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April 11, 2012 H2O Project Beginning Wednesday, April 11 a group of PLU students from various campus organizations – including Campus Ministry, Sustainability, G.R.E.A.N., and the Wang Center – are launching the H2O Project. From April 11 until Earth Day April 22, students are taking the H2O challenge and making tap water their only beverage. This effort will seize the purchase of beverage products from large corporations during the pledge, reduce waster, and add to the consciousness of global
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PLU Announces Election of New Board of Regents Chair Posted by: Lace M. Smith / May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017 Tacoma, WA (May 16, 2017) -- Pacific Lutheran University today announced the election of Ed Grogan to chair of the Board of Regents succeeding Gary Severson, who completed 19 years of service on the board, nine of them as chair.Grogan, a 1993 graduate of PLU and president of Summit Financial Group in Gig Harbor, WA, has served on the PLU board for four years, including two years as vice
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support offered by Act Six helped Soliai navigate those first months of school. “I think it definitely had a really big impact on my transition,” Soliai said. “Coming into college, unless you have friends going with you, you don’t really know much. Coming in new and having the Act Six group take you under their wing —they were like your big buddy and It was nice to have a set community that you automatically belonged to.” Founded and run by the Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change, the Act Six
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: www.plurelay.org The PLU Relay for Life has earned its fifth Nationwide Top Ten award for per-capita fundraising, contributing more than $25,000 from the 2013 event to the American Cancer Society. Since the first PLU Relay, in 2006, Lutes have raised nearly $200,000. “It is a great reminder of what a group of dedicated students can do to help in the battle against cancer,” said Ray Lader, Associate Director for Student Rights and Responsibilities at PLU. Each year, PLU’s Colleges Against Cancer club works to
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and education benefits everyone.”Chavez said her speech at the conference will focus on the findings of her most recent book project. It explores how first-generation Latinos became professionals, their experiences as professionals amid the country’s institutional racism, and the policies and programs this group believes would help increase their presence in the professional world. Chavez says Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the U.S., yet they significantly lack representation in
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September 30, 2011 Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow of mercy and justice. A debate on water in today’s world By: By Barbara Clements Evidence of water as a force for destruction can be easily found, both in the headlines and the Bible. There are the floods
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based on the social change model – how social justice is defined for the individual, in groups and in the world. They asked the question: “How does privilege play a part in art, social justice and sustainability”? From there, the group worked on defining what a course focused on the issue of sustainability would look like, and how such a class could work across disciplines. The next step was offering an art class that focused on social change and sustainability. The first class took place in the
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First-year student athletes share their experience at PLU Posted by: vcraker / October 19, 2022 October 19, 2022 PLU student-athletes Sarah Midimo and Chloe Froeschner share their experience as first-years. Froeschner is from Iowa City, Iowa, and is majoring in graphic design and communication. Midimo is from Tacoma and is majoring in psychology. Read Previous Get involved with PLU Clubs Read Next Around the PNW: Evening hike to Mt. Rainier LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11
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. Marit Barkve – Bachelor of Art in Norwegian Language & Global Studies (Social Justice and Development) with a minor in Political Science Why PLU? JooHee Berglund was a brilliant recruiter at a Lutheran college fair in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My PLU experience: Year 1 – Lots of fun, lots of friends, lots of refreshing change. Year 2 – Studied abroad for the year in Hamar, Norway. Year 3 – Lots of academics, Language Capstone (intro to critical literary theory!); RA in Hong. Year 4 – Good combination
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a graduate student and faculty to develop a research project, gain training in relevant techniques and instrumentation, collect data, and finally produce a poster and research abstract. Students participate in a weekly seminar on undergraduate research covering research ethics, writing a research abstract, making a scientific poster. Students participate in a weekly Materials Science special interest group in which they read scientific journals or tour other labs. Duration: 9 weeks Dates: June
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