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  • The 9th Wang Center Symposium – Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference – takes up the issue of heightened political and societal polarization within the U.S.

    REMINDER: March 6 keynote with Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb has been cancelled due to travel disruption. Click here for symposium recordings!Thank you for an incredible symposium!March 5-6, 2020, Anderson University Center PRÉCIS9th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUMDisarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and DifferenceThe 9th Wang Center Symposium takes up the issue of heightened political and societal polarization within the U.S. and globally as well as its primary consequence, the increasing inability to

    Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
    868 Wheeler St. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • The PLU Wild Hope Center for Vocation promotes and provides a range of opportunities to engage with, discern, and live out vocation.

    Your browser does not support the video tag. Throughout the seasons of the year, the Center helps students, staff, faculty, and alumni shape lives of meaning and purpose here in Parkland and throughout the world. At PLU, vocation means being called with others to promote human and ecological flourishing. PLU Wild Hope Bjug Day 2023Click Here to View the 2024 Essay Contest Winners! Click Here

    Wild Hope Center for Vocation
    Anderson University Center 12180 Park Avenue South Suite 190 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • creating a nation of nervous wrecks (First U.S. edition). St. Martin’s Press. (PLU Library link) Disability justice Ortiz, Naomi. (2023). Rituals for climate change: A crip struggle for ecojustice (1st ed.). Punctum Books. (PLU Library link) (Open access link) Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. (2018). Care work: Dreaming disability justice. Arsenal Pulp Press. (PLU Library link) Schalk, Sami. (2022). Black disability politics. Duke University Press. (PLU Library Link) (Open access link) Sins Invalid

  • January 14, 2011 New biology lab an interactive plus for students By Barbara Clements The lab tucked in the north side of the Rieke Science Center is all about drywall, dust and stacks of cabinets right now. But come spring semester, the new Louis and Lydia Sheffels Biology Laboratory, otherwise known as Room #136, will open up to new work stations and new equipment. Louis and Lydia Sheffels Biology Laboratory will open up to new work stations and new equipment. (Photo by John Froschauer) The

  • Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org  on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran…

    students participate in Code.org’s computer science learning programs. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Steinglass will deliver the 14th annual Benson Lecture in PLU’s Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center). Her lecture will explore historic inequities in the high-tech workforce and her organization’s social innovation strategy to promote computer science. Both events will make connections to PLU’s new Innovation Studies program, which launches this year with exciting new courses and an

  • 253.535.7806 www.plu.edu/first-year/ fyep@plu.educ Rona Kaufman, Ph.D., Director The First-Year Experience Program prepares students for successful participating in PLU’s distinctive academic and co-curricular culture by promoting critical thought, impassioned inquiry and effective expression in learning communities that are both supportive and challenging. All first-year students with fewer than 30 transfer credits are required to participate in this program. As part of the First Year

  • By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…

    numerous partner organizations, cities and states across the nation are committing to increased spending on computer science and building new K-12 curriculum. At PLU, we’ve just launched an Innovation program as well as numerous technology offerings in the School of Business and Department of Computer Science. Across the university, students learning how to integrate computing into their disciplines, how to build ethical frameworks to evaluate new technologies, and (for some) how to write interesting

  • these courses are offered every semester and often during J-Term. IHON: One 300-level course 4 semester hours Taken after or with the last 200-level course. Policies and Guidelines for International Honors The three levels of IHON courses are built sequentially upon one another in terms of content and learning objectives. In order to acquire a common background, IHON students take the required IHON 111-112 sequence in their first year, before taking their 200-level courses. Exceptions to this

  • Within the environmental studies curriculum at PLU, the social sciences provide perspectives on the environment from a human point of view, balancing the ecological perspectives contributed by the

    A Study of the Environment, Connectivity, and the World Around UsPacific Lutheran University sits upon the traditional lands of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island, and Steilacoom peoples; we acknowledge and respect the traditional caretakers of this land.Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the relationships between humans and the environment. Managing the environment requires interdisciplinary tools and knowledge about natural systems, human institutions

    Environmental Studies
    Rieke Science Center Room 158 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Summer REU Program focused on Clean Water Mississippi State University Posted by: alemanem / November 21, 2022 November 21, 2022 Attention undergraduate students interested in research experiences! NSF-REU program focuses upon Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Security (INFEWS) with emphasis on biofuels, biochars and clean water treatment. Applications are due March 1st 2023 and can be accessed here: https://www.chemistry.msstate.edu/academics/undergraduate/reu-food-energy-and