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  • ASPLU Lute Vote wins grant from Washington Secretary of State By Katie Baumann ’14 In an exciting turn of events, the Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) project titled Lute Vote has been awarded the “Laying the Foundations: 2013” grant from the Washington Secretary…

    March 4, 2013 ASPLU Lute Vote wins grant from Washington Secretary of State By Katie Baumann ’14 In an exciting turn of events, the Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) project titled Lute Vote has been awarded the “Laying the Foundations: 2013” grant from the Washington Secretary of State. Part of a coalition of campuses across Washington state striving to increase civic engagement on campus, ASPLU Diversity Director Karter Booher and his team set a goal of registering

  • A New Chapter for PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop The new director of PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop, Associate Professor of English Rick Barot. (Photo courtesy of Rick Barot.) Rick Barot Named New Director as Innovative MFA Program Turns 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing &…

    to 55 of them, counting all three years’ cohorts—come to campus only every August for 10 days, along with highly distinguished faculty. “It’s like if you mash up a boot camp and a summer camp,” Barot said. “It’s fun, but it’s incredibly rigorous.” Each student is paired with a faculty member, and from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., they attend workshops, talks, readings and “hang out with people of their tribe,” Barot said. The rest of the academic year, students and faculty work together through

  • dCenter ’emerged’ as a resource for students, fun place to hang out For many, like senior art major Chelsea Putnam, PLU’s Diversity Center is a place to foster one’s individuality.“I really wanted to learn and gain my own individuality with this place,” said Putnam. Initially…

    October 7, 2011 dCenter ’emerged’ as a resource for students, fun place to hang out For many, like senior art major Chelsea Putnam, PLU’s Diversity Center is a place to foster one’s individuality.“I really wanted to learn and gain my own individuality with this place,” said Putnam. Initially though, Putnam didn’t really understand what social justice was.“It was a culture shock for me,” Putnam said. “I came from a community that was a very small town. I lived in a very white Hispanic culture

  • The Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (PBMS) at the Oregon Health and Science University offers many exciting opportunities in Biomedical Research through an individualized graduate program for training the next generation of biomedical scientists, readying them for changing challenges in science and scientific careers. PBMS…

    execute experimental approaches, conduct data analysis and interpretation, and communicate rigorous and reproducible biomedical research. Students will be provided a generous stipend along with tuition and health benefits, to conduct this work. PBMS will have a live 25 minute webinar to provide an overview of OHSU and the PBMS Graduate Program. This will be followed by a Question and Answer Session with the Graduate Program Director and the Chair of the Admissions Committee. Potential applicants are

  • Around the world to find a calling By Chris Albert While waiting for a flight, a fellow passenger starts to make small talk with Najib Abbas. The conversation starts with pleasantries, maybe they discuss the weather, but before long the fellow traveler will be telling…

    through the hardships of life has been very fulfilling. In many ways he’s learned as much if not more from them. And so another chapter in his life begins as he returns home. “He brought with him a true passion for helping others and I am very excited to see that passion be taken to Saudi Arabia,” Ward said. “There is no doubt that Najib will change the way mental health is viewed and offered there.” In this part of the world, MFT is a new field. “I’m going back to an interesting journey now,” Abbas

  • On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…

    ), which means it is specifically designed to explore a topic through multiple academic departments and subjects. PLU’s IHON web page explains that the courses “use multiple lenses in order to overcome the blindness that comes from insisting upon just one.” While Heath’s class is advertised as a starship design class, the course is actually a multi-disciplinary exploration of the current state of planet Earth and the issues facing humanity. “This is a course about asking big questions and pursuing

  • TACOMA Wash – Hiring in Finance: The Employer’s Perspective From PLU to World of Finance Dr. Micheal Manser – PLU ECON Grad ’10 Now Economist @ Remitly Thursday April 18, 2019 @6:30 p.m. Xavier 201 Dr. Michael Manser is currently an Economist in charge of…

    PLU Alum Visits Department of Economics Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 15, 2019 April 15, 2019 By Jeannette ShimkoCommunications Coordinator/Administrative AssistantTACOMA Wash - Hiring in Finance: The Employer's Perspective From PLU to World of Finance Dr. Micheal Manser – PLU ECON Grad ’10 Now Economist @Remitly Thursday April 18, 2019 @6:30 p.m. Xavier 201 Dr. Michael Manser is currently an Economist in charge of global pricing at Remitly, one of the fastest growing FinTech startups in

  • PLU Sustainability Program is a Finalist in Nationwide Competition This is a still photograph of one of the opening slides of PLU’s sustainability video. (Photo: Katherine Martell / PLU) Voting on PLU’s stop-motion video begins April 1 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications…

    €”And Vote For! €”PLU’s Video From April 1-15, vote for PLU’s sustainability video here. Anyone, anywhere, can vote in the competition—but only once a day. Just click on the thumbs-up icon! As a result, PLU is participating in a nationwide video-voting competition organized by Second Nature and Planet Forward. Online voting begins April 1 and runs through April 15. Global education is a pathway to distinction at PLU, and the university offers Study Away programs on all seven continents. As a result

  • Daniel Hachet ‘20 might be graduating this spring, but his green initiatives will continue on at PLU. On-campus restaurants now recycle thousands of cereal bags—and are even getting paid to do so. Residence Halls now offer recycling during summer camps. Reusable dishes and compostable straws…

    will be in Kelley Café, after it reopens. All in place thanks to sustainability initiatives led by Hachet.The second-youngest of five siblings, Hachet grew up in Orient, Ohio (population: 252), where climate change isn’t always widely accepted as a fact. After taking AP Environmental Science, Hachet became fascinated by sustainability—and also joined the gardening club. He started “Operation Green,” a student group that collected recycling from classrooms for recycling and canceled school junk mail

  • During her senior year at Pacific Lutheran University, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She soon met with PLU Peace Corps advisor, Dr. Katherine Wiley to learn more. She was excited…

    idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as a public health educator.She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. Initial communication from the Peace Corps was that volunteers could choose to stay or return home and exit the program. Chell welcomed the news