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distracted by all the other things that you can do as an undergrad. Make sure that you’re always focusing on academics.PLU DebateFounded in 1947, PLU’s debate team is one of the oldest and most decorated forensics programs in the country. Read Previous PLU professor Dean Waldow charges up his students while building a better battery Read Next It’s Mylie Miller’s job to market Wild Waves. And yes, she has a lot of fun at work COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you
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Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ – five Lutes, one stage, hitting the high notes in fun Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / December 13, 2011 Image: Five Lutes took the stage in the summer of 2011 for Seattle Opera’s production of ‘Porgy and Bess.’ (Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera) December 13, 2011 Amy Van Mechelen ’08 had just finished up her master’s degree in music at Colorado State University and had moved back to the Tacoma area. She auditioned for the chorus of Porgy and Bess,and didn’t think
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to her arrival at PLU. A history major with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was
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& Communications The PLU capstone project is a meaningful culmination of a student’s academic journey at PLU. It offers students a chance to embrace complexity and ask tough questions. In a display of remembrance and advocacy, Nasier Ford ’24, La’akea Ane ’24, and Jesse Canda ’24 opened their communication capstone project with a moment of silence, dedicating 38 seconds to honor a teammate lost to mental illness in 2021. The significance of 38 seconds represented their teammate’s football jersey number and
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PLU faculty members Lisa Marcus, Michael Halvorson and Amy Young discuss the word ‘symbol’ (podcast) Posted by: Zach Powers / March 24, 2017 March 24, 2017 TACOMA, WASH. (March 24, 2017)-The ninth episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “symbol” among host and Communication and Theatre Department Chair Amy Young, Professor of English Lisa Marcus and Associate Professor of History and Benson Family Chair Michael Halvorson. Conversation Highlights 3:35: Dream subject
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remain comfortable this entire time, I didn’t do my job,” she told the audience of more than 200 educators, administrators and students at the event hosted by the South Puget Sound Higher Education Diversity Partnership. “(Race) is an incredibly complex and nuanced topic,” DiAngelo, Ph.D., explained. “The racial status quo is comfortable and I want to shake it up.” The theme and central question of the institute proved to be challenging: “what does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race
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Sociology major Allen Tugade ’24 has been a dynamic researcher and student leader at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / May 28, 2024 Image: (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) May 28, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer As a student, Allen Tugade ’24 engaged in academic and applied sociological research on the student population of Pacific Lutheran University. Tugade was a member of Choir of the West and a well-known student leader on campus, serving as a Wild Hope Fellow
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attorney general for Washington state, there’s no predicting the cases and conundrums that will land on Kjolseth’s desk. That’s part of the reason they love their job.What does your practice at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office include? I work in the education division at the Attorney General’s office, so my practice includes both K-12 and higher education law. I am general counsel to a couple of technical colleges and the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. And then I
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staff to attend and submit proposals. Registration information will be forthcoming this spring. Jose Antonio Bowen, 2018 Boyer Award recipient, will give the keynote address and it will be followed by a workshop with Bowen and Eddie Watson, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President for Quality, Advocacy, and Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiatives. The NAC&U Summer Institute 2018 will focus on fostering skills
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January 21, 2014 Lutes study social justice at one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious universities By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director Nine Pacific Lutheran University students are studying at Oxford University as part of the first such program at PLU, one of the only universities on the West Coast to offer such an opportunity. The students, who departed PLU the first week of J-term, will spend the next six months at Oxford studying social justice issues, those issues around
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