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Have you ever wondered how the ocean’s tiniest inhabitants play a significant role in shaping our world? Marine microorganisms, minuscule life forms, wield a vital influence over our planet’s climate. They manage crucial components like carbon and oxygen within the vast oceans and the atmosphere.…
computer science students create a scheduling app for White Pass ski patrollers February 27, 2025 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Yaden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Modernizing Mental Health September 6, 2024 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—When Katrina Hay was a child, her grandparents gave her a poster that depicted the structure of the universe and compared the sizes and shapes of its components. That wondrous poster remained in her mind throughout her youth and became a…
components.That wondrous poster remained in her mind throughout her youth and became a beacon as she decided what to study in school. The feeling of being so small, yet part of a universe so big, was the inspiration behind her vocational choice: to educate others about the universe and the world around them. Hay is now Associate Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. Earlier this year, she took a sabbatical from teaching college courses on electromagnetism, physics and calculus-based physics to
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 24, 2019) — Research has become Pacific Lutheran University grad SarahAnn McFadden’s life. This year, McFadden ‘11 landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors…
myself to be good at math,” the 31-year-old Lakewood native said. “I didn’t think I would be very successful. But it really grounded within me a passion for trying to answer questions that haven’t been answered yet.” McFadden’s aptitude and enthusiasm stood out to the point that professor Jon Grahe brought her back as a teaching assistant the following year. “That’s a course that most students just hate,” Grahe said. “So when you have a student that does well … you really want them for a TA. There
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The 253 PLU Bound scholarship recipient from the Key Peninsula near Tacoma began his first year intending to major in music education. But best-laid plans often go awry. Lindhartsen soon realized that wasn’t the path for him. He knew he wanted to study music, but…
knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience
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Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players…
and practice their English with us. They teach us words and ask us words. Honestly, I cannot imagine a more helpful response from a host country. As a mental skills coach, what sort of things do you help the athletes with before they take to the field? My role centers on teaching skills of psychological skills for performance enhancement. This includes relaxation techniques, imagery, concentration and distraction control strategies, goal setting, team building, positive self-talk. I do not work in
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 16, 2020) — Food insecurity is on the rise on college campuses across the nation, and PLU is no exception to the trend. In a 2017 survey entitled “Healthy Minds,” one in five PLU students reported experiencing food insecurity ranging from “once…
career Read Next Prof. Gregory Youtz talks transitioning classrooms and teaching styles to distance learning COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Tech on the Slopes: PLU computer science students create a scheduling app for White Pass ski patrollers February 27, 2025 Bridging Borders: PLU nursing students gain global health experience in Oaxaca February 21, 2025
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The Andersons are leaving PLU Tuesday May 31, 2011 Loren and MaryAnn Anderson have announced their intent to leave Pacific Lutheran University in the spring of 2012, at the end of the academic year. “The time is right for the university,” Loren Anderson, 65, said.…
president’s residence. According to Bjerke, MaryAnn Anderson also has been the university’s ambassador extraordinaire. “MaryAnn has brought a sophistication, grace and purpose to everything from campus events and activities, to individual donor cultivation, to our university signature community events,” he said. In many ways it will be business as usual for the university during the coming year, as teaching and learning continue and administrative routines remain unchanged with Loren Anderson in the lead
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The world of business is always changing. Markets trend up and down, technologies evolve, and ethical standards constantly progress. To many private-sector veterans, this rate of change can be daunting, but to students and faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business, they are…
consultant is about applying their business knowledge from class, but also teaching them how to serve as a consultant, how to come alongside a business as a great teammate or helper,” explains Cosette Pfaff, an adjunct business professor who is managing the new program. The program was piloted in fall 2020. It has been offered each semester since, expanding to include collaboration with the chamber and matching even more student teams with local businesses. The small business owners involved have been
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PLU Alumni Embark on a Central American Adventure of Environmental Education Nathan Page ’13 and Brett Rousseau ’12 enjoy a brief vacation in Montezuma, on the southern end of the Nicoya Peninsula. (Photos courtesy of Page and Rousseau.) By Katie Baumann ’14 In the heart…
experience in the United States and abroad. “I worked on a variety of farms in the south of France—beekeeping, cheese-making, peach-picking, chicken-rearing and more—and then for nine months in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)-designed vegetable garden in Arkansas, growing produce and teaching about sustainable agriculture under the umbrella of Heifer International,” Rousseau said. “Now I’m farming in a completely new and foreign climate, the tropics.” An avid outdoorsman, Page also cultivated his
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TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Every year, the Business Examiner selects outstanding South Sound business and community leaders for its prestigious 40 Under 40 program—and this year, five of those are Lutes. On Aug. 4, the honored Lutes joined the rest of the 40 Under 40…
registered sales assistant of Commonwealth Financial Network® and has FINRA Series 6 and 63 securities registrations. In 2009, she received Commonwealth Financial Network’s national Staff Person of the Year award. Mary Holste ’00; Co-Owner and Creative Director, Side x Side Creative. Holste first came to the South Sound as a PLU student, where she worked for Impact and studied away in Scotland, Paris and London. She earned her degree in Fine Arts-Graphic Design before working (and teaching) for the
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