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occupations. Research indicates that 76% of graduates from entry-level MSN programs have been offered a job by graduation. Four to six months out from graduation, 95% of graduates have been offered jobs. The ongoing nursing shortage and the projected retirement of over 1 million experienced nurses by 2030 means that nurses who gain higher levels of education and experience now will be well-poised to lead the next generation of nurses in all settings: research, education, and practice. Get an inside look

success, even if it did demand a logistic audible. “We used to just meet in the little conference room in Morken 103 when we had 50 students,” Blaha said. (This year) we had to go over to Leraas Lecture Hall. That was great. We had too many people!” The fourth annual contest, held Feb. 1, hosted 31 teams representing 14 schools. Students—on Advanced or Novice teams—worked for three hours to write programs to solve as many computer-programming problems as they could. The first-, second- and third-place

PLU graduates’ tremendous performance on the nursing national licensure exam. Smith came to PLU from the College of Nursing at East Tennessee State University, where she was the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and a Professor of Nursing. Previously, she served as a department chair and assistant dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she led the department’s pre-licensure programs, evaluation efforts and strategic initiatives. Her

Hilltop neighborhood, the Buffalo Soldiers Museum seeks to educate, preserve and present the history and contributions of America’s Buffalo Soldiers through educational programs, historic research, youth outreach programs and exhibits. “The Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Tacoma provides a great chance for Tacomans to understand this important but little-known piece of American history,” Mergenthal said. “It’s wonderful that this museum can both celebrate local connections to the subject and provide an

center many of the concepts she learned at PLU. “The programs, students and staff on campus put an emphasis on service and care,” she says. “That’s what drew me to PLU, what kept met at PLU and what has sustained me.” At PLU, she majored in both communications and Hispanic studies.  “I took my first Spanish language class in 10th grade, and I fell in love with the language from the start,” she says. Following graduation from PLU, she earned a master’s degree in translation from Kent State University

its programs by providing salary support, travel, research stipends and public programming funds. Kurt and Pam Mayer, Joe and Gloria Mayer, Natalie Mayer-Yeager, Nancy Powell, Carol Powell Heller and Harry Heller provided major support to endow the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. Campaign Leadership Council Members Loren and MaryAnn Anderson Neal Arntson ’58 and Joyce Arntson Linda (Knutzen) Barbo ’63 and Charles Barbo Bruce Bjerke ’72 Robert Gomulkiewicz ’83 David Greenwood ’74 and

world where differences are increasingly being portrayed as stark and polarizing, it’s becoming more and more essential for us to come together and learn about one another. PLU’s Fulbright scholars are up for the challenge. Over the past 44 years, 103 Lutes have been selected to participate in the program, which provides grants for individually designed study and research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs during one academic year in a participating country outside the

Summer Sessions: General and Organic Chemistry at PLU Posted by: yakelina / May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018 PLU is offering is the General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry sequences during the PLU Summer Session 2018.    These courses are available to PLU students as well as non-matriculated students from other colleges and universities.   They can be a useful mechanism to fit in prerequisite courses for professional graduate programs (medical, dental, veterinary, pharmacy, etc.) or keep on a degree

gain access to doctoral programs in the chemical sciences. The award is open to students who are undergraduate students interested in the chemical sciences and are from groups traditionally underrepresented in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Namely, the underrepresented minorities include African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. The award is not intended for graduate students or postdoctoral scholars. There will be a maximum of 15 awards available for each ACS and NOBCCHE

the bench science Ph.D. programs (Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry and Physics) as well as obtain general advice on preparing a competitive application. Register for the event here. Highlights of the program: Students are mentored by world-class researchers and enjoy access to state of the art facilities and instrumentation at CUNY campuses throughout New York City and in central and collaborative research buildings such as the Advanced Science Research Center or at the Belfer Building that is