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Communication students get first-hand experience running a campaign to help relieve medical debt PLU students in Professor Amy Young’s strategic communication class have spent the fall semester working with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization that competes with collections agencies to purchase unpaid medical debt for a fraction of the cost and helps folks run crowdfunding campaigns to… January 19, 2024 AcademicsCommunicationCommunityInvolvementProfessorsService

Take a peak inside Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Follow Professor Egge’s biology class as they reconstruct a massive gray whale skeleton in a new Rieke Science Center classroom as part of BIOL 352: Comparative Anatomy. In BIOL 352, you take an evolutionary approach to understanding the complexities of vertebrate morphology. Through hands-on examination… April 22, 2024 AcademicsBiologyProfessors

International Honors Program builds a ‘Starship’ On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it… December 20, 2022 AcademicsBiologyCommunityCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice SustainabilityGlobal EducationInvolvementLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationMathematicsPacific

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Scholarship application form (submit it online) A scholarship application essay Respond to this question: Describe how your diverse experience shaped your understanding of social justice. Explain how this will influence your future as an educator. No more than 5 pages, double-spaced Upload the essay to the online scholarship application form A letter of recommendation The letter should address your community, civic, and multicultural engagement. This is a separate letter of recommendation from the two you

, and there were no customers gathering in that spot,” recalled Doan, who earned a Master of Science in Marketing Research at Pacific Lutheran University. At the time, Doan worked part time at a brand new Starbucks store in Lakewood, a way of satisfying his passion for the philosophy behind the iconic green siren logo. But Doan had no idea those break-time photo shoots in the well-lit corner of that coffee shop would later land him at Starbucks headquarters as a full-time social media designer for

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