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  • For many college students, residence halls are the fertile grounds of first-year camaraderie from which lifelong friendships spring. At Pacific Lutheran University, students get to roll that experience over to the classroom by enrolling in courses thematically linked to their Residential Learning Communities (RLCs) —…

    different perspectives as well.”Residential HallsLiving on campus is an experiencePLU provides quality on-campus living and learning environments that encourage and enhance participation and enjoyment of your college experience.The linked courses take First Year Experience Program Writing 101 classes and tailor them to relate closely to each specific RLC theme. Writing 101: Democratic Citizenship, for example, blends traditional academic writing elements with a focus on social issues — a perfect

  • New program preps Lutes for service around the world Pacific Lutheran University’s ties to the Peace Corps are impressive, and they haven’t gone unnoticed. More than 260 Lutes have joined the service organization, which sends trained volunteers around the world to help countries meet their…

    , assistant professor of anthropology and director of the new program. “But also I think social justice issues, diversity and sustainability are a big part of the Peace Corps.” The decision to bring the program to campus was easy. After mapping out the Peace Corps certificate requirements, Tamara Williams and Joel Zylstra — directors of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education and the Center for Community Engagement and Service, respectively — found that some students were already

  • Student writes of her student-faculty research experience Kaitlyn Hall is a senior  Communication and Spanish major.   We study the past and the present to inform the future. Student-faculty research offers one of the university’s most valuable opportunities for collaboration and innovation, bringing together academics of…

    particularly positive. He wrote to Eckstein and said the analysis of the use of social media as a resource and response venue for public debates was both stimulating and novel yet deeply rooted in the relevant scholarship on debating, argumentation and blogging. He was eager to see the research continue. Our research changed from something confined to meetings and highlighter marks and tallies, but something discussed internationally. Session attendees provided positive feedback: we were onto something

  • Isamar Henriquez ’13 left her legacy within the Diversity Center through her advocacy work and creation of the Amigos Unidos Club, a program that is as strong as ever today. During her time at PLU, she worked for the Diversity Center as the International Diversity…

    firm following her graduation until the birth of her daughter in 2016 and is now a stay-at-home mom. Since she is working from home, being able to maintain that social connection is more important than ever. “We always get together [when] we want to see each other. I think for me, right now, it’s been more [important] socially because I haven’t been able to work. There were bonds that were made that haven’t been broken yet… There is an outside network even once we’re done at PLU.” In reflecting on

  • Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org  on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran…

    students participate in Code.org’s computer science learning programs. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Steinglass will deliver the 14th annual Benson Lecture in PLU’s Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center). Her lecture will explore historic inequities in the high-tech workforce and her organization’s social innovation strategy to promote computer science. Both events will make connections to PLU’s new Innovation Studies program, which launches this year with exciting new courses and an

  • From 1965 until his death in 1974, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington reformed both his worldview and his music. With his advancing age, failing health, and the death in of his beloved co-composer Billy Strayhorn, Ellington came to realize the impermanence of life and rekindled the…

    , discerning one’s vocation in the world, and service to the advancement of life, health, and wholeness.TicketsFree – $8 Purchase  “What we could not say openly we expressed in music, and what we know as ‘jazz’ is something more than just dance music. When we dance it is not a mere diversion or social accomplishment. It expresses our personality, and, right down in us, our souls react to the elemental but eternal rhythm, and the dance is timeless and unhampered by any linear form.” — Duke Ellington in ‘The

  • Julian Kop spent the summer of 2023 at Pacific Lutheran University looking up at the night sky and the stars. Kop earned an opportunity to do  summer research with professors Sean O’Neill and Katrina Hay at PLU’s W.M. Keck Observatory , working some nights between…

    , 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024

  • From an early age, Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 always thought he’d be a wildlife biologist. He’d pore over issues of National Geographic and One World magazines his dad purchased, studying photos and text of exotic animals. Chontofalsky is now an environmental scientist with the City of…

    Next Summer Internship: Environmental Studies major works as a bio tech at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May

  • Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a  Wang Center Research…

    pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024

  • Lindsey Clark ’24 came to PLU knowing it was where she wanted to be. But Clark—a double major in  mathematics  and  gender, sexuality, and race studies  (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way…

    PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024