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  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

  • Clean Energy Bridge to Research (CEBR) is a summer program run by the University of Washington (UW) Clean Energy Institute (CEI) and Undergraduate Research Program, and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF CHE-1950904). The CEBR Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program supports a select group of undergraduates, community…

    necessary to succeed in industry and academia. Students are generally exposed to a variety of research activities which may include literature search, experimental design, bench work and lab notebook management, mathematical modeling, instrumental characterization, computer/software control and analysis, lab safety, as well as communication, organizational and interpersonal skills. Program Dates Application Open: December 14, 2021 Application Deadline: February 15, 2022 Program: Week of June 20 – August

  • Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.

    Wendy Gardiner Associate Professor She/Her Phone: 253-535-8342 Email: gardinwl@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education Education Ed.D, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University M.Ed, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University B.S., Elementary Education, Ohio State University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Equity Literacy Teacher Education Diversity Responsive Children's Literature Mentoring and New Teacher

  • Within the environmental studies curriculum at PLU, the social sciences provide perspectives on the environment from a human point of view, balancing the ecological perspectives contributed by the

    , beliefs and values, and the dissemination of these ideas through business, education, nursing and other professions.Within the environmental studies curriculum, the social sciences provide perspectives on the environment from a human point of view, balancing the ecological perspectives contributed by the natural sciences with the economic and political aspects of human society. Courses in the humanities bring the insights of religion and ethics as well as a body of literature and artistic appreciation

    Environmental Studies
    Rieke Science Center Room 158 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • When talking about locating sources for an assignment, students often remain task-oriented and focus on “finding” rather than on learning, and our own research demonstrates this remains true for

    When talking about locating sources for an assignment, students often remain task-oriented and focus on “finding” rather than on learning, and our own research demonstrates this remains true for many PLU students. In general, students already know how to search for information but are unable to apply what they already know into a new context. In other words, students need guidance with framing research questions, seeing patterns in the literature, weighing the relevance of evidence, and

  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), silver medal winner of the 2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award.

    : I believe my job as a writing teacher is to do three primary things:  Serving as a supportive guide, helping you discover literature you may not have encountered on your own that will add to your literary toolkit, and helping you deconstruct the architecture of stories so that you might better unpack your own decisions. Whether you write domestic realism or speculative work or work that defies categorization, I place an emphasis on helping my students appreciate and understand not only the craft

  • If you’re a fan of romantic comedies and a good tune, She Loves Me is just the thing for you. Pacific Lutheran University’s spring musical opens Friday, May 13 in Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The musical, set…

    person get under my skin? Why do I not like her? Why do I not like him? The reason is because I do like them so very much, but I do not have the tools to tell her/him. That coupled with the idealized love of literature makes for some good conflict.” The story line is classic and simple. Clapp intends to let the story evolve naturally and unfold as it has so many times before. “It is sentimental, funny and at times a bit cheese ball. For me, that is enough,” Clapp describes. The multiple locations