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  • Meet the Communications department’s most recent faculty member, Dr. Marnie Ritchie. Dr. Ritchie joined PLU in 2018 and has taught a variety of communications classes since then, from introductory communications to courses covering complex topics like gender and ethics. Dr. Ritchie’s other interests for her…

    Twitter? Twitter (@marnieritchie) Read Previous How Museums Make Meaning: Study Away J-term 2020 Read Next T.O.H. Karl Invitational Debate Tournament LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8, 2022 Scholarship Application Tips October 17, 2022

  • Making sense of the application process for financial aid in 10 steps or less.

    ), go the U.S. Department of Education website at www.studentaid.gov and complete 1.) a Master Promissory Note, which is good for ten years, and 2.) Entrance Counseling.  Both steps need to be completed only once, when you borrow this loan for the very first time. You are also encouraged to complete the Annual Student Loan Acknowledgment, as it provides you with your current Federal Direct Loan program debt, your expected monthly payment amount upon entering repayment, and the total amount necessary

  • Applications are now being accepted for the University of Oregon’s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). The program supports 10-week mentored summer research experience that also includes travel, room and board, stipends, professional development workshops, and community-building social activities. Students from underrepresented groups in life sciences are…

    Summer Program for Undergraduate Research at University of Oregon Posted by: alemanem / January 12, 2018 January 12, 2018 Applications are now being accepted for the University of Oregon’s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). The program supports 10-week mentored summer research experience that also includes travel, room and board, stipends, professional development workshops, and community-building social activities. Students from underrepresented groups in life sciences are

  • Professor Emeritus | College of Liberal Studies | torvensa@plu.edu | 253-535-8106 | Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals.

    courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published extensively on the origins

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  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 24, 2015)—A team of PLU Marketing students has won the Social Business track of the 2015 Business Plan Competition presented by the Tacoma Entrepreneur Network. The winning team—Taylor Gonzales, Kevin McKay, Kayla Evans, Lindsey Campbell and Austen Wilson—is mapping a marketing plan…

    PLU Marketing Students Win Business Competition Track Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 24, 2015 Image: A Marketing Management team made up of, from left, Taylor Gonzales, Kevin McKay, Kayla Evans, Lindsey Campbell and Austen Wilson (all ’15), took first place in a track of the 2015 Business Plan Competition. April 24, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 24, 2015)—A team of PLU Marketing students has won the Social Business track of the 2015 Business Plan

  • Pacific Lutheran University has announced the expansion of the Act Six Scholarship to Yakima Valley students, broadening the reach of this highly successful full-tuition, full-need scholarship partnership. Act Six, a leadership and scholarship program that connects local community affiliates with faith- and social justice-based colleges,…

    Full-tuition Scholarship Program Now Open to Yakima Students Posted by: bennetrr / November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has announced the expansion of the Act Six Scholarship to Yakima Valley students, broadening the reach of this highly successful full-tuition, full-need scholarship partnership.Act Six, a leadership and scholarship program that connects local community affiliates with faith- and social justice-based

  • Carla Santorno, a national award-winning superintendent, has led an academic improvement effort that has increased the Tacoma Public Schools graduation to 89.8 percent for the class of 2019.

    students at a low-income, high-mobility elementary school. The vouchers come with strings—parent involvement and housing stability—that benefit students. Partnerships with three local, four-year colleges and universities, both public and private, have yielded gap financial funding for qualified low income students, priority admission to education programs with guaranteed teacher interviews at graduation from college, and a whole child district initiative designed to provide a sustainable system for

  • A diverse and dynamic artist and educator, Mare Blocker has been teaching at PLU since 2014. Her classes include Art of the Book and Typography among others. Read more about Mare in this extended interview. What is your educational background? I have a BFA in…

    minister at the church my family helped found in Seattle. I soon learned that wasn’t really a viable career path for a young woman in the 70’s, so I began down a social work path. Spring term, I took ceramics, Poetry and the Mystical Experience, and Lutheran Studies, and had an epiphany about my calling and became an art major. I ended up transferring to the UW to study with Patti Warashina and Howard Kottler, because I was more into handbuilding than throwing. While I was at the UW, I worked in fiber

  • Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…

    applying to medical school. She hopes to be accepted to the Johns Hopkins University public health MD/MPH program. Core Crew Elizabeth Larios says she owes a debt of gratitude to her PLU professors, i particular Miho Takekawa (music), Julie Smith (biology), Patricia Dolan (biology), Jan Weiss (education) and Carmiña Palerm (Hispanic and Latino studies). Read Previous Adrian Arrives Read Next Saving the World with a Starship LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their

  • Maria Surla has traveled a long and rewarding road. The 39-year-old recently graduated with PLU’s Class of 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. “The difficult experiences I’ve had made me who I am now,” Surla says. Born and raised in the Philippines, Surla…

    adrenaline rush, and my brain works well in stressful situations.” Eventually, Surla plans to earn a master’s degree focusing on mental health and human behavior. Inequity concerns Surla—she notes that income and wealth play major roles in health determinants. In the future, she hopes to work with “like-minded individuals that want to advance innovations in health care by advocating for responsible and progressive social changes that provide improved health care outcomes.”  “The one thing I can control