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can cover: why you’re interested in attending PLU, why you love your art form(s), how you came to practice your art, what drives you to make art, how you believe attending PLU will further your skills and/or career, and your artistic vision or motivation. We’re looking to get to know you, so anything that is thoughtful and true to you will be appreciated by faculty adjudicators. What do I include in my Artistic Achievement Award application portfolio? Include images of your work that best

based on recommendations from a panel of judges. The criteria included knowledge, creativity, and analysis of their research as well as presentation aspects including good communication, poise in interacting with the audience, and clarity. Congratulations to Chance and Colin as well as to the whole of the PLU contingent presenting at this meeting. Chance Brock’s poster title was “Exploring mutational strand bias in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to implicate retromutagenesis as a pathway for

about Krista is her tenacity and work ethic,” says Director of the MSF, Cynthia Riley Smith. “Some of her strengths as a student include a high level of intelligence coupled with a sense of grace and humility. She never flaunts her knowledge, yet is willing to share it with others.” Founded in 2006, the Women of Influence Awards celebrate the leadership of women in the business world and in the larger community. To be a “Woman of Influence,” one must “evidence not only leadership and achievement in

exercise their problem-solving muscles in fun and creative ways, such as turning fruit into musical instruments with a so-called “makey makey,” an invention kit, or becoming familiar with Lego robotics. “I want to get them fired up about this,” Reisberg said of teachers in training. “It really intersects with project-based learning.” Students learn basic skills in this comprehensive process, he said; problem-solving, creativity, following directions are all at the core of makerspace activities. “I hope

practice of higher education institutions in the U.S., especially private universities, which routinely announce three to five percent tuition increases each spring. “On average, students at private universities in the Puget Sound region are paying $5,391 (12.9%) more in their senior year than they did in their first year,” explained PLU President Allan Belton. “One of the problems with this model is that when tuition creeps up by three or four percent each year, a student’s annual scholarship funds

Forum on Education Abroad recognizes PLU for study away excellence Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / April 25, 2019 Image: Pacific Lutheran University has been recognized for conformity with the Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad as established by the Forum on Education Abroad. April 25, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University has been recognized for substantial conformity with the Standards of Good Practice

Homeland Security reverses course on international student directive Posted by: Marcom Web Team / July 14, 2020 Image: Flags of nations from around the world hanging in PLU’s Anderson University Center. (Photo/John Froschauer) July 14, 2020 We are pleased that earlier today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescinded its July 6 policy directive that would have required international students to take in-person college courses in order to remain in the U.S.At PLU, we are deeply committed

PLU announces Fixed Tuition Guarantee, reducing financial risk to students and running counter to common higher ed practice Posted by: Zach Powers / October 18, 2021 October 18, 2021 By Zach Powers ‘10PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has just announced a Fixed Tuition Guarantee that will ensure tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years at the university.This guarantee disrupts

Naval Post Graduate School and research associate at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Strawser has taken the, some may call, controversial position on the use of predator drones: “Strawser has plunged into the churning, anguished debate by arguing the US is not only entitled but morally obliged to use drones.  ‘It’s all upside. There’s no downside. Both ethically and normatively, there’s a tremendous value,’ he says. ‘You’re not risking the pilot. The pilot is safe

top 10 percent have really pulled away from the rest of us.” And this pulling apart of the economic classes hasn’t been repeated in other developed countries, he noted. It’s an American phenomenon. Globalization and the rise of the economies in Southeast Asia hold some of the answer, he said. But not as much as you might think. Much of the change of socio-economic conditions can be traced to the money following those with the highest technical skills, Lindert said in a recent interview