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terribly important they consider themselves a part of a community and that they serve that community. I think art should serve a purpose and that should be a purpose that people can understand.” Youtz, who fittingly teaches a class called On Creativity, involves himself, additionally, in a wide variety of community engagements, including but not limited, to assistant teaching at the Tacoma Youth Symphony, and membership on a board for the building of a Chinese park on the Tacoma water front. “I’m all

critical thinking, theory building, research methods, statistical analysis and using psychology in human context. The Bachelor of Science degree also is an excellent degree option for students with an interest in pre-medicine (including [psychiatry), behavioral health, cognitive neuroscience, or neuropsychology. Read Previous PLU’s Lathiena Nervo discusses her work and being named one of the “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America” Read Next Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 LATEST POSTS

Caribbean neighbors and the issues we face in a globalized world. Now almost any PLU student knows where Trinidad and Tobago is, they know somebody from it or they know something about the culture. It’s remarkable.” The pressure of being the first student supported by the joint scholarship was high. But Hughes rose to the challenge, building a strong foundation and placing high expectations on the subsequent scholarship winners. Listening to the 25-year-old speak today, she exudes self-confidence. She’s

to leave Europe. Many of his family members perished in the Holocaust. He eventually settled in Tacoma and in 1957 established the first volume home-building company in the area. The company, now known as Mayer Built Homes, specialized in subsidized and affordable housing. Mayer was the first person of the Jewish faith to serve on Pacific Lutheran University’s Board of Regents, serving from 1995 to 2005. He was instrumental in the development of the university’s Holocaust Studies Program. “When

harm, another. Building on this strong embrace of human potential and goodness, we are made bold to believe that individual freedom and responsibility is the proper ground on which to build a model of governance and society that is free and open; a model that at once inspires personal achievement, enables greatness, promotes the general welfare, and calls each and all of us to both seek and serve the greater good. Indeed, in countries such as Norway and these United States, this noble experiment in

designing PLUTO curriculum. The conclusion reached by PLUTO participants: PLU is special because of its faculty relationships with students, community building and fluid communication. Bodewes said the key is creating opportunities for students to learn about the people behind the keyboards. “We’re trying to keep them connected to PLU,” Bodewes said. So far, student evaluations in the online and blended courses have been positive, Lewis added.  Harney, who is teaching a blended public relations course

identity. “I had heard so much about (how) being queer was a sin, but I didn’t feel like a bad person,” she said. “Ultimately, I came to realize…I was loved for who I was.” While Brewer’s time at PLU helped her feel more comfortable with her sexuality, the campus wasn’t immune to larger societal tension surrounding LGBTQ issues. She recalls one incident in which someone painted hate speech, targeted at LGBTQ folks, inside the university’s administration building. She also remembers controversy

Fast Track setting PLU graduate students on right path Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 9, 2018 Image: The School of Business is located in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, PLU’s newest academic building. January 9, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 8, 2018)- Graduate school can be a daunting prospect for anyone. Students fresh off their undergraduate sprint are faced with a complicated application process and daunting

changing the way her students learned by building a program model from scratch. “Nobody’s teaching psych nurse practitioners in their curriculum like we are (at PLU),” Moller said. “Rather than interspersing therapy courses with assessment, diagnosis, and psychopathology, I wanted to approach the curriculum in the same way we do it in practice.” When an ARNP first meets a patient, they have to figure out what’s wrong (complete a thorough psychiatric diagnostic evaluations), then come up with a

at the coffee house with classmates to work on a school project and appreciated what Gore’s cultivating in the space. “We enjoyed playing chess and looking through various books we could rent out, and sinking into a comfy couch,” she said. “We were able to sit down and chat over soup, pastries, freshly made sandwiches and coffee.” Gore has a entrepreneurial background, building businesses from the ground up. He’s an eclectic man who’s successfully tried his hand at newspapers, computers and ice