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  • Parker Simpson ’24 is spending his summer working at an assisted living facility in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals and has always wanted to help people. We sat down with him to discuss his experience taking classes…

    about these improvements? It’s great! We constantly move around in our labs since we often go from one workstation to another. But the improvements to the classrooms are also a safety thing. Sometimes we have sharp objects or hazardous materials we are working with, so being in a lecture-type setting creates a hazardous situation. One thing we had a struggle with was the example dissections. Those are projected onto a screen while Professor Crites is dissecting. She had to move a projector every

  • 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

  • Each year, around 10,000 teams participate in The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling , an international contest where teams of undergrad students have 99 hours straight to create a mathematical model addressing a complex social or scientific issue. Each year, the top awards go to large…

    .” Duffy, Madeline and Matthew competed in 2022 as well, solving a problem on asteroid mining, an experience which set them up to assist associate professor of mathematics Mei Zhu in running the workshop that prepares students for the annual competition in February. Zhu has taught the J-term class on overload for almost twenty years. Before PLU had a BS in Applied Mathematics, it was one of the few opportunities for students interested in applying math skills to real-world problems. Each year she

  • In partnership with the Center for Diversity and Health Equity, the Office for Teaching, Education and Research is excited to offer our SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP). The goal of the program is to provide undergraduate students with a background that is historically underrepresented in the…

    projects during the summer at Seattle Children’s Research Institute under the mentorship of experienced researchers and principal investigators. Students will learn to use lab equipment (as applicable), meet with mentors and gain valuable research experience. Students will also attend career and professional training sessions on topics such as writing abstracts, résumé writing, cultivating interview skills, crafting an effective LinkedIn profile and more. The program will culminate with each intern

  • The Washington Applied Sustainability Internship (WASI) program is a summer internship program designed to link dedicated engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry in Washington. Interns research identified pollution prevention opportunities at a Host Business to analyze, recommend, and/or implement process…

    Washington Applied Sustainability Internship Posted by: nicolacs / March 22, 2023 March 22, 2023 The Washington Applied Sustainability Internship (WASI) program is a summer internship program designed to link dedicated engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry in Washington. Interns research identified pollution prevention opportunities at a Host Business to analyze, recommend, and/or implement process changes to find and use safer

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 5, 2015)- Tears were shed, laughs were had and ovations were given in response to the stories of Ela Stein Weissberger. Weissberger visited Pacific Lutheran University on March 5 for the Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Her speech in the…

    comprised of many musicians, artists and teachers who honed their skills while incarcerated. This collision between captivity and creativity culminated at Brundibar. Brundibar was exploited as Nazi propaganda, used as false evidence of the Nazi’s ethical treatment of those they imprisoned. Weissberger can be seen playing the cat in a 1944 recording. Weissberger has spent her adult life traveling all over the globe to be involved with productions of Brundibar, reminding the world of the importance of

  •   February 23 at 6pm Mare Blocker, Lecturer | Ingram 100 • Free Selected pages from the St. John’s Bible will be used to practice Visio Divina, a contemplative, repetitive, prayerful viewing of the illuminations on the page. In an increasingly visual culture, where the images…

    Reflective Viewing: Finding the Divine Within You Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017  February 23 at 6pm Mare Blocker, Lecturer | Ingram 100 • FreeSelected pages from the St. John’s Bible will be used to practice Visio Divina, a contemplative, repetitive, prayerful viewing of the illuminations on the page. In an increasingly visual culture, where the images we view are fast paced, this technique invites the viewer to slow down and see the image. Workshop

  • Edwin Black, author of “IBM and the Holocaust” speaks at a Brown Bag Lecture as part of the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies program at PLU on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) Journalist and author examines IBM’s role in the Holocaust…

    alphabetized list when they rolled into town,” to round up the Jewish population. Since the book was first published in 2001, IBM has been largely silent on his research, Black said. And holding up a series of laminated photocopies, which showed documents and punch cards, all bearing the IBM logo, name or signatures, Black explained that the company really didn’t have a defense against such damning evidence. “This is why your president won’t be getting a call from IBM tomorrow,” Black said, pointing to

  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 24, 2023) – Tacoma high school students will be able to earn a college degree and teaching credential debt-free as part of a new program to help build the next generation of teachers in Washington. Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change is teaming…

    prepares diverse, homegrown leaders to succeed in college and career to build vibrant and equitable communities through three innovative programs: Act Six, Seed Internships and Seed Teachers. The organization partners with community organizations, high schools, colleges and employers; working together to provide cohort-based leadership training, college success support and career development programming to underrepresented students and graduates. The organization also utilizes research-based

  • In partnership with the Center for Diversity and Health Equity, the Office for Teaching, Education and Research is excited to offer our SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP). The goal of the program is to provide undergraduate students with a background that is historically underrepresented in the…

    projects during the summer at Seattle Children’s Research Institute under the mentorship of experienced researchers and principal investigators. Students will learn to use lab equipment (as applicable), meet with mentors and gain valuable research experience. Students will also attend career and professional training sessions on topics such as writing abstracts, résumé writing, cultivating interview skills, crafting an effective LinkedIn profile and more. The program will culminate with each intern