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  • PLU professor adds ‘board game inventor’ to his résumé.

    relationships. So, he theorized that clients attained a greater sense of hope when they had relationships with people who reinforced their belief in themselves and their pathways to getting there. “Our hope is tied to people around us,” he said. “That’s a big contributor.” Enter Grahe and then-PLU students Katelin Johnson ’15 and Katye Griswold ’13, along with a handful of other psychology students. They volunteered in 2014 to move Ward’s Hope Scale from theoretical to tangible, providing the evidence to

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  • Undergraduate Programs One credit of direct classroom instruction = one 50-minute class period/credit/

    . Copies of documents or print-outs of electronic verification are required to be submitted to the SoN office. Additional items may be required. Evidence of renewal is required upon expiration. Liability insurance is provided through Pacific Lutheran University for all appropriately credentialed faculty. National (time of hire) and State of WA (annually) criminal background checks are conducted on all faculty. Faculty are required to maintain compliance with all health care facility and Northwest

  • Professor of Communication | Communication, Media & Design Arts | youngam@plu.edu | 253-536-5165 | Dr.

    and cedar." Lone star rhetoric. Eds. Casey Boyle & Jenny Rice. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press 2018: Accolades Rhetorical & Communication Theory Division Award in Mentorship, Nominee, 2021 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Nominee, 2021 Wang Center Course Development Grant, 2017 Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, 2016 Top Paper, National Communication Association, Communication & the Law Division 2013 Granted Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor, January

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  • The PLU capstone project is a meaningful culmination of a student’s academic journey at PLU. It offers students a chance to embrace complexity and ask tough questions. In a display of remembrance and advocacy, Nasier Ford ’24, La’akea Ane ’24, and Jesse Canda ’24 opened…

    ’24 are all members of the PLU football team. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) The presentation stressed the significance of recognizing and tackling mental health concerns. They discussed theories, like social judgment theory, to examine the link between navigating performance pressures and coping with injuries while balancing academic and personal responsibilities. Ford, Ane, and Canda created a dedicated website offering resources, including educational materials on mental health and practical coping

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    I took more classes because it was a unique way to understand why people do what they do and it blends well with my nursing career. Kiah Miller “Seeking Visibility and Care: Constructing a Practical Bisexual Theology” Abstract: Sitting at the intersections of queer theology, queer theory, and bisexual identity, my project explores trends of societal bisexual invisibility, bisexual experiences within Christianity, and theological insights from a particularly bi lens. Ultimately, I conclude that

  • Throw a dart at a world map, and it’s likely to hit a location where Pacific Lutheran University students or faculty members have conducted research.

    probability theory at Wayne State University in Detroit. Grace Wang also holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State, in chemistry.

  • Programs that engage the world By Kari Plog ’11 At PLU, studying doesn’t just take place inside a classroom. Nearly half of the students enrolled at PLU will study away by the time they graduate, and the Wang Center for Global Education recently showcased what…

    member and the program they are running,” he said. In comparison to other universities, Sobania said PLU is incredibly successful at teaching students during such short-term study away programs in J-term. “We run high quality short-term January term courses, and the evidence of that was apparent in the presentations that were done,” he said. “The faculty at PLU does a good job. The job of the Wang Center is to facilitate that.” Read Previous Rock On! Read Next Restoring native species COMMENTS*Note

  • Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow…

    September 30, 2011 Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow of mercy and justice. A debate on water in today’s world By: By Barbara Clements Evidence of water as a force for destruction can be easily found, both in the headlines and the Bible. There are the floods

  • 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…

    straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their analysis without it and