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  • PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.

    PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028: Trailblazers As Pacific Lutheran University welcomes the Class of 2028, the university celebrates not just a new academic year but a new generation of students defined by the spirit of innovation, resilience, and transformation. The Admission staff has dubbed this cohort “Trailblazers” due to their distinctive… September 11, 2024 News, Announcements, Accolades

  • By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…

    important social impact. Social innovation At PLU, we’ve been studying social innovation all year in our new Innovation Studies program. As part of our work, we invited Alice Steinglass to share her organization’s strategy during this year’s Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. Steinglass participated in a workshop on teaching computer science in local schools (with Heavenly Cole and Laurie Murphy), and she delivered an exciting evening talk for about 180-students, faculty, and alumni

  • The School of Business at PLU offers a broad range of courses and skills. We offer areas of specialization (what we call concentrations) in marketing, management, accounting and finance. Students who are interested in international business may use any one of those concentrations as a…

    his business education to work in an international government setting that makes a huge difference in the world. Mark decided to take his business background into the governmental organization called USAID. He worked on the Power Africa project, a collaborative project that integrates local governments and towns with the support of nonprofit organizations, for profit businesses, and international governments to help deliver over 60 million electrical connections in different countries comprising

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 5, 2016)- A familiar Pacific Lutheran University tradition changes its anatomy this year, as organizers reimagine “The Vagina Monologues” as “The Monologues” – a fresher, more interactive take on the famous play. Incorporating student-written content, “The Monologues” is a twist on the…

    approach topics of sex, menstruation and female genitalia in thought-provoking and empowering ways.LEARN MORE PLU Women's Center Washington Corrections Center for Women IF Project Freedom Education Project Puget SoundThe decision to reinvent the show at PLU was a collaborative effort between student directors and Jennifer Smith, director of the Women’s Center. By incorporating students’ stories into the show, the cast and crew hope to broaden perspectives presented in the play. “We wanted to get more

  • News for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Collaborative COVID-19 Research Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology Psi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology, recently announced a Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) research proposal (https://osf.io/gdske/) to study beliefs and coping responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal was authored by Dr. Corey… July 21, 2020

  • The College of Liberal Studies educates students to engage critically and creatively with what it means to be human and how humans form communities across diverse cultural contexts, time periods,

    students for careers grounded in their fields and for wide-ranging graduate study.  All of our programs include the essential tools of a liberal arts education: critical thinking, collaborative learning, strategic problem solving, and the ability to thoughtfully and creatively make connections. Our students work closely alongside faculty in discussion, research, and reflection, as we support and honor students as whole people, in a complex world. The College of Liberal Studies offers B.A. degrees in

  • The mission of the Chemistry Department is to provide high quality educational programs for all students who study chemistry at PLU.

    techniques, and research-grade instrumentation into the curriculum. As mentors for collaborative student-faculty research and creative projects, faculty work with students to expand fundamental knowledge in chemistry and develop students’ abilities for independent scholarship. The department strives to prepare chemistry majors for direct employment in chemistry, entry into graduate or professional programs, and to become scientifically literate contributors to our local and global society.Goals Statement

  • Launched in 2017, the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) provides  excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities  to students pursuing a Ph.D. in  fields of study  that address complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship…

    problems critical to stewardship science. The DOE NNSA LRGF connects professors and students working in fields relevant to the DOE lab system with laboratory scientists, fostering collaborative research relationships. The program will strengthen these university-laboratory links through an unusual and exciting provision: fellows will work and study in residence at one or more of four approved DOE NNSA facilities for a minimum of two 12-week periods. Longer stays are highly encouraged, up to or

  • Visiting Writer’s Series – No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Face the Global Economy Author Wendy Call will be on campus Feb. 22. Award winning author Wendy Call will talk about her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Face the Global Economy…

    : “Call is never dry or academic; rather, she writes lively narrative, detailed description, and engaging scenes that render her subjects – a schoolteacher, fisherman, activists-three-dimensional. By relating the lives and concerns of isthmus dwellers and the struggles they face, the author raises awareness of globalization’s effects on the village economy.” Read Previous Technology opens more collaborative possibilities Read Next Terje Tvedt talks about the sociopolitical nature of water COMMENTS

  • Assistant Professor of  Psychology  Corey Cook has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to serve as a visiting researcher at the Social Cognition Center Cologne at the University of Cologne in Spring 2022. Cook’s project, titled “Investigating the influence of fundamental motives on social cognition,”…

    , 2020 Enrico Jones Award in Psychotherapy & Clinical Psychology November 6, 2020 Collaborative COVID-19 Research July 21, 2020