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  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028: Trailblazers As Pacific Lutheran University welcomes the Class of 2028, the university celebrates not just a new academic year but a new generation of students defined by the spirit of innovation, resilience, and transformation. The Admission staff has dubbed this cohort “Trailblazers” due to their distinctive… September 19, 2024 CommunityCurrent StudentsParentsTrailblazer

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028: Trailblazers As Pacific Lutheran University welcomes the Class of 2028, the university celebrates not just a new academic year but a new generation of students defined by the spirit of innovation, resilience, and transformation. The Admission staff has dubbed this cohort “Trailblazers” due to their distinctive… September 19, 2024 CommunityCurrent StudentsParentsTrailblazer

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    PLU announces Carol Sheffels Quigg Award winners Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually… December 21, 2022 Computer ScienceMathematics

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    Wild Hope Fellow Nick Etzell ‘23 helps peers with vocational discernment Nick Etzell ‘23 is a double major in psychology and environmental studies at Pacific Lutheran University, with minors in philosophy, business, and innovation studies. In his time at PLU, he has been involved with the Wild Hope Center for Vocation as both a vocation intern… April 13, 2022 Environmental StudiesPsychology

  • New Chemistry department instrument will help students and profs probe world of the atom It looks like a rather fat, squat water heater. But to the students and professors gathered around it – or, more accurately, the computer that transmits readouts from it, the machine…

    chemistry department as well, the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is a dream come true. It’s easy to see they still can’t quite believe, after two years of waiting and receiving a National Science Foundation grant they didn’t expect to get, that it is finally here. “When the crates came,” said Yakelis, “we were very excited.” The grant to purchase the NMR was a collaborative effort by chemistry faculty led by Professor Craig Fryhle. The machine is now in full display on the north side of a glass

  • Writers welcomed By Kari Plog ’11 During the summer, students in PLU’s Master in Fine Arts Creative Writing program gather on campus for their summer residency. As part of the three-year program, the students meet four times for short summer residencies of about 10 days…

    sequence. “The degree isn’t merely a prize for jumping through academic hoops,,” Rubin said. “The program is collaborative and process oriented throughout.. It’s very personal.” Rick Dakan is a recent graduate of the program from Sarasota, Fla. The 38-year-old fiction writer focuses on a specific genre with a “mixed media element.” He had published two novels before admission into the program and published two novels during his studies. “It really is exciting to see that chance to pause and reflect on

  • Professor Kory Brown and five of the six students who will be competing in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in Long Beach, Calif., this year. Working Together By Steve Hansen On Kory Brown’s office wall there is a small rectangular plaque. He earned it…

    example, he cites his work with BluetoothTM standards. That work involves more than 15,000 firms that are members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, and about 600 unique individuals who actively contributed knowledge to Bluetooth technology development. Members of these firms actively collaborate to advance Bluetooth technology and then return back to their companies to compete for profits. Brown, in essence, wants to understand these competitive and collaborative dynamics while competitors work

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- Professor of Religion and Chair of Lutheran Studies Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus…

    — religion and politics. “I am under orders from my spouse to work on my screenplay, which is my dissertation as a Hollywood epic or a Netflix serialized thing.” Torvend said. “It’s all about religion and politics.” Read Previous Symposium uplifts collaborative student-faculty research Read Next The Mast wins Apple Award in NYC for best student newspaper 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

  • In Kwangali and Oshindonga, widely spoken languages in Namibia, “Uukumwe” means “togetherness.” For six teachers in Washington and seven teachers from Namibia, the word personifies the relationship-building that lies at the heart of education. “It was a vision that was bubbling in my mind because…

    be accepting applications for the 2024 cohort from October 16 to November 30. For Dumeni, Wells and Weiss, the exchange went well beyond the classroom—both visits included an immersion into the hosts’ customs, cultures and even families. “This isn’t just about delivery,” said Weiss. “It feels truly collaborative.” Brianna Wells ’11 talks to third graders in her class at Clover Creek Elementary in Pierce County, Washington. Read Previous Lydia Flaspohler ’25 and Ryan Fisher ’24 dive into the

  • Originally Published in 2014 If you read the acknowledgements of the books that I’ve written, you will notice that I always thank some group of students for their help and insights. With The Task of Utopia , I thanked a particular class of students who…

    and arguments in the field. I can often put them in contact with authors we’re reading. I have also worked with some students who have done well in these classes in conducting student- faculty research on a variety of animal-related issues. This work outside the classroom has resulted in collaborative projects that have been presented at conferences and published in books and journals. For me, scholarship and teaching are fluid aspects of one process and they regularly blend into each other. I