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Academic Distinction The PLU Experience At PLU you will be challenged to achieve at the peak of your ability, given support to meet that challenge and, as a result, find success both in college and in your chosen career. Challenge means rigorous academic classes that are small and taught by professors, not assistants. A PLU education means you receive individual attention – you are challenged to explore beyond the textbooks, to seek life’s purpose. With 3,100 students PLU offers more classes

Indigenous Scholars, We are Lutes Too By: Native American & Indiginous Studies students Fall 2019This exhibition was created by the NAIS Interconnections class, Fall 2019, as our semester project. These posters represent some of PLU’s Native students, faculty and alum, with a quote from each individual, taken from a conversation we had with them about what being Indigenous means to them, or what they see as an Indigenous scholar. We created this project in order to make our Native population at

workers. If you’ve read about Jane Addams, founder of Hull House; Frances Perkins, first Secretary of Labor; Harry Hopkins, force behind the Social Security Act; or Whitney Young, civil rights activist, you’ve read about social workers. Today social work is a dynamic, growing profession grounded in the social sciences and liberal arts as well as its own knowledge and research base. Social workers are intricately involved in the community, knowing the people, the services and how things get done. Yet

On the Court and in the Classroom: A Brother and Sister Find Success at PLU On the day of high school class choices, a middle school teacher noticed the normally outgoing Jackson Reisner sitting quietly, acting withdrawn. Jackson grew increasingly anxious as the morning progressed. A movie buff, the Burlington eighth grader had seen all the difficult depictions of high… February 24, 2023 Student Life, Resources, Community

Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (NSSURP)The Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program involves PLU faculty mentors with basic science research reflecting the natural sciences fields of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science and Environmental Studies, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology. Mentors facilitate professional development gatherings to encourage a research community experience. One-on-one and as a laboratory- and/or field-research team

Dr. Bryn NelsonBryn Nelson, PhD, is an award-winning science and medical writer, the author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure (Grand Central Publishing), and a former microbiologist trained in bacterial biochemistry at the University of Washington. As a science writer at Newsday from 2000 to 2007, Nelson wrote frequently about the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, stem cell research, conservation, global warming, ecology, and the West Nile virus. Among his awards, he

Coeur, Paris; the 2010 Washington Music Educators Association conference; the 2011 Northwest MENC Conference; and the 2012 Northwest Division ACDA Conference. Frequently in demand as a clinician and adjudicator, Galante has conducted honor choirs at all levels. He served as President of Louisiana ACDA from 2001-2003, and remains an active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO), the American Society for Composers, Authors and