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  • Recently Natalie (’13), who works at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center, received a Daisy Award for her “amazing, informational, and caring service” while caring for an infant who was admitted for monitoring. The family said she went “over and beyond for us…

    Congratulations Alum Natalie Bisceglia! Posted by: Julie Winters / April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 Recently Natalie (’13), who works at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center, received a Daisy Award for her “amazing, informational, and caring service” while caring for an infant who was admitted for monitoring. The family said she went “over and beyond for us which turned this exhausting, scary, frustrating moment into a wonderful pleasant informing hospital trip.” Great job

  • PLU’s Army ROTC Wins 3 rd MacArthur Award in 4 Years Members of PLU’s Army ROTC department gather for a land-navigation exercise outside PLU in January 2014. (Photo: PLU Army ROTC) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University’s Army Reserve Officers’…

    Command and the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation, recognize the ideals of “duty, honor and country” as advocated by MacArthur. They are based on a combination of the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission, its cadets’ performance and standing on the Command’s national Order of Merit List and its cadet retention rate. Cadet Command and the MacArthur Foundation have given the awards annually since 1989. PLU’s program represents Cadet Command’s Eighth Brigade, which consists of the 30 senior

  • A group of six students from Taiwan University visited PLU as part of their country’s Young Ambassadors program. (Photo by John Froschauer) Classroom diplomacy By Chris Albert During a history class at PLU, six students from Taiwan University immersed themselves in discussion with PLU students…

    – about how to solve a regional dispute in the ocean off Taiwan – back to Taiwan to the president of Taiwan,” said Mahlon Meyer, visiting assistant professor of History. “The country then enacted the suggestion.” The Taiwanese students stayed with home-stay families of PLU professors and paired with PLU students throughout out their two-day experience. Along with class and visiting Northwest business leaders, the delegation enjoyed the on-campus experience, performed a traditional Taiwanese dance and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 15, 2018) — Riley Dolan ’19 never intended to go into political science in college. That changed after coming to Pacific Lutheran University. His time volunteering for LuteVote through ASPLU, the university’s student government body, and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign inspired…

    to Pacific Lutheran University.His time volunteering for LuteVote through ASPLU, the university’s student government body, and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign inspired Dolan to pursue politics at PLU. Although Dolan may not currently have all the answers, he’s excited to start working on finding solutions to the world’s problems. “I don’t know exactly how to solve these problems,” Dolan said, “but I know there are problems, and I want to be a voice for change.” This summer Dolan will

  • Saturday, October 31, 2019 & Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 Rice University Houston, TX The  Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS)  is hosted by  Rice University   in Houston, Texas. GCURS provides current undergraduates the opportunity to present their original research discoveries to scholars from around…

    , it offers an introduction to Houston, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in the nation.  Find out more via the Flyer-GCURS-20 or online at:  gcurs.rice.edu Read Previous Molten Salt Reactor Conference Read Next RISE: Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education at WSU LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer

  • If you’re a recent grad looking for outdoor, environmental work or experience in state government or local environmental nonprofits, the Individual Placement Program with the Washington Conservation Core might be a good fit for you! There are positions at Ecology Headquarters in Lacey as well…

    for positions: https://ecology.wa.gov/About-us/Get-to-know-us/News/2018/July-3-300-WCC-positions-now-open You can learn more about individual placement positions here: https://ecology.wa.gov/About-us/Our-role-in-the-community/Washington-Conservation-Corps/WCC-Individual-Placement-Program Chemistry alum Alice Henderson reported a really positive experience in her IP position through the Washington Conservation Corps. Read Previous Summer Sessions: General and Organic Chemistry at PLU Read Next

  • Dealing in historical coins is rare gift Todd Imhof ’86 wasn’t planning a career in rare coin dealing when he left PLU with a degree in political science. In fact, he was leaving for New York to work in the banking business at Chase. Then…

    industry,” he said. “It seemed right to me, so I decided to give it a shot.” The company grew quickly, and in 1990 was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fasting-growing small companies in the United States. That same year, he bought-out his partner and renamed the business Pinnacle Rarities, based in Lakewood, Wash., and focused the company on high-end collectors and investors. “I quickly acquired an appreciation for the history and artistry of coins, and more important, I found I loved dealing with

  • Sara Piatnica, 91, talks about why she, her mother, and her siblings migrated to Uruguay after the war, about her father’s family, and about reparations. Open English Translation Open Spanish Transcript

    Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 1) Posted by: kaufmard / January 28, 2023 January 28, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Sara Piatnica, 91, talks about why she, her mother, and her siblings migrated to Uruguay after the war, about her father’s family, and about reparations. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Sara Piatnica Testimonial (Part 2) Read Next Eva Nathan Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023

  • PLU’s Resident Artist Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission PLU Resident Artist Jessica Spring works in studio. (Photo courtesy of Jessica Spring) Jessica Spring Will Accept AMOCAT Award—and Exhibit Her Work—in Tacoma Oct. 2 By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker…

    began setting cold type on a phototypesetting machine. In 1989, she learned to set metal type and has been a letterpress printer ever since. Spring has a Master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia College in Chicago. She began teaching at PLU in 2004 and has taught Art of the Book as well as graphic-design classes that specialize in typography. “There’s no better way to understand typography than handsetting and print type,” Spring said. “Everyone, regardless of their career path, learns some

  • Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do…

    experience, so I applied to a lot of internships, probably 30 plus. On top of that, my econ mentor, Igor Strupinskiy, felt Russell Investments would be a good fit for me because he had worked there previously. His working there had nothing to do with me getting the internship, but it was a funny coincidence, and he knew enough about the work to know that it would be a good fit for me. So I made that one of my applications, and that just happened to be the one I got an interview for, and I’m thankful that