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  • Affect “Give quality work throughout your lives, even though there’s no way of knowing how your efforts will affect the future.” It is pretty easy to see how Dr. Bill Foege ’57 affected the future – he is the epidemiologist who is credited as the…

    December 1, 2009 Affect “Give quality work throughout your lives, even though there’s no way of knowing how your efforts will affect the future.” It is pretty easy to see how Dr. Bill Foege ’57 affected the future – he is the epidemiologist who is credited as the person who led the worldwide effort to eradicate smallpox. Foege tells people to follow their “moral compass,” and his path from medical missionary to director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention certainly pointed him in

  • This spring, I was asked by a first-year student, “What does being a Lute mean to you?” To me, being a Lute means caring–caring about thoughtful inquiry, caring about service, caring about leadership, caring about other people, caring about community, and caring about the earth. …

    !  Students, faculty, counselors etc.  It all makes a difference. As you may note, I work at [another University] and have been here for 16 years.  We can’t hold a candle to PLU’s attention to personal details.  We would do well to take a page from your playbook! Exhibit B: I wanted to reach out and let you know how thrilled I was to see you in the audience for the Governor’s State of the State speech. As one of the Governor’s Senior Advisors and as a PLU alum (2008), I couldn’t help but be proud to have

  • TACOMA, Wash. – Junior Ashley Stiles has been a member of the three-time defending Northwest Conference Champion Pacific Lutheran University women’s rowing team for the past three years. Last year, Stiles was an alternate for the Lutes at the NCAA Division III Championships where the…

    nation. Not only successful on the water, Stiles takes that same energy outside of the athletic atmosphere into her daily life. As a political science major, Stiles is doing an internship at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia. “I’m getting a really deep understanding of state government, of policy, and of law making. I’m also getting to essentially “job shadow” for about four months. It has really solidified my desire to work in politics in the future,” said Stiles.More Read Previous Dr. Maria

  • Associate Vice President Karen McConnell , Ph.D., recently stepped into a new role. It’s not only new for her, but also for PLU. She is the school’s first chief institutional effectiveness officer. McConnell explains that in this role she will help ensure that evidence-based decision-making…

    kinesiology professor in 1998 and was appointed dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology in 2018. In her new role, she’ll establish PLU’s new Office of Institutional Effectiveness, which will report directly to the Office of the President and work closely with all divisions of the university. McConnell knows her new charge will require some grit, as well as a willingness to innovate. “There are areas where we can be creative and innovative in a traditional sense, particularly in relation to how we

  • NSF–REU Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Research Program Program Dates: June 4th – August 12th, 2017 The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is proud to host a National Science Foundation supported Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. Application due date: April 7, 2017 . All participants…

    Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Program – Northern Illinois University Posted by: alemanem / March 29, 2017 March 29, 2017 NSF–REU Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Research Program Program Dates: June 4th – August 12th, 2017 The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is proud to host a National Science Foundation supported Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. Application due date: April 7, 2017. All participants will receive a stipend of $5,000 (free housing will

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfe90PTrXY Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address By President Thomas W. Krise Before we get started, I’d like to have a word with the brand new freshmen and transfer students. You are, after all, MY class.  We all become Lutes together today. I have proof that…

    celebrate a new year and the beginning of life at PLU for you, our new students. A teacher of mine liked to remark that ceremonies such as this one today are the way we act out what we cannot say. She was right about that. Many of the elements of our ceremony of installation today stretch back to our founding in 1890. They are things we have not said but they are things that have symbolic meaning—using historic ceremony to pledge our collective support for the institution and its mission in a new period

  • Cammocks ensure PLU remains a place for students to grow By Chris Albert There is one thing Craig Cammock ’91 finds to be true every time he encounters a Lute in the world: “They’re always a pleasure to run into.” It’s a big reason why…

    November 1, 2010 Cammocks ensure PLU remains a place for students to grow By Chris Albert There is one thing Craig Cammock ’91 finds to be true every time he encounters a Lute in the world: “They’re always a pleasure to run into.” It’s a big reason why Cammock and his wife, Carrie, support education at Pacific Lutheran University through financial support to initiatives like Q Club student scholarships, the Morken Center, the athletic fields and gifts to the economics department, which included

  • By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communication Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 2, 2014)—One of the newest clubs at PLU this year—the Kinesiologists of the Future Club or, as it’s known on campus, KFC—is kicking off with a bang. Since it is the Kinesiology…

    Bowl Champions practice and meet the head coach. Two teams had signed up for the Haunt a week ahead of time. On Oct. 30, the day of the Haunt, there were 14 teams signed up. “Little did we know people would be running around [during the Haunt],” said Zepernick. “People were without jackets in the pouring rain—and we thought, ‘All right! This is KFC!’” The winners of the Haunt were Lutes Gage Gibson, Jake Dacus, Matt Wehr and Joseph Bowley. The winning Lutes, PLU KFC board members and randomly

  • ‘I always wanted to go to med school. Then I found something I love even MORE.’ By Chris Albert PLU senior Lauren Thiele has always wanted to make positive change in the world. It’s why, for as long as she could remember, she wanted to…

    students like her for medical school. Over the years, she took advantage of all the opportunities available to her by engaging in whatever she could do to become the most desirable medical school candidate. “I wanted to be one of those people that could do good in the world.” “I did a lot in the medical field,” Thiele said. “I did a lot of things to put myself on that path.” She did well in her physics, chemistry and biology classes. She volunteered in a local emergency room for 100 hours. She studied

  • 1st Test of Outdoor Speakers Scheduled for March 10 Fire Drill TACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—When you hear a big, booming voice in the sky on March 10, it (probably) won’t be A Message From Above. But it is a message Campus Safety hopes you’ll…

    community and the public during emergencies and natural disasters. “We are the first university to tie our outdoor speakers into the system,” said Greg Premo, director of Campus Safety. “Most universities use the emergency ‘Blue Phones’ for outdoor notification, but that route would have been very costly since we would have had to add a lot of new cabling, power and other installation costs.” The new Metis system, funded in part by a $15,000 grant from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation, provides greater