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VWS: Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken Washington State Poet Laureate, and MFA alum, Kathleen Flenniken ’07 is the next guest in PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Wednesday, May 2. Her visit starts with The Writer’s Story: Q&A at 3:30 p.m. at Garfield Books and concludes…
April 25, 2012 VWS: Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken Washington State Poet Laureate, and MFA alum, Kathleen Flenniken ’07 is the next guest in PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Wednesday, May 2. Her visit starts with The Writer’s Story: Q&A at 3:30 p.m. at Garfield Books and concludes with a reading at 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Flenniken’s first book, Famous (University of Nebraska, 2006), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book
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PLU Earns Prestigious Mortar Board Chapter By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU is populated with outstanding student leaders and meaningful, campuswide ways to recognize them—from Emerging Leaders to the Ubuntu Award and Pinnacle Society—but until now, there was no opportunity for national recognition. That’s where Mortar…
.“The programming we decided PLU’s Mortar Board chapter would work on was a combination of things we currently see PLU students doing as well as holes we saw in the co-curricular experience,” Steelquist said. “We all brainstormed what a Mortar Board chapter would look like at PLU and gave Amber a student perspective as she worked through the application.” The group worked to ensure proposed service programs were unique and widely beneficial. “Students are already very active in volunteer projects
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By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer In January, I enrolled in my first MOOC to learn more about this controversial form of instruction. It was definitely valuable, both for instructional design research and as a learning experience. The course was designed around five basic elements: video…
myself disinterested in the random debates of thousands of unknown classmates. The instructor’s video lectures were thought-provoking topics that held my interest, despite a traditional “sage on the stage” approach. Students watched the instructor lecturing on a Yale production studio stage. Occasionally, images, graphs, or quotes were displayed in a split screen format next to the instructor, but presentation slides were generally not utilized. The professor discussed lots of research, terms, and
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“I’m confident that here at PLU we can give you an experience that will make you a much better player, whether you choose to pursue music passionately or professionally.” – Svend Rønning, PLU Professor of Music – Violin; Coordinator of String Studies PLU offers the…
PLU has been teaching music for 130 years Posted by: mhines / September 19, 2023 September 19, 2023 “I’m confident that here at PLU we can give you an experience that will make you a much better player, whether you choose to pursue music passionately or professionally.” – Svend Rønning, PLU Professor of Music – Violin; Coordinator of String Studies PLU offers the most comprehensive music program of any private university in the Pacific Northwest. String majors and non-majors alike have access
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Originally Published in 1990 It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’ état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of…
angrily conflicting testimonies! Now, this is clearly an unsatisfactory situation. Since the rise of modern science, there have been some notable attempts to overcome the raucous uncertainties of the tribunal of history. In the last quarter of the seventeenth century, for example, the Benedictine monk Jean Mabillon published De re diplomatica (1681), a textbook on the principles of verification whereby charters, treaties, and other official documents are to be authenticated. But the effort to found a
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Professors Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, Adela Ramos, and Kevin O’Brien share why it’s a great time to study environmental studies and why PLU is a great place to do so! Keep reading to learn more about the environmental studies program .
Major Minute(ish): Environmental Studies Posted by: vcraker / June 2, 2022 June 2, 2022 Professors Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, Adela Ramos, and Kevin O’Brien share why it’s a great time to study environmental studies and why PLU is a great place to do so! Keep reading to learn more about the environmental studies program. Read Previous International student finds home away from home Read Next Makaela Whalen ’23 pursues newly launched pre-law minor LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus
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The medical physics group – Northwest Medical Physics Center – is a non-profit organization based in Lynnwood, Washington, with about 50 physicists working in medical physics throughout the Pacific Northwest. They’re accepting student applications for two educational opportunities beginning next summer at NMPC: one is…
-long applied physics technologist that is usually filled by a recent college graduate. They’d like to hire a physics or engineering student who might be interested in medical physics as a possible career. More information is available on their website: www.nmpc.org/careers/ Read Previous 2021 DREAM – Diversity Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program Read Next NIEHS Scholars Connect Program (NSCP) LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024
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Did you know that PLU has a pre-law minor and a pre-law advising track for any major? In this session, Professors Michael Artime and Ralph Flick from the pre-law program answer students’ most frequently asked questions!
You Ask. We Answer. Will your pre-law program help me get into law school? Posted by: mhines / March 28, 2024 March 28, 2024 Did you know that PLU has a pre-law minor and a pre-law advising track for any major? In this session, Professors Michael Artime and Ralph Flick from the pre-law program answer students’ most frequently asked questions! Read Previous Transfer Tips Read Next You Ask. We Answer. How is your Kinesiology Program? LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index
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When you study psychology at PLU, you’ll work with expert faculty, have plenty of hands-on research opportunities and career preparation, engage with local and larger academic communities, and experience small class sizes in an intentionally inclusive environment. Check out this Major Minute to hear from…
Major Minute: Psychology Posted by: mhines / March 15, 2024 March 15, 2024 When you study psychology at PLU, you’ll work with expert faculty, have plenty of hands-on research opportunities and career preparation, engage with local and larger academic communities, and experience small class sizes in an intentionally inclusive environment. Check out this Major Minute to hear from Associate Professor of Psychology Laura A. Shneidman and learn more about PLU’s psychology program. Read Previous
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Fulbright awards scholarships to three alums Ericka Hummel ’08 and Daniel Wilson ’06 both have early memories of Germany, as both visited or lived in the country as children. Now, they will return as Fulbright scholars.“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Hummel said. “I’m…
third-grader and then spent a J-Term in Cologne and semester in Berlin. This fall, each will return to Germany on 10-month Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. Additionally, Jennifer Henrichsen ’07 received a Fulbright research award to complete an advance master’s degree in international and European security in a joint program between the University of Geneva’s European Institute and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Switzerland. Her research will focus on press protection in conflict
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