native, Professor Parker first found his love for Classics as a freshman at Vassar College, studying ancient Greek and western philosophy for his undergraduate degree. This inspired him to enter graduate school in the subject. After defending his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, he began teaching courses in Classics here at PLU and has been finding ways to incorporate his passion into his teaching while

PLU secures prestigious National Science Foundation grant for low-income STEM students Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / March 8, 2019 March 8, 2019 By StaffMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (March 8, 2019) — A prestigious $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support academically talented low-income students who come to Pacific Lutheran University to study STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects.Winning the grant was a team effort of PLU’s Division

professor at PLU and currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill – wanted to research and contrast the experience of the children from Czechoslovakia with those children with an Austrian background. She will give a report on this topic at the Fourth Annual Powell-Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU in March. “I was surprised that after checking the testimonies, the Austrian children experienced greater prejudice than those from eastern Europe

finally, and most importantly, a college that was welcoming, academically challenging and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IWyDbQ3SRU resonated with her Lutheran roots. When she stepped onto the campus of Pacific Lutheran University four years ago – all requirements were met in spades.”That was what really struck me here,” said Rudquist, 22, who doubled majored in both sociology and art history. “There’s a sense of community here.  I love the outdoorsy side. I love that it’s near Seattle. I liked the

University staff member John Neary. Neary had participated in AM Public Lap swims in the PLU pool at least three days a week for about 30 years— most lifeguards knew him by name. Volk greeted Neary as he came in at approximately 8 a.m.; he did his normal routine of giving a little wave to the guards and opening a door to ward off stuffiness. “I didn’t wake up that day knowing something was going to happen,” Volk said. “Everything seemed normal—it was baffling.” But once in the pool, Neary stopped moving

international honors, including four Emmy nominations and one Emmy win in 2009. The National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho is a student and professional society of more than 85 chapters on college, university and community college campuses. Read Previous Nicaragua Spring Break Trip Read Next MESA Day at PLU: A Bridge to Success COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST