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Alumni news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Pursuing the Dream By Leah Traxel ’14 Justin Huertas ’09 was ready to “break up” with acting and playing the cello to pursue a steadier paycheck, when fate stepped in. Huertas, who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from PLU, had worked fairly steadily immediately after graduation.… October 21, 2012 Alumni
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September 2018 – Pacific Lutheran University has been selected to host a 2018 U.S. Senate Debate on October 8 by the Washington State Debate Coalition. PLU was picked as a host site by the Governance Committee from a pool of 19 applicant organizations from around…
diverse regions,” said PLU acting president Allan Belton. Invitations to participate in the debate were sent to Sen. Maria Cantwell and challenger Susan Hutchison at the conclusion of the primaries. The debate, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Karen Hille Phillips Center. Tickets will be distributed in limited numbers to PLU’s student body and community partners, and the remainder will be available to the public on a first-come-first-served basis. Advocates
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Pacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement.
TACOMA, WASH., (April 3, 2019) Pacific Lutheran University’s Board of Regents has appointed Allan Belton as PLU’s 14th President. Mr. Belton has served in the role as acting president for the past two years while the board conducted an international presidential search. “Our board carried out an extensive recruitment process for PLU’s next president. In the end, we feel strongly that the best person for the job was already sitting in the chair,” said Ed Grogan, Chair, Board of Regents. “We have
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Pacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement.
TACOMA, WASH., (April 3, 2019) Pacific Lutheran University’s Board of Regents has appointed Allan Belton as PLU’s 14th President. Mr. Belton has served in the role as acting president for the past two years while the board conducted an international presidential search. “Our board carried out an extensive recruitment process for PLU’s next president. In the end, we feel strongly that the best person for the job was already sitting in the chair,” said Ed Grogan, Chair, Board of Regents. “We have
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Senior Physics capstone presentations will take place Monday, May 15th starting at 2pm in Morken 210.
microscope is used to observe the scattering and gradient forces acting on the spheres, and the beam can be steered and focused using built-in coils. 3:15pm LeighAnna Zielske – “Bouncing Batteries: Analyzing the Relationship Between Remaining Battery Capacity and Bounce Height” It is known that alkaline batteries, when dropped, bounce to different heights depending on their remaining capacity. Samples of AA zinc alkaline batteries were dropped and the height of the bounce was measured for different
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The Community for Creative Expression (CCE) challenges students to explore the meaning of creativity and innovation in our world and promotes creativity as a mechanism of expression, activism,
disciplines Love dancing, paint, doodling, music, acting, writing, building, and more Program + Learning OutcomesBy participating in Community for Creative Expression, students will be able to: Articulate what creativity means in their own terms, as it relates to their chosen academic field of study Identify diverse ways to engage in “everyday creativity” in order to cultivate creativity as a lifelong practice or vocation Demonstrate critical reflection on personal identity and social justice through
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Theatre, as a communal form of art, is an ideal forum in which to experience the kind of shared compassion that helps us persevere in difficult times and bring us closer together. The opening night of PLU’s Rabbit Hole, on March 9, 2012, provides an…
Huertas ’09 (Spring Awakening at Balagan Theatre and on a National Tour). Rabbit Hole, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, is a story of loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness as a family attempts to move on after a life-shattering accident. “The play demands an intense level of naturalistic acting that requires the performers to be unfailingly honest in order to get the most out of both the humor and the pathos in the text. Our students have been aching for that kind of challenge, and I wanted to give it
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Learning anthropology by doing anthropology By David R. Huelsbeck – professor of anthropology The two courses mentioned in Ted Charles’ essay seek to provide an opportunity for students to experience a different culture: to learn anthropology by doing anthropology. This summer, as part of the…
cultural values that are different from their own, and learn to recognize when they are acting/reacting on the assumption that their values are “right.” (In other words, to recognize when they are being ethnocentric.) These anthropological learning objectives are congruent with PLU’s Wild Hope Project, in that they give students the chance to discover the kind of “big enough questions” that will continue to have an impact in the student’s life beyond the classroom, today and in the future. Both courses
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The Full Monty By Kari Plog ’11 Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Department is taking on a traditional musical that director Jeff Clapp said is something everyone can relate to. The Full Monty, PLU’s final student production of the theatre season, opens May 12. This was…
Monty, and Clapp said it will provide audiences with singing, dancing, acting and fun. “This is your traditional American musical,” Clapp said. “It’s really underpinned to what’s happening right now with the economy.” Although he didn’t want to give away too much of the surprise, Clapp said there will be portions of the play with “suggested nudity.”Clapp, who started teaching and directing at PLU in 1995, is no stranger to productions such as this one. He estimates that in the last 16 years he has
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