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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…
![PLU President Thomas W. Krise, right, presents Mike Burton '69 with the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/mikeburton.jpg)
Teacher/Coach/Award-Winning Alumnus Inducted into National High School Hall of Fame
TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 21, 2015)—Mike Burton ’69 has been inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame for his 39 years of service as a national-award-winning speech and debate coach. Burton, who retired in 2008, is the first speech and debate coach from Washington…
![Opened in 1965, the sun will soon set on PLU's Foss Hall. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/foss-evening-banner.jpg)
Former Foss Hall Resident Reflects on the End of an Era
My best friend and I met in our residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University. The band he and I started performed for the first time in its lobby. I can remember with equal fondness all-nighters spent cramming for finals and all-nighters playing video games. Earlier…
![Samantha Lund '16, Matthew Salzano '18, Grace Takehara '16, Zach Martinson ’16](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/all-iterns-banner-.jpg)
PLU Students Check In From Summer Internships
TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…
![Ann Kullberg's painting 'Broken Rules.' (Courtesy Ann Kullberg.)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/kullbergbanner.jpg)
Ann Kullberg ’79 Draws on Her PLU Education to Create an Art Empire
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Ann Kullberg ’79 has never taken a formal art course, but her work is internationally known—and her story is as colorful as her art. Though the lines were not always straight, and there were rough patches along the way, Kullberg…
![Patricia Krise, Jessica Milian '15 and PLU President Thomas W Krise at the Gonyea House. [Photo by John Struzenberg '16/PLU]](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/president-scholarship-banner.jpg)
Endowed Internship Allows Lute a Full-Circle Vocational First Step
TACOMA, WASH. (August 6, 2015) — Thanks to a major award, one Lute is spending her summer in a juvenile detention center — as a mentor who is paying it forward. Jessica Milian ’15 is the second recipient honored with the Patricia L. and Thomas…
![The five Lutes honored on the Business Examiner's '40 Under 40' list, from left: Rachel Young '06, '13; Zach Powers '10; , Molly Hill '05; Mary Holste '00; and Matthew Simon '03. (Photo: Holly Powers)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/08/plu-alum-at-40-under-forty1.jpg)
Lutes Lead Local ‘40 Under 40’ List
TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Every year, the Business Examiner selects outstanding South Sound business and community leaders for its prestigious 40 Under 40 program—and this year, five of those are Lutes. On Aug. 4, the honored Lutes joined the rest of the 40 Under 40…
![Forrest Griek '00, '02 is the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary and a national "Emerging Leader" in education. [Photo Courtesy of Tacoma Public Schools]](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/07/forrest-principal-banner.jpg)
PLU Alumnus Named National Emerging Leader in Education
TACOMA, WASH. (July 28, 2015)- It’s safe to say Forrest Griek ‘00, ’02 loves being at school. Currently the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary, Griek has spent his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer…
![Kari Plog ’11](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/06/kari-plog.jpg)
PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year”
Kari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier…
![PLU Economics Professors Martin Wurm (right) and Neal Johnson (left) deliver an economic forecast to the Tacoma/Pierce County Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/06/economics-banner.jpg)
A PLU Economics Degree: The First Step For Many World-Changing Lutes
TACOMA, WASH. (June 18, 2015)- PLU Economics students past and present have selected their major with a seemingly endless list of vocational sectors in mind. However, most seem to share many of the same core qualities and passions: a penchant for research, a love of…
![Deanna Fallin ’09](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/06/fallin-banner.jpg)
From Opportunity to Opry
TACOMA, Wash. (June 5, 2015) — Deanna Fallin ’09 wrote an email on April 8 to her former faculty adviser, Pacific Lutheran University Chair of Art and Design JP Avila, to share some exciting news. “It’s crazy to think that I was just some young…
![Marissa Meyer signs a book at the launch party of "Cress" at PLU on Feb. 4, 2014. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)](https://www.plu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/573/2015/04/cress-375-2-4-14.jpg)
Award-Winning Alumnae Authors Return to PLU on May 2
TACOMA, Wash. (April 30, 2015)—Award-winning authors and PLU alumnae Leslye Walton ’04 and Marissa Meyer ’04 will return to campus May 2 for the inaugural Cavalcade of Authors West youth writing workshop. Cavalcade of Authors West is comprised of two components: 1) students reading novels…