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A Slice of Paradise The Malick Folk Performing Company from Trinidad and Tobago will perform from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, April 22 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Malick is the premier folk performing company of Trinidad and Tobago. The award-winning group travels…
. Malick has sustained a 23-year relationship with Pacific Lutheran University, and looks forward to highlighting the First Peoples’ culture through this captivating performance.This event is co-sponsored by Pacific Lutheran University and Tacoma Public Schools. Cover image designed by Legacy Graphic Studio with slight modification by PLU Marketing and Communications. Click here to learn more about the Wang Center study away gateway to Trinidad and Tobago and Candice Hughes ’08, PLU Program Coordinator
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David Ward is a practicing therapist who says the origins of his vocation go all the way back to his childhood home. “I grew up in a family where I benefited from strong family ties, and I saw the impact of imperfect but strong relationships,”…
process, and understanding how multiple people interact in ways that lead to success and other times lead to challenges — these things are at the heart of being a family therapist. And it’s the same with the administrative structure of relationships among the deans, as well as a dean and our leadership team in the college, relationship with faculty and relationship with students, and so forth. It’s about these relationships and understanding how to navigate challenges. What is a specific way that a
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By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Jan. 28, 2015)—If you can’t make it to the Seattle Seahawks’ pre-Super Bowl rally in Arizona on Jan. 31, you can take comfort in the fact that at least one Pacific Lutheran University graduate will…
graduated, and the company has grown to more than 212 employees (including other Lutes recruited and hired by Dilts) and taken on sponsorship of the MBA Executive Speaker Series on campus. Pyramid Staging started out on a much smaller stage, so to speak, and built its clientele over time. “It’s really a small world, and everything is 100-percent relationship-driven,” Dilts said. Many of those relationships formed during his time at PLU. “Earning my MBA at PLU has helped me in so many ways, it’s hard to
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Dave Robbins Steps Down after 33 Years as Chair of the Department of Music Greg Youtz’s first glimpse of Dave Robbins was him strolling down a hallway in Eastvold, while his two-year-old daughter toddled along at his side, clutching his finger. “I remember thinking that…
Russell gave the first naming gift to launch the new Music facility, which would be named the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Mary Baker Russell listens to Dave Robbins Even in the early seventies, the department had clearly outgrown the small space they shared with theatre and communication in Eastvold. Youtz remembers buckets catching drips of rainwater while he lectured. Robbins wrote the very first report justifying a new fine arts music building, which was approved by the regents in 1978. “The
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At PLU, we pride ourselves on having an actual person make roommate assignments. Over the summer, our professional staff members carefully review all Student Roommate Questionnaires (part of the Living Plans & Learning Community Application) to create the best roommate matches. So, answer your questionnaire…
mutual and you both must be assigned to the same learning community before we can guarantee a match. During the last week in July, your roommate assignment will be emailed to you (your PLU email!), and we’ll send along your roommate’s PLU email so you can connect with them. From there, we recommend breaking the ice before you both arrive on campus. It will help you establish rapport – the beginning of any good relationship. Texts, phone calls, (and maybe Facetime or Zoom calls?) will give you a
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 19, 2015)—Author, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney is the keynote speaker for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University on April 21. Finney’s lecture, “ This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging ,” is…
Pacific Lutheran University on April 21.Finney’s lecture, “This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging,” is about how the discussion of environmental and racial issues is grounded in the experience of a particular place. Dr. Kevin O’Brien, chair of the Environmental Studies program, says he expects Finney to also talk about how the relationship between race and nature has been defined in the past, and the possibility of “future belonging,” creating communities of a genuine
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Our new Lutes are officially moved in and ready to start their college journey. To kick things off, here are 5 cool facts about living on campus. 1. Find Your Community At PLU, every residential student is part of a Learning Community (LC), which means…
part of a community that’s all about engagement, enjoyment, and success.3. Choose Your Vibe: Upper or Lower CampusPLU’s campus is split into two main areas: Upper Campus and Lower Campus, each with its own set of residence halls. Upper Campus boasts five residence halls, while Lower Campus has three. Whether you’re into the bustling energy of Upper Campus or the more chill vibes of Lower Campus, there’s a spot that’s perfect for you.4. Live in the Tallest Building in ParklandHow cool is this
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Shortly after John Wolfe ’87 graduated from PLU he went to work for a Seattle-based company called SeaLand Shipping Line. In the years that followed he worked in sales, marketing, and operations for a variety of marine cargo companies and agencies. Eventually, he was appointed…
a fit for all these levels of experience and education. That has tremendous benefits for our community. The ships we see in the ports are coming from and going to – I imagine – a wide variety of international destinations. What is your role in developing international partnerships? A big part of the role at the NW Seaport Alliance is building strong relationships with our customers. The large shipping lines that call our gateway are typically foreign-owned carriers, most of the freight
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On Exhibit: Common Reading Book 2021, The Best We Could Do The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book is the critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter…
sometimes fraught relationship with her parents in light of who she has become as a daughter, wife, and a mother. Told in a graphic novel format, Bui explores the universal themes of immigration and migration, family, racism and discrimination, duty, and redemption as they relate to the modern-day Vietnamese Asian-American experience. – from https://www.plu.edu/first-year/ Mortvedt Library has many resources to support your reading of and engagement with The Best We Could Do. In addition to print books
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In June, PLU’s Kinesiology Team—Emily Whittaker ’21, Alyssa Pociernicki ’22, and Brianna O’Malley ’21—finished third in the 2021 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) National Knowledge Bowl. “This achievement is significant to us and PLU because it shows how great our undergraduate program is and…
, followed by a final jeopardy question. The trio of competitors from PLU excelled in the categories of metabolism, anatomy, behavior, and endocrinology. “This experience was one for the books. I used to compete on a knowledge bowl team in high school, so it was fun to compete again and represent the department of kinesiology,” said Pociernicki. “It brought me a lot closer to Brianna and Emily and created a stronger relationship between the three of us.”Interested in studying Kinesiology?Kinesiology is
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