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  • TOP 10 REASONS why PLU can be a great fit for you Montserrat Walker ’14 Loves the focus PLU places on global issues, and how her classes investigate issues from multiple perspectives Every student has different reasons why they have found PLU to be a…

    away. How good are they at it? Nearly half of PLU students study away at some time in their academic careers. By contrast, the comparable national average is 3 percent. So, really, who do you think is going to have a better idea of how the world works? #8 Unique opportunities for student-faculty research At PLU, students spend more time working with classmates and professors in a close-up, hands-on environment. Many of those opportunities are in the laboratory working with cutting-edge equipment

  • Photo by John Froschauer Cancer survivor inspires teammates with spirit, perseverance and a mid-90s fastball By Nick Dawson It was only one pitch, but it was a pitch filled with emotion for PLU pitcher Max Beatty ’14 and the entire PLU baseball family – coaches,…

    chemotherapy. His talent and resiliency are things I have become in awe of in my four years knowing Max.” Without Beatty, the 2012 Lutes finished 24-16 overall and in third place in the Northwest Conference with a 16-8 record. “His illness left a crater in our locker room,” Shoup said. “We were probably a Max Beatty away from winning the NWC last season.” With chemo treatments finally behind him, Beatty made his return to the pitcher’s mound during the summer, playing his second consecutive season with the

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 11, 2016)- A project in a marketing class has turned into a passionate effort to register student voters during a major election year. A group of business students at Pacific Lutheran University say they are concerned about lagging voter turnout that has historically…

    matters,” Jore said, adding that Americans have fought for the right to vote, something people in other countries are still fighting for. “Even though we don’t consider Parkland our home, most of us are living here for about four years and should involve ourselves in the community.” For those wishing to participate in Washington state’s presidential primary May 24, the deadline for voter registration has already passed. But there is still time to register to vote in the Aug. 2 primary and the Nov. 8

  • 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…

    , the new 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

  • Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…

    . Works Cited 1 – W. H. Auden, “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio,” in W. H. Auden: Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (New York: Random House, 1976), 307-8. 2 – John Ciardi, “Credibility,” in The Achievement of John Ciardi, by Miller Williams (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969),73. 3 – Qtd. in Robert N. Bellah, Beyond Belief: Religion in a Post-Traditional World (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 242-43. 4 – Rick Barot, “The Poem is a Letter Opener,” in Chord (Louisville

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 26, 2018) — Panayotis (Panago) Horton ’12 tattooed a three-link chain on his forearm: one link each for himself, his mother and his brother. The family emigrated from Greece when he was just 2 years old. They were his rock. And although…

    although the Pacific Lutheran University graduate suddenly lost his life last summer, his family says the chain won’t be broken. “The bond between us remains unmatched,” LeRoy Horton ’03 wrote in a tribute following his younger brother’s death Aug. 22, 2017, due to complications from epilepsy and a subsequent infection at the hospital. “The three of us served as a tight-knit unit to survive life in a strange land.” But ask anyone, and they’ll tell you Panago didn’t just survive in his new home. He

  • Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a…

    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, 2022 Scholarship Application Tips October 17, 2022

  • For more than a month, geosciences professor Claire Todd and her geosciences student, Michael Vermeulen ’12 lived and worked on the ice in Antarctica. (Photos by Claire Todd) Editor’s Note: For the past two research seasons, Assistant Professor of Geosciences Claire Todd and two students,…

    and barely readable. How copy?” This check-in process began all 32 days we spent in the field. Some mornings we were forced to use our satellite phone to meet our morning check-in deadline of 8 a.m. Meeting this deadline is our most important priority each morning; a missed check-in would launch an incredibly costly, continent-wide search effort within an hour of the scheduled time. Funded by a $125,000 National Science Foundation grant, geosciences professor Claire Todd, PLU geosciences student

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 28, 2015)-  It’s safe to say Forrest Griek ‘00, ’02 loves being at school. Currently the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary, Griek has spent his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer…

    had reached a time in my life that I was struggling to find balance, and I needed something to give. As a high-school principal you are running a small city and oftentimes not getting home until 8, 9 or even past 10 p.m. This doesn’t work, especially when you have three kids under 6. My other motivating factor was Tacoma Schools and their leaders. I was inspired by what Tacoma Schools were doing in my community. District leaders were walking the talk and getting the results that kids deserve. I

  • By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 17, 2014)—On Sept. 19, President Barack Obama joined Vice President Joe Biden in launching the It’s On Us campaign—to keep men and women safe by putting an end to sexual assault on…

    proactive as opposed to reactive.” Jacynda Woodman-Ross, Advocacy Intern at the Women’s Center and member of the class of 2017, said this campaign is important to create a safe community. Last year, when Woodman-Ross first came to college, her mom gave her pepper spray. “I don’t really want that to be the common culture on college campuses—especially not at PLU,” she said. “I love PLU.” She also said that as a community we all could do better. “[People need to] understand that it is on us to end sexual