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  • Profile https://www.plu.edu/about/profile/

    , track and field, crew, golf and softball. Men’s intercollegiate sports: Soccer, football, cross country, basketball, swimming, track and field, baseball, crew, and golf. Memorial Lectures: Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture (history), Heather Koller Memorial Lecture (creative writing or ethics), Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture (varies).

  • Special Education Major Gavin Knapp ’23 Discovers the Beauty of Returning to His Childhood School Di https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/gavin-knapp/

    sports in high school. Although his former high school teachers and university classes profoundly impacted him, supporting students in their element on the field made him fall in love with special education. Later, valuable lessons in the classroom and on the football field propelled him toward his goal of becoming a teacher. Originally attending PLU with aspirations to play football, Knapp shifted focus away from sports in his senior year to delve deeper into his future profession. Knapp grew up

  • Student Internship: Annica Stiles ’25 studies in Iceland https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/internship-annica-stiles-iceland/

    my field, and when I saw that this one combined environmental studies and journalism, it seemed like a perfect fit for the path I wanted to pursue. The goal laid out to us during interviews was that we would be formulating an anthology of Southern Iceland, and each intern would research and write a chapter to contribute – my topic was environmental conservation, but there were other interns studying anything from geology to health care and culture. Walk us through your internship experience from

  • PLUS 100 helps PLU student-athletes with college transition https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/plus-100/

    PLUS 100 helps PLU student-athletes with college transition Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 10, 2019 Image: Justin Martinez ’22 sits in a PLUS 100 course with his first-year football teammates. The first-year football player-only cohort is the first of its kind at PLU, a push by head coach Brant McAdams to support new student-athletes on and off the field. January 10, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 10, 2019) — For student-athletes, loaded down

  • Athletic Hall of Fame https://www.plu.edu/alumni-student-connections/athletic-hall-of-fame/

    & Field: 1998-2002) Reed was a three-time All-American for the Lutes and won a pair of Northwest Conference titles on the track in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Reed finished runner-up at the NWC cross country championships as a senior in 2001, ending the year as an All-American after placing 10th at the national meet. On the track, Reed was an All-American in both 2001 and 2002 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing runner-up in the event at the 2002 national championships and winning the NWC

  • How to Finance Your Master’s Degree in Education https://www.plu.edu/mae-teaching/news/finance-masters-in-education/

    Jackson, and Dr. Anne Parks.TEACH GrantsA TEACH Grant can help you pay for college if you plan to become a teacher in a high-need field in a low-income area.Become a Teacher in Washington State — Connect With PLU!Choosing a career in teaching can be daunting, but there are many reasons why teaching continues to be a favorite field for people who want to make a difference. There’s no time like the present to invest in your teaching career and invest in the next generation of American students. An

  • Listening for the song of the crossbill https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2011/06/29/listening-for-the-song-of-the-crossbill/

    types differ and play a role in reproductively isolating the types of crossbills from each other. The birds give a real-time insight into how species may develop, literally on the fly, as they exploit niches, food sources and only breed with the types of the same call, Smith said. The process, called speciation, is one of the most important questions posed in the field of evolutionary biology, yet, it’s not completely understood by biologists, Smith said Also flitting around the canopy about 100

  • ‘We have a lot of work to do’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2011/09/23/we-have-a-lot-of-work-to-do/

    mind. He then woke up in jail. Still alive, but changed. It wasn’t the last time he would end up in jail. It had been his first demonstration as a field officer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was the early 1960s in Mississippi. As a civil rights activist, he was there to lead a peaceful protest condemning the murder of an African American man whose supposed crime had been registering to vote. Zellner, now 72, shared his story with students last week as the kick-off for the

  • PLU grad reaches new horizons, finds calling at NASA https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/12/07/plu-grad-reaches-new-horizons-finds-calling-at-nasa/

    graduate school at Portland State University to gain her master’s degree in education with a concentration in counseling. She then went on to earn certification in personal management from Portland State in 1986. As one of her closest friends and PLU college roommate for three years, Nowadnick said, “we knew early on that [psychology] was her first love.” After graduating from Portland State, Wold worked in the counseling field for six years, helping kids and teens who had been sexually abused or had

  • Q&A With Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2014/10/15/qa-with-rev-dr-monica-a-coleman/

    titled “You Can Have it All: Theorizing Transreligious Spirituality from the Field of Black Studies.” Where: Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, on the PLU campus. Admission: Free. More information here. Q: When did you learn you were going to speak as part of the Knutson Lecture series? What were your initial thoughts on being invited?I found out last spring that I was going to be a part of the Knutson Lecture Series. I was very excited because I have a lot of friends who work at