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  • Employee volunteers wanted to join PLU emergency response teams When disaster strikes, PLU and its community members must be prepared to help ourselves before outside agency (fire, medical) help arrives.  To that end, it is calling for willing volunteer employees to join various PLU emergency…

    components to determine the safety of reoccupying the space after an earthquake.  Training coming next week! Disaster Search and Rescue (DSAR) performs light to moderate search and rescue activities in locations that are deemed safe or conditionally safe to enter. The Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is responsible for triage and first aid of injured students, employees, and guests when outside services are not readily available. W7PLU amateur (ham) radio operators provide communication services

  • In our new series, “Office Hours,” faculty open their doors and give you a look into their creative spaces. Join these faculty for their own office hours at PLU. Come in, sit down, have a conversation, you might just learn something new! Associate Professor Jp…

    Jp Avila – “Office Hours” Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / August 9, 2016 August 9, 2016 In our new series, “Office Hours,” faculty open their doors and give you a look into their creative spaces. Join these faculty for their own office hours at PLU. Come in, sit down, have a conversation, you might just learn something new! Associate Professor Jp AvilaOffice: Ingram 106 Email: jp.avila@plu.edu Courses taught: Upper level graphic design Topics of Interest: Design, Service, New gadgets Tip: Loves

  • Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…

    play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, no longer just plays the flute; she has perfected it—and she’s also seriously expanded her musical repertoire: Rottle is a soloist, a chamber musician, a music teacher and a contemporary-music specialist who has premiered works by jazz and classical composers from around the world. She has performed at venues as varied as the Brisbane Festival of Toy Music, Town Hall

  • Alumna, graduate speak at commencement More than 700 undergraduate and graduate students will participate in Spring Commencement 2008 at the Tacoma Dome on Sunday, May 25 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony features a keynote address by career diplomat Joyce Barr ’76, as well as a…

    May 16, 2008 Alumna, graduate speak at commencement More than 700 undergraduate and graduate students will participate in Spring Commencement 2008 at the Tacoma Dome on Sunday, May 25 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony features a keynote address by career diplomat Joyce Barr ’76, as well as a speech by graduating senior Candice Hughes. Hughes was selected to speak by faculty and staff. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Hughes came to PLU as a freshman in 2004, and is the first graduate of the

  • Being well-rounded can make someone stand out in a crowd. That’s why Dr. Katrina Hay believes that PLU’s Dual Degree Engineering Program sets students up for success now — and helps them make a difference later. “I want our future engineers to be educated through…

    .“I want our future engineers to be educated through a liberal arts system and not just technically educated in their field,” said Hay, the program’s director. “I want them also to understand people and what our society needs from engineers.” Dual Degree Engineering offers students a chance to combine those strengths of a liberal arts education with the rigorous coursework of engineering. Students who complete the program earn two degrees — one from PLU and the other from an ABET-accredited

  • PLU Nursing Students Top in Exam Pass Rates PLU Nursing student Haley Urdahl ’15 works in the Ramstad lab. (Photo: John Froschauer / PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The results are in for the 2013 NCLEX-RN exams, and for the second…

    National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, is a requirement for licensure as a registered nurse, said PLU Professor Terry Miller, dean of the School of Nursing. In 2013, 78 PLU Bachelor of Science Nursing students took the examination for the first time, and 75 of those passed on the first try, for a 96.15 percent pass rate. Eighteen entry-level Masters students took the exam, with 17 passing on the first attempt, for a 94.44 percent pass rate. Combined, PLU’s 96 first-time test

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 26, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University has created a fun way to honor the Lutheran tradition and put those Pokémon Go skills to use in a new way (we promise we had the idea before Lutes were out looking for Pokéstops). Marty’s Reformation…

    the university’s Marketing and Communications division that’s ready to download now. It serves as a map for an on-campus treasure hunt — the gold nuggets are fun and interesting facts about Martin Luther and the Reformation movement, and the pot of gold at the end comes in the form of big prizes. Starting Oct. 3, Lutes who download Marty’s Reformation Station will receive a new location clue in the app every weekday in October. Then, the countdown begins. Hurry, because you won’t be the only one

  • Claim: Nuclear weapons always make a country more secure Nuclear proliferation is driven by the perception that nuclear weapons always enhance national security. Yet Britain has been a nuclear power since 1952, and there is no evidence that its nuclear weapons make it more secure.…

    April 19, 2010 Claim: Nuclear weapons always make a country more secure Nuclear proliferation is driven by the perception that nuclear weapons always enhance national security. Yet Britain has been a nuclear power since 1952, and there is no evidence that its nuclear weapons make it more secure. The cancellation of the Blue Streak missile program in the early 1960s left Britain dependent on American rocketry and guidance systems – first Polaris, then Trident. Britain is the only nuclear weapons

  • Professor Christine Moon gained national and international attention for her work on how babies learn in the womb by listening to sounds. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Researcher Gains National Attention on ‘Today’ Show Talking About Babies Learning in the Womb By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing…

    July 31, 2014 Professor Christine Moon gained national and international attention for her work on how babies learn in the womb by listening to sounds. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Researcher Gains National Attention on ‘Today’ Show Talking About Babies Learning in the Womb By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications PLU Psychology Professor Christine Moon was one of the experts cited July 31 in a segment of the Today show called The Secret Life of Babies. Her groundbreaking research

  • The Washington State Environmental Health Association (WSEHA) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2021  Cind M. Treser Memorial Student Scholarship .  The scholarship fund will award up to  $5,000 in one or more  scholarship awards this year. The Cind M. Treser Scholarship program was instituted…

    WSEHA 2021 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP Posted by: alemanem / April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021 The Washington State Environmental Health Association (WSEHA) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2021 Cind M. Treser Memorial Student Scholarship.  The scholarship fund will award up to $5,000 in one or more scholarship awards this year. The Cind M. Treser Scholarship program was instituted to provide recognition and a financial incentive for undergraduate students majoring in environmental health (or