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teachers at PLU on October 3, 2015.Learn More To learn more about Erik and view his tour schedule visit his website at http://eriksteighner.com. Read Previous Choir of the West wins on a global stage Read Next PLU Music offers online ticket sales LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29

award-winning science journalist, microbiologist, and author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure. As a science writer at Newsday from 2000 to 2007, Nelson wrote frequently about the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, stem cell research, conservation, global warming, ecology, and the West Nile virus. As a freelance writer, Nelson has written for the New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, CNN Travel, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, ENSIA, and bioGraphic. Among his

) get to do this with their class.” Read Previous Grads charged to be global citizens Read Next Tutoring program touches refugees 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

fact, as an athlete on the women’s soccer team, she never thought she’d be able to study away, let alone work internationally. But working with PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education, it was suggested she apply for a semester-long internship at Abstract Associates in London. Before she knew it, she was on her way. She was the first American intern for the company, she said. Being an American designer in London gave her a unique perspective on the trade, For instance, she says the intuitiveness of

Help Station than the cost of replacing the campus’ outdated analog “Blue Phones,” the Metis system provides greater campuswide coverage, based on reliable digital technology, and allows exterior and interior notifications through a single system. In Phase One of the project, PLU will install eight Metis Help Station interior devices (pictured) on campus this summer—one each in the Anderson University Center, the Mortvedt Library, the Hauge Administration Building and the Wang Center for Global

, exactly five centuries after Luther first shared The Ninety Five Theses with the world. The app is available for Android and iPhone devices. Download it today and learn more about the movement that continues to inspire our mission. Editor’s note: Marketing and Communications staff and university officers are ineligible for prizes, but all are encouraged to participate! Read Previous PLU’s Whiteneck and Smith Global Peacebuilding Award helps Lutes independently work abroad on humanitarian efforts Read

and distinguished alumnus Dr. William Foege ‘57 will return to campus to give the annual Rachel Carson Science, Technology & Society Annual Lecture on Feb. 20.Foege, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, is a renowned epidemiologist and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director who has served as global health advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is best known for developing a ring containment deployment strategy for smallpox vaccinations in the

opportunity for people of color to finally have their chance in the limelight and to share the story of their people. For the first time in the history of Vpstart Crow, Fences was produced with an all black cast. Student director, Josh Wallace made this decision “to level the playing field and show that inequality is something that can be defeated with the right amount of hard work, dedication, and patience.” Vpstart Crow is a student-created organization that provides support to Theatre majors interested

picking papayas and mangos from a grocery, we either fell asleep on the bus or attempted to on the asphalt of the parking lot. All of us are boarded at Makerere University in apartments on the edge of campus. The students are currently out for summer break, but even so the campus is alive with students and professors. The school houses about 13x as many people as PLU, numbering around 39,000 people and we were given the opportunity to learn from professors and students about the history and culture of

teacher at Washington High School. During his time at PLU, he became a well-liked teacher and colleague and a very successful author. With professor emeritus Don Wentworth, he co-authored five editions of “Economic Scenes”; wrote “The Evolution of Economic Thought”, a history of economic ideas; and coauthored with his former professor Campbell McConnell “Contemporary Labor Economics.” His biggest success, “Economics,” will soon be in its 19th edition. Nearly one in four U.S. students cut their