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  • The Common App to apply to PLU is officially open for the Class of 2025—so it’s time to start thinking about your college essay. Your essay is your moment to show colleges what makes you unique. Ready to get started? Here are five tips to…

    that’s authentic and true to who you are. Whether it’s a unique hobby or a personal challenge, let your personality shine through.Show, Don’t TellInstead of saying “I’m a hard worker,” share a story that shows how you’ve worked hard. Use specific examples and details to paint a picture of your experiences. Even if you’re writing about a tough experience, focus on how you’ve grown or what you’ve learned. End on a high note—show how you’ve turned challenges into opportunities.Be GenuineDon’t write what

  • Serving so others don’t have to While serving in Iraq Col. Scott E. Leith came to know one of the luckiest or unluckiest people he has ever met.“It depends on how you look at it,” he told a crowd last week at the Veterans Day…

    November 17, 2008 Serving so others don’t have to While serving in Iraq Col. Scott E. Leith came to know one of the luckiest or unluckiest people he has ever met.“It depends on how you look at it,” he told a crowd last week at the Veterans Day Celebration in Mary Baker Russell Music Center Lagerquist Concert Hall. Leith and about 1,000 of his “best friends” were positioned in the backyard of the Iraq Insurgency. Their days were filled with firefights during the ongoing battles. There he met an

  • Physics Instructor, Dana Rush, talks about the Hubble Space Telescope in the community room of the GBC. Exploring with Hubble By Chris Albert For more than a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope has been opening doors to the universe. Through its lens, we’ve received astonishing…

    September 15, 2011 Physics Instructor, Dana Rush, talks about the Hubble Space Telescope in the community room of the GBC. Exploring with Hubble By Chris Albert For more than a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope has been opening doors to the universe. Through its lens, we’ve received astonishing views – from the formation of stars and planets to getting a glimpse of the impact of a comet colliding with Jupiter. Dana Rush, PLU physics instructor, presented a multimedia lecture on the Hubble

  • Welcome New Phi Kappa Phi Members! We are pleased to congratulate School of Nursing students initiated into Phi Kappa Phi. On May 13, 2016, PLU welcomed the first inductees to Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 333 during an inaugural Initiation Ceremony. Please join us in celebrating…

    Congratulations Phi Kappa Phi Inductees! Posted by: priggekl / September 22, 2016 September 22, 2016 Welcome New Phi Kappa Phi Members!We are pleased to congratulate School of Nursing students initiated into Phi Kappa Phi. On May 13, 2016, PLU welcomed the first inductees to Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 333 during an inaugural Initiation Ceremony. Please join us in celebrating the following students for their remarkable achievement and recognition by the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective

  • TACOMA WA – Congratulations to Robert Gallagher (Sociology Junior) for his acceptance into the prestigious American Sociological Association’s Honors Program! According to the ASA “the Honors Program provides undergraduate sociology students a rich introduction to the professional life of the discipline. Once admitted, these exceptional students…

    exceptional students come together for four days and experience all facets of the ASA Annual Meeting. By participating, Honors Program students develop long-lasting networks with other sociologists while their sponsoring departments get to ‘showcase’ their most outstanding majors.” To learn more about ASA Honors, visit this link. Read Previous Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting Read Next Palmer Scholars Builds Hope and Opportunity Through Education LATEST POSTS J-Term 2020 – Study Away in

  • 8:05 a.m. – Ms. Dozier’s eighth grade literature class Most of the 21 students in the class of Alethea Dozier ’02 are interested in today’s lesson on the Holocaust, as well as the Japanese internment camps during World War II. Others are asleep on their…

    mother, five children of her own, ages 4 through 14. Budgets are tight, time is even tighter, but she makes it work. She even finds time to lead a Young Life group. She’s up around 5 a.m. and home about 8 p.m. She then grades papers once the youngest are in bed, until around 11 p.m. When the bell rings the students head out the door. Dozier stands there, allowing the students out while looking for strays from her next class. “They’ll get to right there,” she says, pointing about five feet away. “And

  • Vera Saldana (a PLU alumna) would like to invite students to contact her regarding internship opportunities at PNNL. They’re looking for interns to work on waste vitrification & grout waste forms. “I would like to encourage my fellow Lutes to look for technical positions here…

    here as interns and now hold Ph.D.s and are leaders in the field. There is lots of room for growth & movement and interns make a real impact in our group, not just do busy work.” If interested, please contact: Vera Saldana, Administrator Radiological Materials Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory vera.saldana@pnnl.gov Read Previous Careers in Criminal Justice Read Next ACS Puget Sound Section Scholarship LATEST POSTS Free Seattle Workshop – “Preparing Scientists for Industry Careers

  • September marks the beginning of application season for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation .  We are now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2023.  Last year we gave twelve $2000 scholarships; this year we anticipate 16 or more.  There will be at…

    student, one for a diversity candidate, one for a First Nations student.  All aspects of renewable energy, including social sciences and humanities as well as sustainability and grid issues, are fair game.  The deadline for applications is Feb 15, 2023, and details can be found on our website. Read Previous Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS) Read Next The Office of Science is Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2023 Undergraduate Internships! LATEST POSTS Free Seattle Workshop

  • Join us for the Virtual Admissions Application Symposium via Zoom on March 4, 2023. The symposium is a great resource for current undergraduate or beyond students who are interested in applying or reapplying to our medical school. Please register by February 27, 2023 Topics Covered…

    WSU College of Medicine Virtual Admissions Application Symposium Posted by: nicolacs / February 1, 2023 February 1, 2023 Join us for the Virtual Admissions Application Symposium via Zoom on March 4, 2023. The symposium is a great resource for current undergraduate or beyond students who are interested in applying or reapplying to our medical school. Please register by February 27, 2023 Topics Covered Choosing a school, the application process/timeline, application dos and don’ts Developing a

  • Listen to the June 17th program of “Pipedreams” from “American Public Media” called “All That Jazz.” One of the pieces included in the program is David Deacon-Joyner’s composition “Un poco Bud” that was recorded in November of 2008 at the 10th anniversary concert of the…

    at the 10th anniversary concert of the Lagerquist Organ. https://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2019/1924/   Read Previous Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany Read Next Shining a Light on Female-Identifying Jazz Composers LATEST POSTS Campus to Carnegie: Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Perform in NYC February 24, 2025 Vocal Performance Major Caitlyn Babcock ’25 Awarded by the Presser Foundation February 11, 2025 Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra Releases “Vida,” A Tribute