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  • PLU professor to speak at the Second Annual Peter Berger Lecture at Boston University PLU Professor of Anthropology Elizabeth Brusco will speak at the Second Annual Peter Berger Lecture in the Comparative Study of Religion at Boston University. The lecture will be at 5 p.m.…

    the areas of theology, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies. Read Previous “A University of the First Rank” Read Next Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching

  • Ringing in PLU’s 125th year Watch live coverage of PLU’s 2014 Convocation, the official kickoff to the university’s 125th academic year. We are excited for the start of PLU’s 125th academic year! President Thomas W. Krise invites new and continuing students, as well as family…

    Read Next New Center for Media Studies takes the classroom into the community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Lutes celebrate another impactful Bjug Day of

  • The Nebraska Summer Research Program is a consortium of NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and other summer research opportunities programs (SROP). One unique feature of the Nebraska Summer Research Program is the partnership between the REU and SROP programs and the Office of…

    2021 Nebraska Summer Research Program Posted by: nicolacs / February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021 The Nebraska Summer Research Program is a consortium of NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and other summer research opportunities programs (SROP). One unique feature of the Nebraska Summer Research Program is the partnership between the REU and SROP programs and the Office of Graduate Studies. Students benefit in having a community of scholars in which to learn and to share

  • The Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is currently recruiting students to join their program in Fall 2023. They will be hosting an information event on November 7 at 2 pm EST via Zoom. During…

    jointly operated with Weill-Cornell Medical Center. Students receive a guaranteed 5-year Science Scholarship ($31K+), full tuition waiver, and other benefits (health insurance, parental accommodation). Our alumni are highly successful in finding jobs in industry, academia, government, non-profits, etc. The deadline for admissions is January 1, 2023, and GRE scores are optional. Read Previous Virtual Career Fair with the U.S. Dept of State Read Next Graduate Studies at the Institute for Shock Physics

  • As the world was beginning to realize the enormity of COVID-19, two Pacific Lutheran University professors seized the 2020 moment to do significant research into the psychology of the pandemic. PLU Department of Psychology  Chair Jon Grahe and his Statistics 232 students conducted a U.S.…

    as facilitating better international collaboration in psychological research,” he said. “My hope is that completion of the project will motivate others to pursue cross-cultural explorations of psychological phenomena and that the data we collected will allow us to test novel ideas regarding the effects of the pandemic.” Cook appreciates that PLU encourages students and faculty to collaborate and have meaningful relationships where everyone can grow. “The students that work with me on these

  • Uganda: Murchison Falls Narrative By Theodore Charles ’12 This was originally recorded on the intensely bumpy dirt road back from Murchison Falls to Kampala, a trip that takes approximately five hours depending on the speed of the driver you have, which in our case was…

    , and headed south toward Masindi and Kampala. Our next stop would be the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. Read Previous Cross-Cultural Coursework Read Next Your PLU Idol is… COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning

  • ‘We are all Norwegians’ By Loren J. Anderson Ladies and Gentlemen: We gather this evening to remember and pay tribute, to share our hurt and show that we care, and to grieve for those we have lost, even as we reach out to support one…

    defy human understanding. In the words of Job, ‘when I reached for light, then came darkness.'” So we experience feelings of violation and loss so deep and strong that they penetrate borders and transcends boundaries, national and cultural, religious and political, and they bring us together young and old, rich and poor.  So we are drawn together once this evening as a true community, albeit wounded, to draw strength from our faith, and find support as would a family, and tonight we are a Norwegian

  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 7, 2015)—Jim Kittilsby ’60 is the first to admit he probably wasn’t the premier baseball player of his era—or the winningest baseball coach once he returned to his alma mater in 1970 to lead the team. So when Pacific Lutheran University dedicates…

    Scandinavian Cultural Center; his son, Tim Kittilsby ’84, and his wife, Lisa Kittilsby ’84, made a generous gift to PLU to install artificial turf on the baseball infield; and daughter-in-law Lisa serves on the Board of Regents. “When we put in a new press box this spring, it seemed like the perfect way to honor Jim Kittilsby and his family,” said Lauralee Hagen, Senior Advancement Officer at PLU and dedication organizer, who has known Kittilsby since the 1970s. “Jim was quite well thought of while at PLU

  • Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The…

    interested in its growth into economic, cultural and educational exchanges over the years. When he was looking for a good “small place” to visit—between visits with Bill Gates and President Barack Obama—he chose his old Sister City, and the high school in Tacoma that had created an exchange with a high school in Fuzhou. When people ask why I was invited to be part of the audience at Lincoln that historic day, it is delightful to tell people that I have been part of building bridges between Americans and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 17, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by…

    young men to experience leadership in meaningful ways,” Cushman said. “Their voices, concerns and stories (should) be shared and validated by the community.” Cushman says that cultural responsiveness is vital. Becoming culturally responsive, however, is a multi-step process that Cushman says “does not happen overnight.” People must check their belief systems and question the motives behind their own personal opinions and convictions. Next, they must validate and affirm through highlighting positive