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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 24, 2016)- Debbie Moderow’s future in Iditarod racing started in her family’s backyard with a retired sled dog named Salt. The 7-year-old Husky was the first member of a backyard sled dog team that was initially assembled so Moderow’s sons could have…

    the Night” delves into Moderow’s perceived failure and presents her thoughts as she attempts to make sense of the disappointment. The memoir also details her perseverance in training for her second run in 2005. Moderow and her dogs made it across the finish line that time. While succeeding in her second race was exhilarating, Moderow said finishing the Iditarod provided only a fraction of her satisfaction. The adventure she took with her dogs and the complex journey to victory were the true

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2016)- Amidst crowds of politicians, scientists and international leaders, two Lutes will travel abroad and walk the halls of the annual Conference of Parties for the United Nations in November. They will represent a quarter of a small contingent of college…

    many to be one of the most important meetings on international climate policy. This year’s convention will assess and build on those goals. For Smith and Henderson, this is a chance to meet with leading figures in environmental science, learn and go abroad once again as representatives of PLU. They will travel to Washington D.C. in October for a group training and then fly to Morocco in November. Both women have studied away while at PLU. Henderson spent a semester in Windhoek, Namibia, and Smith

  • In high school, Peyton Noreen ’23 loved participating in theatre productions. Noreen’s passion for the stage wasn’t something they were ready to give up on when they enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University. It’s why they chose to major in theatre and why they’re spending the…

    seemed like they produced really cool stuff there. I was delighted to find that their internship program is really robust and very supportive of interns, and it’s really rooted in the idea of introducing newer theater artists in training to theater practitioners who are already in the industry and have experience. There were two internships that I was looking at … the directing one and the teaching intern one, which is the one that I got. Both of them were really exciting to me, and they were also

  • By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…

    Celebrate Computer Education Week Posted by: halvormj / December 5, 2018 Image: Halvorson discusses software and online learning with a student at PLU. December 5, 2018 By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org, an important non-profit organization committed to training

  • Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they were going to be…

    public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic changing of the climate? Monastic communities looked to the future, not the immediate

  • Originally published in 2021 Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they…

    that no one grows hungry?  Alcuin LIbrary at Saint John’s University “How do we push public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic

  • Meet John F. Paul, the new Chair of the Department of Music and Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Before joining the PLU family at the start of the 2014-15 school year, Dr. Paul served for 13 years as Chair of the Department of Music…

    new classes, and learning and updating (when needed) all the procedures in the department! But now I have a semester behind me, and we have finished settling into our new home, my wife Catherine, daughter Madison, and I are carving out more time to explore the Tacoma and Seattle area. We just attended our first Seattle Opera production, a stellar performance of Tosca! We like to hike and ride our bikes. My wife and I like walking on one of the ferries and spending a few hours on the water

  • Sarah Davis, a biology major and Hispanic studies minor, began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion. “I have…

    make them more tolerant to flooding or extended drought. This could be done through varying mechanisms such as increasing anaerobic respiration for flood tolerance and osmotic control in plant vacuoles with proton pumps for drought tolerance. What did you enjoy most about your PLU experience? I had the opportunity to study away two times during my time at PLU. The first was to Uruguay during J-Term in 2020 for extensive Spanish study, and the second was to the Bahamas this past J-Term to study

  • Sarah Davis began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion “I have a family history of agriculture, my grandfather…

    away two times during my time at PLU. The first was to Uruguay during J-Term in 2020 for extensive Spanish study, and the second was to the Bahamas this past J-Term to study marine biology. Immersing myself in different cultures has helped me broaden my worldview, and both have been valuable experiences both with learning about the culture as well as the class material I was learning about at the time. I also really enjoyed working in the biology department as a TA and lab prep. I gained valuable

  • Watch PLU’s Earth Day Lecture Live! Click here for the Livestream of former Gov. Christine Gregoire’s talk, 7:30 p.m. April 22. Former Gov. Christine Gregoire to Speak at PLU for Earth Day By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing and Communications Think of Puget Sound as a…

    created the Puget Sound Partnership in 2007, which focused on cleaning up Puget Sound using science to get the Sound “fishable, diggable and swimmable” by 2020. The first push to clean up the Sound focused on big industry, but now, Gregoire stressed, cleanup efforts must focus on smaller cumulative causes, such as what habits each of us has that contribute to degradation of the Sound, or other bodies of water such as Hood Canal. “I think if you dove below the surface and saw the discharge areas around