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Makaela Whalen ’23 pursues newly launched pre-law minor Posted by: vcraker / June 7, 2022 Image: Image: (From left to right) Honorable Philip K. Sorensen, Connor Lemma ’22, Makaela Whalen ’23, Calissa Hagen ’24, Honorable Clarence Henderson, Jr. (photo courtesy of Judge Sorensen) June 7, 2022 Makaela Whalen ’23 has a passion for the environment and animals. Her desire to find a meaningful vocation that feeds those passions resulted in her pursuing a degree in either environmental or animal law
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, Bea Geller, Steve Sobeck, Jessica Spring and Michael Stasinos. The artworks in the exhibition range from ceramic vessels, sculpture, digital photography and paintings to printmaking and letterpress. JP Avila, associate professor of art and design, will be debuting a new body of work titled “Held Memory” using methods of cutting and folding, a technique used by several cultures for decoration, celebration and narration. The title, “held memory”, represents the piece in two ways. When paper is
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took place to works of “War, Reconciliation, and Peace.” PLU organist, Paul Tegels, performed various works on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ in Lagerquist Hall. Read Previous Convocation Read Next Student Voices COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU Director of Athletics and Recreation Mike Snyder named President of NADIIIAA August 16, 2024 PLU College
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January 7, 2013 A small group of students, staff and faculty join hands at the Explore! Retreat for first year students during J-Term. (Photo by John Froschauer) Explore! retreat helps students understand vocation, and just have fun By Katie Scaff ’13 The annual Explore! retreat offers students the chance to have fun and make new friends, but unlike other first –year programs it also offers students the opportunity to reflect on their journey and consider broader questions of meaning and
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brought up the topic. He died when she was in the fourth grade. And it’s not a topic her mother really wishes to discuss. Still, questions haunt her. Why does this happen? Why did her grandfather abandon the family? What possible reason could God have for allowing this to happen to her mom? “It was really difficult to deal with,” said the normally ebullient Parks in a quiet voice. But some good did come out of it. Her mom quickly involved herself in ASB, track and field and summer parks and recreation
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soon realized research was like a turtle — very slow. “You sit with one question for years, and I was like, ‘Dude, I got a lot of questions.’” He started taking more philosophy classes, “so I could ask those questions and scratch that itch.” Stumbling into philosophy at PLU and falling in love with it led to graduate school at the University of Oregon, where he earned a master’s degree in behavioral philosophy in 2007. In that program, he combined both his interests — psychology and philosophy
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August 2, 2013 Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure interview. There, he was asked: What is the strength of the PLU theater program? “We sort of teach the MacGyver school of theater,” he told his interviewers. “We arm students with a pocket knife and they go
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May 11, 2012 For more than a decade, Professor Craig Fryhle, chair of PLU’s Chemistry Department, has coauthored an organic chemistry textbook that has become standard, celebrated and familiar fare for sophomore students studying organic chemistry in many universities. Fryhle is just finishing up the 11th edition of the book with his coauthor, T.W. Graham Solomons. (Photo by John Froschauer) For organic chemistry students, Prof. Craig Fryhle’s name pops up almost every time they open a book. By
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Financial Aid: What’s the deal with the FAFSA this year? Posted by: mhines / February 2, 2024 February 2, 2024 Have you been reading headlines about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (aka the FAFSA) in the news? That’s because this year, the federal government is rolling out a brand new form, and while it’s designed to be more streamlined and easier for students and families to complete, there have been, well, some hiccups with the rollout. So, we pulled together this post to share
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pace.Which might seem contradictory at first. But Sandhu transferred to PLU with two years of Running Start credits as a 17-year-old, with plans to graduate in two years. The pandemic was in full force, and classes were online. When in-person classes started in Sandhu’s senior year, she felt a little behind and hesitant to ask for help. “I decided to add a year, slow down a bit and give myself space to grow,” she says. As a result, she pursued international interests while staying near her family and
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