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The City of Tacoma provides high-quality, innovative and cost-effective municipal services that enhance the lives of its 215,000 residents and the quality of its neighborhoods and business districts. PLU alumni Tom Chontofalsky ’03, Clarissa Gines ’12 and Lisa Woods ’92 are three of the many…
as middle school, others noticed Lisa Woods’ quiet strength and power of observation. “My demeanor is to listen, hear people and see people,“ she says. “I’ve developed that over time, but I’ve always been the listener in the room and not necessarily the talker.“ Today, Woods (’92) uses her powers of reflection as chief equity officer within Tacoma’s Office of Equity and Human Rights, leading anti-racist systems transformation efforts at the city level. The path to the position started at PLU
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After graduating from PLU, Melissa Wollan Francis ’02 spent two years in a University of Washington genetics lab before joining the Air Force and attending Yale School of Medicine, where she became a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN). “I’ve always been drawn towards challenges…
Providence system to teach doctors and advanced practitioners how to better use electronic records systems. She’s excited about this new focus, but says her favorite — and the most meaningful — part of her job is still working closely with her patients."As an OBGYN, I get to be a part of the happiest moments in people’s lives, and sometimes I’m also there for the saddest moments. I feel really privileged that I get to do both with people."- Melissa Wollan Francis Melissa Wollan Francis ’02 in an exam
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Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing embraces core values of: Compassion and kindness Competence Diversity, equity, and inclusion Excellence Respect and integrity Service Social Justice
, interdependence, and social justice. As a practice discipline, Nursing works to improve the health and well-being of clients and systems through analytical processes that effect change in the conditions and determinants of health. The work and praxis of nursing are manifest through multiple complex and evolving roles. Nursing strives to respond to the contemporary context of health and illness, and advance shared goals of compassionate, safe, and effective care. Health encompasses the unique and dynamic
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The School of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University is a professional school that combines nursing science with a strong foundation in the natural sciences and liberal arts.
service. Professional nursing is both science and art, requiring intellectual discipline, psychomotor skills, personal integrity, accountability and emotional maturity. As a science, nursing emphasizes the ability to define and address problems through evidence-based practice and critical inquiry. As a science and an art, nursing is a care-giving process based in scientific knowledge and technology, shaped by developments in health care delivery systems, and the values, needs and lifestyles of the
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PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.
Centering the City: Lisa Woods ’92 discusses her work as Tacoma’s chief equity officer Lisa Woods ’92 leads initiatives to help improve systems and services as the City of Tacoma’s chief equity officer. She says her approach to this work starts with listening and continuously thinking about how best to center community voices, experiences and needs. How can centering… November 3, 2022 Equity, Faith, JusticeResoLute
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Students are encouraged to do research with a faculty member during their undergraduate experience at PLU.
systems. Much of my past research has focused on interactions between herbivores and algae in marine systems. This has included studies of geographical gradients of herbivorous fish diversity and how temperature effects on physiology may play a role in driving this pattern and the effects of fisheries and disease on sea urchins and kelp forest ecology. My current research projects include studies of the community ecology of rocky shores of Puget Sound, disease ecology of sea urchins, and larval
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Daniel Amster, Senior Capstone Seminar Botryococcus braunii is a green algae capable of producing botryococcene using squalene synthase-like (SSL) enzymes.
enzymes, Squalene synthase like (SSL) enzymes 1 and 3. Production of botryococcene can make up to 85% of the algae’s dry mass, but is limited by the slow growth and production of the algae. E. coli have been used to express the SSL enzymes necessary to produce botryococcene in a more efficient way. The expression of these enzymes depends on their insertion into high efficiency plasmid vectors. Different plasmid systems have been utilized in botryococcene research and raise a question of enzyme
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Ann E. Buchholz, Senior Capstone Seminar The Nipah virus belongs to the family henipaviridae, a class of deadly zoonotic agents, isolated mainly from fruit bats in Asia and Indonesia.
retromutagenesis) leads to these consequences in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems. We conclude with a discussion of where further research is required, and how the process of AM affects our world today. The effects of a solid polymer electrolyte’s structure on its conductivity and viability for use in batteries Michael Larson, Senior Capstone Seminar Portable electronic devices have completely changed the way our world works, allowing instantaneous communication to just about every person on earth. The
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On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…
were doing and how they would redesign those systems. “I noticed people would get stuck on the fact that ‘This is just the way it is,’ ” Heath says. “The starship, and getting students to believe they are designing it, is essentially a trick to get them out of that box of ‘This is how things are.’” Over the first three weeks, students tackle the main issues in the design of a ship, such as a means of propulsion, a sustainable power source for the 1,000-year-long journey to another star, how to
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The curriculum for the Business and Economic History program at PLU is administered by the History department, and taught by the Benson Family Chair.
and the economies of Europe and the United States. Major themes include the development of forms of transportation, communication, industrial production, power systems, and computer technologies. Satisfies a foundation requirement in the Innovation Studies minor; also a History elective. (4) [Spring 2024, Spring 2027]Inov 350: Innovation SeminarA hands-on seminar for Innovation Studies minors designed to expose students to the conceptual, ethical, and logistic issues involved in developing an
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