Extra! Extra! Lute Wins Prestigious Award for Journalism Career
Lisa Patterson ’98, one of Seattle Business Examiner’s 40 Under Forty winners. (Photo by Mike Wells.) Extra! Extra! Lute Wins Prestigious Award for Journalism Career By Valery Jorgensen ‘15 Lisa Patterson ’98, editor of 425 and South Sound magazines, recently was honored with the Seattle…
PLU Hosts Traditional Sankta Lucia Fest on Dec. 6
The Sankta Lucia festival has been an annual tradition at Pacific Lutheran University since 1951. Photo: PLU files. SCC Holds Annual Sankta Lucia Fest By Sandy Deneau Dunham The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University presents its traditional Sankta Lucia Fest at 7:30 p.m.…
Free To Fly At Last
An African Grey Parrot takes stock of a photographer. (Photo provided by PLU Prof. Charles Bergman.) Free as a bird — at last PLU Professor and Student Journey to Jane Goodall’s Famed Sanctuary for First-Ever Release of Rescued African Grey Parrots By Barbara Clements, Scene…
MediaLab filmmakers wade into global water crisis
PLU’s MediaLab dived into the global water crisis with its latest documentary “Tapped Out,” which premiered Oct. 26 at the Seattle Central Public Library. MediaLab filmmakers wade into global water crisis By Amanda Brasgalla ’15 Four PLU students who spent more than a year researching…
Scientists discover new species of enigmatic marsupial in Ecuador
Scientists discover new species of enigmatic marsupial Along the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador , Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11 and a team of scientists discovered a new species of shrew-opossum. Their dive into discovery started more than two years ago, when Ojala-Barbour had…
Life of the Mind
Life of the Mind: Democracy & the American Dream – for DREAMers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Pk401CS6M About the DREAM Act – and DREAMers Named after the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a measure first proposed in 2001, DREAMers are undocumented immigrant high-school graduates who are…
He Speaks for the Trees
He Speaks for the Trees By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s Sustainability Department has a new Sustainability Lead with a suiting name for the profession: Lorax. Nick Lorax, a 2011 graduate, joined the PLU staff in May and has found a home here—for the…
PLU’s School of Business ranked as one of the best
Assistant Professor Brian Maeng works with a student in class. Maeng teaches Operations Management and Management Information Systems at Pacific Lutheran University. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU’s School of Business ranked as one of the best in the U.S. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business…
Modeling the Early Universe
Auberry Fortuner ’13 and Assistant Professor Bret Underwood did research into understanding what gave rise to the expansion of the universe. (Photo by John Froschauer) Modeling the Early Universe By Katie Scaff ’13 None of us was around for the Big Bang , but one…
‘Making Seafood Sustainable’
‘Making Seafood Sustainable’ Mansel G. Blackford will be this year’s speaker for the Ninth Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic history at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Anderson University Center. Blackford, Emeritus Professor of History at the Ohio State University, will…
Our Middle Name
Our Middle Name: People of Wondrous Ability Editor’s note: This essay is the first in a series of writings in Scene from various authors on Lutheran outreach in the world, and the impact and meaning of a Lutheran higher education. By Professor Samuel Torvend, Chair…
What exactly is a ‘CAPSTONE’? (And how will it get me a job?)
Mark Lee, Mimi Granlund and Matt Hubbard and the apparatus they built to help them understand how the roughness and size of a tongue would affect the amount of water an animal could lap up and still be efficient. (Photos by John Froschauer) What exactly…