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March 1, 2012 Facebook helps Scandinavian alumni stay in touch and up-to-date on all things PLU. Facebook helps keep alumni in touch Facebook is opening the door for PLU alumni from around the world to keep in contact with each other and their alma mater. “It’s a great vehicle to stay in touch,” said Kjell Thompsen ‘ 94, ’97, president of the PLU Scandinavian Alumni group. “I think it’s very important for alumni to stay in touch.” Both professionally and personally there are so many networks

March 19, 2012 Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and she would teach them English songs. (Photo courtesy of Karissa Bryant) Alumna works to teach, train students in India By Katie Scaff ’13 Since graduating from PLU in 2003, music and vocal performance major Karissa Bryant has travelled the

March 20, 2013 Raechelle Baghirov ’05 teaching in Azerbaijan with the Peace Corps. (Photo provided by Raechelle Baghirov) In pursuit of wild hope in Azerbaijan By Katie Scaff ‘13 Discovering your wild hope doesn’t end when you leave PLU,  just ask Raechelle Baghirov ’05. After graduating, Baghirov spent three years volunteering with the Peace Corps in Azerbaijan, where she learned much more than a foreign language. “The phrase ‘a life of service’ was thrown around a lot. Professors would talk

March 10, 2014 A National Honor for ‘Digging into Cancer’ ‘Fast Company’ magazine names Hunt one of its 100 Most Creative People of 2014. A Survivor in the Global Spotlight Katie Hunt ’11 fought cancer at PLU, leads the emerging field of paleo-oncology and wowed the crowd at TED2014 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications After hearing Katie Hunt’s story—of survival, determination, success, worldwide acclaim and infinite promise—you’re likely to experience one of two powerful

July 24, 2014 In the Business of Making Connections Dan Rosales, left, and Daniel Smith, both ’07, are on the board of PLU’s Business Network Alumni Association. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Marketing graduates’ paths bring them together—again— on the board of PLU’s Business Network Alumni Association By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications It’s not surprising that Dan Rosales ’07 and Daniel Smith ’07 discovered their life paths at Pacific Lutheran University—that’s just what

Two New Doctors in the House Posted by: Julie Winters / April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Christina Pepin and Dr. Kelsey Hirsch!Dr. Pepin defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Prevalence and Use of High-Fidelity Simulation in Family Nurse Practitioner Programs”. Dr Pepin currently teaches Professional Foundations and provides leadership for our students in their final semester of the program through their capstone class and clinical. She also teaches the Care & Outcomes

American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2021 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program Posted by: alemanem / November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program is a 10 week summer program designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate university students to gain experience in medical physics by performing research in a medical physics laboratory or assisting with clinical service at a clinical facility

Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education (RISE) Posted by: nicolacs / January 10, 2022 January 10, 2022 Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education (RISE) is a 9-week residential summer research experience for undergraduate students in chemistry, education, life sciences, mathematics, or physics.  Participants will join interdisciplinary teams mentored by faculty to investigate STEM learning across formal and informal environments with a focus on understanding issues related to inclusivity

Expanding the Mind in German Studies Posted by: alex.reed / May 6, 2022 May 6, 2022 By Kirsten Christensen and Jennifer JenkinsOriginally Published in 2016The German word for the humanities is die Geisteswissenschaften – literally translated, the sciences of the spirit or of the mind. The term, coined by the historian Wilhelm Dilthey in the 19th century, has its roots in the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s concept of “Geist” as a superindividual cultural consciousness. (In

Locating Humanities in the 21st Century Posted by: alex.reed / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Scott RogersOriginally published in 2016As scholars of the Humanities in the 21st century we find ourselves working in unusual settings. Places of faith and worship, educational contexts like high schools and public libraries, in newspapers, in comment forums, on radio shows, our “workplaces” often do not resemble the ivory towers of old. Vignette #1 Prime Time Family Reading Night I ask the question