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  • Four Awesome Outdoor Places Within Two Hours of PLU Majors at PLURequest InformationApply to PLU The MountainFun fact: PLU is the closest university to Mount Rainier! Mount Rainier National Park is a must for PLU students to visit, whether you hike, climb, snowshoe, ski, or go to just stare (and take photos) of Washington’s tallest mountain. “Mount Rainier is my favorite place in the world. You can take a day to forget about all the various things on your to do list and just enjoy the feeling

  • Welcome to PLU!As a newly admitted graduate student, there are a few important things you need to complete before you can start registering for classes. Please read the following important information regarding your next steps and let us know if you have any questions.Steps to Start Enrollment for Your Admitted Graduate ProgramRequired Steps for Enrollment Log into your PLU Student Application Portal to review your admission letter and conditions. Please accept your admission offer by clicking

  • Campus Emergency Communications Plan We have two major components to our emergency communications plan. First is PLU Alert. This is our text, voice message, and email notification system. All PLU students, staff, and faculty are automatically enrolled in the system. Second is our campus loudspeaker emergency notification system. Outdoor speakers have been installed to cover a majority of campus, with some buildings having interior loudspeakers as well. Many of the Blue Phone poles around campus

  • Jewish Diaspora in UruguaySince 2019, a team of PLU researchers–Dr. Rona Kaufman, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain, and students Riley Dolan (2019), Kiyomi Kishaba (2021), Ellie Dieringer (2023), and Parker Brocker-Knapp (2023)–have been collecting, recording, translating, and sharing the testimonies of Uruguayan Jews who have experienced the Holocaust, migration, and the diaspora. Our research began at the Hogar Israelita in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was founded in 1937 as an orphanage for Jewish

  • The Kurt Mayer Student Research Fellowship In Holocaust StudiesThe Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars program offers generous financial support for PLU students who complete substantive research projects in Holocaust Studies. Two or more fellowships of up to $2500 are awarded each summer for research, reading, and writing, which must lead to the creations of a major paper on a Holocaust topic. Who can apply? PLU students who meet the following qualifications at the time of application: 1. A grade point

  • The Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars program offers generous financial support for PLU students who complete substantive research projects in Holocaust Studies. Two or more fellowships of up to $2500 are awarded each summer for research, reading, and writing, which must lead to the creations of a major paper on a Holocaust topic. Who can apply? PLU students who meet the following qualifications at the time of application: 1. A grade point average at PLU of 3.3 or better; 2. An academic record of

  • Spring Wellness 2019 PLU offers wellness classes for staff and faculty throughout the year.  See below for a list of current classes and their descriptions.  Click here to sign up for classes.  For questions, please contact HR at humr@plu.edu or 253-535-7185. Spring Wellness 2019Weight WatchersWeight WatchersWhen: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:00 pm; come to weigh in at 12:15 Dates: April 30 – July 16 Where: April 30 – May 7: AUC 134 May 14 – 28: AUC 171 June 4 – 18: AUC 134 June 25 – July 2: AUC 171 July

  • When members of the PLU community use learning resources (e.g., books, articles, films, video or audio clips, images) for teaching or learning purposes, they must do so within the parameters of at least one of these four categories defined and addressed by federal legislation: Public domain. Works created by the federal government (or by contract with the federal government), works explicitly dedicated to the public domain by the author, works for which there is no copyright protection (e.g

  • November 10, 2008 Reaching out at lightning speed Getting to know people outside of your comfort zone is no easy matter. But a student group of Rieke Scholars from the Diversity Center may have found a way to break down some of those walls – Speed Friendship.“We all just realized we just get stuck in our own routines,” said Hannah Pershall, student. “You don’t really branch out that often.” So a group of Rieke Scholars, including Pershall, Boo Dodson, Kevin Floyd and Joanne Nguyen came up with

  • September 1, 2009 Class Acts The everyday triumphs, joys and challenges of eight dedicated educators – all Lutes – at a single bustling middle school. Who would want to teach hormone-laced, boundary-pushing, in-your-face, preteen and teenage students? The teachers at Cascade Middle School, that’s who. Their number includes eight PLU graduates who have shown an uncommon passion for teaching, for making a difference in the world and, in some cases, for becoming surrogate parents to students in a