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  • From PLU History to Grad School in the Big Apple! Thinking about graduate study in history? Pacific Lutheran University history majors have an excellent track record when it comes to earning an M.A. or a Ph.D. (or both) in history. I recently touched base with Carli Snyder, ’17, about her first year in grad school.… August 20, 2018 Grad School

  • January 29, 2014 From PLU to Sochi: Professor Colleen Hacker teaches teams, individuals to possess a gold-medal attitude. By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Kinesiology Professor Colleen Hacker knows all the Olympics predictions, all the stats for the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team. World champs. Favored to win the gold in Sochi. The ones to beat. As she faces her fifth Olympics, and first Winter Olympics, Hacker, the mental-skills coach for the U.S. team, said she doesn’t think

  • ? Adrian: Because of the reputation of the nursing program and its professors. Plus, PLU has the ability to place students out in the community to learn. For me, equipment was on the back burner when I was applying, but once I got in, I really saw how obsolete it was. PLU Nursing is way ahead in care, critical thinking, evidence-based practice, but we’re behind when it comes to training equipment and tools. PLU: How did you feel when you found out about the Center and what would be in it? Jordan: Super

  • university’s “Inspiring Women,” Kim has been active in the Gender Equity Center (formerly the Women’s Center).Meghan GouldMeghan Gould is a junior from Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a Mathematics Education/Global Studies double major and a concentration in Development and Social Justice. She is interested in education as a key contributor to community development and is currently collaborating on a mathematics curriculum that focuses on the intersection of math and social justice education. Meghan

  • problems. It was entirely planned and led by the Spring 2023 Innovation Seminar team. What happens when students free their minds from pre-conceived notions and work together to innovate? Leadership team at PLU's first PLUreka event, April 28, 2023. (Morken Building) You might be thinking… “But I’m not creative. I don’t have any experience in entrepreneurship and innovation.” To which we say… Yes! That’s why we ESPECIALLY want YOU to participate in this event. Creative thinking is a skill, and it is

  • process of teaching and learning that may be critical both to learning and to ensuring that the classroom environment is equitable for all students. I am studying the role of what instructors say in the classroom that is not related to content but may impact student motivation, resistance, and buy-in to course activities and concepts. Through this qualitative research project I am developing a rubric for Instructor Talk that can be used to assess the quantity and types of Instructor Talk present in

  • , authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. If one is at all in doubt about this being a different world, consider that there are now 193 counties following a labyrinth of political systems and economic models, and a global population that now exceeds 7 billion.   Just as the symposium reaches out to challenge the assumptions and understanding of the PLU campus community, so too is it intended to reach out to the

  • Supply Chain ManagementSupply chain management (SCM) is a multi-faceted discipline that plays a critical role in the competitive success of virtually every business. A growing number of organizations rely on their supply chains to meet customers’ expectation because effective SCM enables them to deliver products or services to end-users in a timely and affordable manner. SCM professionals participate in fundamental decisions associated with business success in a global environment. This

  • Ash Bechtel President She/her Email: asplupres@plu.edu Biography Biography Major(s) & Minor(s): Biology & Critical Race Studies

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  • a wide array of issues, including child survival and development, injury prevention, and preventative medicine.  Foege’s leadership has contributed significantly to increased awareness and action on global health issues, and his enthusiasm, energy, and effectiveness in these endeavors have inspired a generation of leaders in public health, according to a White House biography of him. Speaking in 2006 at the dedication of the William H. Foege Building at the University of Washington, former