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Congratulations Alum Natalie Bisceglia! Posted by: Julie Winters / April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 Recently Natalie (’13), who works at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center, received a Daisy Award for her “amazing, informational, and caring service” while caring for an infant who was admitted for monitoring. The family said she went “over and beyond for us which turned this exhausting, scary, frustrating moment into a wonderful pleasant informing hospital trip.” Great job

From foster care to doctoral degree: Lizbett Benge’s educational journey Posted by: bennetrr / July 29, 2020 July 29, 2020 By Kolby Harvey '08Guest Writer for PLU Marketing and CommunicationsLizbett Benge ’11 describes her educational journey as “a long and winding road.” It began with her immersion into foster care and deeply influenced her time at PLU, where she grappled with a set of life experiences few of her peers could understand.Benge felt socially isolated, making few significant

offers me a great opportunity to pursue it.” Anderson will graduate this spring with a degree in German and philosophy. He’ll mostly be working with German high school students in Niedersachsen. Anderson sees this opportunity as part of his path to becoming a university professor. “I thought this would be a great opportunity to develop some of my practical, pedagogic skills in a classroom setting,” he said. He’s also excited to be back in Germany, after spending his entire sophomore year studying in

Largest-ever PLU student cohort participated in rigorous mathematical modeling competition Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 13, 2020 Image: Hosted by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Application (COMAP), the Mathematical Contest in Modeling competition allows student teams of three roughly 100 hours to solve an open-ended problem that challenges their mathematical modeling, computer programming and writing skills. April 13, 2020 By Kaitlin ArmstrongMarketing & Communications Guest

PLU Staff Council Ice Cream Truck Social Posted by: Julie Winters / August 6, 2018 August 6, 2018 The 2nd annual PLU Staff Council Ice Cream Truck Social was August 6th, 2018. Read Previous PLU Staff Council Brunch Social Read Next 2018 Fall Coffee Event LATEST POSTS 2019 Ice Cream Social October 16, 2019 Staff Forum with President Belton May 10, 2019 2019 Spring Brunch March 29, 2019 2018 Fall Coffee Event October 19, 2018

Economics Alum Receives Award Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019 By Pacific Lutheran UniversityTACOMA - Michael Spiedel, PLU alum in Economics and Hispanic Studies, was announced as one of Idaho Business Review's “Forty Under Forty” award recipients.Michael combined his interest in Spain and Economics by writing his economics capstone on the impact of trade policies of Francisco Franco in Spain. He found the impacts of severely restricting international trade to be

Isabella Zubrod – Women’s Volleyball Athlete of the Week! Posted by: Julie Winters / April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 Zubrod tallied a double-double in both matches last week as the ninth-ranked Lutes remained undefeated in NWC play. Zubrod has 21 assists and 12 digs in a 3 set win over Puget Sound before collecting 14 assists and 12 digs in a 3-0 win over Willamette. Averaged 4.0 digs/set and 5.8 assists/set while also adding 14 kills and three aces. Congratulations Isabella! Read Previous

November 11, 2009 Poetry helps explain a complex world Rick Barot wasn’t looking for how to address worldly issues when he began writing poetry. “I think, like a lot of poets, I started in poetry having very self-serving reasons,” the PLU professor said. In college, it was therapeutic and very much an emotional release. But as he learned the craft and honed his own skills, the complexity of it and how poetry can be used in addressing ethical, even moral values became clear. “These days, I think

said ‘numbers like that you just don’t get anywhere else.’” His prof, Assistant Professor of Business Kevin Boeh, would know. Boeh is a former Wall Street investment banker whose accounts totaled in the billions of dollars. Like he does for all of his students, Boeh helped Whitney identify a good match for his skills, and helped him prepare for the interview. The result? Whitney took a summer internship with Bank of New York Mellon, working 40 hours a week. After the summer, Whitney was given the

, Lutes gain new perspectives on critical global issues; advance their language and intercultural skills; participate in internship and service learning opportunities, forming valuable new contacts and lasting connections; advance their academic and career trajectories—and take some pretty awesome photos. Study Away Statistics Here’s the breakdown of the 394 undergraduates who participated in Study Away for the 2013-14 academic year: Summer 2013: 4 Full academic year: 6 Fall 2013: 31 J-Term 2014: 310