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December 2, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uu94p78Pz0 ‘Sunrise’ and Stardom By Sandy Deneau Dunham One amazing Sunrise is shining quite a spotlight on Luke Olson ’16. Olson and his band, The Olson Bros, are the new national champions of The Texaco Country Showdown songwriting contest, billed as the nation’s largest and longest-running country-music talent search. The band’s original song Sunrise earned its members $5,000 and a January trip to Nashville, where they will be introduced at

challenges to complete. The only way a contestant is eliminated is by choosing to quit. And none of the contestants know who, if any, of the others have quit. “It is a different kind of television show,” Francisco said. “This is the only reality show where you are playing against yourself because the only way you lose is if you quit.” It’s a true test of will, Francisco said. “I had a certain bar that I had when it came to pain threshold,” she said. “(But) when you want something bad enough you’ll push

March 5, 2010 Olympic medalist encourages symposium crowd to make a difference By Barbara Clements Joey Cheek was sprawled out on a couch in 2005, wondering what he was going to do with a free afternoon after training all morning in an Austrian skating facility, when a BBC  program caught his eye. Wang Center Symposium keynote speaker Joey Cheek addresses the crowd about making a difference in the world. Women and children were running and screaming out of a village being set afire by rebels in

“Yes Means Yes”: A New Standard of Consent (Listen to the Full Lecture Below.) Posted by: Zach Powers / December 8, 2014 Image: Kaitlyn Sill, Dec. 3, 2014. (Photo: Zach Powers/PLU) December 8, 2014 By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 8, 2014)—On Wednesday, Dec. 3, Pacific Lutheran University students, staff and faculty gathered in the Anderson University Center for the latest installment of Sex +, a yearlong campus series addressing the growing need for positive

February 1, 2012 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 home in Ottawa, Canada.  In the mid-80s, Barlow was working in the women’s movement and focusing  on laws that would eventually be known as the as NAFTA. While looking over various

February 10, 2012 “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 recalled recently from her home in Ottawa, Canada.  In the mid-80s, Barlow was working in the women’s movement and focusing  on laws that would eventually be known as the NAFTA trade agreement. While

May 19, 2011 The new Professorship of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies is the result of a decade of effort by the Svare family and professor emeritus, Audun Toven. (Photo by John Froschauer) Professorship in Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies announced By Barbara Clements At Pacific Lutheran University’s third annual Syttende Mai  – or Norwegian Constitution Day – celebration last week, President Loren J. Anderson heralded the day and then paused for a very appropriate, and unexpected

A Conversation with Shannon Murphy ’07, President of Washington Conservation Voters Posted by: Zach Powers / January 6, 2020 Image: (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) January 6, 2020 By Lisa Patterson '98Guest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsShannon Murphy ’07 loved exploring the beauty that surrounds Pacific Lutheran University’s campus — from majestic Mount Rainier to the sparkling Puget Sound. What she learned as a communication major with minors in public affairs and Spanish and during

within each of these different specialties that I’m experiencing. I think this will help me figure out which one is going to fit the best. I’m discovering that I enjoy working with women, and I’ve also enjoyed my general surgery rotation. I’m on my obstetrics and gynecology rotation now, and I’ve really enjoyed procedural aspects of care. That’s pushing me into a direction of something that has clinic and procedure options. By the beginning of next year I’ll start narrowing things down. Shelby Hatton

all the way back to elementary school, I was fascinated by the human body. Then I loved all my science courses in middle school and high school. By the time I got to college, pursuing a pre-med pathway felt like the best reflection of my interests. Plus, I’ve always really enjoyed helping people, so it seemed like a natural fit for me. Like many medical students, you earned a Master of Arts in Medical Sciences (MAMS) degree prior to enrolling in your doctoral program. What was that program like