![Screenshot of the PLU website - 2015 Outstanding WebAward from the Web Marketing Association](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/webaward.jpg)
PLU’s Website, Online Magazine Win Web Marketing Awards
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 22, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s website has won a 2015 Outstanding WebAward from the Web Marketing Association, and the spring 2015 edition of the university’s flagship magazine, ResoLUTE, won its Magazine Standard of Excellence Award. Judges wrote of www.plu.edu : “Beautiful site, great…
![PLU student Ariel Wood ’17 is one of three national winners of the first-ever Why We Care Youth: Emerging Leaders for Reproductive Rights contest. (Photo courtesy Ariel Wood)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/arielwood.jpg)
PLU Student Headed to U.N. After Her Video on Reproductive Rights Wins National Contest
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 22, 2015)—Ariel Wood ’17, an International Honors student majoring in French and Global Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, is one of three national winners of the first-ever Why We Care Youth: Emerging Leaders for Reproductive Rights contest. Winning entries were chosen in…
![Students, faculty and alumni packed Xavier 201 for the 2014 Ruth Anderson Public Debate. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/2014-ruth-anderson-debate.jpg)
Policy Experts to Team With PLU Students for Minimum Wage Debate
TACOMA, Wash. (September 22, 2015)—On Thursday, Oct. 8, members of the Pacific Lutheran University Speech and Debate team will partner with local policy experts to publicly debate the potential benefits and pitfalls of Proposition 1, an initiative being posed to Tacoma voters that, if approved,…
![PLU Professor of Music Greg Youtz (back row, second from left) joins elected officials and community leaders in welcoming the Honorable Qiu Yuan Ping, Minister of Overseas Chinese Commission (front row, fourth from left), to Tacoma's Chinese Reconciliation Park. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/qui-yuan-ping-welcome-ceremony.jpg)
PLU Music Professor Plays Instrumental Role in Chinese President’s Visit to Tacoma
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 17, 2015)— Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Tacoma on Sept. 23—and Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Music Greg Youtz is playing a significant role in the international event. As chair of the Tacoma-Fuzhou Sister City Committee, Youtz was instrumental in…
![Amigos Unidos student president Ashley Carrasco ’17 welcomes Spanish-speaking families to PLU during Orientation. (Photo: John Struzenberg '16)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/amigos_unidos_9-4-2015_21781.jpg)
Hispanic Heritage Month at PLU: A New Student Group and Annual Lecture, and More
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 15, 2015)—As Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off across the country on Sept. 15, this year’s observation at Pacific Lutheran University takes on extra emphasis with two new campus-wide components: • the revival of a student organization representing Latino/a and Hispanic students, and…
![Starting in 2016, Tacoma Public Schools principals can complete their Administrator Professional Certifications through PLU. (Photo courtesy of Tacoma Public Schools)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/admin-institute-2015-email-version.jpg)
PLU Partners With Tacoma Schools to Offer Administrator Professional Certification Program
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 14,2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Partnerships and Professional Development has joined with the Tacoma Principals Association for a program that will allow Tacoma Public Schools principals to complete their Administrator Professional Certifications through PLU. All Washington principals and program administrators are required…
![Joanna Royce-Davis, Vice President for Student Life at PLU, speaks as part of the First-Year Experience Program, which was cited in PLU's recent College of Distinction honor. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/cod-story.jpg)
PLU Earns Multiple, Major National Honors
University Named a College of Distinction and Ranked No. 14 in the West TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 9, 2015)—The accolades continue to amass for Pacific Lutheran University, which has been honored as a College of Distinction for 2015-16 and ranked No. 14 in the West on…
![Millions of children have been affected by the war in Syria. (File photo)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/refugees.jpg)
A Silent Story: PLU Faculty Member is a Witness to Refugee Crisis
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 8, 2015)—The story I want to share with you is silent. No words were exchanged. It is one of those cases in which words fail to express the extent of human despair. Thank God, it is also a case in which words…
![New furniture fills Ordal Hall's third-floor lounge.](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/09/ordalhall.jpg)
Ordal Hall: Lots is New for Fall
TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 2, 2015) — Ordal Hall went under the knife for some major cosmetic surgery this summer. And now, as students arrive on campus this week, it is ready to take off its wrappings and show its new self. A ribbon-cutting will be…
![The PLU soccer community poses in front of the Manchester United stadium during a 10-day trip to England. (Photo courtesy assistant athletic trainer Todd Yamauchi.)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/lutesoccer.jpg)
Goal!! PLU Soccer Teams Bond—and Win—on 10-Day Trip to England
TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 31, 2015)—On Aug. 1, the Lutes and I started our 10-day adventure to England: Eighteen women’s soccer players and 14 men’s soccer players, along with both teams’ coaching staff and a trainer, were fortunate enough to play soccer, experience a new culture…
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PLU Stages Special 125th Anniversary Exhibition at Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum
TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 31, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University has been closely connected to the Scandinavian world—and to the local Scandinavian community—since its founding by Norwegian Bjug Harstad in 1890. These days, PLU’s Nordic roots are reflected across campus: in building names, artwork, Scandinavian Area Studies programs…
![Students from iDebate Rwanda will visit campus and hold a mock debate on Sept. 21. (Photo: iDebate Rwanda)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/idebatehappy.png)
PLU Hosts Rwanda’s Best Young Debaters
Free Public Debate Sept. 21 Addresses U.S. Intervention in Global Genocides TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 28, 2015)—During a two-day visit to Pacific Lutheran University in September, four of Rwanda’s best young debaters will immerse themselves in campus life—and present a moving, enlightening evening of personal storytelling…