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high school dropout prevention programs. I also enjoyed taking courses in theatre, film, photography, and music as well as performing in dance, music, and theatre productions. After I graduated, I returned to the Seattle area and co-founded a flamenco dance company called Barrio Flamenco. I performed with Barrio Flamenco from 2007-2008. In 2008, I co-founded Seattle-based Sapience Dance Collective and co-directed the company until 2016. We produced annual shows, created Converge Dance Festival, an

University, as well as a minor in sociology. She bounced around between various extracurriculars during her time on campus, including working as an ally at what was then known as the Women’s Center (now the Center for Gender Equity). As Laumb approached her senior year, she didn’t really have a clear picture of what she wanted to do after graduation. When the time arrived, Laumb dabbled in a few different jobs, such as working for a parks and recreation program and as a freelance writer at the Puyallup

2008, Tomio Yamamoto, a well-revered Japanese music educator, along with Japanese percussionist and Pacific Lutheran University professor, Dr. Miho Takekawa have connected Graham-Kapowsin High School and Tamana Girls High School from Tamana, Kumomoto, Japan for annual friendship concerts. Every year, students either travel from Pierce County to Japan, or vice versa, for the concert. Mr. Yamamoto continues to give generous financial support for students in the U.S. and Japan to be able to travel to

Cheney Stadium to represent Pacific Lutheran University and throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Tacoma Rainiers game Aug. 20, kicking off the annual PLU Night.Lutes will take over the ballpark and celebrate with fellow students, staff, faculty and alumni. Tickets are $12.50 and include a hot dog, bottled water and chips. Guests will also have a chance to run the bases and take a PLU group photo in center field immediately following the game. Holding up a “Proud Alum” pin and a small “Lutes

, marketed and sold a wide variety of products including a fantasy football themed board game, a stacking game similar to Jenga, t-shirts raising awareness about natural disasters and a cooking paste for Latino food. Every group was enrolled in the “Online Venture Challenge,” a nationwide program that requires student teams to start real online businesses that compete for 30 days to raise money for charity. Composed of Jillian Stanphill ‘16, Freddie Fisher ‘16, Liandra Daniels ’16, Bree Watkins ’16 and

scholarship and grant opportunities.” Currently there are 700 students enrolled at PLU from the over 50 253 area code high schools who receive $13.2 million in annual gift aid from PLU ($18,905.33 per student average). 118 of the 700 are College Bound students. The annual total gift aid those College Bound students receive from PLU is more than $1.9 million ($16,847.66 average). “PLU has always been a great supporter of our middle and lower income students,” Burns said. For more information about the 253

Media Studies, will support continued MediaLab research, scholarship and program improvements. Housed within the School of Arts and Communication’s Center for Media Studies, MediaLab is a group of students who work in pre-professional settings, contracting with external clients in Tacoma, Seattle and beyond. In addition to performing fee-for-service work, student teams over the years also have created more than a dozen award-winning documentaries, providing excellent opportunities for PLU students

to be a doctor for as long as I can remember (since I was 6 years old). I knew I wanted to go to medical school before I applied to PLU. PLU had a strong pre-med program and was the only school to which I applied. However, even though I knew I wanted to be a doctor and even though I thought I knew which type of doctor I wanted to be, I never could have imagined who I would really grow up to become or that I would love what I do so much. What will be one piece of advice that you’ll share with

is sponsored by PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, which includes the Kurt Mayer Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. (In Fall 2014, PLU became one of only a handful of universities nationwide to offer a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.) The debaters’ visit follows PLU’s October 2014 standing-room-only screening of Sweet Dreams, a documentary about Rwandan women working to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 1994

Learning and Technology on lower campus. Amazon launched the service five years ago, and continues to expand to new locations. Read Previous PLU to explore the many roles of women in the Holocaust during annual conference Read Next The Tournées Film Festival brings nine acclaimed international films and an award-winning filmmaker to PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window