Real-World Mentors: Maura Gannon
Maura Gannon ’10 Erin Jones ’01 chats with Maura Gannon ’10 in her classroom. Maura Gannon ’10 Major: Education Employer: Federal Way School District PLU Connection: Erin Jones ’01, director of equity and achievement at the Federal Way School District Sometimes the connection occurs in…
Real-World Mentors: Bryce Manso
Bryce Manso ’10 Bryce Manso ’10 with colleagues Tisha Graham ’09 and Julie Williams ’09 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash. Bryce Manso ’10 Major: Biology Employer: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center PLU Connection: Everyone! His boss, his profs, his colleagues…
Real-World Mentors: Jessica McGifford ’12
Jessica McGifford ’12 Jessica McGifford ’12 and Abi McLane ’08 at the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center. Jessica McGifford ’12 Major: Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies Employer: Our Sister’s House PLU Connection: Abi McLane ’08, victim services supervisor at Crystal Judson Family Justice Center…
Real-World Mentors: Sorayah Surkatty
Sorayah Surkatty ’10 Associate Professor of Music Jim Brown and Sorayah Surkatty ’10 at the Vashon Opera. Sorayah Surkatty ’10 Major: Vocal performance Employer: Vashon Opera PLU Connection: Associate Professor of Music Jim Brown, and PLU Music Lecturer Holly Boaz If there is one discipline…
Real-World Mentors
Real-World Mentors For decades, Pacific Lutheran University has built a reputation for sending talented, proficient students into the workplace. Their success is proof that challenging academics – hours spent in the classroom and laboratory, the practice room and concert hall, the playing field and court…
Evacuation drill
Fire drill between Feb. 25 and March 1. There will be a Fire/Evacuation drill in PLU non-residential buildings (Blomquist, CC, E. Campus, Health, Ingram, Hauge, MBR, Mailroom/Warehouse/Printshop, Memorial, Morken, Mortvedt, Names, Neeb, Olson, Payroll House, Ramstad, Rieke, Theater, UC, Xavier) the week of Feb. 25-March…
Cambodia: A reflection on the genocide by Khmer Rouge
Cambodia: A reflection on the genocide by Khmer Rouge and coverage by US media by Kathryn Perkins ’13 In 1975 over one-fourth of the Cambodian people were murdered. Not by foreign aggressors or malicious diseases, but by their own people. The Khmer Rouge, a communist…
Grad lands dream job
Grad lands dream job By Emilie Thoreson ’15 After travelling to Macedonia on a Fulbright Student Fellowship and working for the National Albanian American Council, Kelly Ryan ’10 has landed his dream job — working for the State Department. Ryan made the trip to Skopje,…
One step at a time
Anthony Markuson ’14, Bill Pursell (Kelsie Leu’s uncle), Anna McCracken ’13, and Leu ’13 summited Mt. Kilimanjaro to celebrate the end of their study away experiences. One step at a time By Chris Albert The guides up the mountain keep a cadence of “pole, pole”…
Food for thought
PLU chef Erick Swenson ’91 checks on a tray of shrimp from the oven. Food For Thought By Katie Scaff ’13 Twenty years ago, you’d never find pav bhaji – a curry dish served on dinner rolls – alongside the burgers and fries in the…
Cross-town rivalry, free admission for the community
Cross-town rivalry – free admission for the community PLU hosts the University of Puget Sound for its cross-town rivalry game Tuesday, Jan. 29 in Olson Auditorium. Admission for the game is free for Tacoma area residents. Help us keep track of the number of people…
Mycal Ford ’12: A Journey of Discovery
Mycal Ford ’12 has spent the year teaching in Taiwan on a Student Fulbright Fellowship. Mycal Ford ’12: A journey of discovery leads this Lute to China and Taiwan By Barbara Clements University Communications Mycal Ford eyed the skewer of fried scorpions he held at…