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  • Just a spark: Student-faculty research explores technology and argument Posted by: Todd / September 28, 2016 September 28, 2016 Student writes of her student-faculty research experience By Kaitlyn Hall '17Kaitlyn 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 diverse experience and

  • Diversity Center Alumni The Diversity Center is committed to providing alumni with insight into diversity and inclusion initiatives, challenges, and successes on campus.  We also strive to create space for alumni to  (re)connect with each other, The Diversity Center, and the university. Whether or not you were a student when the dCenter was established, our values of critical reflection, perspective taking and community resonate with a wide range of alumni who believe in our mission. Please

  • Math CareersMany students think the only possible careers for mathematics majors are in educational fields, but this misconception has been readily disproved by past graduates from PLU. While many of our graduates are accomplished mathematics teachers and district leaders, others have found successful careers as financial analysts or engineers, data scientists, actuaries, consultants, lawyers, software engineers, statisticians, government contractors, scientific researchers and in a variety of

  • January 3, 2008 Transfer students enrich campus Each year, PLU admits anywhere from 250 to 300 transfer students to campus. It’s a diverse mix of students from all walks of life. Some are in their 50s, looking to complete a degree they’d left unfinished. Some are a year or two out of high school. Some are first generation college students. Others transferred from a four-year university looking for something more to their liking. “There is no typical transfer student,” explained Joelle Pretty

  • June 16, 2008 Developing athletes into leaders Jen Thomas ’98, ’99 wears many hats in the PLU athletic department. She’s the assistant athletic director, a senior woman administrator and assistant athletic trainer. She’s also the mentor for the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC). The council is one of several methods the athletics department is employing to develop student leadership and more effectively connect athletic programs to the university as a whole. “We have some great leaders in

  • July 14, 2008 High schoolers shine at business week Anyone who looked north of 30 years old in Olson Auditorium could expect one of two things to happen: Either an eager high school student, dressed in tie and slacks, would come up and shake their hand, or an eager high school student in a skirt and sensible pumps would introduce herself. Both would make a business pitch and entice you over to see their product or service. If they found out you were not a judge for Washington Business Week

  • December 1, 2010 ‘I always knew I had the skills to be a doctor. Then I discovered it was my PASSION.’ By Chris Albert As a high school senior in Salem, Ore., Andrew Reyna wasn’t quite sure what he wanted to do. He liked science. He was good at it. He asked how could he best use his gifts and talents in this world. Medical doctor came to mind. “The more I thought about it,” he said, “the more it made sense.” Reyna came to PLU because he knew of its reputation for sending students to medical

  • January 31, 2012 PLU experiences hit the right key By Teri Moore You do not need to be an accounting major to appreciate that an increase of 3,200 percent is staggering. Yet for Paul Scott ’04, choir director for Enumclaw Public Schools grades 6-12, that percentage represents the increase of young men who are participating in a choir today compared to when he started seven years ago. “There is so much value to what we do. Every group has it’s moments of dysfunction, but we are learning how to

  • PLU to host TEDxTacoma 2016: Speakers include YWCA CEO, best-selling novelist and Army lieutenant general Posted by: Zach Powers / March 13, 2016 Image: PLU Associate Professor of Politics and Government Maria Chavez-Pringle gave a talk titled “(de)Americanization of Latino Youth” at TEDxTacoma 2015. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 13, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local

  • Rising Amazon recruiter April Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan Posted by: Silong Chhun / June 3, 2022 June 3, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsApril Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan. A political science and communication double major who recently earned an MBA at PLU, Nguyen followed the advice of a career adviser into a series of contract jobs in human resources. Not because she has career aspirations in HR — though she does find the work endlessly interesting — but because