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  • Jewish Diaspora in UruguaySince 2019, a team of PLU researchers–Dr. Rona Kaufman, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain, and students Riley Dolan (2019), Kiyomi Kishaba (2021), Ellie Dieringer (2023), and Parker Brocker-Knapp (2023)–have been collecting, recording, translating, and sharing the testimonies of Uruguayan Jews who have experienced the Holocaust, migration, and the diaspora. Our research began at the Hogar Israelita in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was founded in 1937 as an orphanage for Jewish

  • The Kurt Mayer Student Research Fellowship In Holocaust StudiesThe Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars program offers generous financial support for PLU students who complete substantive research projects in Holocaust Studies. Two or more fellowships of up to $2500 are awarded each summer for research, reading, and writing, which must lead to the creations of a major paper on a Holocaust topic. Who can apply? PLU students who meet the following qualifications at the time of application: 1. A grade point

  • The Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars program offers generous financial support for PLU students who complete substantive research projects in Holocaust Studies. Two or more fellowships of up to $2500 are awarded each summer for research, reading, and writing, which must lead to the creations of a major paper on a Holocaust topic. Who can apply? PLU students who meet the following qualifications at the time of application: 1. A grade point average at PLU of 3.3 or better; 2. An academic record of

  • When members of the PLU community use learning resources (e.g., books, articles, films, video or audio clips, images) for teaching or learning purposes, they must do so within the parameters of at least one of these four categories defined and addressed by federal legislation: Public domain. Works created by the federal government (or by contract with the federal government), works explicitly dedicated to the public domain by the author, works for which there is no copyright protection (e.g

  • November 10, 2008 Reaching out at lightning speed Getting to know people outside of your comfort zone is no easy matter. But a student group of Rieke Scholars from the Diversity Center may have found a way to break down some of those walls – Speed Friendship.“We all just realized we just get stuck in our own routines,” said Hannah Pershall, student. “You don’t really branch out that often.” So a group of Rieke Scholars, including Pershall, Boo Dodson, Kevin Floyd and Joanne Nguyen came up with

  • September 1, 2009 Class Acts The everyday triumphs, joys and challenges of eight dedicated educators – all Lutes – at a single bustling middle school. Who would want to teach hormone-laced, boundary-pushing, in-your-face, preteen and teenage students? The teachers at Cascade Middle School, that’s who. Their number includes eight PLU graduates who have shown an uncommon passion for teaching, for making a difference in the world and, in some cases, for becoming surrogate parents to students in a

  • Association during J-Term,” said Anne-Marie Falloria, RHA president. “RHA puts on PLU Idol as a way of building community since J-Term is the least-populated month of the year due to students studying away or taking the month off. Students gather in Lagerquist Concert Hall (over three) evenings to hear other students share their musical talents while cheering and supporting them.” This year, the competition kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14 with contestants’ choice songs. “We have wonderful administrators

  • Purpose The Washington State Nursing Care and Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commissions have developed recommendations regarding the use Automated Drug Distribution Devices (ADDD). The commissions agree that nurse students must have access to all medication delivery systems. Procedures: The PLU School of Nursing program will provide students with orientation and practice experiences that include demonstration of competency of skills prior to utilizing medications distribution systems. A formal

  • All employees required to wear filtering facepiece respirators for high- and extremely-high risk tasks must pass an initial fit-test before using their respirator; an employee’s initial fit-test must be repeated when a different make or model of respirator is used. During the pandemic, annual fit-testing is temporarily suspended by L&I; however, additional fit-testing will be repeated when there is a significant physical change in an employee’s face that would affect fit or when an employee or

  • Update December 16, 2022. The Health Center is open for phone visits and in-person visits Monday through Friday, from 8 AM to 5 PM, closed for lunch from 12-1 We will continue providing occasional phone visits but in-person visits for routine care have been resumed. Appointments will continue to be scheduled by phone (253-535-7337).  Please do not walk into the clinic to schedule an appointment.  If you are concerned about any illness symptoms, please call to speak with a provider. This allows