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  • Pacific Lutheran University is located six miles south of Tacoma, in suburban Parkland, Washington, on a 156-acre woodland campus.

    , track and field, crew, golf and softball. Men’s intercollegiate sports: Soccer, football, cross country, basketball, swimming, track and field, baseball, crew, and golf. Memorial Lectures: Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture (history), Heather Koller Memorial Lecture (creative writing or ethics), Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture (varies).

  • Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow…

    God’s grace and abundance. All of creation “is a robust form of communication between the creator and the creation,” Torvend said. In many places in the world, water has become the new oil, as different interest groups fight over it, with devastating results, noted Kevin O’Brien, assistant professor of Christian ethics. The war in Darfur has its roots in a water fight between farmers and wandering tribesmen, he noted. “Lack of water has already caused tragedy in the world, and Christians should pay

  • OLYMPIA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)— The first round of policy and fiscal committee cut-off dates has come and gone. This week, members of the Senate and House will spend much of their days alternating between passionate, public floor debates and quiet, closed-door caucus meetings. The…

    legislative ethics, writing and research, a budget exercise, mock committee hearings and floor debate, and a job shadow at a state agency. Interns also participate in seminars and workshops with state officials, policymakers, journalists and lobbyists, offering networking opportunities and a global view of the political process. Washington Legislative Internship Homepage Read Previous International Star Imparts Wisdom to Operatic Lutes Read Next The Women’s Center at 25: Stories of Inspiration and Impact

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 24, 2019) — Research has become Pacific Lutheran University grad SarahAnn McFadden’s life. This year, McFadden ‘11 landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors…

    low-resource countries, and the ethics of changing dosing schedules for the human papillomavirus vaccine. The transition from her graduate studies to her current project work has been quite challenging, but it is a challenge she enjoys. “I think it’s going to be pretty similar when I make the transition from postdoc to faculty,” she said. “But I feel like I was exposed to enough at PLU, at Hopkins, through nursing, all of it, to where I have the skills and background to make my way on any new path

  • More than 140 health care providers, educators, and community leaders gathered earlier today at Pacific Lutheran University for the announcement of the Partnership for Health Innovation. The exciting new partnership unites PLU, MultiCare, and Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine around two…

    -based medical school. The college was created to expand medical education and health care access in communities across the state. The college offers degree and certificate programs in medicine, nutrition and exercise physiology, speech and hearing sciences, health administration and leadership, and medical ethics. Additionally, WSU has three graduate medical education residency programs — internal medicine, pediatric medicine, and family medicine. In addition, the college is home to groundbreaking

  • Thinking about graduate study in history? Pacific Lutheran University history majors have an excellent track record when it comes to earning an M.A. or a Ph.D. (or both) in history. I recently touched base with Carli Snyder, ’17, about her first year in grad school.…

    !” Read Previous Michael Diambri Receives Gilder Lehrman History Award Read Next New History Course Examines Innovation and Ethics LATEST POSTS Professor Mike Halvorson publishes new book October 7, 2024 Meet Professor Fred Hardyway August 12, 2024 Recording of Glory M. Liu’s 2023 Benson Lecture Released November 21, 2023 Benson Summer Research Fellows to Present October 15, 2021

  • The Parkland Literacy Center (PLC), created in 2018 by English Writing Professor Scott Rogers and Hispanic Studies Professor Bridget Yaden, is located on the western edge of PLU’s campus. The PLC, as it’s called, offers after-school tutoring in all academic subjects to Keithley Middle School…

    bridge between PLU and the wider community in which it resides. Revisiting the Visiting Writer SeriesDisruption and Continuity Read Previous Environmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Next Changing Lives One Book at a Time with Professor Ned Schaumberg LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022

  • The world of business is always changing. Markets trend up and down, technologies evolve, and ethical standards constantly progress. To many private-sector veterans, this rate of change can be daunting, but to students and faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business, they are…

    decision-making,” she says.  “With my core business classes, I was able to learn how the systems are implemented in order to make a successful business. In other classes, I was able to have discussions on how to come up with the best decision method or how to be a supportive leader or manager.”  A critical foundation to this balance is a nuanced understanding of business ethics — a welcome emphasis for Melanie Brisbane ’21, a recent graduate who has worked at Boeing for 15 years.  “There was a strong

  • Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,

    explore how this living tradition understands the meaning of human life. Lutheranism is a movement within the Christian tradition and the course examines it within the context of our diverse, pluralistic, and secular world. The course includes topics such as: the history of this tradition and its impact, grace and freedom, church and secular authority, and social advocacy in politics, race, and gender. (4) RELI 226 : Christian Ethics - RL, VW This course introduces and explores moral arguments in

  • Do you ever worry about history-tracking web browsers, “smart” kitchen appliances, and the even smarter phones we sleep next to? PLU Assistant Professor of Communication Marnie Ritchie thinks about these things. She thinks about them A LOT. Ritchie is an award-winning researcher and writer in…

    art. I imagine the ethics get complicated pretty quickly. I certainly don’t mind that there are security officers keeping an eye on the crowd when I go to a big concert. Exactly. Surveillance should always be considered in context. And that’s why rhetoric is also important to consider what justifications there are for any given surveillance, how the information may be used, and by who. I think that there are legitimate forms of surveillance. David Lyon, who’s one of the scholars who established