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students participate in Code.org’s computer science learning programs. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Steinglass will deliver the 14th annual Benson Lecture in PLU’s Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center). Her lecture will explore historic inequities in the high-tech workforce and her organization’s social innovation strategy to promote computer science. Both events will make connections to PLU’s new Innovation Studies program, which launches this year with exciting new courses and an

students participate in Code.org’s computer science learning programs. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Steinglass will deliver the 14th annual Benson Lecture in PLU’s Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center). Her lecture will explore historic inequities in the high-tech workforce and her organization’s social innovation strategy to promote computer science. Both events will make connections to PLU’s new Innovation Studies program, which launches this year with exciting new courses and an

building a shared vocabulary that includes history and ethics. Inov 350 is the final course, which puts students into diverse teams and asks them to develop their own creative idea, process, or campaign. Even with these required courses, the Innovation Studies program is incredibly flexible, because it works with just about any major on campus and often accepts credit for work done in other departments. Attracting New Students How successful is the program so far? As the team prepares to start classes

public. After the event, PLU students and faculty will continue discussing Alaska Airlines and its business practices throughout the semester. The goal this year was to fully integrate course content with the lecture, so that students in up to a dozen courses will have specific content related to a prominent Northwest business. As usual, the Business and Economic History program at PLU is delighted to facilitate the conversation. The program seeks to connect PLU students to the wider world of

campus life: peacebuilding.” Feller said it wasn’t until she started working with Steinar and the Nansen Dialogue Network that the dialogue work she was already doing took on rich meaning. The vital partnership underscored the real-world impact of her work and the work of her students, she said.    The work done at Nansen is heavily incorporated into PLU’s conflict management curriculum and events on campus. Bryn has joined Feller to teach courses, and the Department of Communication & Theatre has

E. Benson lecture in Business and Economic History, a yearly opportunity to hear from a nationally prominent speaker on economic history and the world of business. To prepare for the event, Pacific Lutheran students and faculty from 10 courses studied Alaska Airlines and its business practices throughout the Fall semester. The students then wrote questions and voted on them, so that the most useful questions could be posed to the Alaska Air Group CEO in a conversational format, which allowed for

through two courses in the Innovation Studies program with Professor Michael Halvorson. Despite learning online, the lessons stuck. “The goal of Innovation Studies is to help us be creative and multiply our impact through teaming and social initiatives. I was hooked!” Lund continued to experiment with clothing design and her friends began to notice. During Winter 2020, she decided to advertise some of her hand-made products to people in the Oslo area. The response was strong enough that she launched

high school dropout prevention programs. I also enjoyed taking courses in theatre, film, photography, and music as well as performing in dance, music, and theatre productions. After I graduated, I returned to the Seattle area and co-founded a flamenco dance company called Barrio Flamenco. I performed with Barrio Flamenco from 2007-2008. In 2008, I co-founded Seattle-based Sapience Dance Collective and co-directed the company until 2016. We produced annual shows, created Converge Dance Festival, an

the very best thing about getting kids involved in adapted sports is seeing the smiles of pure joy on their faces as they have fun while accomplishing physical feats they never thought were possible. How did studying Biology at PLU help prepare you for medical school? The Biology and other science curriculum at PLU provided a strong foundation for further learning in medical school. Upper-level courses in Biology at PLU were taught at a level of difficulty equivalent to many first-year medical

!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing in American Society.” It was one of many intensive monthlong courses offered to Lutes during J-Term, during which students meet four to five days a week for about three hours at a time. Gregson’s special topics class pulled from the expertise of Campus Safety Director Greg Premo, as well as six guest lecturers who work in law enforcement. Special topics classes, which are taught