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  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career…

    artificial intelligence and related sciences will be in the future. The company has also established a $100 million venture capital fund (The Alexa Fund) to fuel voice-technology innovation in the worlds of business and academics. Dozens of companies are now receiving start-up funding from this resource pool, creating innovations such as new hardware devices for helping in the home, internationally-focused products, and enhancements to the science behind voice technology. Alexa Fund Fellowships Of great

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    to the creatures they study so intimately. The jaguar we fitted with the radio collar will disappear in the biological studies produced from the research. With the data from several collared jaguars, a statistical composite of the jaguar in the area—the jaguar as species—will be constructed. Important information, to be sure. Yet as one researcher told me, studying another tropical species, the composite portrait describes the creature as type, “a platonic animal,” to use her words. Because it

  • Taking care of your mental health and overall well-being (and taking care of each other) is vital when you’re in college. PLU is all about having your back, making sure you have the support you need, and fostering a community of care. When it comes…

    can also contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or SuicidePreventionLifeline.org. Read Previous New partnership leads to new opportunities for PLU pre-health sciences graduates Read Next Lute Fest Recap: 2023 LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer

  • During her senior year at Pacific Lutheran University, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She soon met with PLU Peace Corps advisor, Dr. Katherine Wiley to learn more. She was excited…

    across the board,” she says.  “These things that have nothing to do with say the cell cycle, but that’s what I need to learn today. So, I tell myself, ‘OK, at this moment, I need to learn X in the hard sciences and then someday I’ll be able to use that to advance my real agenda which is health equity.’ ”   Read Previous Powell-Heller Conference to explore the timely theme of “Holocaust Distortion and Denial” Read Next Hawaii Grown: Nine players grace the highly successful Pacific Lutheran women’s

  • MultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization that’s been caring for communities in Washington state since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital in 1882. MultiCare has grown from a Tacoma-centric, hospital-based organization into the largest, not-for-profit, community-based, locally-owned health system in the state…

    Lute Powered: MultiCare Health System PLU alumni Terri Card ’83, Mark Mariani ’98 and Leah Butte

  • Professor Emeritus Bryan Dorner passed away on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Beloved by his students and peers alike, Bryan joined the Department of Mathematics in 1980 and retired in 2017. He earned tenure in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. “Bryan truly…

    The Passing of Bryan Dorner Posted by: nicolacs / June 4, 2024 Image: at PLU on Monday, Sept. 26, 20

  • If you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D., you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a new piece of research is published. But what he finds…

    Renzhi Cao innovates in the classroom Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Lisa

  • On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…

    Saving the World with a Starship Mathematics professor Daniel Heath’s Starship Design class uses i

  • If you polled people, chances are few would raise their hands and volunteer to go back to middle or high school. For many, those were awkward times in just about every way imaginable. For folks that struggled with reading, writing, communication or other subjects, even…

    , they are ready to see what else the literacy center can offer. They’ve begun collaborating with faculty members in PLU’s Division of Natural Sciences on STEM support. They’ve connected with the university’s Center for Community Engagement and Service to offer adult English as a Second Language programming. They also are working with other long-running PLU programs that are connected with Keithley and Washington, like Big Buddies. “This is an important collaboration between Parkland and PLU,” Rogers

  • Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually…

    PLU announces Carol Sheffels Quigg Award winners Posted by: nicolacs / December 21, 2022 December 21