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  • 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

  • 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. (May 12, 2015)— The 2015 Celebration of Leadership recognized students who live lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care while empowering their peers to do the same. On Monday, May 11, the Division of Student Life welcomed PLU faculty, administrators, staff and…

    made a difference through their leadership and service at PLU and in their communities. Students were nominated by PLU faculty, staff and their peers and nominations where reviewed by a selection committee who made recommendations to the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students. All photographs by PLU Photographer John Froschauer.Pinnacle Award WinnersCelebrates graduates who have demonstrated sustained, exceptional leadership and service in the co-curricular life of PLU, enriching the

  • New nursing labs raise the bar When the School of Nursing ordered 10 new hospital beds for its improved nursing laboratory, the process of moving them into the third-floor space of Ramstad Commons didn’t appear to pose a challenge. But once the computerized Stryker hospital…

    extended forklift was brought in to carefully maneuver all the beds through it. The state-of-the art equipment is one piece of the School of Nursing’s new Learning Resource Center Complex. The facility, a collection of three redesigned and upgraded nursing laboratories, encompasses what were once seven rooms designated as laboratory space to teach the school’s 350-plus nursing students. The cutting-edge facility was funded through a $300,000 gift from an anonymous donor last spring. The gift’s legacy

  • Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History…

    March 4, 2014 Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History students in a heated debate over the West’s invasion of China in the 19th Century. “The topic was, Was China to blame for the Opium War?,” said PLU Visiting Assistant Professor Mahlon Meyer, whose class

  • Take Back the Night at PLU Students attend a Take Back the Night rally at PLU. (Photo: PLU Women’s Center) Annual event aims to raise awareness about sexual assault By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s Women Center hosts the annual Take Back the Night…

    April 20, 2014 Take Back the Night at PLU Students attend a Take Back the Night rally at PLU. (Photo: PLU Women’s Center) Annual event aims to raise awareness about sexual assault By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s Women Center hosts the annual Take Back the Night march and rally, part of an international campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault, April 24 in Red Square. The event invites people to speak up and speak out about ending violence. Take Back the Night When

  • PLU choirs and local orchestras will combine this spring to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony three times this May, with the Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, PLU’s University Symphony Orchestra and the Tacoma Youth Symphony Orchestra. Tacoma Youth Symphony and Everett Philharmonic Orchestra conductor, Dr. Paul Elliott Cobbs,…

    Elliott Cobbs, contacted PLU’s Choir of the West Conductor Richard Nance in Spring 2012 about doing a collaborative performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. “Paul had heard about the quality of our choral program, and approached me about putting together the choir. I have long been interested in our choirs performing a work with the youth symphony–sort of a ‘music as a life-long vocation’ project,” Nance said. After the dates were set with the Tacoma Youth Symphony and Everett Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Highly recruited as an outside hitter out of Chiawana High School, Sianna Iverson ‘24, a talented volleyball player, knew she found a home at PLU after a campus visit.  “As soon as I visited, I knew it was going to be a great fit for…

    persistence and learning in the training room and classroom, Iverson relentlessly pursued accolades and resume boosters while on campus, including the 2023 American Kinesiology Association PLU Undergraduate Scholar of the Year Award recipient, NCAA Women’s Enhancement Graduate Scholarship recipient, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative, Vice President of the Kinesiology of the Future Club, Kinesiology tutor, and has become a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Most recently, she

  • All persons in this category are hired in a primary role to support the academic mission of the university. Teaching contact is not required for persons in this category.

    Section 1. All persons in this category are hired in a primary role to support the academic mission of the university. Teaching contact is not required for persons in this category. Associates to the Faculty Assembly hold university appointments which are not intrinsically related to a recognized academic field or discipline, but which entail substantial involvement with academic programs and faculty-related responsibilities. Whether such involvement is sufficiently constant and substantial in

  • A New Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor at Pacific Lutheran University By Barbara Clements PLU Director of Content Development An important new step has been taken at PLU with the creation of a Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, available to students beginning in the fall…

    March 9, 2014 A New Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor at Pacific Lutheran University By Barbara Clements PLU Director of Content Development An important new step has been taken at PLU with the creation of a Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, available to students beginning in the fall of 2014. This new program has the following statement of mission and description: The Holocaust and Genocide Studies program is strongly grounded in PLU’s educational commitment to helping its students