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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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  • became members of Spanaway Lutheran Church, where he served as president of the congregation. Church was the cornerstone of Chuck’s life. While serving as PLU registrar, Chuck began recruiting students from Scandinavia to attend PLU, becoming the university’s first International Student Director. In 2005 he was knighted by the King of Norway for his service. Chuck retired from PLU and worked part-time for Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, while also recruiting American students to attend

  • Bret Underwood, PhDPhysics DepartmentFlipped Learning for Student-Centered Class Time Bret Underwood, Assistant Professor of Physics, in class at PLU on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Bret Underwood is an Assistant Professor in Physics, currently teaching a two-course Mathematical Physics sequence. The courses can be a bit technical, and he’s been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how to integrate active learning into a technical upper-level physics course. At

  • . “I say ‘yes’ to different possibilities,” she says. “I like trying new things.” That kind of thinking helped her segue from jobs in art education and publishing to public education communications.As senior director for communications, government relations and public engagement for Educational Service District 113, her team provides services such as writing, video production and graphic design for school districts in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties. They also foster

  • Faculty & Staff ResourcesThank you for partnering to ensure success for PLU’s Undocumented students!  Below are are resources for faculty and staff working with undocumented students.How to Refer an Undocumented Student to ResourcesAn undocumented student has disclosed their status to you and is seeking advise.  What do you do next? First, thank the student for sharing their personal information of their immigration status with you and your commitment to get them connected to resources they

  • Working at PLU - It's More Than a JobHere you will find opportunities to become part of a remarkable community working together to fulfill the university’s mission of “educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other persons, for the community and for the earth.” More than 800 employees at PLU hold positions as faculty members, academic and administrative staff, including trades and support services.Watch ``Why PLU?`` to Learn More×Pacific Lutheran

  • , and the Seaport’s educational touch tanks. Jan, along with a team of trained volunteers, teaches a wide variety of hands-on, innovative learning experiences each year to over 1,500 students visiting the Seaport. These lessons include Tacoma’s rich working waterfront history, the effects of urbanization on Puget Sound’s marine ecology, and state and federal cleanup activities in Commencement Bay and Thea Foss Waterway. She also collaborates to design educational exhibits annually experienced by

  • Lia Purpura Nonfiction, Poetry Website: http://www.liapurpura.com/ Biography Biography Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays) and It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (poems).  Her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and the

  • March 6, 2014 PLU Hosts Annual JROTC Fitness Contest PLU Marketing & Communications Dozens of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets from 12 high schools left blood, sweat—and possibly even a few tears—at PLU on March 7 after the annual JROTC Physical Fitness Competition. High-school cadets competed in physical challenges all morning, rotating between events such as the Army Physical Fitness Test (two minutes of pushups and sit-ups, plus a 2-mile run), “Move Heavy Stuff” and a