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high technology news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Enhancing Your Major with Innovation Studies By Sarah Cornell-Maier. PLU has a new Innovation Studies program. In fact, I’m a new Innovation minor–one of the first in a growing cohort, scheduled to graduate in May 2019. This series of blog posts is designed to give you the details on the minor,… November 8, 2017 cognitioncreativityhigh technologyinnovation studiesmajorminorSarah Cornell-Maier
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Howard Schultz news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Innovation and Resilience By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I… May 7, 2018 AppleClayton ChristensenCorey BrownDamian Alessandrodisruptive innovationHoward SchultzStarbucks
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The Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra will close its 2015-16 season with a blend of brand new works and twentieth-century masterpieces. The concert on Tuesday, May 10 at 8pm, features violinist Laura Hillis ’17 and composer Emilio Gonzalez ’16, and will be conducted by Jeffrey…
writing music for film. The grand gestures and emotional melodies resemble American movie music style. “I am captivated by its drama and challenged to portray all the emotion it demands,” Hillis explains. “It’s draining, but it’s a blast. It has taken a lot of mental and physical energy to prepare the concerto, but I had a lot of help along the way.” Hillis was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she studied violin with Rudolf Sternadel and was a member of the South Saskatchewan Youth
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
The Head in the Game: Q&A with PLU Coach Goes Inside the Mind of an Athlete Zach Willis ’19 earned a BA in kinesiology with a concentration in health and fitness promotion and minored in sport and exercise psychology while playing on the football team at Pacific Lutheran University. Last year he returned to the university to serve as the football… February 16, 2022 Alumni ProfilesAthleticsKinesiologyPLU GradsStudent Life
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, serving our neighbors. Access to quality, whole-person health care is essential to improving health outcomes, particularly for traditionally underserved and vulnerable populations. As a medically underserved area, the unincorporated Central Pierce County region, including Parkland and Spanaway, experiences multiple barriers to community health. As the community has grown, health disparities have also increased exponentially. In the partnership’s launch initiative, MultiCare Health System is building a
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A Pacific Lutheran University Bachelor of Science in Nursing curriculum is based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing
ability to incorporate the dimensions of person, nursing, and environment to promote health in a variety of nursing situations. Provide evidence-based clinically competent care of individuals, families, and communities in a variety of settings across diverse populations. Enact the role of service as a professionally educated member of society. Employ principles of ethical leadership, quality improvement, and cost effectiveness to foster the development and initiation of safety and quality initiatives
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Sponsored by MultiCare Health System, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and Pierce County, the Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway is an initiative working to address local healthcare costs, improve economic and social vitality, and increase public awareness about health and well-being in Parkland. Blue Zones’ goal is…
about health and well-being in Parkland. Blue Zones’ goal is clear and simple: help make Parkland and Spanaway healthier, happier, and more vibrant places to live.Executive director and PLU alumnus Tono Sablan ’18 leads the Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway. “Where I’m from — where my neighbors live — we’ll live up to 10 years less on average than anywhere else in Pierce County,” Sablan said in an in-depth feature in the Tacoma News Tribune. “That is incredibly concerning to me as a resident, and
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Eight teams of two women each competed in the inaugural T.O.H. Karl Forensics Forum’s women’s round robin this Friday, March 11, 2016. The goal of this round robin debate was for these women to develop and nurture relationships. According to senior debate team member Angie Tinker, the…
glass instruction to all youth, transforming lives through art, teamwork and adult mentorship. Read Previous The Story Depends on the Teller: Book Arts in the Pacific Northwest opens March 9 Read Next MediaLab recognized for latest documentary on higher education LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
PLU launches new Master of Social Work (MSW) degree PLU has added a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree to its offerings and is now accepting applicants for the fall of 2024. Rooted in PLU’s tradition of academic excellence and community engagement, the new MSW program will equip aspiring social work professionals with the skills… September 20, 2023 Master of Social WorkSocial Work
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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…
stories run in the 1990s by such magazines as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report on the advances in our understanding of animals’ use of language and their mental abilities. As a society we face important questions about how we can make sense out of animals as autonomous living creatures, as well as our ethical relations with them. There are major intellectual challenges in this, of course, but that does not make the task any less important. Yet inside the academy the resistance to taking
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