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  • On the day of high school class choices, a middle school teacher noticed the normally outgoing Jackson Reisner sitting quietly, acting withdrawn. Jackson grew increasingly anxious as the morning progressed. A movie buff, the Burlington eighth grader had seen all the difficult depictions of high…

    gym after practice, I see my sister, and it’s like home is here.” “I definitely recommend going to school with your sibling,” Sydney says. “It creates an added cushion of support. Moving to college is a big life change, and having your sibling around throughout that makes the process a whole lot easier.”  Read Previous Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate Read Next Rick Steves to Present “Travel as a Wildly Hopeful Act” at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the

  • While the country was divided in joy and grief over Donald Trump being elected President, various U.S Congressional staff members wrote a handbook to encourage resistance to Trump’s political agenda, which sparked the creation of Indivisible, a grassroots and non-partisan political group dedicated to that…

    statement emphasizes resistance, empowerment, and persistence. Professor Marcus believes that the interdependency among those three values results in “actively working for change” by empowering individuals to use their voices and to support one another. Professor Marcus says, “I know it’s a cliché that all politics is local, but I felt like we had to start close to home. That’s why we started in Gig Harbor.”   In March 2017, Heidi Mund, an anti-Islamic proponent, was invited by a local Tea Party group

  • As a professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dr. Collin Brown teaches Norwegian language and Nordic studies at Pacific Lutheran University. However, his love for his work runs so deep, he also started and manages a club called “The Dead Languages Society.” As…

    languages change over time.” This question is what sparked his interest in studying dead languages. Now Brown specializes in Germanic languages and has studied Old Saxon, Old English, Old Norse, and Gothic.  Professor Brown knew there would likely be little chance that he could teach these languages as fully-fledged courses. But, he decided, “If it doesn’t work out to teach these classes, I can do this as a club.” When he began his club, he was unsure if anyone would even want to attend. “I had no idea

  • In recognition of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, throughout the 2016-17 academic year a wide range of academic, community and artistic events at Pacific Lutheran University will address questions and concepts relating to Re•forming. UPCOMING EVENTS Second Annual César Chávez & Dolores Huerta…

    maintain or gain support in the closing days of the race. Sponsored by the Department of Politics and Government. 11th Annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture Oct. 26 | 7:30 p.m. | Lagerquist Concert Hall Dr. Jennifer Harvey will lecture on “From Ferguson to Charleston: Religous Fath, Righteous Feminists and Holy Fire.” Sponsored by the Department of Religion. Working for Change Nov. 2 | 6-8 p.m. | AUC 133 Alumni panel highlighting Post-graduate service opportunities for alums pursuing domestic and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 20, 2016)- This summer, Taylor Bozich ’17 affirmed what she long assumed to be true about humanitarian work — it isn’t easy. She also reaffirmed that’s exactly the kind of work she wants to do after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University. Bozich…

    an endowment from Generations for Peace, a nonprofit dedicated to peacebuilding at the grassroots level. Students who pursue majors or minors in a social science discipline or global studies — or those who are International Honors students — are eligible. The program provides funding for overseas internships or service projects, as well as domestic programs with an international focus. The work must directly contribute to international peacebuilding. Opportunities range from humanitarian aid to

  • Tune in: The People’s Gathering is streaming live TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2017)- Genesis Housing and Community Development Coalition will host a professional development conference called The People’s Gathering on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, February 24. The full-day conference will focus…

    resistance to those forces) in the United States, and especially in the 20th century. Her research into the subject include examinations of anti-gay ballot measures in the 1970s, racism in the military in World War II, and feminist voices in popular literature in the post-WWII decades. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary programs and fields of study, including Women’s Studies and Peace Studies, and has participated in research and projects that center on the importance of historical thinking in

  • Rick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of the Rainier…

    therapy.  I showed it to a friend who said that they were real poems, and therefore I revised them into a sequence of 30 poems that ended up in that chapbook. How much time do you spend writing just for yourself versus writing specifically for your books and projects? I think this is probably true of a lot of poets that the first part of it is that you’re always writing for yourself. There’s never a sense of an audience beyond your own interior self. You’re keeping yourself company basically by

  • During her senior year at Pacific Lutheran University, Margaret Chell ’18 decided to join the Peace Corps after a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer visited her global development class. She soon met with PLU Peace Corps advisor, Dr. Katherine Wiley to learn more. She was excited…

    nations in my home state. So, I knew it would also be an opportunity to learn a lot more about these marginalized communities.”  Chell worked as a health systems coordinator providing a variety of support to the program.  “A few of my favorite projects were putting together a curriculum on how settler colonialism impacts social determinants of health,” she says.  “We spoke with leaders in the community and pulled together academic articles that will be used for the fellowship, but also will hopefully

  • Beautiful mutants: a PLU biology class harvests for the future About two years ago, PLU professor Neva Laurie-Berry partnered with a world-class plant research center. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo., sends Laurie-Berry’s BIOL 358 Plant Physiology class millet seeds with…

    and environmentally sustainable agriculture. Laurie-Berry started teaching at PLU in the fall of 2008. In addition to Plant Physiology, Laurie-Berry’s other classes include Plant Development and Genetic Engineering and a first-year writing class focused on global agriculture, world hunger, genetic engineering and related topics. “Our central question for the course is how agriculture and related systems must change to alleviate global hunger,” Laurie-Berry says.Before 2015, the original PLU