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The Value of the Peace Corps Experience: A Panel PresentationAbout the Panelists Photo of Shella Biallas Shella Biallas ‘04 graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with degrees in sociology and psychology and a minor in Norwegian language. After graduating, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in St. Paul, MN working with immigrants and refugees at a non-profit law center. Shella attended the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle through the Peace

First-year student athletes share their experience at PLU PLU student-athletes Sarah Midimo and Chloe Froeschner share their experience as first-years. Froeschner is from Iowa City, Iowa, and is majoring in graphic design and communication.  Midimo is from Tacoma and is majoring in psychology. October 19, 2022 AthleticsClubs & OrganizationsCommunicationCommunityCurrent StudentsLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationPsychologyStudent Life

The Head in the Game: Q&A with PLU Coach Goes Inside the Mind of an Athlete Zach Willis ’19 earned a BA in kinesiology with a concentration in health and fitness promotion and minored in sport and exercise psychology while playing on the football team at Pacific Lutheran University. Last year he returned to the university to serve as the football… February 16, 2022 Alumni ProfilesAthleticsKinesiologyPLU GradsStudent Life

The Open Science Framework Changed my Workflow (for the better!) by Jon Grahe, Professor of Psychology at PLU It never occurred to me that I needed the Open Science Framework (OSF) . It was shared with me because the developers knew that I was interested in trying to create large scale collaborative research projects, and… April 25, 2016

J-Term 2020/Political Science & Psychology – Study Away in Prague J-Term 2020: Travel with us to Prague via our blog . PLU offers a variety of study away program options to make this important component of a PLU education accessible to as many students as possible. Narrow your search by exploring your options by academic… December 24, 2019

J-Term 2020/Political Science & Psychology – Study Away in Prague J-Term 2020: Travel with us to Prague via our blog . PLU offers a variety of study away program options to make this important component of a PLU education accessible to as many students as possible. Narrow your search by exploring your options by academic… December 24, 2019

Academic advice for students on the spectrum First-year PLU student Bethany Vigil ’27 recently received Study.com’s scholarship for students on the autism spectrum. Bethany will major in biology , minoring in psychology , and hopes to attend medical school after graduating from PLU. We asked what academic advice Bethany would give to… October 5, 2023 CommunityDiversityDiversity Justice SustainabilityInvolvementLife on CampusReformerStudent LifeStudent VoiceTrailblazer

: Their jobs Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families Tacoma Police Department King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office YWCA of Pierce County U.S. Department of Homeland Security SafePlace Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Service Agency Seattle Children's Hospital Boys and Girls Club Graduates from the last last 5 years: Their graduate programs Master’s in Psychology, Portland State University Law School, Seattle University Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Boston

undergraduate courses “just clicked” for Munro Cullum. “I had been thinking about pre-med,” he said. But two courses in particular, an introductory psychology class taught by Dr. Erv Severtson ’55 and a neuropsychology course taught by Dr. Jerome LeJeune, made the field of psychology sound exciting. Severtson’s course “piqued my interest,” Cullum said. “The course taught by Jerry LeJeune taught me that I could use neuropsychology to study and probe human brain functions.” he added. Today, Cullum is a

Keynote SpeakersAra NorenzayanLoretta RossJamal RahmanDean SpadeSeth HolmesDenise DresserKwame Anthony AppiahMitri RahebAra NorenzayanReligious Divides and the Expanding Circle of Cooperation 9:55 a.m. | March 5 | Regency Room Click here to see a recording of Dr. Ara Norenzayan’s talk! Who: Dr. Ara Norenzayan Title: Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Co-director of UBC’s Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture (HECC) Bio: Ara Norenzayan, a social psychologist