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Campaign ends, surpasses goal by $22 million A performance in the Studio Theater in Eastvold Hall, which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. By Greg Brewis The university’s most recent fundraising campaign was launched amid buoyant economic times, in…
million goal with gifts and pledges totaling $122 million. It raised $10.3 million in endowment for academics and mission and $13.7 million in endowment for student scholarships. Capital project support totaled $31.3 million for the renovation of academic and athletics, recreation and wellness facilities. Annual operating support and special projects rounded out the campaign at $23.1 million. “The overwhelming success of the campaign during uncertain times is a tribute to the loyalty and resolve of
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Product Website: www.wikispaces.com Cost: Free for educators and students.
Heidi Schutz, PhDDepartment of BiologyCollaborative Student Wikis Heidi Schutz in Anatomy lab. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) Wikispaces Product Website: www.wikispaces.com Cost: Free for educators and students.Heidi Schutz is an Assistant Professor in Biology and teaches Anatomy and Physiology and Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy. She is committed to implementing the core concepts of Vision and Change into biology education, in addition to implementing active learning as much as possible. She
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Biology professors win coveted Murdock grants Turning over barnacle-encrusted rocks, one by one, craning your neck to catch a glimpse of a bird or sloshing through a muddy tributary might not seem like hard core scientific endeavors. But think again. It’s research such as this…
Charitable Trust will fund three student-faculty research projects. Each year, the trust funds dozens of projects that will enhance the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by providing grants and enrichment programs to organizations seeking to strengthen the region’s educational, spiritual, and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways. In 2009, the trust funded 43 scientific projects with $2.9 million in grants. “The foundation feels it’s important to support scientific exploration of the
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As the world was beginning to realize the enormity of COVID-19, two Pacific Lutheran University professors seized the 2020 moment to do significant research into the psychology of the pandemic. PLU Department of Psychology Chair Jon Grahe and his Statistics 232 students conducted a U.S.…
only had to transition to virtual online teaching in early 2020, but they also added these two ongoing and significant research projects to their agendas. It was no easy feat for either. Grahe noted that he was working more than ever for months and kept feeling like he was falling further behind. “In February 2020, I started anticipating a pandemic and started telling the students (in Statistics 232) that we could use our required class project to study it. When the cases started being announced in
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As the world was beginning to realize the enormity of COVID-19, two Pacific Lutheran University professors seized the 2020 moment to do significant research into the psychology of the pandemic. PLU Department of Psychology Chair Jon Grahe and his Statistics 232 students conducted a U.S.…
only had to transition to virtual online teaching in early 2020, but they also added these two ongoing and significant research projects to their agendas. It was no easy feat for either. Grahe noted that he was working more than ever for months and kept feeling like he was falling further behind. “In February 2020, I started anticipating a pandemic and started telling the students (in Statistics 232) that we could use our required class project to study it. When the cases started being announced in
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Approved, S. Smith, SoN Dean S. Liden, PLU Risk Officer September 25, 2017
infection control measures. I understand that a faculty member who is a registered nurse must be in attendance during any SoN lab sessions in which these procedures are practiced. I will not perform, nor allow to be performed on me, any of these procedures unless a nursing program faculty member is present. I understand that receiving injections or venipuncture or fingersticks administered by other nursing students is strictly voluntary, and non-participation will not impact my grade. I understand that
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Dear Campus Community: I am writing to remind you of an invitation I made earlier this semester to participate in the first Listen forum on understanding and responding to implicit bias. The forum will be held this week on Wednesday, December 7, from 3:45-5:00 pm…
, understanding implicit bias; Consider the impact of implicit bias on individuals and at PLU; Identify initial strategies for “de-biasing” as individuals and as an institution. If you are interested in learning more about this topic prior to the forum, please consider completing an implicit bias assessment and engaging the resources offered by Tolerance.org and found at: www.tolerance.org/hidden-bias Please direct any questions to Joanna Royce-Davis, roycedjc@plu.edu, or Jan Lewis, lewisjp@plu.edu, co-chairs
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Monday May 20, 2024 2:00-6:00pm in Rieke 103B
support this year. 2:20-2:40pm, Environmental Impact Assessment of the Use of Nano-Phytoremediation in the Remediation of Former Washington State Orchards of Lead and Arsenic Soil Pollution Rebecca SmithThe extensive use of lead arsenate, an insecticide used during the early 1900s, led to the accumulation of lead and arsenic in the soils of former orchards within Central Washington. The current methods that are used to remediate lead and arsenic from soil by the Washington Department of Ecology are
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…
impact people’s lives in a positive way, but I also didn’t want to major in biology or chemistry, so I entered my freshman year as a computer science major,” he says. It was a choice that would radically change his chosen path.In his first computer science class at PLU, Gavidia learned how quickly software can scale and impact people around the world. “Just one person, or a small group, can accomplish so much,” Gavidia says. That moment was key for him: he realized he didn’t have to go to med school
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. He also knew…
impact people’s lives in a positive way, but I also didn’t want to major in biology or chemistry, so I entered my freshman year as a computer science major,” he says. It was a choice that would radically change his chosen path. In his first computer science class at PLU, Gavidia learned how quickly software can scale and impact people around the world. “Just one person, or a small group of people, can accomplish so much,” Gavidia says. That moment was key for him: he realized he didn’t have to go to
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