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  • The Mississippi State University Chemistry Department seeks applicants for an interdisciplinary NSF-supported summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program occurring in 2024. Students who have completed their freshman year of college and who have not yet graduated can participate fully in the Food, Energy and…

    project under the direction of a faculty mentor. The cohort of students will participate in exciting renewable energy research projects as well as professional development, social and outreach activities. Student participants will receive a $6,000 stipend, a housing and meal plan for ten weeks, and travel assistance. Renewable energy offers exciting possibilities for research. Students will be offered the opportunity to engage in research related to the production of biofuels, and the application of

  • In January 2006, a group of PLU students — bundled up in warm coats, gloves, hats and sturdy boots — stepped carefully from the boat on which they’d been traveling onto the rocky and icy shores of Antarctica. This intrepid class helped seal a spot…

    . We asked three Lutes who have each managed to study away multiple times (one even squeezed in seven different programs!) to share about their own experiences.Acadia GrahamJunior (Class of 2020). Hometown: Anchorage, AK Global Studies major, Anthropology and dance minors, Peace Corps Prep program (Youth & Development Track) Involvement: Admission Intern, Global Ambassador for Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Outdoor Recreation guide Number of times studying away: I’ve

  • PLU’s student-athletes understand what it means to be part of a team. They learn how to build on their teammates’ strengths, overcome failure and achieve collective goals. We spoke with Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) officers Danny Samson ’22 and Bridget Duven ’22, both political science…

    development and for the PLU community as a whole. What things have you learned about being a college athlete and a student? How do they benefit one another? Danny: Being a student-athlete has taught me numerous lessons. I have learned how to be a more responsible individual, work in a team with differing personalities, and manage my time while juggling multiple roles. The opportunity to participate in athletics while also furthering my education has only given me positive experiences that I will continue

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 4, 2015)- After screenings and film festivals and cinemas throughout the world, the acclaimed documentary “Resistencia: The Fight for The Aguan Valley“ will be screening at Pacific Lutheran University. The free, public showing will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in…

    key member of the Real News Network from 2009-11, he produced more than 100 investigative video pieces on economics, politics and social movements in North and Central America. Since 2012, Freeston has directed five documentaries for TeleSUR, the world’s largest public Spanish-language broadcaster. Resistencia is his second documentary film on Honduras. The screening is a collaborative project, co-sponsored by the PLU Departments of Anthropology, History and Global Studies; International Honors

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    , Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (Avon 1975; 2nd ed. 1990), Peter Singer gave a new academic respectability to animal issues and stimulated a renewed vigor in social-action campaigns on behalf of animals. He also explicitly linked animals with other social liberation movements. These other movements are now well established in universities with vigorous multi-disciplinary programs in gender studies, ethnic studies, and so forth. Not so animals. As far as I know, there is

  • Jenifer Leavens was an experienced educator when she decided it was time to pursue a master’s degree in education. A transplant from California, she wasn’t sure which Puget Sound area university had the best program. So she asked some of her colleagues. “Hands down, people…

    the best program. So she asked some of her colleagues.“Hands down, people told me, ‘Go to PLU. If you want people to remember where you’re from, and you want them to hold it in high regard, that’s where you go.’ So that’s where I went,” she says. During graduate school, Leavens was working full-time in Puyallup, WA at ReLife School, a co-op that draws students with social, emotional and behavioral disabilities from a number of local school districts. She was also a mom of three kids, who became

  • 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…

    Yaden, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies. Learn more, and watch a video about PLUTO, here. PLU Center for Media Studies and MediaLab students, from left, Taylor Lunka, Olivia Ash and Amanda Brasgalla conduct community-based field research. (Photo: Robert Marshall Wells) The Center for Media Studies Designed to “invert the classroom,” the School of Arts and Communication’s new Center for Media Studies (CMS) launched this fall to provide students with even more opportunities to apply their

  • PLU Fulbright recipients ready to engage the world By Chris Albert This year, four PLU students – Allison Meyer, Matthew Anderson, Matthew Palmquist and Reed Ojala-Barbour  – received prestigious U.S. Fulbright Student Fellowships. That makes 87 PLU student Fulbright recipients since 1975. Matthew Anderson, Reed…

    conservation and sustainable development in Latin America. “I am excited to learn more about the ecology of Ecuadorian small mammals and the Andean landscape,” Ojala-Barbour said. “I also look forward to speaking Spanish and working with Ecuadorians.” Faculty recipients Vidya Thirumurthy, Instructional Development and Leadership, Research in India. Read Previous Dean of education and movement studies named Read Next Desmond Tutu urges Tacoma community to “Be the Spark” that changes the world COMMENTS*Note

  • Thursday, April 8 at 11:00am to 12:00pm Providence is a comprehensive health care organization with 120,000 caregivers (all employees) who serve in 51 hospitals, 1,085 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. This is for students…

    Providence Health & Services Virtual Career Trek Posted by: nicolacs / March 30, 2021 March 30, 2021 Thursday, April 8 at 11:00am to 12:00pm Providence is a comprehensive health care organization with 120,000 caregivers (all employees) who serve in 51 hospitals, 1,085 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. This is for students interested in clinical AND non-clinical careers in the healthcare

  • Pacific Lutheran University was named a winner in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Challenge. PLU received a $15,000 prize for its work in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.…

    their efforts to ensure that the pandemic will not reduce the already low participation and inclusion of diverse students and workers in STEM education and careers,” said Diana Elder, Division Director of NSF’s Division of Human Resource Development. PLU was honored for its initiative in developing programs supporting undergraduate enrollment and retention, the PLUS Year Program and the PLU Fixed Tuition Guarantee Program, and placed second in the four-year STEM undergraduate category, just behind