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  • Look What (and Who) is New at PLU The newest members of PLU’s faculty gather in front of the library. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications It’s a historic time at PLU as we mark our 125th academic year, but…

    to the options it offers students, PLUTO also is an opportunity for PLU faculty to examine new technologies and innovations to improve the teaching and learning experience. As part of that process, PLUTO Institutes provide faculty with the training and support needed to design and implement online learning components. “The PLUTO Institute is thoughtful thinking about pedagogy, how we teach, what we teach, why we teach and thinking of better ways to deliver that to our students,” said Bridget

  • Q&A With Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman Knutson Lecturer Plans Provocative Talk on the Intersection of Religion and Culture By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker Pastor, scholar and activist Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman, one of the brightest lights in womanist/black theology,…

    that mold. My work right now is on people who identify with more than one religion; people who say that they can do all religions. People who say, “I can be all religions.” I want to understand how this is able to happen. Q: What can students and staff expect from your lecture? Hopefully it’ll be really provocative. This is for people who are thinking about religion, like religion majors. This is something to think about that we haven’t thought about before. This lecture is even for people who

  • Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the

  • Course Development Stipends For new or existing courses in the Innovation Studies Minor With the generous support of donors to the Innovation Studies program, the INOV Steering Committee invites all PLU faculty to submit a proposal for a stipend to support the development of a new or existing course in the Innovation Studies minor. Options...

    to: Analyze: Identify and evaluate prominent examples of innovation in historic and contemporary contexts; Design: Summarize the essential stages of the design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test); Make ethical decisions: Construct an ethical framework to evaluate and critique new innovations; Team: Form a project team and negotiate appropriate roles for each member; articulate why diverse teams are essential for the innovation process; Innovate: Collaborate with

  • Launched in 2017 and having onboarded its first class in fall 2018, the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) provides  excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities  to students pursuing a Ph.D. in  fields of study  that…

    science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science. The DOE NNSA LRGF connects professors and students working in fields relevant to the DOE lab system with laboratory scientists, fostering collaborative research relationships. The program will strengthen these university-laboratory links through an unusual and exciting provision: fellows will work and study in residence at one or more of four approved DOE NNSA facilities for a minimum of two 12-week periods. Longer stays are highly

  • Are you passionate about the learning and teaching of mathematics? Would you like to spend a summer in a beautiful historical city, with one of the most vibrant cultures in Europe? How about learning in small classes where instructors challenge each student to deeply engage…

    interested in the learning and teaching of secondary mathematics. Participants explore the Hungarian pedagogy, in which a strong and explicit emphasis is placed on problem solving, mathematical creativity, and communication. Why Summer@BSME? Today’s teachers are expected to provide students with opportunities to struggle productively towards understanding, and the Hungarian pedagogy has the potential to play a critical role in this endeavor. At Summer@BSME, we are excited for our participants to develop

  • Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…

    , or reason? The question Tertullian poses is easy to ask, but has proven quite difficult to answer suitably. In recent years, some have suggested that important parallels between scientific and religious theorizing make it possible for us to look to science for help in thinking more clearly about religion. One of the most intriguing of the approaches argues that “inferences to the best explanation” are used in both areas; theists, for example, might claim confirmation for their beliefs by pointing

  • Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…

    there.” What about the future of ELSK the Studio? “ELSK the Studio may be growing in the future. But I didn’t start this business to make money. I really just wanted to try a creative venture that would express my values about sustainability and friendship. Clothing design is one way to do that, but there are also other ways, including working on social innovation projects in the South Sound area and beyond.” “At PLU, I learned that entrepreneurship begins with critical thinking—learning about a

  • Where Do I Begin? Choosing a major is an important decision, one that should not be hurried. The time that you give to the PROCESS of making this decision will be well spent.

    example, if you are thinking of majoring in nursing because you heard there is a high demand for this well paying job, and you like to help people, but you’ve done average or less than average work in science and math courses in high school and/or college, you may need to ask yourself if nursing is a realistic choice. Don’t Rush! Making a hasty decision about your major may be more time consuming and expensive in the end if you go through too many changes later. In order to make a major decision, you

  • noun : a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject From the Greek symp-po-sium : a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet

    this effort. Each year brings significant changes to the increasingly diverse and challenging world in which PLU graduates will live and work. Some of the challenges these changes bring are new, some are old and some are only now being recognized. Through presentations by professionals, authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. If one is at all in doubt about this being a different world, consider that there