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conversation the two had a few days earlier: Have you ever read a romance novel? Gregson hadn’t. And she would fully admit that she was like many other people: She assumed romance novels were easy reads, brainless formulaic pop. Then, the box of novels arrived. She read one. And a research topic was born. Gregson and her friend, professor Jennifer Lois of Western Washington University, decided they wanted to study the writers of the romance genre, of which about 95 percent are women. Sure, the novels had

September 22, 2014 First-Ever Demo Theater Shows the Fun of Physics Katrina Hay, Associate Professor of Physics, center, works with Brian Ruggles, left, and PLU Physics Club Michelle Zhai on a demonstration for the Sept. 26 Physics Demo Theater. (Photo: Shunying Wang ’14) By Shunying Wang ’14 PLU Marketing & Communications Student WorkerOn Friday, Sept. 26, Pacific Lutheran University’s Physics Department will host the first-ever Physics Demo Theater to highlight the fun of physics. Physics

The University Wind Ensemble featured at the Western International Band Clinic Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 Lutes played to more than 800 students, band directors and music lovers who packed the house at the Western International Band Clinic on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The PLU Wind Ensemble was featured during the festival’s Saturday night performance and was one of only four groups selected to perform and the only band selected west of Texas. “Our

Pacific Lutheran University Professor Invited Speaker at United States Naval Academy Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 18, 2019 June 18, 2019 By Pacific Lutheran UniversityTACOMA, WASH. (June 18, 2019) — PLU Dept of Psychology faculty, Dr. Corey Cook, presents research at the 1st national discussion on sexual assault and sexual harassment at America's colleges, universities, and service academies.A PLU psychology professor may be shaping future sexual harassment/assault prevention practices and

MS program in Environmental and Green Chemistry at George Washington University Posted by: alemanem / February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 This unique 2-year program was created  purposefully to combine both environmental and green chemistry in order to train students to both evaluate and proactively address sustainability challenges. The program includes unique coursework in green chemistry, such as Design of Safer Chemicals, Green Industrial Chemistry and Sustainable Energy,  as well as a

, as well as the residents of Pacific Lutheran University, revolve around “can we use the water and then return it back as clean water,” she said. Then there are choices that an individual can make. Bottled water, or tap, for example. In the last few years, PLU’s Sustainability Committee and student groups have pushed for students to eschew bottled water – and the resources used to make the plastic – in favor of tap water and reusable bottles. Then there are hidden water choices. It takes 37

of Ferrucci Junior High) 15 PLU Alumni Use Alma Mater Pride to get Junior High Students Thinking About College Early By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications It’s hard to imagine a workplace more loaded with Lutes than Ferrucci Junior High School in Puyallup—outside of PLU itself, of course. Of the 40 teachers on Ferrucci’s staff, 15 have attended and/or graduated from Pacific Lutheran University—and their stories just keep intertwining: •    Ferrucci Principal Steven Leifsen ’96 and

United States Army and PLU. Michael Farnum, PLU's director of military outreach, and others deliver 1,200 turkeys to service men and women on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Friday, Nov. 18, thanks to Association of the United States Army, PLU and Puget Sound partners. (Photo courtesy of Farnum) The event, in the Anderson University Center the day before Thanksgiving, will welcome soldiers who are waiting to be assigned to their duty stations. “They’re missing family, they’re missing out on a normal part of

published as an “occasional paper” by the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. Ericksen also was invited by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies to speak at the University of Cape Town in August. He and his PLU predecessor, Chris Browning, were there. Susannah Heschel, Doris Bergen, and Michael Marrus – all former speakers at PLU Holocaust Studies events–were also among the nine scholars asked to speak on “Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations” in Holocaust

, 17, 23, and 24, at 7:30pm and October 25, at 2pm in Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at PLU. The play begins at a large, tastefully appointed townhouse, where the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Guests are gathered for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions