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  • The 9th Wang Center Symposium – Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference – takes up the issue of heightened political and societal polarization within the U.S.

    MoreReading Challenge The PLU community is invited to participate in a Polarization Reading Group Challenge. Learn More The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged EducationWorking collaboratively with academic units and campus partners of Pacific Lutheran University, the Wang Center is dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world

    Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
    868 Wheeler St. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • All PLU-owned computers already have virus protection software installed. PLU requires that any personally owned computer connecting to the PLU network be protected from viruses.

    Anti-virus SoftwareAll PLU-owned computers already have virus protection software installed. PLU requires that any personally owned computer connecting to the PLU network be protected from viruses. Anyone who uses a computer on the network is a member of the community and shares in the responsibility of protecting network services for others. Please be aware of the following information before connecting to the PLU network: Review the Anti-Virus Software Policy here Read the Anti-Virus FAQs

  • 8th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility

    community, regional, state and global policies and powers foster or hinder migration and why? What evidence is there that climate change is impacting migration? Are there patterns in migrant resettlement? If so, what do they look like and what can we learn from them? How has increased awareness of mobility shaped academic disciplines and the arts? What examples exist—historical and contemporary—of effective, creative, and humane responses to human and non-human movement, in general, and to refugee

    Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
    868 Wheeler St. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Each year, around 10,000 teams participate in The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, an international contest where teams of undergrad students have 99 hours straight to create a mathematical model addressing a complex social or scientific issue. Each year, the top awards go to large technical…

    on UN Sustainability Development Goals and to illustrate how progress on one goal might influence the others. Their innovative solution—explained in a 23-page pulled together on the last day of the competition and summarized, “Network of goals; a forest of numbers; an ONION.; and in the end, poverty was the root of the problem”—earned them a top award from the Mathematical Association of America. Beyond being intellectually intense, the competition is also physically grueling; students usually

  • PLU on the Vine There are selections from five wineries with PLU alumni connections available at 208 Garfield. Benson Vineyards Estate Winery is family owned and operated by Scott Benson ’96 and Rebecca (Gilge ’98) Benson. Scott says, “Most of the vineyard’s 25 acres is…

    administration. It was there that he met his future bride, Lisa (Treadwell ’97) Lawrence. Gård, meaning “farm” in many of the Scandinavian languages, is a tribute to the family’s Scandinavian heritage and farming tradition. Mountain Dome is owned and operated by the Manz family. Erik Manz graduated from PLU in 1998. Mountain Dome is located on a 85 acre forest in the foothills of Mount Spokane and is the only family-owned business in Washington devoted almost exclusively to making sparkling wines. Tasawick

  • Every year, hundreds of Lutes study away throughout the world in places like China, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and more!

    , Global Classroom No Man's Land Rayleah Trice || No Mans Land, Tobago // 2nd Place, Global Classroom “η αγαπημένη μου τάξη (my favorite classroom)” John Weldon || Akrotiri Museum, Santorini, Greece // 3rd Place, Global Classroom The Beauty in Cultural Heritage April Kelly || Opuwo, Namibia // 2nd Place, People & Culture Yokahú Tower: A Window Into the Puerto Rican Rainforest Katelyn McDougal || El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico // 3rd Place, Scenes Around the World Here Comes the… Lutes doo-doo

  • Our main goal is to house a community of readers and writers of Austen. At The Jane Austen Review we value engagements with Austen for how they provide a means to create community among readers and

    A COMMUNITY OF READERS AND WRITERSOur main goal is to house a community of readers and writers of Austen. At The Jane Austen Review we value engagements with Austen for how they provide a means to create community among readers and writers with diverse approaches to Austen and her work, and for how they allow us to connect with readers and writers across time and space. What we call “engagements” include: Jane Austen Fan Fiction, fiction and non-fiction inspired by Austen, film and TV

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU.…

    because it is built into their language in such a way, interwoven within so many seemingly unconnected words such as people, fish meat, trees and forest. After breaking down the word for trees/forest, Hall and her elder ended up with something along the lines of “to appear out of the life force of Mother Earth,” she said. Hall said the break down for the word for people is, “As people, we are partakers of what is produced by the life force.” “My elder explained that this is why in Indian culture we

  • Terri Card ’83 doesn’t just care about people. She cares about caring for people when they need it most. Card is the chief operating officer of outpatient operations for MultiCare Behavioral Health, but says she’s still a clinician and care provider at heart. That might…

    MA in psychological counseling from PLU in 1983, began her career on the ‘in-patient’ side of behavioral health as a mental health tech and then counselor. She then moved to adult crisis response, working on a team that would dispatch all over the community. “I was working at night, walking into dangerous situations that we would never allow anybody into these days,” she remembers. Card didn’t enter the field with aspirations of going into management, but she was identified by her peers and

  • Click below for more info on the services we provide through PLU Counseling Services.

    within one business day.Psychiatric Medication ManagementPsychiatric Medication Management A psychiatric nurse practitioner is available within PLU Health Services to assist students with medication management.  Psychiatric care may include psychiatric evaluation, one-time consultation, medication recommendations and management, and/or referral out to a community provider.  When psychiatric medication is recommended for a student, short-term treatment can be initiated internally or with the goal of