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  • A diverse and dynamic artist and educator, Mare Blocker has been teaching at PLU since 2014. Her classes include Art of the Book and Typography among others. Read more about Mare in this extended interview. What is your educational background? I have a BFA in…

    Coffee or chocolate? Not choosing! BOTH French fries or hash browns? Hmm. Fries. Mac or PC? Mac! Instagram or Twitter? Insta—I’m a visual person first. Read Previous “Practicing Courage” by Margaret Matthews Read Next #BetweenArtAndQuarantine Challenge LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8

  • Third-generation Lute takes the long route to PLU For Zach Klein, the old saying, “you can’t get there from here,” comes about as close to accurate as one can imagine. A freshman guard on the PLU men’s basketball team, most people probably haven’t heard about…

    July 8, 2008 Third-generation Lute takes the long route to PLU For Zach Klein, the old saying, “you can’t get there from here,” comes about as close to accurate as one can imagine. A freshman guard on the PLU men’s basketball team, most people probably haven’t heard about him. After all, little is written about the team’s reserve players. His story is compelling, nonetheless, because most of his growing-up years were spent in hard-to-reach villages whose populaces could be counted in the

  • Attaway Lutes: Peer Tutors On any given weekday afternoon you will find James Crosetto and Lexie Miller engrossed in athletic endeavors. Look for Crosetto on the tennis courts hitting reaction volleys or working up a sweat while playing a challenge match against a men’s tennis…

    among the top six singles players. He has compiled a career 14-3 singles record at PLU, including an 8-2 record in 2007. He is 9-9 in doubles play. His senior season figures to be much like the first three – intermittent appearances in singles and doubles play depending on the competition. After all, it’s tough work breaking into the top six of the regionally ranked team. For Crosetto, the pursuits of academic and athletic excellence are a normal part of life, and his role as a peer tutor fits into

  • Update on Jan. 15, 2015: PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board from Pacific Lutheran University contingent faculty to form a union has been withdrawn. This means that the current union election is…

    faced by our contingent faculty.” Update on Jan. 8, 2015: Voters Support Existing Faculty Governance Structure by a Margin of 64 Percent The Seattle regional office of the National Labor Relations Board today counted the ballots in the delayed Pacific Lutheran University adjunct union vote, and the results were 30 votes for union representation, 54 votes against union representation and 38 challenged ballots.  The NLRB will be resolving these challenges over the next few months. The ballots were

  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s, an estimated 25 to 35…

    Department of History and the Schnackenberg family announced on Feb. 8, 1974, the creation of the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, inaugurated during the 1974-75 academic year.     Read Previous PLU Associate Professor Rebekah Mergenthal to Join Actor Danny Glover at Buffalo Soldiers Museum Event Read Next Lute’s Company Sets the Stage for Seahawks Super Bowl Rally in Arizona COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 21, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University Director of Choral Studies Dr. Richard Nance was recently the recipient of the Northwest American Choral Directors Association Leadership award. Nance, who was awarded the “American Prize” for Choral Conducting in 2011 and 2013, has been a…

    Sandström, one of the world’s best-known composers, on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. in PLU’s Lagerquist Concert Hall. How did it feel to receive the 2016 Northwest ‪ACDA‬ Leadership Award? It was a huge honor! I have such respect and admiration for my colleagues in ACDA circles, many of whom are also very close friends. To be singled out as a leader among them is humbling and wonderful. What would you say are the secrets to being a great leader in the choral world? I don’t know if

  • Simon Luedtke ’24 is a strategic communication major from Newberg, Oregon. His communication studies, combined with his part-time job with PLU Athletics, helped him land a summer internship with the Portland Pickles, a baseball team with an unforgettable name and a legendary Portland brand. Simon…

    where the Pickles were down 8-0 late in the game, then scored eight runs and tied it up and forced extra innings. The game started at 7 p.m. and it hit midnight and people were like, “Oh my goodness, are the lights going to go off?” Lights ended up going off at 12:15, game still hadn’t ended, and all of the baseball players from both teams and the hundred or so fans that were remaining all rushed the field and it turned into a big party. They turned the disco lights on our party deck and it was just

  • As Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay on the discourse around Persuasion (2022) demonstrates, historical inaccuracy has been pegged as one of Carrie Cracknell’s unforgivable misdeeds, especially related to the use of contemporary language and even the protagonist’s bangs . Yet when I finally watched the film,…

    /generalhistoryof01bewi/page/340/mode/2up?q=rabbit Carriera, Rosalba. “Girl with a Rabbit” (n.d). The Huntington Art Museum Collections Catalog, https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/22835/girl-with-a-rabbit;jsessionid=A43CC5AAE8657EF23242273574625504. Accessed 8 Aug. 2022. Cracknell, Carrie, director. Persuasion. Screenplay by Alice Victoria Winslow (based on the novel “Persuasion” by Jane Austen), Netflix, 2022. Greuze, Jean-Baptiste. “A Girl with a Dead Canary” (1765). National Galleries Scotland, https

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand…

    BASIC, which was the licensed Microsoft 6502 BASIC, a popular language before Pascal became available. So, what made the Apple II innovative? Initially, the Apple II did not have a screen attached, but was connected to a television which acted as the monitor, while using a cassette device for storage. The Apple II was largely different from its competition due to its color graphics and its 8-slot open architecture, which means adding, upgrading and switching components were easy. It set the industry

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — In a parking lot outside Stony Brook University Hospital, two tents allow physicians to triage up to 100 patients per day. They discern between the “worried well” and those showing more severe symptoms of cough, fever and low oxygen…

    patient influx would’ve broken the ER and congested waiting rooms,” Sean says. About 90 percent of patient visits are related to COVID-19. Sean’s face is often sore and marked. “It’s not meant to wear an N95 mask for 8 to 10 hours a day,” he says. But the personal protective equipment (PPE) is necessary. In essence, almost every patient is suspected of carrying the virus, even those visiting for other reasons.Around 25 miles away, his wife, Chrissy Boaglio ‘14, works overtime as a Physician Assistant