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  • Clean Energy Bridge to Research (CEBR) is a summer program run by the University of Washington (UW) Clean Energy Institute (CEI) and Undergraduate Research Program, and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF CHE-1950904). The CEBR Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program supports a select group of undergraduates, community…

    participate in authentic research in solar, energy storage, and grid technologies under the mentorship of UW’s world-class faculty and grad students. Participants embark on a nine-week immersive research project in a single UW clean energy research lab, and produce an abstract and poster summarizing their work. All students that are accepted into the program are supported financially with competitive stipends. Housing, food allowance, and up to $500 in travel allowances are provided. Participating

  • The haves and the have nots, closing the gap The statistics, especially given the economic meltdown on Wall Street in the past few weeks, are not encouraging. Since the 1970s, incomes in the United States have been dramatically pulling apart, as the rich get richer,…

    September 29, 2008 The haves and the have nots, closing the gap The statistics, especially given the economic meltdown on Wall Street in the past few weeks, are not encouraging. Since the 1970s, incomes in the United States have been dramatically pulling apart, as the rich get richer, and the poor and middle class fall further and further behind.“The incomes are as unequal in American as they have ever been in history,” said Professor Peter H. Lindert, who will speak on campus next week. “The

  • The finish line The call came from Japan as Masahide Nishimura was finishing up his degree in Chinese Studies at Pacific Lutheran University a decade ago. His grandfather, Jisaburo Nishimura, 92, had had a stroke. Masahide felt he needed to come home and support his…

    told me that now that I was president, I had more control over my time,” he said. So Nishimura finished up his presentation last Wednesday. Next fall, he will wrap up one last class in Japan, and then the degree will be completed. Read Previous What to do with a whale skeleton? Read Next Faith in community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25

  • Celebrating Shabbat with the PLU family Why would Lauren Eaton rebuild the Jewish club at a Lutheran college? WHEN SHE ARRIVED on campus as a first-year student, Lauren Eaton set out looking for the Alijah Jewish Club that she had read about. She didn’t find…

    in the spring when we have between 50 and 75 people attend.” “There are many different reasons why people come to Jewish club. Some of them want to keep their traditions alive. Many of them are in a religion class and they are interested in learning more. Many of them are just friends of ours,” Eaton said. “I think some of them only come for my freshly baked bread.” “For me spirituality is a sense of oneness and a sense of community. You are part of something larger than yourself. Whether you are

  • What is ‘social justice’? And why should you care? By Kari Plog ’11 In the first floor of PLU’s University Center, students fill the overstuffed couches – some studying, some texting their friends, some just hanging out. It’s what happens at the Diversity Center all…

    , Wash. – Major: Hispanic studies and global studies “College is more than just taking class and completing a major,” said Carrie Hylander. “It’s about learning who we are and our place in the world.” Carrie Hylander ’12. Chelsea Putnam ’12 – Hometown: East Wenatchee, Wash. – Major: Fine arts Chelsea Putnam ’12. “My goal is to help students learn the importance of social justice in a smaller community,” said Chelsea Putnam, “because it’s the first step to promoting social justice on a larger scale

  • The Rose comes home Sunbeams stab out through the dust and darkness in Tower Chapel, as Ramon Coranado carefully eases the 30-inch heart of the Rose Window from its lead fittings in the window frame where he had just placed it. The other pieces already…

    fitting the window for good a few hours later last Wednesday. As of Friday, the job of cleaning and refurbishing the lead in the 60-year-old window was complete. This refurbishing, estimated Martinez, should hold over the window for another 70 to 100 years. Or about the time when the great, great grandchildren of today’s students attend their first day of class. Martinez and his crew have carefully been restoring the window since December last year, when it was removed, shipped down to the famed Los

  • Nursing program secures two grants By Barbara Clements The School of Nursing recently received a total of $800,000 in grants which will help the school continue its outreach to senior citizens in the South Puget Sound area. Broken out, the funds come from a$500,000 grant…

    kind in the state, has provided a national platform for PLU to offer world-class training in the care of older adults. Another part of the CGEP that has gained national recognition was the Congestive Heart Failure Community Transition Program, in which MultiCare and PLU’s School of Nursing joined up to follow patients home after they leave the hospital.  The program received a $250,000 startup grant from the Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future program, an initiative between the Northwest Health

  • PLU President Loren J . Anderson congratulates Mycall Ford ’12 at the Spring Commencement in the Tacoma Dome on Sunday. More than 650 graduates received degrees at the annual ceremony. Anderson leaves PLU this week after 20 years of service. (Photo by John Froschauer) Pay…

    assembled master’s and bachelor’s graduates to practice the attitude of gratitude, courage and wonder. President Loren J. Anderson enters the Tacoma Dome to give his last commencement address on Sunday, May 27, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) Counting himself as an honorary Class of 2012 graduate- Anderson retires May 31 after 20 years of service to PLU – he acknowledged that stepping out beyond the “Lutedome” can be unsettling and and anxious times for graduates who ranged in age on Sunday from 20 to

  • Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History…

    March 4, 2014 Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History students in a heated debate over the West’s invasion of China in the 19th Century. “The topic was, Was China to blame for the Opium War?,” said PLU Visiting Assistant Professor Mahlon Meyer, whose class

  • The PLU School of Business’s MBA program has been named one of the nation’s most outstanding business schools, by The Princeton Review®. The education services company chose the school for its list “Best Business Schools for 2021”. The PLU MBA program is founded on the…

    leadership, creative innovation, global awareness and ethical responsibility. It is designed for both business and non-business majors. The program offers a small class size and can be completed in as little as nine months.  “We recommend PLU as an excellent choice for an aspiring MBA,” said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor-in-chief. “What makes our Best Business Schools list unique is that we factor in data from our surveys of students attending the schools about their campus and classroom