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  • Have you ever wanted to serve as an intern but you didn’t have the financial means to pursue it? At PLU, we believe all students should have a chance for any internship with the sky as the limit.

    News Lab fellowship Eligibility: The Google News Lab Fellowship offers students interested in journalism and technology the opportunity to spend the summer working at relevant organizations across the US to gain valuable experience and make lifelong contacts and friends. While the work of each host organization is unique, Fellows have opportunities to research and write stories, contribute to open source data programs, and create timely data to accurately frame public debates about issues in the US

  • A diverse and dynamic artist and educator, Mare Blocker has been teaching at PLU since 2014. Her classes include Art of the Book and Typography among others. Read more about Mare in this extended interview. What is your educational background? I have a BFA in…

    . I’ve taken numerous studio workshops too as continuing education! I think it’s super important to be a lifelong learner, and taking classes makes me remember what it’s like to be a student. Why did you decide to study art? What sparked your interest in art and how did your academic path and career develop from there? I come from a family of artists, makers, and crafters. My first job as an artist was when I was five years old and I painted trees in the background of my grandfather’s landscape

  • Scott graduated with a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Music (with a minor in English Literature) in 1991.

    a solid foundation in social sciences as well as a lifelong appreciation and joy of music.Luke LatimerLuke came to PLU from Boulder, Colorado and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 2011. Luke’s passion has always been for the sciences, but he found himself increasingly interested in music during his time at PLU. Though not a Music major nor even a Music Scholarship Student, Luke performed in the University Symphony Orchestra every semester during his time at PLU, except the one

  • PLU’s Master of Science in Nursing Ranked as one of the top 150 graduate nursing programs in the US by US News and World Report, the PLU MSN program is designed to equip nurses with the knowledge

    graduation. “That’s building the lifelong learning process,” Seavor said. “We couldn’t do it without our practice partners.” Seavor says the entry-level master’s program is intense: within 15 months students complete the equivalent of a rigorous undergraduate nursing education, and are eligible to sit for the national licensure exam; then, for the second half of the program, the registered nurses begin their graduate-level studies. It’s not lost on Larsen how far he’s come since his 46-year-old self

  • The Tacoma Refugee Choir, an important support and resource for Kaelin Lor, History major and '23 alum, recently released the video, Everyone Can Love Someone and Kaelin has shared it with us.

    used the language of profit to understand the peoples and places they encountered, while his Mayer research explored the ideas of race and nation for the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. Gostisha credits these research experiences, and the mentorship of professors Beth Kraig, Rebekah Mergenthal, and Beth Griech-Polelle, with inspiring him to be a lifelong historian. He continues on this path in graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studies the British Atlantic world. Greyson Hoye

  • For the 2012-2013 academic year, 877 students will have graduated from PLU. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 26 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter…

    Commencement speech, I finished my application emphasizing a desire for pursuing my wild hope and a global education. Looking back on it now, I can’t believe that I ever saw myself at another college. My PLU experience: I can’t imagine condensing four years into one paragraph. My experience has been filled with adventure, laughter, hard work, and an insane amount of learning, not only in the classroom but about myself. Andrea Oliver ’13 is from Idaho Falls, Idaho. I have forged wonderful relationships

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 22, 2018) — It’s official. The Class of 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University is wrapping up the final list of “lasts.” There are the lasts that students (soon to be alumni) are likely happy to bid farewell: the last final, the last…

    time here at PLU is that I am leaving with lifelong friends.” Bridgewater’s advice for her fellow Lutes who have yet to order caps and gowns: make the most of the time you have left. “While we are here to learn, it is also important to build relationships and experiences,” she said. Below is a collection of experiences built by other Lutes who say goodbye to PLU this week.Tori Sullivan, sociology Tori Sullivan '18 (Photo by Oliver Johnson '18/PLU) By Helen Smith ’19 Tori Sullivan first found her

  • The Anderson research group addresses three domains in the physical sciences:  chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals and reactivities

    his father, “who have shaped who I am.” For his lifelong commitment to improving the lives of people of all nations, Dr. William Foege was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2012.Dr. Foege receives Presidential AwardLearn more about Dr. Foege's life William Foege '57 poses in front of a wall in the Rieke Science Center which features his quote. 2019 - Dr. James McLurkinJames McLurkin is a Sr. Hardware Engineer at Google. He is one of the leads on the AIY Project

  • In their own words By Chris Albert Soon new PLU graduates will go out into the world. In the following, some Lutes share their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences have been and what’s the next chapter in their lives. More…

    in Classics, and then continue on to graduate school in Egyptology. I had an opportunity to visit Cairo and Luxor for J-Term in 2009. Visiting the tombs and pyramids, I realized that while I loved learning about ancient civilizations, I knew excavating in the dirt just wasn’t for me. That same year, my sophomore year, I had also taken my first political science class: political thought with Dr. Peter Grosvenor. After reading many of the classical political philosophers, I saw another path to