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Isaiah Banken ’21 earns Torrison Scholarship because of his dedication to medicine and faith Isaiah Banken ’21 knew he wanted to pursue a career in medicine. Banken, with a B.S. in biology and a minor in mathematics from PLU, explored various medical opportunities near his hometown of Wenatchee, WA, including working at a ski resort, serving in hospice care,… January 3, 2024 BiologyMathematics
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reside in residence halls, attend classes, and engage in other activities while following the university guidelines for mitigation strategies in place at that time. Students with COVID-19-like symptoms Any student who develops illness symptoms consistent with COVID-19, regardless of vaccination status, must contact the Health Center or their healthcare provider for evaluation and possible COVID-19 testing. If they seek care from a non-PLU healthcare provider, the student must additionally inform the
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Lutheran colleges and universities – “Educating for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care: for others, their communities, and the earth.” Not only do we encourage our students to discern where and how best they can serve the world (their vocations), we ourselves serve the world through the provision of this education. At their best, then, Lutheran schools are organized around this calling, a calling committed to the promotion of human well-being in a world marked by much ignorance
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’08 Moderated by Katherine Wiley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Births, Deaths, and Deportations: Health Care and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights Speaker: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies with affiliations in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California – Santa Barbara Introduced by Teresa Ciabattari, Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Women’s and Gender
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January 11, 2008 UC, Morken powered by wind turbines As of Jan. 1, nearly 20 percent of the university’s energy is being purchased from renewable sources. The commitment to purchase “green” energy stems from the culture of the university, said Dave Kohler, director of facilities. Renewable energy is energy generated from natural sources that cannot be depleted, like wind and solar power. He points to the university’s mission to “care for the earth,” President Anderson’s signing of the
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her passions. She connected with other international students and guided subsequent Trinidad and Tobago students when they came to campus. “PLU is a forum to be who you are, meet people, discuss diverse issues and discover our community,” Hughes said. “This notion of service and care extends beyond the classroom.” The Diversity Center turned out to be one of the best outlets for Hughes to express herself. Through it, she organized the first campus carnival, now an annual event. The carnival is an
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how Rome dealt with its prisoners – not very nicely – and the animals it used in the Coliseum games. Some animals faired a bit better than the convicts, simply because they were so expensive to capture, transport and care for, Nelson said. In both films –Animal Gladiators will air later this year – Nelson worked as an expert consultant, giving a flavor of the culture of the time and the mindset of the population. “Machines of Malice” will look at how “advancements in technology” – such as
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, an independent online news site devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community, purposefully combats our urge to simply skip over humanitarian journalism. Instead, says founder Tom Paulson ’80, it is “geared toward making people really care about poverty.” “When I was in college, we didn’t even know this stuff was going on,” Paulson says. In his quest to keep humanitarian stories interesting, evermore relevant and impossible to skip over, Paulson says
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PLU’s mission is built to tackle challenging issues like those all people face moving past this divisive election cycle. “The word ‘care’ in our mission statement is especially important today: PLU is and will remain a place that honors, respects and protects people of all kinds: of all races and ethnicities, all religions, all classes, all sexual identities, all nationalities,” he said. “We Lutes will work together to do what we can, in our institution and in our communities, to build a model for
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central to our institution’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.” Read Previous PLU named Top 10 Peace Corps producer in the country Read Next Gov. Inslee visits campus for town hall meeting with PLU community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS
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