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September 8, 2008 Profs, students talk about going green PLU has made great strides in reaching its sustainability goals, campus leaders and students stressed last week. However, especially in the area in energy conservation, PLU staff and students need to be conscious off turning off the lights or reducing the heat. After President Loren J. Anderson’s State of the University address, about a dozen faculty and students talked about how the campus was doing in its conservation goals, including

is and how to reduce it through eight steps: 1: Sustainability in Campus Culture 2: Campus Operations 3: Sustainability in Curriculum 4: Reducing Scope 3 Emissions -Transportation 5: Waste Stream Management 6: Reducing Scope 1 & 2 Emissions -Facility Improvements 7: Renewables 8: Funding Sustainability Projects There are big steps to be taken, like identifying and committing to facility upgrades, but there are also smaller steps that make a significant difference. “It’s just going to take

March 8, 2010 Building peace By Chris Albert Pacific Lutheran University’s 2010 Wang Center Symposium – Understanding the World through Sports and Recreation started out by recognizing truly dedicated individual’s with the Wang Center for International Programs Peace Builder Award Thursday, March 4 at the Tacoma Convention Center. Wang Center Executive Director Neal Sobania, Peace Builder Award recipients William Stafford and Joey Cheek, and PLU President Loren J. Anderson. This year’s

November 2, 2012 Pål Brekke giving a lecture at the Smithsonian Institution earlier this year. He will lecture at PLU on Thursday at noon about the connection between the Sun and the Northern Lights. Photo: Hanna Pincus Gjertsen Our Explosive Sun — A scientist’s look at the source of the northern lights The Division of Natural Sciences cordially invites you to a unique presentation in PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center on November 8, beginning at noon to hear a lecture by by Pål Brekke, PhD

dignity. About the Exhibit ‘Us Local People’ Opening reception: 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6. Exhibit dates: Feb. 6- April 1. Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center in the Anderson University Center at PLU. Admission: Free. The SCC exhibit opens with a free reception at 4 p.m. Feb. 6 as part of PLU’s second annual celebration of Sámi Álbmotbeaivi—Sámi National Day, chosen in 1992 by the Sámi people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia in commemoration of the first international Sámi congress in

recycled or reused will be located near Stuen and Pflueger and outside Harstad Hall. Last year, PLU diverted 62 percent of its waste for reuse or recycling. Cooley hopes to beat that number this year. Goodwill donation trailers will be open from 11 a.m. and remain open, and staffed, until 8:30 p.m. beginning May 19. Read Previous Celebrating Student Leaders Read Next More Pets, Less Stress COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled

provided.”Marilyn Anderson also remembers the closeness with her professors and her cohort group. Hospitals just waited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfmwJmEMUWo for PLU nursing students to graduate so they could snap them up, she said. “I was working at one internship, and they offered me a job at the hospital the day I graduated,” she said. Professors were so in tune with their students, they also noticed when you didn’t show up for class, she laughed. “I remember one 8 a.m. religion class I didn’t

first electronic collection in Red Square. Students and staff can bring their used electronics, such as cell phones, laptops and tablets to recycle, or even old microwaves and toasters; all will be properly recycled by Sustainability. The annual Garbology event will take place on March 17 from 8 a.m.–3 p.m. in Red Square. The Office of Sustainability will select random bags of trash from campus to sort out the landfill from recycling. Lorax urges students to get involved in recycling and being less

Society-AERho Student Competition, in the Nonfiction Long-Form category. The NBS holds this competition every year to honor the best student-produced films in universities across the United States. Two other films are competing in this category, for which the results will be announced March 28. The film premiered at the Broadway Center for Performing Arts Theatre in Tacoma on Nov. 8, 2014. The team also has presented the film to schools all over the Tacoma area. Most recently, the filmmakers traveled

PLU selected to host 2018 U.S. Senate debate Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / July 3, 2018 Image: Washington state senator candidates face off in a debate hosted by the Washington Debate Coalition in Gonzaga University’s Hemmingson Center Ballroom on October 16th, 2016. (Photo by Edward Bell) July 3, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 11, 2018) — Pacific Lutheran University has been selected to host a 2018 U.S. Senate Debate on Oct. 8 by the Washington