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February 14, 2012 Posters aim to bring awareness to campus By Chris Albert This June, PLU will become a tobacco-free campus, but in the meantime posters and postcards are on display to spark conversation about the campus-wide change. “To gear up we’ve decided to do several educational initiatives to raise awareness,” said Matt Munson, Health Educator at the Health Center. Posters illustrating the negative outcomes of tobacco use are displayed throughout campus. PLU becomes a tobacco-free campus
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violence and conflict and humanitarian intervention. There also is a service component to the program, said program leader, Philosophy Professor Greg Johnson. Johnson said he has been working on the program for the last 18 months. Originally scheduled for launch in 2015, Johnson said that all the pieces fell into place early – so why not 2014? “No university on the West Coast, with perhaps the exception of Stanford, has a program like this,” Johnson said before leaving for Oxford earlier this month
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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
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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
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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
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Spring Wellness 2019 PLU offers wellness classes for staff and faculty throughout the year. See below for a list of current classes and their descriptions. Click here to sign up for classes. For questions, please contact HR at humr@plu.edu or 253-535-7185. Spring Wellness 2019Weight WatchersWeight WatchersWhen: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:00 pm; come to weigh in at 12:15 Dates: April 30 – July 16 Where: April 30 – May 7: AUC 134 May 14 – 28: AUC 171 June 4 – 18: AUC 134 June 25 – July 2: AUC 171 July
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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
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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
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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
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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
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