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  • A group of six students from Taiwan University visited PLU as part of their country’s Young Ambassadors program. (Photo by John Froschauer) Classroom diplomacy By Chris Albert During a history class at PLU, six students from Taiwan University immersed themselves in discussion with PLU students…

    September 17, 2013 A group of six students from Taiwan University visited PLU as part of their country’s Young Ambassadors program. (Photo by John Froschauer) Classroom diplomacy By Chris Albert During a history class at PLU, six students from Taiwan University immersed themselves in discussion with PLU students, debating issues in the Eastern Pacific that continue to face world leaders and learning how diplomacy works. The class was broken into three groups, representing Japan, Taiwan and

  • Student Cas H. takes us to a PLU favorite, Mama’s Pho!

    YouTube Short: Favorite restaurant near campus Posted by: shortea / February 24, 2023 February 24, 2023 Student Cas H. takes us to a PLU favorite, Mama’s Pho! Read Previous You Ask, We Answer: What is NCAA Division III? Read Next You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Engineering? LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies

  • Program:  The Ole Miss Chemistry Department seeks applicants for an NSF-funded summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in 2020. Students who have completed their freshman year of college and who will not have graduated as of Fall 2020 can participate fully in “Ole Miss…

    research project under the direction of a faculty mentor. Student participants will receive a $5,000 stipend, a housing and meal plan for ten weeks, and travel assistance. Eligibility: Undergraduate student participants must have completed their freshmen year of college but not yet graduated, and must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. Underrepresented groups in science are strongly encouraged to apply, including minorities, women, and first-generation college

  • Erin Azama ’01, MAE ’06 is a special education teacher at Grant Center for the Expressive Arts, an arts-focused elementary school in Tacoma’s North End. She works with children from kindergarten to fifth-grade, so her work-from-home transition was not only a break from her routine…

    -grade, so her work-from-home transition was not only a break from her routine but to the routine of all of her students.When it’s not COVID-19 season, what’s your job like? I’m a special-education teacher working with kindergarten kids all the way through fifth grade in a learning resource center. Most students will get pulled out of class throughout the day, depending on what services they receive. For my younger students, I go into the general-ed classroom to assist and support them. I have 21

  • by John Struzenberg After Before Spring is a time for renewal, cleaning, and most importantly: technology upgrades. PLU has been humming away this spring and the same is true for the folks in classroom and event technologies. As the systems around campus get older, the…

    legs” and have been successfully upgraded: the Regency room (UCTR 203) and the Scandinavian Cultural Center (UCTR 100). These two venues are heavily used year-round by various PLU and external groups. This makes it very important for these spaces to have bullet-proof media systems that will get the job done day in and day out. For users, the only difference that will be apparent is the addition of an HDMI input for laptops and other media input devices. On the inside of the podiums and audio

  • Student and Alumni Research and Technical Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Oak Ridge, TN    Appointments for Spring and Summer 2018! Apply now to the Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis Programs (NESLS) Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Spring or…

    Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis Programs at ORNL- Spring or Summer 2018 Posted by: alemanem / November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 Student and Alumni Research and Technical Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Oak Ridge, TN  Appointments for Spring and Summer 2018! Apply now to the Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis Programs (NESLS) Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Spring or Summer 2018 Must apply at https://www.zintellect.com

  • A group of nine Computer Science and Computer Engineering students competed at an international computer programming competition Nov. 3. Team sets sights on next year By Jesse Major ’14 A group of nine Computer Science and Computer Engineering students competed at an international computer programming…

    .”  They were divided into three teams, PLU-3, PLU-2 and PLU-1, and took fifth, 11th, and 16th respectively at the University of Portland. Within the entire region, PLU-3 took 42nd, PLU-2 took 66th and PLU-1 took 82nd out of 111 teams. “I’m so proud of the job they did,” Kenneth Blaha, professor of CSCE The contest is held over five hours across six different campuses in British Columbia, Oregon, Hawaii, California, and Washington. Unlike sports, these competitors don’t need to be in the same room or

  • If you are living with a medically diagnosed food allergy or intolerance, or any other reason you may have dietary restrictions, you are not the only one on PLU’s campus! PLU Hospitality Services & Campus Restaurants are equipped and dedicated to accommodate customers who have…

    easily accessible and committed to providing safe, healthy, and delicious options. All menus in The Commons have the top nine allergens (Dairy, Egg, Soy, Sesame, Shellfish, Fish, Peanut, Tree Nut and Coconut) marked for all items. We also indicate when an item is Vegetarian, Vegan, Contains Pork or Gluten-Friendly. Additionally, we have eliminated all peanut and shrimp items from the menu in The Commons to avoid any chance of cross contamination. You’ll notice we use the term “Gluten-Friendly” as we

  • You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But Visiting Instructor of Chinese Xi Zhu is a true embodiment of this idea. You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But…

    true embodiment of this idea.  At PLU, Xi Zhu is a teacher, with valuable knowledge and deep interest in Chinese pre-modern literature. But every day this past fall, after teaching his course at PLU, Zhu commuted north to the University of Washington to take a class for his PhD. While both teaching a class and taking a class, Zhu was also working on his dissertation.  As a doctoral student, Zhu is studying a manuscript version of a pre-300 B.C.E. Chinese text known in English as the Classic of Odes

  • Aside from the PLU, NSF REU, DOE SULI, and NIH summer undergraduate research programs, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has its own directory of internship opportunities both nationally and internationally .    Check it out — you never know what you might discover!   Hint:  Be…

    ACS page for undergraduate research internships Posted by: yakelina / January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016 Aside from the PLU, NSF REU, DOE SULI, and NIH summer undergraduate research programs, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has its own directory of internship opportunities both nationally and internationally.    Check it out — you never know what you might discover!   Hint:  Be sure to hit “More” at the bottom of their directory (there are more than just the first ten or so that pop up