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  • On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations . Interested PLU students…

    artificial intelligence and related sciences will be in the future. The company has also established a $100 million venture capital fund (The Alexa Fund) to fuel voice-technology innovation in the worlds of business and academics. Dozens of companies are now receiving start-up funding from this resource pool, creating innovations such as new hardware devices for helping in the home, internationally-focused products, and enhancements to the science behind voice technology.Alexa Fund FellowshipsOf great

  • AAUP president discusses faculty leadership Campus Voice spoke with Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, prior to his campus address in April. The interview has been edited for length. Campus Voice : What is the role of the president of the…

    grounded in principal, as I think this one already is, the chapter can really enhance that and give people more of a sense of participation in those values. This is a winning opportunity here so it is appropriate for me to visit. Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Web site, which includes his AAUP candidate statement, a vita and biography and essays on academic freedom and corporatization in the

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 17, 2016)- Editor’s note: A group of Pacific Lutheran University students volunteered in a TV newsroom on election night, as they have for every election in newsrooms across the region since the early 2000s. Here is a first-hand, real-time account from one…

    on set at KCPQ-TV on election night. (Photo courtesy of Molly Ivey '20) Feeling nervous, I read my notes on how this partnership got started. Communication Professor Joanne Lisosky and Erika Hill, the station’s news director, served together on the regional board of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. They quickly hit it off. Hill mentioned that she needed extra assistance with election-night data entry, and Lisosky jumped on the opportunity to give students the experience of

  • Aminda Cheney-Irgens is a smart, driven, and globally-minded Pacific Lutheran University senior who, like her peers, spent her spring adjusting to a new way of doing college. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s…

    wanted to major in chemistry! Second, pursue opportunities outside of PLU — PLU has awesome on-campus opportunities to build community and engage in professional development, like the Natural Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Program and student employment opportunities. But it’s also great to gain experiences and build connections off-campus, too. Third, study away — For some degrees, it’s a lot harder to fit in a study-away semester. But if you can, I highly recommend it! PLU financial aid

  • On a chilly February morning, cars packed the parking lot of the Pacific Lutheran University Olson Fieldhouse. There was no basketball game or volleyball match enticing the visitors, but rather a historic event that brought visitors in that day. It was the first of many…

    about the logistics of a vaccination clinic like this — I know that this has been an experience that they are not going to have in their lifetime again. At least I hope that they are not.” The PLU School of NursingThe School of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University is a professional school that combines nursing science with a strong foundation in the natural sciences and liberal arts. This selective program prepares undergraduate students as skilled generalists so they may later seek advanced

  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career…

    artificial intelligence and related sciences will be in the future. The company has also established a $100 million venture capital fund (The Alexa Fund) to fuel voice-technology innovation in the worlds of business and academics. Dozens of companies are now receiving start-up funding from this resource pool, creating innovations such as new hardware devices for helping in the home, internationally-focused products, and enhancements to the science behind voice technology. Alexa Fund Fellowships Of great

  • Carson J. Bergstrom, Senior Capstone Seminar A molecular library consisting of triazoles and benzotriazoles, functionalized with amides and nitriles in various substitutions was synthesized.

    electrodes lacked dopamine oxidation peaks in lower concentrations of dopamine: 1 nM – 10 μM, which is thought to be caused by the preference of charge storage, due to the amount of pseudocapacitive response, rather than transfer during oxidation. Furthermore, the ruthenia-modified electrodes corroded with continued use in 1.0 M perchloric acid.  Although the results of the UV spectra are conflicting with our primary focus, this technique exists as a guide for exploring biological buffers with use of

  • The traditional undergraduate program is designed for students who do not hold licensure in practical or registered nursing. The L.P.N. to B.S.N.

    expected to have completed a program in high school that includes: four years of English; two years of mathematics (preferably algebra and geometry); two years of social sciences; two years of one foreign language; and two years of laboratory sciences (including chemistry). Liberal Arts Foundation An understanding and appreciation of the liberal arts and of the art and science of nursing is necessary for success in the B.S.N. program. Admitted B.S.N. students are expected to have completed at least 12

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    Welcome to Pacific Lutheran University Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start

  • Professors Rose McKenney (Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and Adela Ramos (English) had the honor of working with this year's class of Environmental Studies students as they completed their

    like to thank my friends and family for all of their endless advice and encouragement throughout this whole process. I also want to congratulate my fellow capstone students! This is a huge achievement and we should all be extremely proud of what we have accomplished. Finally, thank you to my mom, Dana McDonald, for always being there and supporting me always! The Biological Effects of Particulate Exposure on People of Color in Los Angeles Cooper Claxton Over the past 60 years, people of color in