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Join the Computer Science Department to hear the senior capstone presentations. Student presentations will take place Friday and Saturday. All talks are scheduled in Morken 203.
. The mobile app also allows the user to search for flowers by name. 10:45am Break 11:00am Basic 3D Video Game Exploring the Concepts Involved in Game Engines Eric Sundberg (BSCS) The overall goal of this project was to learn about advanced concepts and algorithms that are used in modern game engines. To that end, it models them by means of a simple third person shooter game. In the game, the user moves the player around in a small world and tries to shoot as many enemies as possible before being
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A National Honor for ‘Digging into Cancer’ ‘Fast Company’ magazine names Hunt one of its 100 Most Creative People of 2014 . A Survivor in the Global Spotlight Katie Hunt ’11 fought cancer at PLU, leads the emerging field of paleo-oncology and wowed the crowd…
enough evidence to make larger claims—but, she says, so far, “Not enough people are doing this work to contribute.” So Hunt is tackling that, too. She and three physical-anthropology friends she runs into at conferences have created the Paleo-Oncology Research Organization. “Every year we talk about how nobody’s doing this work, and it should be done,” Hunt said. “We have the potential to contribute to modern cancer research, but we need collaboration—between historians, researchers; we need more
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John de Mars ’09 spends a lot of time outdoors, and his passion helped inform the recipe for the most recent product for his hot sauce company.
owner can’t be successful without a mentor. The key to carrying success long term is identifying goals and building internal systems to help a business become sustainable. The next step in that vision includes major sporting goods retailers and international sales. So far, he’s met with representatives from companies in Asia, Europe and Canada, thanks to a Seattle- based group that connects local businesses with international buyers. “A lot of people can’t tell you what their goals are,” de Mars
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Written works preserve our history, describe our current reality and color our future beyond imagination.
that written communication plays in our modern world. Find out what jobs recent PPA graduates have.Careers for English MajorsA major in English lays the foundation for many endeavors. PLU English majors have gone on to be practicing writers, pursue Ph.D. programs in literature and composition, follow careers in business and law, and become educators in both the private and public sectors. The pursuits of recent graduates attest to this: Marc Boyer – graphic designer, Warfield Creatives, Tacoma
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Welcome to dance at Pacific Lutheran University! We offer a Dance minor within the Department of Theatre & Dance under the College of Professional Studies.
times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 252 : Beginning/Intermediate Contemporary - CX, FT Students practice contemporary dance technique, contemporary choreography, and learn the history of contemporary and modern dance. Designed for students who have never taken a contemporary dance class before, as well as for more experienced dancers. Repeatable for credit up to 4 times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 254 : Beginning/Intermediate Tap - CX, FT
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 3, 2019) — A new $2.8 million federal grant will help increase the number of PLU Doctor of Nursing Practice students who can serve rural and underserved populations in Washington. The grant, from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), will…
populations in Washington.The grant, from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), will strengthen training partnerships between the university and healthcare practices in those communities. And it will help train graduates in the use of telehealth, a growing area of modern healthcare that employs computer and video technology to connect patients and practitioners virtually.“We are trying to grow the nurse-practitioner workforce so that they can practice in multiple settings,” said
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PLU Chemistry professor Dean Waldow hopes to one day become useless. After all, as an educator, his job is to empower students to work confidently and independently in a field that is constantly innovating. He does this by bringing students into his lab to help…
limits to those charging times can be attributed to different parts of the battery, which is what makes this research exciting for students.” Now, buoyed by the NSF grant and a recent partnership with the University of Washington, Waldow’s polymer experiments are being used to create organic transistors based on polymers. While batteries store energy, transistors control the flow of and amplify electric currents. They are crucial elements of nearly all modern electronics. Waldow and his team hope to
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Philosophy involves inquiry about the most basic and compelling questions of life. German philosopher Immanuel Kant once summed up these questions in this way: “What can I know? What should I do?
the Environment. The Philosophy Major A major in philosophy is 32 credits, or eight courses. They include Formal Logic (233), the Advanced Seminar (490), and at least two of the five courses in the history of philosophy: Ancient Philosophy (331), Modern Philosophy (333), Pragmatism and American Philosophy (336), Existentialism and Continental Philosophy (338), or The Analytic Tradition (335). On approval of the department, four credits in another field of study may be used for the philosophy major
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“The massacre of innocents in Orlando prompts us to pray for those who grieve, to resist homophobia and Islamophobia, and to work diligently for an end to the easy purchase of deadly weapons. A Lutheran university, inspired by the non-violent life and inclusive love of…
can require gun owners to secure their weapons and keep them out of others’ hands. How many more senseless acts of violence do we have to mourn before we agree that commonsense gun control laws are in every citizen’s best interest?NOTE: Multiple Lutes have commented to remind us of our shared history, including massacres at Wounded Knee, Mountain Meadows and in Tulsa. As NPR pointed, “what happened in Orlando on Sunday was the deadliest mass public shooting in modern U.S. history.”Upcoming Local
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Welcome to dance at Pacific Lutheran University! We offer a Dance minor within the School of Music, Theatre & Dance under the College of Professional Studies.
credit up to 4 times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 252 : Beginning/Intermediate Contemporary - CX, FT Students practice contemporary dance technique, contemporary choreography, and learn the history of contemporary and modern dance. Designed for students who have never taken a contemporary dance class before, as well as for more experienced dancers. Repeatable for credit up to 4 times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 254 : Beginning
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