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Throw a dart at a world map, and it’s likely to hit a location where Pacific Lutheran University students or faculty members have conducted research.
probability theory at Wayne State University in Detroit. Grace Wang also holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State, in chemistry.
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willing to work with individuals and find a way to make it work,” said Daley, who earned his certification in 2016 and now teaches special education students at Mount Tahoma. He also works as an assistant football coach at PLU. Turning up for Saturday morning classes after a Friday night football game was challenging, Daley said. “It was chaos,” he said. “But I thrive in that kind of situation.” Ricky Daley FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Jasmine Skipworth ’17 brims with confidence as she enters her second
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 17, 2016)- MediaLab at Pacific Lutheran University, the multimedia, applied research organization that celebrates 10 years of success this fall, counts more than 200 students as participants throughout the decade. Those participants are invited to mark the organization’s milestone anniversary Nov. 5…
Media Studies, will support continued MediaLab research, scholarship and program improvements. Housed within the School of Arts and Communication’s Center for Media Studies, MediaLab is a group of students who work in pre-professional settings, contracting with external clients in Tacoma, Seattle and beyond. In addition to performing fee-for-service work, student teams over the years also have created more than a dozen award-winning documentaries, providing excellent opportunities for PLU students
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- With a Catholic mother and Buddhist father, first-year April Nguyen never had to worry about understanding religious diversity in her household — it was just how she was raised. Religion studies and religious diversity weren’t on her radar until she…
Wednesday’s Christianity panel. “The prospect of sharing a bit about my culture and beliefs with a group that isn’t familiar is exciting.” Every week the event’s crowd has grown, starting with an audience of seven and eventually attracting about 30 students. “It’s getting bigger, which is amazing,” Nguyen said. “It’s really great to see people asking questions and their reactions to each speaker.” "The prospect of sharing a bit about my culture and beliefs with a group that isn’t familiar is exciting
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PLUS Year Find out all you need to know about PLU's offer of a free year to all currently enrolled students. Learn more Division of Enrollment ManagementMissionThe Division of Enrollment Management serves Pacific Lutheran University by attracting, enrolling, supporting, and graduating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care. As professionals, we accomplish this work by admitting a talented, diverse group of students, creating access through financial aid, and
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This website is just one aspect of PLU’s ongoing commitment to advocate with and for undocumented students at PLU.
available if you just need a place to talk confidentially (rudejl@plu.edu). Undocumented Student ResourcesPLU Community + AdvocacyFaculty & Staff ResourcesDonate to the Undocumented Student FundDonate TodayQuestions?For questions regarding the Gold Group, resources for undocumented students, future training sessions, or donations to the PLU4US Campaign, please visit the Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability or write us at undocu@plu.eduFirmly Committed: In Response to DACA decisionPLU joins
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The 9th Wang Center Symposium – Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference – takes up the issue of heightened political and societal polarization within the U.S.
MoreReading Challenge The PLU community is invited to participate in a Polarization Reading Group Challenge. Learn More The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged EducationWorking collaboratively with academic units and campus partners of Pacific Lutheran University, the Wang Center is dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 14,2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Partnerships and Professional Development has joined with the Tacoma Principals Association for a program that will allow Tacoma Public Schools principals to complete their Administrator Professional Certifications through PLU. All Washington principals and program administrators are required…
values its relationship with the educational service districts and school districts in seeking to address this need.” The Tacoma School District is the third-largest in Washington, representing principals who lead roughly 30,000 K-12 students. Read Previous PLU Earns Multiple, Major National Honors Read Next Hispanic Heritage Month at PLU: A New Student Group and Annual Lecture, and More COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 28, 2016)- There were lots of tears as band members from Tamana Girls High School in Japan said farewell to their new friends from Graham-Kapowsin High School, located about 13 miles southeast of Pacific Lutheran University. Miho Takekawa, percussion instructor at PLU…
volunteers from PLU’s music department – including students and faculty members Ed Powell and Ron Gerhardstein, director and associate director of bands, respectively. None of the volunteers spoke Japanese, so Takekawa served as a translator. Takekawa said each group influenced each other as they rehearsed and performed together. “I know both cultures pretty well,” she said. “The mix of culture I have in me I like to share.” Typically, American students are more talkative and sometimes get distracted
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When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…
on justice, I’m fortunate to be at PLU, an institution with a strong commitment to social justice,” Levy says. “Other institutions wouldn’t support expert witness work for faculty. But PLU does.” At PLU, Levy teaches anthropology courses that explore how Latin America studies inform anthropological theory, the impact of free trade policies; the state from an ethnographic perspective; and how international migrants build lives in more than one nation-state. Many of his students go on into migrant
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