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Congratulations on your admission to PLU! We’re excited that you’re joining the MAE program. Below you’ll find a list of steps to take now that you’ve been admitted.
complete an annual payment agreement before registering for classes. Submit your Medical History Record to the Health Center (Currently a Lute? You can skip this step). Review and acknowledge the risks of meningitis, or meningococcal disease (a Washington State legal requirement) on PLU’s Banner Self-Service. (See instructions) BILLING, FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIPS Connect with Barb Zettel, your Student Financial Services Specialist, regarding financial aid, student accounts and billing at 253-535
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Friday, May 7th Join the Mathematics Department on Zoom to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you’d like to join the online capstone session, please email Professor Jessica Sklar at
measuring sea level rise due to the warming polar ice caps, or the number of susceptible individuals in a population struggling to confront novel disease, these systems exist all around us. Their interactions lead to complicated dependencies and often chaotic behavior. Numerical analysis provides methods of analysis that enable us to find and describe trajectories, assess stability and equilibrium around critical points, and make inferences about long-term behaviors. One set of methods centers on the
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Dr. René Carrasco is the new Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, who began at PLU in Fall of 2019. Originally from Mexico City, René came to the United States when he was 15. After he graduated high school, he went on to community college and…
… which then led to this… my diet consists of this… the history of disease in my family is…” etc., etc. The patient puts together a sequence of events that explain their situation and what brought them to seek help. And then the nurse, depending on their level of competency, and the degree to which they understand narratives, can be like, “well no, sir, or ma’am… that didn’t happen because of this, it happened because of this and this,” and so on and on. All day long nurses are dealing with narratives
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Environmental Health & Safety supports the university mission to educate for lives of Thoughtful Inquiry, Service, Leadership, and Care by assisting instructors, researchers, students,
, death, or occupational disease to an employee or student. Report hazards to your supervisor immediately upon discovery. Work with your supervisor to correct the hazard Supervisors must take action to correct the hazard. Report uncorrected hazards to the Environmental Health & Safety Manager by calling 253-535-7233 or submitting a safety hazard report form. Job Hazard AssessmentWashington Administrative Code 296-800-160 requires PLU to assess the hazards associated with a job and to assign
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…
, Kiana, it’s me! Well, actually it’s you,” Norman wrote in a column about her diagnosis published on the website The Mighty, dedicated to documenting personal stories about people’s experiences with disabilities, disease and mental illness. She submitted the piece for consideration as part of the site’s bipolar disorder section after the writing assignment rose to the level of “class favorite” in her upper-level communication class at PLU.Resources for mental illness PLU Counseling Center Suicide
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Four PLU women from the Department of Economics present their research at a national undergraduate conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
I’m doing is invalid,” she said. “It was really good to know that I had a support system.” United States DALYsBoth sexes, All ages, 2015 In her research, Domini used health indicators — statistical measures used to describe the health of a population, such as life expectancy — as the basis for her research. She examined an indicator not typically found in existing research. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden that allows country-to-country comparison. “I
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A walking tour from a graduating senior about her time at PLU Welcome to PLU! I’m the senior you, and I’ll be your tour guide today. I’ve spent almost four years on this campus, and have come to know it well. I want to show…
summer of 2007 in the weeks before you leave for a semester in Tanzania. While it’s someone else’s turn to walk, you will lie on your back in the grass and look at the sunlight coming through the leaves. You will wonder what kind of trees they are and who lives there. You’ll be a little disappointed that you didn’t study more ecology. This is Red Square. It’s actually called Centennial Square, but probably fewer than a quarter of PLU students know its “real” name. Listen carefully; if you throw a
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Revised, S. Smith, SoN Dean, Aug 2016
pictures on social media wearing a PLU SoN clinical uniform or with the PLU name badge visible. Students are not allowed to access social media during the clinical learning experience.Health Protection PolicyIn order to protect vulnerable patients, students should not participate in clinical if they are exhibiting symptoms of a communicable disease, including fever, productive cough, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. Students are required to contact their clinical faculty if they are unsure if they should be in
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Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for
American and Mexican history as well as environmental history. He previously taught at Dartmouth College and was a postdoctoral fellow at Mexico’s National University (UNAM). His research on the urban and environmental history of Mexico has appeared in numerous journals. His book, A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City, was published by Duke University Press in 2018. His talk was titled: “What Environmental History Can Teach Us: Lessons for Building a Just and
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A National Honor for ‘Digging into Cancer’ ‘Fast Company’ magazine names Hunt one of its 100 Most Creative People of 2014 . A Survivor in the Global Spotlight Katie Hunt ’11 fought cancer at PLU, leads the emerging field of paleo-oncology and wowed the crowd…
in England, where she earned a master’s of science after blending her PLU degrees—and her life experience—into the emerging field of paleopathology: the study of disease, health, trauma and diet in human biology in ancient societies. “I want to look at evidence of cancer in archaeological remains, and add to a dataset that’s virtually nonexistent,” Hunt said. “At that point I wouldn’t have even called it a field—now it is, but a very, very small field.” A small field, maybe—but one with
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