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Summer Fellowship Program in Business and Economic History is funded through the generous financial support of Dale E. Benson and the Benson Family Foundation. The fellowship program was inaugurated in 2016 and has now funded 10 student-faculty research projects at PLU. The program is directed by Dr. Michael Halvorson, Benson Family Chair of Business and Economic History and the Chair of Innovation Studies. For more information and a list of completed projects, see Benson Summer Fellowships.   Read

and Quality Planning, and Water Design teams under the Planning and Engineering section. As a public utility, we operate and maintain one of the country’s oldest municipally owned water systems and serve more than 300,000 residential and commercial customers. We are looking for people who can bring a fresh perspective to the work we do while supporting staff on a variety of projects. Engineering interns can expect to build on their technical skills, further grow their professional development

research projects in the laboratories of Graduate School faculty members. Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques and plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. SURF introduces students to the kinds of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and fosters an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of answers to current questions in the biological sciences. At the end of the SURF Program, fellows

November 12. What made you choose PLU? PLU’s focus on service and vocation resonated with me, and with it’s smaller size and focus on supporting students, I felt it was the kind of place I could have a positive impact on students. Experience so far? I’m so impressed with the care and dedication faculty have for students. Any fun facts about you? I love long distance running and have completed six marathons. I can’t wait to start training for the next one! Read Previous From pre-med to classical singer

July 7, 2008 Killer instincts To say the PLU volleyball team had a good fall 2007 season would be an understatement. For starters, they only lost three regular season games. In Northwest Conference play, they went 16-0. Part of that reason is Beth Hanna. The five-foot-11-inch outside hitter from Clackamas, Ore., made a major impact on the volleyball program – burn marks on the gymnasium floor type impact. As a first-year student, Hanna obliter­ated the 12-year school record for kills per game

September 11, 2014 PLU Makes Strong Showing at National Race & Pedagogy Conference By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma Sept. 25-27 features more than 2,000 local, regional, national and international participants—including a large contingent from Pacific Lutheran University. The theme for the conference, which addresses issues of race and its impact on education, is “What NOW is the Work of Education and Justice? Mapping a

turns out, that was the goal of the exercise. She learned that when making decisions that impact a lot of people, it’s best to make your own decision and not just blindly follow a formula. It’s a lesson that’s served her well over the years. Nelson joined Chief Leschi as director of career and technical education (CTE) in 2020. The CTE program was new, and she worked hard to get it established and funded. “CTE focuses on hands-on applied learning,” Nelson says. “It gives kids a real connection to

work right. We want to find the best way to get everyone around the table and create a safe space for a meaningful conversation that promotes real change. Like most colleges across the country, increasing diversity is one of the top challenges facing PLU. 31% of our incoming first-year students this year are students of color, compared to about 24% in 2011; Of those first-year students, 2.64% — only 17 students – are black. For the student body as a whole, 2.63% — 84 students – are black. We must

was doing. I was in the IHON (international honors) program, and that had a big impact. Eventually, I came around to double majoring in political science and global studies, plus a minor in Hispanic studies. I really connected with global studies at PLU. I had a great IHON experience and I was in the Wang Center a lot. The study away program was one of the main things that drew me to PLU. I studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and completed an internship at a rural development organization that was

research organizations and home to three Nobel Prize winners. Over 11 weeks, SURF students contribute to the ongoing research of one of the six NIST Operating Units which are the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL), Engineering Laboratory (EL), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), and Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) (which now includes projects in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology).  The SURF