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family with guidelines about how to best support their Olympian. Hacker stressed she is part of an amazing team of coaches that includes strength and conditioning experts, video and technology gurus, medical staff and her fellow sport psychology consultants. “Who you get to work with as athletes and who you get to work with on staff is the greatest part of the Olympic experience,” she said. It’s an experience she brings back to the classroom at PLU, heading up the university’s sports psychology minor

which includes funding for scholarly research by professor and students, two Holocaust studies courses taught fall and spring semesters, J-term study away opportunities, the Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, support for the Raphael Lemkin Awards and Raphael Lemkin lecture, as well as a fall lecture. In 2012, support allowed for two summer scholars as well as two fall lectures. It is a point of pride that this program maintains a strong base of supporters as well as continues to gain

isn’t to have students leave with answers, but with tools to ask these types of questions, according to Eva Frey Johnson, Dean for Student Development, Director of Student Involvement and Leadership, and Explore! co-coordinator. “Students really enjoy the retreat,” Johnson said. “They leave with a better sense of how PLU can support them and how they can support themselves.” The program was started nine years ago as part of the Wild Hope Project and later institutionalized by the office of Student

allowed. Three PLU student-athletes also spoke. Junior football player Greg Hibbard—a 2013 Capital One CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American—highlighted the balance of academics and athletics at the Div. III level and at PLU specifically. Hibbard pointed to the support systems in place at PLU to help student-athletes succeed both on the field and in the classroom, a point emphasized by the fact that 17 of PLU’s 19 varsity teams have a cumulative grade-point average above 3.0. Senior men’s soccer

University secured $1.4 million in federal funding to treat health care shortages in Washington state, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, visited campus to see just what those dollars support.“You’re meeting critical needs we hear about all the time,” Murray said to a room of PLU faculty, students and recent graduates after touring campus, specifically the School of Nursing. Wednesday’s tour was the senator’s first official visit to the university, during which she learned about the bachelor’s, master’s

to provide increased access to PLU and support the academic achievement of eligible TCC students. “This agreement makes it easier for our students to transfer to PLU, which provides an excellent education close to home,” said TCC President Ivan L, Harrell, Ph.D. “And the scholarship provides opportunity for students who might not otherwise have believed a private school education to be within reach.”  To be eligible for the Automatic Admission Partnership, TCC students will be required to have a

imagine if an unpaid summer internship did all that—and it paid off financially, too. Starting this year, one Pacific Lutheran University student who accepts an unpaid summer internship will be awarded $2,000, thanks to the debut of the Patricia L. and Thomas W. Krise Endowed Internship Fund. The highly competitive Krise Internship, which will be awarded to one student applicant per summer, provides financial support for the recipient, opening up unpaid internship opportunities that might otherwise be

strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni doctors and medical students. We met with Yun recently to discuss the Global Medical Brigades Club and what it’s been like being a pre-med student at PLU. Can you share a bit about the Global Medical Brigades

an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni

services, the difference LuteLink can make for graduating seniors, and more. PLU: What makes Alumni & Student Connections an important resource for students? Andrew: The office of Alumni and Student Connections exists to support students and alumni — both now and after graduation. When you go to college, the goal is that you’re going to move on to graduate school, you’re gonna move on to employment, maybe moving on to the Peace Corps, whatever that is. But we’re always there to kind of help students