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  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)— On Saturday, March 21, a diverse and distinguished group of speakers will present “ideas worth spreading” at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma. Among that group will be three Pacific Lutheran University faculty members representing a variety of PLU’s…

    claim or reclaim their roles as public agents and citizens. She is the author of the book Profits, Pundits and Gurus: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement and recently has submitted the manuscript of her second book, Teacher, School, Mother: Re-envisioning Motherhood in the Academy.Maria ChavezAssociate Professor of Political ScienceChavez’s areas of teaching and research interest include public policy, American government, Latino politics and race/ethnic politics. She is the co-author of the

  • Rodion A. Zhuravlev, Senior Capstone Seminar Solid polymer electrolytes are a safer alternative to the current electrolytes found in lithium-ion batteries.

    - Colorimetric Biosensing Assay using Silver Nanoparticles for Detection of Aptamers and other Biological Targets Katie Cameron, Senior Capstone Seminar The purpose of this research is to recreate a colorimetric detection assay similar to literature and use silver nanoparticles instead of regularly used gold particles to detect DNA and other biological targets. to make this process cheaper/easier to perform. The basic experimental method includes the synthesis of silver nanospheres that are attached to a

  • By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group at Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine in Lacey,

    Management Supply-Chain Management Technology and Innovation Management Learn MoreBrooke Brown named the 2021 Washington State Teacher of the Year Brooke Brown ’06, an ethnic studies teacher at Parkland’s Washington High School, was recently named the 2021 Washington State Teacher of the Year by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Brown engages students in her classroom by centering each student’s rich experiences to encourage them to recognize the values in

  • In recognition of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, throughout the 2016-17 academic year a wide range of academic, community and artistic events at Pacific Lutheran University will address questions and concepts relating to Re•forming. UPCOMING EVENTS Second Annual César Chávez & Dolores Huerta…

    political season marked by the demonization of racial, religious, and ethnic minorities, this conference focuses on the quest for a just vision of life shared in community. Sponsored by the Department of Religion and Lutheran Studies program. MORE INFORMATION Ruth Anderson Public Debate: A Third-Party Vote is a Wasted Vote Oct. 4 | 7 p.m. | Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts The 4th annual Ruth Anderson Public Debate will feature PLU debaters Mariah Collier ‘17 and Charles “Tate” Adams

  • The Office of Advancement works to raise charitable contributions, which support the mission of Pacific Lutheran University.

    prevention and education. Thank you for providing my scholarship. I feel very seen and honored, and it truly reiterates to me what a special place PLU is. I am so glad that I chose to come here, and I appreciate you making that easier for me by relieving some financial stress. Austyn Blair ’25 English Literature major; Holocaust and Genocide Students minor; Religion minor; Gender and Sexuality Studies minor You are dedicated to transformative care. Care motivates us to question paradigms and draw new

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  • Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and

    the leading scholars on the Nazi Euthanasia murders. She has been based at the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (former U.S. Holocaust Research Institute) since 1993. Heberer Rice completed her undergraduate degree in Historical Studies and German Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University as the graduating class’ valedictorian. She conducted her doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland (UMD)-College Park, where Heberer Rice earned

  • Why We Cite In essence, we cite sources because this lets us join and participate in an ongoing scholarly conversation with other scholars.

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  • Aminda Cheney-Irgens is a smart, driven, and globally-minded Pacific Lutheran University senior who, like her peers, spent her spring adjusting to a new way of doing college. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s…

    being able to read literature, listen to songs, and communicate with others in a different language. Because of schedule complications, I started at PLU as a Hispanic Studies minor. But after studying away in Oaxaca, Mexico, and realizing I was able to fit in the last few courses I needed for the major, I decided to switch over. Welcome to Hispanic StudiesPLU students in the Hispanic Studies Program are challenged to think critically in an increasingly global world and to see the complexity of

  • Biology Courses Take the following two required introductory biology courses: BIOL 225: Molecules, Cells and Organisms BIOL 226: Genes, Evolution, Diversity and Ecology You might also consider some

    intended to demonstrate competency in grammar and composition as well as comprehension and analysis of written work. In general, the English requirement is met by taking courses that medical schools would recognize as writing or literature courses. Chemistry Courses Take the following two-course sequence in general chemistry: CHEM 115 (General Chemistry I)* CHEM 116 (General Chemistry II) Take the following two-course sequence in organic chemistry: CHEM 331/333 (Organic Chemistry I + laboratory) CHEM

  • Biology Courses Take the following two required introductory biology courses: BIOL 225: Molecules, Cells and Organisms BIOL 226: Genes, Evolution, Diversity and Ecology You might also consider some

    intended to demonstrate competency in grammar and composition as well as comprehension and analysis of written work. In general, the English requirement is met by taking courses that medical schools would recognize as writing or literature courses. Chemistry Courses Take the following two-course sequence in general chemistry: CHEM 115 (General Chemistry I)* CHEM 116 (General Chemistry II) Take the following two-course sequence in organic chemistry: CHEM 331/333 (Organic Chemistry I + laboratory) CHEM