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happiness in the 21st Century. In pursuit of answers, the team traveled to cities across North America, including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Montreal, Portland, Ore., Toronto, New Orleans, and many others. These Four Years will premiere on the PLU campus at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2016, in the Black Box Theater at the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts, located at 12180 Park Ave. S. Tacoma, WA 98447. There will be a Q/A session after the show. Read Previous Choir

Works by PLU senior art students on display in the University Gallery through May 27 Posted by: Zach Powers / May 9, 2016 May 9, 2016 TACOMA, Wash. (May 9, 2016)— Works by Pacific Lutheran University senior art and design majors are on display now in the University Gallery in Ingram Hall. The exhibition includes paintings, letterpress prints, sculptures and ceramics, and will run through May 27. The University Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students with pieces on

.  Resilience is a key arts strength that can support entrepreneurs, he notes. When he first got into acting he heard, “You’ll get a million ‘nos’ before you get your first ‘yes’” — something true for entrepreneurs, too. In the future, Wallace hopes to be an actor, musician and producer, and eventually start his own arts and entertainment business — the next Disney, for example.  He’s participating in the school’s business plan competition, creating an app that connects artists professionally. “Like

, an annual Tacoma letterpress and book arts extravaganza founded by PLU Resident Artist Jessica Spring and King’s Books. Print-lovers are invited to the opening reception of The Art of Wayzgoose on Wednesday, March 12 from 5-7pm in the University Gallery. The exhibition will be on display March 12 – April 9 and is free to the public. The Art of Wayzgoose represents six years of steamroller prints created at the Tacoma Wayzgoose (an archaic term describing the celebratory feast held by a master

PLU alumna serves as interim director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center Posted by: Kari Plog / March 8, 2017 March 8, 2017 By Brooke Thames '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 8, 2017)- Laura Brewer ’03 was no stranger to activism when she started volunteering at the Tacoma Rainbow Center in 2000. An active Lute, Brewer engaged in a variety of LGBTQ advocacy work on Pacific Lutheran University’s campus through Harmony, known today as Queer Ally Student Union. Now, Brewer is ushering

, and alumni. (PLU’s Department of Education co-organized the event and invited dozens of science and technology teachers from the Franklin Pierce School District.) Benson Lecturer Alice Steinglass addresses the audience in the Scandinavian Center. (Photo/John Froschauer) The presentation emphasized how important it is to prioritize diversity in computing, and we also learned how Code.Org has carefully scaled their efforts globally to reach thousands of teachers and millions of students. Thanks to

. (PLU’s Department of Education co-organized the event and invited dozens of science and technology teachers from the Franklin Pierce School District.) Benson Lecturer Alice Steinglass addresses the audience in the Scandinavian Center. (Photo/John Froschauer) The presentation emphasized how important it is to prioritize diversity in computing, and we also learned how Code.Org has carefully scaled their efforts globally to reach thousands of teachers and millions of students. Thanks to Code.org and

PLU launches Marty’s Reformation Station app to teach campus about Martin Luther in fun, engaging way Posted by: Kari Plog / September 22, 2016 September 22, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 26, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University has created a fun way to honor the Lutheran tradition and put those Pokémon Go skills to use in a new way (we promise we had the idea before Lutes were out looking for Pokéstops).Marty’s Reformation Station is an app developed by

Summer at the University of Washington Medical Center. This program combines didactic and clinical learning with a one-on-one preceptorship experience with an experienced RN on the unit to ease the transition from nursing student to professional nurse. I look forward to the challenging learning experiences this position will undoubtedly present me with and the future educational direction it will lead me toward. Kari Rochelle Plog – Bachelor of Arts in communication (emphasis journalism) with a minor

. “It will be really helpful because there are not really a lot of resources on campus to help people with screenwriting,” said Emily Khilfeh, Showrunners’ head writer and director of photography. “I am really excited to learn about it. It is really different than other kinds of writing.” Showrunners at PLU, now in its fourth year, is a recent addition to the Center for Media Studies, located within the School of Arts and Communication. Showrunners, a student-run program focusing on quality TV