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and life-changing experience that offers an extraordinary blend of academic enrichment and natural wonder. Imagine being immersed in a land of fire and ice, where the midnight sun never sets, and your classroom extends to volcanic landscapes, majestic waterfalls and glaciers. In this Q&A, we learn from Annica Stiles ’25, who seized the opportunity to study in this Nordic paradise for the summer. From academic pursuits and cultural encounters to awe-inspiring adventures, discover what it’s like to

, to walking across the stage in Olson Auditorium at her Spanaway Lake High School graduation. Kreis has thrived in the community for years, and now she serves as the business outreach director in PLU’s School of Business. “Working at PLU feels so natural and fitting, a sort of coming home feeling,” says Kreis. “There’s definitely a strong pull to serve the community that gave me so much support at an early formative age.” In January of 2022, Dr. Mark Mulder, dean of the PLU School of Business

Partnership for Health Innovation was a natural fit for our organization. I’m confident that our partnership is going to play a significant role in the future of health care and health care education for our region,” said Robertson. “The MultiCare Medical Center at Pacific Lutheran University will provide care to everyone who lives in Parkland-Spanaway and the surrounding areas. It will also help provide even more learning opportunities for students at PLU and WSU who are pursuing health care careers

mine because I wasn’t really happy with the job I was doing. I sat down and thought: what is going to make me happy? When I started teaching as a graduate student, I found a purpose. I was terrified at first, but that anxiety and nervousness were secondary to the joy I felt being a teacher. Being in a classroom felt very natural. Patrick Moneyang: My dad was a teacher, an elementary school teacher, so right away I was exposed to it. When I went to university, I decided to become a medical doctor

techniques and principles of psychology to help athletes optimize performance, meet fitness goals, or recover from injury. 7. Strength and Conditioning Coach—develop fitness plans for athletes designed to promote long-term muscle health, natural movement, endurance, and mobility and work alongside other coaches to monitor athlete health and performance. 8. Kinesiology Research Lab Assistant—conduct experiments, develop new biomechanical prototypes, and contribute to ongoing research and studies in the

dental school, or another heath science professional school. For Jensen, this meant working with Matt Smith, associate professor of biology and chair of the department. Smith is one of six natural science professors on the Health Sciences Committee. At PLU, most students on the health-sciences track work through the biology curriculum and take an entire year of organic chemistry. By the junior year, with most of the lower-division classes out of the way, students select classes and extra-curricular

athletic facility renovations that have been taking place during the past two years. Some changes – like the artificial-turf field and an additional natural turf field to the west of it – are obvious. The new fields provide ample space not only for intercollegiate competition, but for all students’ recreational needs. Other changes may not be immediately apparent, but they also enhance the PLU student experience. For instance, the construction of an all-weather track (which allowed the university the

eventually led to sharing the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with the group of individuals on International Campaign to Ban Landmines. His 1997 trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina with Diana, Princess of Wales, was the event he credits with putting the spotlight on the plight of hundreds of thousands of victims wounded by mines worldwide. White remembers the former princess, who died a year after he met her, as a woman of natural charisma and keen intuition and intelligence. “It was crazy to be hit in the face with that

she was highly impressed with the level of collaboration exhibited by this year’s student competitors. This year’s competition was held in PLU’s Morken Center, and required coordination from a number of departments and offices, as well as the School of Business. Emeritus professors allowed students to use their offices during the competition, campus safety gave students all-hours access to the building, and the Math department and Natural Sciences Division funded student registrations and provided

, feeling like I can make the world a better place,” he says. “Maybe the world is in tough shape, but if we can make it one percent better it’s easy for me to get excited about that.  “I get excited about the small things. I think seeing other people get excited too, taking pride in tiny accomplishments that are selfless and self-fulfilling – that’s what sells it for me.”Why Environmental Studies?Learning about the environment offers opportunities to integrate studies of nature and natural systems with