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Fundraising for Future Lutes PLU students impact their community and the world every day, for causes ranging from athletics to advocacy groups. But there is one group of PLU students who directly impact the lives of their peers. The TelALutes “friend raise” and fund raise throughout the academic year for something all Lutes value: their education. With majors ranging from Anthropology to Biology, each student has a perspective unique to their PLU experience. They all bring something different

Egge's collecting samples with students in the Nisqually River, 2017. Professor Shannon Seidel with research students, 2017 Professor Matt Smith listens to a student's poster presentation in Rieke, 2018 Professor Mike Behrens shows an Ochre Starfish to students (and Professor Heidi Schutz) during a low tide field trip, 2019. Professor Amy Siegesmund in Biology lab with students, 2018. Professor Jacob Egge shows students a frog in Capitol Forest, 2017.

ENVT 350 Environmental Methods of Investigation is a watershed-based course that examines the health of PLU’s watershed – the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed. The class has been the centerpiece of our interdisciplinary Environmental Studies program since the minor was first offered in 1992. Later the program offered its first major in 1998. In the class, students study the health of our watershed using multiple disciplines – this semester, including Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, History, and

animal or plant, researched its unique qualities, and put the species in context with their own identity and life history.  Kinesiology major/Psychology minor Breeze Bartle introduces the hardy succulent Echeveria elegans. Link to Video Biology major/Environmental Studies minor Blake Clapp reflects on the resilience of the PNW’s coho salmon. Link to Video Business major/Dance minor Kei-Lynn Ono tells us about O‘ahu’s invasive coqui frog. Link to Video

(Ornithology); BIOL 367 (Conservation Biology and Management), and ENVT 350 (Environmental Methods of Investigation). In addition, some specimens are used in student-faculty collaborative research projects. Due to the delicate nature of the specimens, access to museum specimens must be coordinated by a biology department faculty member.Open HouseBiology professor Jacob Egge hosts a museum open house on most Fridays in the fall semester. Starting September 15th, the museum will be open from 10:30-11:30am

curricular changes she made this year to make a biology unit more culturally relevant.Congratulations CS-STEM Graduates! (May 2023)Congratulations to all five of our CS-STEM Teacher Candidates who earned their MAE degrees! We look forward to you teaching in your own classrooms in the fall and look forward to hearing about your first year during our Induction Seminars. Congratulations to our CS-STEM Scholar Grayson Nottage who earned her Bachelor’s degree and was featured in the PLU News’ series about