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David Yun ’22 has been busy throughout his four years at Pacific Lutheran University. The pre-med student and chemistry major has been an academic standout, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held…
club you founded at PLU? I started what I describe as a hybrid Global Medical Brigade slash pre-med club. The whole purpose is just to meet and build community with other pre-med students at PLU. We help each other out with opportunities, whether that’s making connections with physicians, MCAT prep, and, in general, we just support each other and study together. The purpose of that club is just to get like-minded folks together who share similar goals. How specifically does the PLU chapter engage
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David Yun ’22 has been busy throughout his four years at Pacific Lutheran University. The pre-med student and chemistry major has been an academic standout, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held…
prep, and, in general, we just support each other and study together. The purpose of that club is just to get like-minded folks together who share similar goals. How specifically does the PLU chapter engage with the international mission of the Global Medical Brigades organization? We work to inform students about the organization and its mission of supporting underserved areas of the world. Then try to implement those ideologies into our own club by advocating for community service, donations
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Antarctic sunset. Photo taken by Samantha Dillon. Resource 2012 Wang Symposium: Our Thirsty Planet Wang Symposium: Activist fights to preserve the precious resource of water By Barbara Clements Maude Barlow didn’t start out interested in water. Nothing of the sort, she recalled recently from her…
Nobel”). In 2009, she served as senior advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right. She is currently working on her next book in the series “Blue Futures” which will review solutions to the growing water crisis. As for those who ask “what water crisis?” Barlow has only to point to the fact that the world is simply running out of fresh water. According to her book, Blue Covenant, 2 billion people
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“An Antarctic Sunset” taken by PLU student Samantha Dillion in 2006 during J-Term study away in Antarctica. Wang Symposium 2012: Water warrior fights to save our most precious resource By Barbara Clements Maude Barlow didn’t start out interested in water. Nothing of the sort, she…
Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”). In 2009, she served as senior advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right. She is currently working on her next book in the series “Blue Futures” which will look at solutions to the growing water crisis. As for those who ask “what water crisis?” Barlow has only to point to the fact that the world is simply running out of fresh water
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TACOMA, Wash. (May 4, 2015)— May is a busy month here at PLU. In fact, no other month comes close to packing-in as many on-campus events. Featuring a highly anticipated theatre production, numerous music ensemble performances, Scandinavian heritage events, countless Capstone presentations, and much more,…
David Maslanka; “Catching Shadows” by Ivan Trevino and more *Tickets: $8 general admission/ $5 seniors (55+) & alumni / free PLU community, students, 18 and under Celebration of Leadership May 11 at 6p.m. Chris Knutzen Hall The 2015 Celebration of Leadership recognizes students who live lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care while empowering their peers to do the same. Free admission, no tickets University Symphony Orchestra May 12 at 8p.m. Lagerquist Concert Hall The University
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David Yun ’22 has been busy throughout his four years at Pacific Lutheran University. The pre-med student and chemistry major has been an academic standout, serving as a chemistry teaching assistant presenting research at the Murdock Conference and the American Chemical Society convention. He’s held…
students. We met with Yun recently to discuss the Global Medical Brigades Club and what it’s been like being a pre-med student at PLU.Can you share a bit about the Global Medical Brigades club you founded at PLU? I started what I describe as a hybrid Global Medical Brigade slash pre-med club. The whole purpose is just to meet and build community with other pre-med students at PLU. We help each other out with opportunities, whether that’s making connections with physicians, MCAT prep, and, in general
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by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer You may have noticed PLU promoting a new summer session campaign called “Stay Connected”. The campaign hopes to improve retention, decrease time to matriculation, and increase enrollments in summer session courses. A February 2015 survey of PLU students found: …
% plan to return home over summer break. To meet the challenge of staying connected to students during the summer, PLU will be offering twelve fully online courses taught by PLUTO trained faculty. Courses range from Christian Ethics to Beginning Watercolor Painting and allow students to fulfill general education requirements. Enrollment and budget challenges provide PLU with an opportunity to consider the evolving needs of our students. Pioneering faculty are helping PLU to explore how online
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PLU opens their 2017-18 season with the West Coast premiere of Aunt Raini . Aunt Raini is a production loosely based on the life of Leni Riefenstahl, a documentarian of Adolf Hitler’s political rallies. The play is a combination of reality and artistic construct: everything…
and Joel are fictitious. Katherine, a successful gallery owner, confronts the difficult past of her great-aunt and must decide whether great art stemming from hate should be lauded or destroyed. Aunt Raini is presented October 20, 21, 26 (student discount performance), 27 and 28 at 7:30pm and October 29 at 2pm in Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $10 – General admission; $5 – 60+, military, alumni and
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After more than 25 years performing piano, Oksana Ezhokina opens a new chapter of her life as an Assistant Professor of Music and Chair of Piano Studies at PLU. Ezhokina performed in Lagerquist Concert Hall as a guest artist in 2000 for the very first…
,” Ezhokina says. “It’s actually very much a highlight of my semester.” Ezhokina says she’s looking forward to working with her colleagues and building upon PLU’s great music tradition. She hopes to help the music department continue to become one of the most coveted places to come and study piano and music in general. Ezhokina was formerly with Cornish College of the Performing Arts where she taught for four years as an adjunct professor. She has also served as Co-Artistic Director of Icicle Creek Music
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In Cosmosis , the final 2013 SOAC FOCUS Series Event, musicians and scientists explore how failure can empower us to pursue knowledge and success. The three-part event will take place in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on Saturday, May 11, 2013…
vastness of space as well as this heroic undertaking. In The Second Night, the spider succeeds again, but is sacrificed in the process. Tickets are $8 general admission, $5 senior citizens (55+), $3 alumni, free 18 and under. Tickets available through the PLU Box Office at 253-535-7411. Read Previous Musical Memories Read Next The End of an Era LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024
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