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A fourth generation Puget Sound native, Kurt Beecher Dammeier is an entrepreneur and investor with a track record for identifying and capitalizing on emerging business-to-business and consumer products trends. In 1999, Kurt joined the food community by forming Sugar Mountain. He founded Beecher’s Handmade Cheese in 2003. Beecher’s quickly established itself as a leader in the artisan cheese industry; in addition to its original location in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, in 2011, Beecher’s opened
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Social work major and working mom Teranejah Lucas ’23 explores the politics and power of Black hair in her senior capstone Teranejah Lucas, 28, is in her senior year and majoring in social work. She’s preparing to do great things—after already accomplishing significant wins—and wrapping up a fascinating capstone. “As a single parent, first-generation college student, I’m out here defying the odds,” she says. Lucas lives… April 21, 2023 AcademicsCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice
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PLU Story At PLU, caring means more than kindness and consideration. It means a bold commitment to expanding well-being, opportunity, and justice. It’s a community wide commitment to care for each other and for our neighbors both down the street and around the world. The PLU experience allows students’ ambition to blossom into purpose, their skills to sharpen into tools, and their caring to become a transformative force. PLU AttributesThe traits all Lutes — students, alumni, employees and
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Dean Waldow's Research Group Pacific Lutheran University chemistry professor Dr. Dean Waldow has been recognized for his 27 years of research and mentorship at PLU with the Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award. Dr. Waldow recognized with Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award - click here to read the storyRead about Dr. Waldow in the Tacoma News Tribune! Left to right: Dr. Dean Waldow, Aminda, Phyllicia, Hannah, Andrew, and Lance – May 2019 This site hosts information about my
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LATINXThe Latinx group supports Latinx students and graduates of the PLU Marriage and Family Therapy Program. It is a space to collaborate and lean on one another. Many of us provide services in English and Spanish and find the group to be a welcoming space to process our unique challenges. Nationally, therapists of color make up a small percentage of therapists and it is an even smaller percentage of Latinx therapists, specifically in Washington State. With Latinx folks estimated to be the
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March 1, 2012 Facebook helps Scandinavian alumni stay in touch and up-to-date on all things PLU. Facebook helps keep alumni in touch Facebook is opening the door for PLU alumni from around the world to keep in contact with each other and their alma mater. “It’s a great vehicle to stay in touch,” said Kjell Thompsen ‘ 94, ’97, president of the PLU Scandinavian Alumni group. “I think it’s very important for alumni to stay in touch.” Both professionally and personally there are so many networks
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Parkland’s historic Garfield Street is home to the Parkland Mural, an artful depiction of the community’s past, present, and future. The wall itself is painted an optimistic sky-blue. The eight letters of the Mural spell out P-A-R-K-L-A-N-D, each letter celebrating one aspect of Parkland’s diverse community: People, Agriculture, Recreation, Kids, Landscape, Academics, Native peoples and Diversity. Many letters depict images of the area’s rich history, such as the Nisqually people who once
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Honors & ScholarshipsAlpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor SocietyAlpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society, was founded in 1920 and currently has over 400 chapters. It is a professional organization dedicated to “the scientific study of social phenomenon for the promotion of human welfare” (AKD Handbook). PLU’s Chapter, Zeta of Washington, was chartered in 1993. In order to be eligible to join AKD, a student must be an officially declared sociology major; have at
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Curricular Development GrantsLimited funds are available each year through the Wang Center for faculty who are planning to lead a short-term study away program for undergraduates. The purpose of this funding is to support prospective faculty leaders with their travel in order to explore possibilities for establishing new programs and to make appropriate contacts and arrangements, to enhance study away programming (particularly in underrepresented departments and majors), and finally, to enable
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INMED – Reimagine Indians Into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2021 Posted by: nicolacs / February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021 INMED – Reimagine IndianS into MedicinE (RISE) Summer Academy 2021 The RISE Summer Academy, a 6-week program, will be open to 28 American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Focus of the RISE Summer Academy: MCAT Prep: The program will provide a full MCAT course through Kaplan to be taken in the summer program and continuing following the program. Supplemental Basic Science
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