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  • Opening Doors to Opportunity: Andrew Whitney ’12, Director of Seed Internships https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/11/03/doors-to-opportunity/

    employers in and outside of their discipline — better to get exposure to all the different career opportunities at MultiCare or BCRA than just one. At Seed, we connect students with early- and mid-career professionals to get a sense of what a given job is like day-to-day, and an understanding that the path from college to career is anything but a straight line. We open doors to internships at as many employers as we can and show students not just how to land the internship, but also how to stick around

  • Disruption and Continuity: PLU’s Division of Humanities in Spring, 2020 https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/disruption-and-continuity-plus-division-of-humanities-in-spring-2020/

    with economic hardship, and still dealing with anxieties about what might come next.PLU’s curricular disruption became official on March 7, with the announcement that all classes would move to remote learning. Over the following weeks, faculty and students adjusted, those studying away returned home early, and we all learned more than we had planned about videoconferencing. This has been a season of disruption. However, PLU’s Division of Humanities worked hard in this time to continue the most

  • Should History Tell a Story? https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/should-history-tell-a-story/

    Should History Tell a Story? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Mark JensenOriginally Published in 1990It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of seventeenth-century France in which it is not mentioned. “If he did not say ‘I am the state,’ it is only because it went without

  • Composing for the cannery: of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/04/01/composing-for-the-cannery-of-boxcars-rhinos-and-grapes/

    April 1, 2013 Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes By James Olson ’14 In 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore before college. In the dead space between high school and “higher learning,” potential itineraries sprawled

  • Meet our New Faculty! https://www.plu.edu/english/meet-our-new-faculty/

    Meet our New Faculty! Ali Mctar, Miranda Morgan, Bella Bravo PLU English is delighted to welcome three outstanding new Visiting Assistant Professors to our Department!   Ali Mctar: British Literature (Renaissance and Early Modern); Global Literatures Ph.D, Princeton University Miranda Morgan: Creative Writing (nonfiction prose); Professional, Public, and Digital Writing M.F.A. University of Montana Bella Bravo: Creative Writing (fiction and nonfiction prose) M.F.A., University of Wisconsin

  • Past Writers https://www.plu.edu/visiting-writer/past-writers/

    Oliver de la Paz Jason Koo Lucia Perillo Ann PancakeMore Info 2008-2009Cate Marvin Aimee Bender Salvatore Scibona Brad LandMore Info2007-2008Brenda Miller Achy Obejas Michael Dumanis Mark Doty Tony D’Souza Mary OliverMore Info2006-2007Justin Tussing Stephen Kuusisto Courtney Brkic Camille Dungy Steve Almond Tess GallagherMore Info2005-2006Linda Bierds Peter Orner Gabrielle Calvocoressi Peter Bacho Jonathan Johnson David LongMore Info

  • Study https://www.plu.edu/lutheran-studies/study/

    Engaging in Lutheran StudiesFor students, faculty, staff, alumni, and interested persons, there are a variety of ways to engage in Lutheran Studies at PLU. For undergraduate students, a number of university courses support the study of the Lutheran tradition. They include but are not limited to: History of Western Art II; The Book in Society; German Civilization to 1750; Early Modern European History, 1400-1700; European Reformations; Modern Germany; Christians in Nazi Germany; Music History I

  • PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2015/06/23/plu-alumna-named-western-washingtons-new-journalist-of-the-year/

    PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” Posted by: Todd / June 23, 2015 June 23, 2015 By By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsKari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier this month, Plog was named “New Journalist of the Year” by the Society of Professional

  • PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/06/22/kari-plog-q-a/

    PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” Posted by: Zach Powers / June 22, 2015 Image: (Photo by Josh Trujillo/SPJ) June 22, 2015 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsKari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier this month, Plog was named “New Journalist of the

  • Frozen Exhibit https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/exhibitions/frozen-exhibit/

    with SCC Director Elisabeth Ward, who consulted with Walt Disney Imagineering in regard to Frozen. The exhibition will be open through March 1st, 2015. Come to the opening, or to any of our free open hours to explore the connections for yourself.