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  • Pre-Optometry https://www.plu.edu/prehealthsciences/pre-optometry/

    So You Want to Be an Optometrist?Optometrists are health care providers who examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases and disorders of the visual system. Optometrists are responsible for examining patients, diagnosing eye and vision problems, testing patients’ depth and color perception, and testing patients’ ability to coordinate and focus their eyes. They also prescribe contact lenses and glasses, treat eye problems like glaucoma, and refer patients to other doctors. To practice as an

  • Pre-OT https://www.plu.edu/prehealthsciences/pre-ot-3/

    So You Want to be an Occupational Therapist?Occupational therapists (OTs) are health care professionals who treat injured, ill, or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. They help these patients develop, recover, and improve the skills needed for daily living and working. Occupational therapists: Help children thrive in the “occupations” of childhood, which include learning, playing, and growing. Therapists work in schools with students who have learning

  • Religion Department Welcomes Bridgette O’Brien McGoldrick https://www.plu.edu/prism/religion-department-welcomes-bridgette-obrien-mcgoldrick/

    Dr. Bridgette O’Brien McGoldrick grew up in Colorado, but has lived in several different states and countries including Nepal, Japan, South Africa and Hungary.  Her formal education includes an undergraduate degree in religious studies from the University of Puget Sound and a master’s degree in comparative world religions from Columbia University. She graduated from the University of Florida with her Ph.D. in 2013 and her dissertation research explored institutional efforts to integrate

  • Thor Heyerdahl Lecture – “Beyond the Horizon” 2016 https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/events/thor-heyerdahl-annual-lecture-series/thor-heyerdahl-lecture-beyond-the-horizon/

    Wednesday, Oct. 5 2016 Third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture to open “Beyond the Horizon: The Legacy of Nordic Explorers” exhibit 2016Distinguished Norwegian sailor, journalist and writer Ragnar Kvam Jr. will present “The Life of Thor Heyerdahl: Writing the Biography of a Norwegian Icon,” for the third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 5. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU.Kvam wrote a three-volume biography on Heyerdahl, which earned him the Riksmålsforbundet’s literary

  • The Troll with No Heart in His Body https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/exhibitions/the-troll-with-no-heart-in-his-body/

    Exhibit opens Fri. 10 Nov. 2017; Exhibit closes Wed. 7 Feb. 2018.Trolls are associated with trouble and magic, with those parts of the world we cannot explain. What does the word “troll” mean? Scholars have many guesses as about the origin of the word but nothing definite. The word appears in Old Norse and suggested many things – giants as well troublesome people and animals. Additionally, Old Norse also had the verb form trylla which John Lindow translates variously as “turn (someone or

  • 50th Anniversary Editor’s Note https://www.plu.edu/studentmedia/50th-anniversary-editors-note/

    Dear Reader, PLU’s first Saxifrage flowers burst through stone in 1975, when student editor Megan Beckman Benton and her editorial team launched the journal. Since then, Saxifrage has endured as a nourishing space for students to publish original poetry, prose, and art. During Saxifrage’s 50-year lifespan, the journal has published over 2,000 creative works from 902 artists, writers, and composers. On this golden anniversary of creativity and community, we express our sincere gratitude to

  • Gary Wright https://www.plu.edu/understanding-the-world/staff/gary-wright/

    Gary Wright Senior Vice President Business Operations Biography Biography Wright oversees all business operations for Sounders FC including ticket sales, corporate partnerships, community outreach, charities, fan experience, communications and marketing of the team. In his first year, Wright helped spearhead one of the most successful launches of a franchise, as Sounders FC set a new MLS season record for attendance with an average of 30,897, and received the Doug Hamilton MLS Executive of the

  • SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP) https://www.plu.edu/physics/news/scri-summer-scholars-program-sssp/

    SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP) Posted by: nicolacs / December 7, 2022 December 7, 2022 In partnership with the Center for Diversity and Health Equity, the Office for Teaching, Education and Research is excited to offer our SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP). The goal of the program is to provide undergraduate students with a background that is historically underrepresented in the biomedical and health sciences an opportunity to engage in basic, clinical and/or translational research

  • Student-athlete makes entrepreneurship look like a piece of cake https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/student-athlete-makes-entrepreneurship-look-like-a-piece-of-cake/

    Student-athlete makes entrepreneurship look like a piece of cake Posted by: vcraker / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Craig CrakerAsst. Sports Information Director Some people spent their COVID lockdown time learning to bake homemade bread or bingeing TV shows or, frankly, just trying to survive. Pacific Lutheran University junior Jasneet Sandhu spent the spring of 2021 learning to row and launching a business out of her family home.The Sandhu Cake Company is the brainchild of Jasneet and her

  • International Travel Guidelines https://www.plu.edu/helpdesk/support/computers-software/international-travel-guidelines/

    PLU Guidelines for International Travel with Electronic EquipmentPurpose: To provide recommendations to the PLU community for the secure handling and use of both personal and PLU-owned equipment and data when traveling internationally. Recommendations: Additional precautions should always be taken when traveling internationally with electronic devices.  International travel drastically increases the risk that both personally and university owned equipment and data could be compromised. The