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NW Seaport Alliance CEO John Wolfe ’87 discusses his career in maritime leadership Posted by: Zach Powers / November 3, 2022 Image: John Wolfe ’87 is the CEO of the Northwest Seaport Alliance, a marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) November 3, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsShortly after John Wolfe ’87 graduated from PLU he went to work for a Seattle-based company called SeaLand Shipping Line. In the

March 13, 2012 Mathlete coaches teach students on cracking the equation for success, and math! By Joel Zylstra On Tuesday, March 13, about 100 PLU students, local middle schoolers, parents and math teachers gathered in the UC Scan Center for Family Math Night to showcase their commitment to Math. PLU’s Mathlete Coaching Project, now in its eighth year, exists to create a community around mathematics from elementary school to college. The annual event honored elementary and middle schoolers from

Renewable Energy Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / September 6, 2022 September 6, 2022 September marks the beginning of application season for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation.  We are now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2023.  Last year we gave twelve $2000 scholarships; this year we anticipate 16 or more.  There will be at least one for an early undergraduate (preferable community college), at least one other undergrad scholarship, one for an early grad

Entry Level Medical Scribe Opening ProScribe Posted by: alemanem / November 6, 2023 November 6, 2023 ProScribe – a medical scribe company, still has openings for Entry Level Medical Scribe and is seeking healthcare focused students to join the team in Tacoma, WA and surrounding sites. Please see the 2023 ProScribe Clinical Medical Scribe Job Description for more information and fill out this form, if interested: https://forms.gle/zkH18cnwzCZuzWkx9 Read Previous Renewable Energy Scholarship Read

A Final Foss Farewell Posted by: mhines / June 20, 2023 Image: The moon above Foss at the outdoor dinner on move-in and orientation day at PLU on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. (Photo/John Froschauer) June 20, 2023 After 58 years, PLU is saying goodbye to Foss Hall.PLU begin demolishing the vacant Foss Hall on June 12, 2023. The demolition of the facility has been in the plans for almost 8 years, but now the time has come. Foss Hall was built in 1965 to house “boomers” of the 1960s and ’70s when

based on religious thinking as ignorant.  A Project UnfurlsAt the disability talk in the spring of 2023, Llewellyn Ihssen connected with those producing “Nothing Without Us,” a six-stop gallery trail at the Pitt Rivers Museum, part of the University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums collection. Pitt Rivers Museum is famous for its variety. “The first impression is of a chaotic mess, and it looks like a jumble sale of artifacts,” Llewellyn Ihssen says. “It’s so jam-packed, it’s hard to take

Renewable Energy Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / September 6, 2022 September 6, 2022 September marks the beginning of application season for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation.  We are now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2023.  Last year we gave twelve $2000 scholarships; this year we anticipate 16 or more.  There will be at least one for an early undergraduate (preferable community college), at least one other undergrad scholarship, one for an early grad

Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association and visited high schools to talk personally to the teachers. “Typically, with a week to go, not many people had signed up,” Blaha said. “So I’d send out another plea.” In 2012, following that same course of action, 40 students competed. In 2013, that rose to 58. And this year? This year—let’s call it version 4.0—was completely different. 2014 PLU High School Programming Contest Results Advanced Division First place: Roosevelt High School Second place

Mathematics professor in the math department – to co-found the Mathlete Coaching Project, in which PLU mathematics students coached local middle school students in preparation for Washington’s Math Olympiad competition. His intent was to build a community of enthusiastic people who were enthusiastic about mathematics, stretching from PLU to the elementary schools and including students, parents, teachers, and school administrators. Bryan wanted kids to see the fun parts of math and believed in teaching

don’t think about the focal length and depth of field of the computer’s camera”.  Shelby Hickman, media liaison for the play, says having everyone in separate rooms, in entirely different buildings, presents the biggest challenge for the live multi-stream, but is also the most rewarding obstacle to overcome.  From adapting to technical difficulties to coaching actors in an isolated environment, the show must go on!  The Christians virtual play is streaming for free on November 12 to 14 at 7:30 pm