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Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…
PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the
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PLU professor adds ‘board game inventor’ to his résumé.
RisingLearn more and purchase the board game. “It’s hopeless! There’s no way we’re going to win,” Andrew Austin ’06 said. Still, wine kept flowing and dice kept rolling as Austin and several other Lutes gathered around the board for a good time with good friends. Austin and his wife, Kaarin Praxel Austin ’07, brought their 6-week- old baby to the game night, a regular tradition. It was a balancing act keeping her comfortable between turns, but they managed. Praxel Austin, director of gift planning at PLU
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Consider how long you want to immerse yourself in another culture. Programs range from a week to a year, and everywhere in between.
Explore Areas for ConsiderationDurationConsider how long you want to immerse yourself in another culture. Programs range from a week to a year, and everywhere in between. SemesterGet the biggest bang for your buck! Studying Away on a PLU Gateway or Featured semester program, you get to use financial aid, PLU gift aid and scholarships while earning PLU credit toward your degree. Program costs are comparable to being at PLU, plus there are study abroad scholarships available. Start here to learn
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Our data science major and minor are about ethically stewarding and gleaning insights from data. We are committed to developing data scientists who understand the weight of their contributions and
techniques, natural language processing, databases, text mining, data science ethics/privacy, etc. Students will collaborate with the help of version control systems like GitHub. Python is the main programming language used. Prerequisite: DATA 133 or CSCI 144. Recommended: One of MATH/STAT 145, STAT 231, 232, 233, or MATH/STAT 242. (4)DATA 287 : SPECIAL TOPICS IN DATA SCIENCETo provide undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing courses not yet available in the regular curriculum. The title
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Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to offer extensive, graduate-level credit courses of study for teachers seeking to add an endorsement.
PE Endorsement Application Click here. Unofficial Transcripts from the College or University where highest degree was awarded A copy of your Current Teaching Certificate A current resume 2 letters of recommendation from professionals who have observed your experience and ability: Click here. $40 non-refundable processing fee (click button to pay) Send all completed materials to: Pacific Lutheran University Attn: Education-PPD 12180 Park Ave S. Tacoma, WA 98447The Program Includes: Blended
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South Sound STEM Fair Alliance In Partnership with PLU Invites you to participate in the Discovery Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
on submitted slides.Congratulations to DiscoveryThermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge (Formerly Broadcom Masters) nominees: Isabella York and Milo Matsuda, Pioneer, for “Oyster Heat Protection: Can Biofouling Keep Oyster Bags Cool” Priya Emani, Jefferson, for “Identifying Possible Biological Processes Affected By Non-Target Proteins of the COVID-19 Vaccine” Zain Shariff, Curtis, for “Microwave-Related Tissue Changes Using Ultrasound: Processing Images into Spectral Colors” Discovery is
Discovery Regional Science and Engineering FairMailing Address: South Sound STEM Fair Alliance PO Box 73232 Puyallup, WA 98373 -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at the Tacoma Dome urging them to change their world for the good, one act at a time. Tutu urges 15,000 in Tacoma Dome to be the spark that changes a community, a life. By…
evident in the stands. PLU, along with UPS, was a key sponsor of the event. A year ago, President Loren J. Anderson, along with his wife and chair of the GTCF, MaryAnn Anderson, began helping plan Friday’s celebration including bringing Tutu to Tacoma for his last U.S. tour. “We wanted to give a gift back to the community that was unique and powerful,” President Anderson said at a private dinner for Tutu before the main event. Tutu one was of the leaders of the push to end apartheid in South Africa
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Parker Simpson ’24 is spending his summer working at an assisted living facility in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals and has always wanted to help people. We sat down with him to discuss his experience taking classes…
to a generous $2 million lead gift from an anonymous PLU alum and a $1.25 million investment from Pierce County, progress is well underway. But significant partnership is yet needed to accomplish the planned remaining improvements. They include, in 2023, conversion of a lecture hall into three classrooms, an additional exam room and an improved student-faculty research lab. Plans call for renovation and upgrades to the Open Lab in 2024. If you would like to learn more about these projects and how
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Recently, I received a letter from a concerned parent and alumna commenting on how completely amazed and surprised she is at how different PLU is now, compared to her time here in the early 1980s. She has since returned to campus many times, but more…
full and vibrant life? Is it a priority?” The concerns that this alumna so eloquently voiced are the same ones with which we continue to grapple on a near daily basis. A strong sense of vocation, service to neighbor and the common good, curiosity and intellectual rigor, a sense that God is present throughout the entire creation, the freedom to ask questions and challenge authority, and all the other things that make up the great gift of Lutheran higher education are important “fruits” of the
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These guidelines are intended to provide student groups, who are authorized to travel on behalf of the university, with adequate means of transportation, lodging, meals and other services necessary
imposed by the IRS for employee business expenses, see IRS Publ. 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift and Car Expenses). Per this publication, “To be an accountable plan, an employer’s [or student’s] reimbursement or (expense) allowance arrangement must include all of the following rules: Your expenses must have a business connection—that is, you must have paid or incurred expenses while performing services as a student representative of PLU. You must adequately account to the Office for Student
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