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How Matt Bliss ’98 turned a family tradition into Modern Christmas Trees Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 18, 2020 Image: Alumnus Matt Bliss ’98 (photo by JC Buck) November 18, 2020 By Kat BrazPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterAs a child, Matt Bliss ’98 relished celebrating the holidays at his grandparents’ Broomfield, Colorado, home where the Christmas tree was anything but ordinary. Bliss’s grandfather, Lawrence Stoecker, designed his own tree, an artful cascade of concentric rings
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Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 Posted by: Zach Powers / April 16, 2024 Image: Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 is a music education major from Tacoma. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 16, 2024 By Emily Holt, MFA '16PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer When the principal of N/a’an ku sê, a rural school in Namibia that serves the San people, asked PLU music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 to expand their existing
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Ksenija Simic-Muller Coordinator of Peace Scholars Program Full Profile 253-535-7034 simicmka@plu.edu
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Transfer Scholarships Each year, we award more than $61 million in PLU-funded scholarships and grants. Our scholarships recognize your academic achievement, talent, leadership, and service, as well as your potential to continue all of those things as a Lute. Take a look below to see the scholarships for which you could be eligible and should apply for! *Note: Only transfer students who are pursuing their first bachelor’s degree are eligible for PLU merit scholarships.PLU Academic Scholarships
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Help a Student NowMessage from the PresidentRight now, PLU students are experiencing unexpected, urgent financial needs. If you can help, I hope you will. The Student Emergency Fund was started in mid-March 2020 to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Within the first few weeks, hundreds of students have applied for assistance. Donations will go to as many PLU students as possible. You can find more details below in our answers to frequently asked questions. If you can help financially, please give
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Commute Smart OptionsReady to save time and money with a Smart Commute? PLU offers lots of options: Driving Alone Riding the Bus Carpooling and Vanpooling Bicycling Compressed Work Week and Working from HomeHow Much Can You Save?If you drive alone, the commute cost calculator can show you how much money you spend on your commute and the savings other commute options could offer.Driving AloneEmployees who regularly choose a Commute Smart option can still drive alone to work a few days a month
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Chinese Literacy ProjectCIWA launched the Chinese Literacy Project in Spring of 2016 in Seattle’s Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Programs at Beacon Hill International School, Dearborn Park International School, and Mercer International Middle School. (To learn more about these schools, visit Asia Society CELIN > Seattle Mandarin Immersion Programs (2015).) Our goal is to create a set of resources and curriculum frameworks that will benefit these Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Programs, but
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About This GuideInformation literacy (IL) is often assumed to focus solely on research skills, but it comprises so much more than that. Information literacy involves examining the sociocultural production of information and knowledge, and encouraging students to approach all information production and consumption in a critical manner. This guide is designed to serve as an introduction to incorporating information literacy (IL) into your courses through small changes that can create meaningful
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October 7, 2009 PLU receives top marks for sustainability Pacific Lutheran University has garnered a prestigious ranking this week, as the Sustainable Endowments Institute released its College Sustainability Report Card for 2010. Overall, the university was graded an A-, with As granted to many areas such as climate change, energy use, student involvement and food and recycling.(Find the complete report HERE). PLU was one of only 26 colleges or universities to receive an overall A- mark, the
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August 1, 2013 Ed Hrivnak ’96 with a poster of his new book “Wounded,” which tells of his experiences in the Iraq War. (Photo by Quinn Huelsbeck ’16) Scribbled notes on surgical tape become new book about Iraqi War by PLU nurse By Barbara Clements University Communications In the pre-dawn darkness, the exhausted medic looked at Ed Hrivnak ’96, and begged him to wait, just a little more, for helicopters carrying wounded out of a firefight near Baghdad in 2003. But the pilots of the C-141 was
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