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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 29, 2016)- First-generation immigrant Shiva Thapa ’17 struggled to find a sense of belonging in his new country. After two years of searching, he finally found his identity in the Army. “Oftentimes when you are from somewhere else, you find that you…

    home in the Army.  “I have a huge (amount of) respect for the Army,” he said. “It’s where I’ve made not just friends, but family.” Read Previous The Tournées Film Festival brings nine acclaimed international films and an award-winning filmmaker to PLU Read Next PLU president, spouse rappel down Hotel Murano in downtown Tacoma for first Habitat Challenge fundraiser COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

  • Sarah Seder’s passion for dance has taken her all over North America. Now, she returns home to the Seattle area bringing with her unique experiences, a vast repertoire of skills, and an effervescent personality. She will lead PLU students through Ballet 1, Contemporary Dance 1…

    graduate thesis at Smith College. We have a one-year-old daughter who just learned to walk. Read Previous A Christmas Carol – PLU’s one-act musical version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale Read Next Upcoming Student Series Production, Blood Wedding LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 February 16, 2021 Hints and Help for Your Virtual Theatre

  • Big picture learning: Physics major Julian Kop ’24 studies the universe and his family background at PLU Posted by: mhines / May 20, 2024 Image: Julian Kop ’23 is a physics major who spent last summer conducting research in PLU’s W.M. Keck Observatory. (photo by Sy Bean/PLU) May 20, 2024 By Mark StorerPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Julian Kop spent the summer of 2023 at Pacific Lutheran University looking up at the night sky and the stars. Kop earned an opportunity to do summer

  • 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…

    now parents, guardians and grandparents, and the children they care for are sure to ask them the timeless question, “What was your favorite part about college?” And the answer, for many of us, will be Foss Hall. The author and his band, 10th & Commerce, perform for the first time for friends in the lobby of Foss Hall in 2007. Mt. Rainier and Foss Hall seen from Mary Baker Russell at PLU on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Foss Hall Scheduled to Be DemolishedOriginally built in

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 8, 2015)—The story I want to share with you is silent. No words were exchanged. It is one of those cases in which words fail to express the extent of human despair. Thank God, it is also a case in which words…

    . The younger boy nudges the older. They lower the ice cream, look up at the clerk and tilt their heads with a smile. They zip outside the store. We are all still numb. Impromptu whispers restart time. “Have you heard? They rescued 60 more in the Voukaria port this morning.” “I heard 40 or so still sleep in the cemetery across the monastery.” “Those kids must be in the park for, what? Two weeks now. Do they have any family?” “My neighbor gave them clean clothes on Monday.” The ensuing conversation

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2016)- Co-founder of Android and Pacific Lutheran University graduate Nick Sears took the technology world by storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for…

    ’ new book will be available in the fall and the first thousand students to sign up at SeriousBiz will receive it for free. Sears will also teach a core management class in a School of Business master’s program next fall. Read Previous PLU’s Gospel Experience works to bridge cultural gaps and connects campus to larger community Read Next PLU religion professor Seth Dowland discusses his new book “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right” (Podcast) COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 24, 2016)- Natalie McCarthy ’09 lost her vision when she was a child, but that hasn’t stopped her from showing up. And she’s continued to show up all the way to the world stage. McCarthy spent the evening and afternoon of March…

    lot of hard work to get there. She has been rejected six times from the national team. At one point, she worked a part-time job to give herself the time needed for intense training. Then a pivotal moment took McCarthy’s dedication to the next level — just 0.2 seconds separated her from the 2012 Paralympic games in London. “I was chasing that top-notch success,” she said. “I was going to go until I didn’t love it anymore.” So, she quit her job, left her family behind and moved to Oklahoma City to

  • Baby, It’s Cold Inside: McGrath’s Family Warmth and de Wilde’s Chilling Christmas Dinner Posted by: ramosam / December 24, 2020 December 24, 2020 By Kathryn Einan Douglas McGrath’s Emma (1996) stresses the importance of kindness and familial harmony, themes which are absent from Autumn de Wilde’s cool rendition, Emma. (2020). In the novel, Emma learns to be kind and caring to others as well as be considerate and helpful after her behavior is called out, and McGrath showcases this journey from

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 17, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by…

    University. After graduating from PLU in 2008, Cushman jumped into being a teacher and mentor for students with stories similar to his own.7th Biennial Wang Center SymposiumWatch other speakers from last month's event.As an English teacher and coach at his high school alma mater, Cushman strives to show love, compassion and care to students who might otherwise never receive them. He believes that adults are responsible for helping kids discover their own potential, and through his work tries to validate

  • SPANAWAY, Wash. (June 25, 2015)— On the grassy fields outside of the Sprinker Recreation Center at 9:30 a.m. the temperature has already climbed to the mid-80’s. Day two of Success Soccer Camp has begun, and over 200 campers ages 6-17 are already enthusiastically working up…

    give back.” Though not technically affiliated with PLU or the university’s Department of Athletics, Success Soccer Camp is a Lute family affair. Sixteen of the camp’s coaches are either PLU graduates or faculty members and Hacker coached many of them on the PLU Women’s Soccer team. “We’re PLU proud here!” Hacker shouts out to me as I arrive, waving me over to a field where 10 and 11 year olds are passionately competing to win a passing-centric relay race. Hacker speaks with equal parts passion