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  • Maria Surla has traveled a long and rewarding road. The 39-year-old recently graduated with PLU’s Class of 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. “The difficult experiences I’ve had made me who I am now,” Surla says. Born and raised in the Philippines, Surla…

    clinic, and middle school health education center. She also used this time to learn about Mexican culture, food, values, beliefs, and herbal and traditional medicine. “Sometimes people have no water or seem to have little, but they’re so grateful for life,” she says. “It was a very humbling experience.” After graduation, Surla is going to work at MultiCare Good Samaritan Emergency in Parkland. She will also be working part-time at the Pierce County jail. In these roles, she plans to enhance her hands

  • Awardees are nominated for their exceptional contributions, accomplishments, leadership and service to the university and its community members. Each December, during the university’s annual Christmas celebration, the President’s Council recognizes up to five employees for their outstanding contributions. Employees are nominated to the President’s Council…

    successful, and the entire adventure ran smoothly. Ryan’s positive attitude, even in stressful situations, is an amazing gift to our touring group and the whole University.   Ryan Marsh, music staff at PLU, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Read Previous Isaiah Banken ’21 earns Torrison Scholarship because of his dedication to medicine and faith Read Next PLU’s Continuing Education launches TESOL Certification with $200 discount for PLU community members COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • Checklist, before you request the letter: Keep track of the deadlines. Ideally, your letter writers should have at least one month's notice.

    the group exercises we did in your class really came in handy as I was able to use Program W and Journal paper T to help my team solve the problem.” Are your letters “stale”? (The weaker value of old letters was specifically mentioned by a representative from the UW School of Medicine.) If you are re-applying after an unsuccessful admission cycle, we strongly urge you to have your letter writers update their letters and send them again. It’s important to maintain your relationships with your

  • TOP 10 REASONS why PLU can be a great fit for you Montserrat Walker ’14 Loves the focus PLU places on global issues, and how her classes investigate issues from multiple perspectives Every student has different reasons why they have found PLU to be a…

    more students to UW Medicine is the UW itself. So what are your best odds of getting into med school? That’s easy: PLU. Do you think the UW sends 66 percent of its successful pre-med undergrads to med school? Forget it. But we do. PLU offers smaller classes, more lab time, more time with a pre-med advisor. At a big state school? Get in line. Or choose PLU instead. Clayton Bracht ’14 says his financial aid package was better at PLU than any other university he applied to #2 97% of students receive

  • The Computer Science Department senior capstone presentations will take place Friday and Saturday.  If you’d like to join the capstone Zoom session, please email Professor Laurie Murphy at

    services, allowing the user to track their medicine usage across multiple devices. Using these highly documented software architectures, we were able to create an application that protects the user’s private data, while allowing them to access it through a simple user interface. 1:45pm Garden Guide: A Desktop Application to Assist Your Home Garden David Ries (BS), Brandon Enderby (BS) Garden Guide is your new and improved way to plan, plant, and manage your home garden. Developed as a Java based

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 15, 2017)- Pacific Lutheran University students are people of many interests. This semester, several courses illustrate how the university’s curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory “Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you ask…

    medicine balls to demonstrate how spacecraft propulsion works. (Photo by Kari Plog/PLU) How to Build a StarshipSpoiler alert: “How to Build a Starship” is a course that’s not really about building a starship. This yearlong course at Pacific Lutheran University engages students in a thought experiment on how to build and live on a starship for a journey to Proximus Centauri — our star’s closest neighbor. The fall section of this course will be taught by Daniel Heath, associate professor of mathematics

  • All Religion majors complete a major research project. Recent capstone projects completed by Religion majors are listed below.

    Role of Jesus in Modern Christology Erin Bugge, Can Icons Save Our Planet? Eastern Orthodox Christianity’s Sacramental Stewardship and John Chryssavgis’ Consideration of the Earth as an Icon of God Anna Duke, Redemptive Sacrifice: Honoring the Humanity of Women Benjamin Fox, Islamic Medicine: Unity in Practice and Belief Lauren Frerichs, They Will Know That We Are Lutheran by Our Lives . . . of Service, Vocation, and Critical Faithfulness: Examining Luther s Core Values in Lutheran Colleges and

  • Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…

    “the [male] President’s wife”: There is no word in French for “a woman doctor.” Indeed, a feminization of medicin, “a doctor,” to designate women doctors is not even a possibility, since medicine is already used to mean “medicine.” Even the morphologically predictable and theoretically available form of docteur, doctoresse, is not used. On the other hand, low status occupations such as balayeuse, “sweeper,” do exist and in some instances exist almost exclusively in forms marked as feminine

  • Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…

    pronounce it wanting and leave it untried. Cutting Medicine Down to SizeWanted: Fellow Conspirators Read Previous Cutting Medicine Down to Size Read Next Wanted: Fellow Conspirators 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 Anderson research group addresses three domains in the physical sciences:  chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals and reactivities

    development, preventative medicine, and vaccines, and he lent his passion and expertise to help shape and expand The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s revolutionary mission in global health. In the 1970s, Dr. Foege served as the Director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, and in 1986, Foege became executive director of The Carter Center where he continues to serve the organization as a senior fellow. Former President Jimmy Carter called Foege one of the two men in his life, other than