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Innovation and the Mind By Sarah Cornell-Maier. Understanding the function of the human brain is a truly enlightening experience, especially when you tie brain research into the newest developments in computer technology, creativity, and innovation studies. Recently, I got the opportunity to sit down at Pacific Lutheran University with… January 11, 2018 creativityHeidi McLaughlinInnovation Studies minorPsychology majorSarah Cornell-Maiertechnology
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Social Innovation at PLU By Sarah Cornell-Maier When I think of social innovation, the first thing that I think of is creatively combining new social practices with existing infrastructure. Some useful examples include fair trade organizations , which provide equity in trading relationships through an integrated supply chain, and… March 12, 2018 Innovation Studies minorMark MulderSarah Cornell-MaierSocial InnovationThe Matrix
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Social Innovation at PLU By Sarah Cornell-Maier When I think of social innovation, the first thing that I think of is creatively combining new social practices with existing infrastructure. Some useful examples include fair trade organizations , which provide equity in trading relationships through an integrated supply chain, and… March 12, 2018 Innovation Studies minorMark MulderSarah Cornell-MaierSocial InnovationThe Matrix
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The Edison Awards: Innovations That Shape the World By Damian Alessandro ’19 It’s awards season! Not the Academy Awards –although we do host awards parties at Pacific Lutheran University. I’m writing about the annual awards for innovation that have everyone whispering excitedly in the discipline of Innovation Studies. That’s right–its the Edison Awards… February 23, 2018 Damian AlessandroEdison AwardsInnovation Studies minorThomas EdisonWizard of Menlo Park
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PLU is a place that gives you the tools to find your strengths, pursue your passions and experience the world!
Contact Phone: (253) 535-7074 Text Only: (253) 527-6088 Email: powellhj@plu.edu Director of Undergraduate AdmissionHillary grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington, and slowly moved her way over the Narrows Bridge to Tacoma. She doesn’t know what she loves more: reading about adventures in her favorite books, or traveling on adventures herself! Hillary is always checking out the new coffee shops and restaurants in Tacoma. She loves PLU’s emphasis on vocation – thanking her alma mater for allowing her
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Learning Is ForEver (LIFE) offers unique educational experiences to enrich and enhance the lives of its participants. Learning is a lifelong pursuit that opens minds and enriches lives.
Learning Is ForEver (LIFE)The Learning is ForEver program shut down during COVID and has not resumed. Please see our Lectures page for opportunities to engage in Life Long Learning events. Our lectures offer unique educational experiences to enrich and enhance the lives of its participants. Learning is a lifelong pursuit that opens minds and enriches lives. Sharing new ideas, challenges and experiences is rewarding in every season of life. Participants come from every walk of life, to learn
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Pacific Lutheran University Organ Studies. Most lessons are taught on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, a wonderful instrument well known to the organ world, nationally and internationally
Organ Study at PLUOrgan study is alive and well at PLU. Besides their weekly organ lessons, organ students have a weekly organ seminar, plenty of performance opportunities both as soloist as well as accompanist, and usually can easily find a church position in the area if they so desire. Most lessons are taught on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, a wonderful instrument well known to the organ world, nationally and internationally acclaimed. It is a tracker instrument in a beautiful hall with
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 14, 2016)- Laurel Minter, a Los Angeles-based, award-winning screenwriter and film director, will offer a beginners’ screenwriting workshop at PLU later this month. The workshop will educate students on how to craft screenplays using tools that most professional screenwriters use. The focus…
that most professional screenwriters use. The focus of this course will be “Speculative Scripts,” intended to teach students how to create scripts based on original ideas. “I would love to be able to share with the PLU community how scripts get made, picked up and purchased,” Minter said. “There aren’t a lot of opportunities to work with professional screenwriters in this capacity.” Students from the video-production group, PLU Showrunners, say the course will be particularly beneficial for them
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
Networking: Best Done With the Right Questions Networking: Best Done With the Right Questions Knowing the right questions to ask is half the battle in any situation. When networking and making connections, the following questions originally posted by Princeton University’s Career Services department are a great place to start. Remember, any connection… April 3, 2018 Hire Me
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 15, 2015)—As Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off across the country on Sept. 15, this year’s observation at Pacific Lutheran University takes on extra emphasis with two new campus-wide components: • the revival of a student organization representing Latino/a and Hispanic students, and…
celebrate our heritage, but we are also focusing on supporting students to succeed academically by having club study hours at the library and connecting them to resources and faculty on campus.” The group kicked off the school year with “Bienvenida: Latin@ Family Session,” a special Orientation session in Spanish that welcomed parents of incoming Lutes. Amigos Unidos also hosted a table at the Sept. 11 Involvement Fair and held a bonfire that evening at the Stuen fire pit to welcome new and returning
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