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  • Assistant Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | lnervo@plu.edu | 253-535-7376 | My discipline of interest is developmental biology, which is the study of the processes needed for animals and plants to grow and develop.  Developmental Biology is an excellent field that intersects, genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and comparative anatomy to answer key organismal growth questions.

    is an excellent field that intersects, genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and comparative anatomy to answer key organismal growth questions. My research specifically focuses on how organisms build tissues during animal embryo development. Building the animal body and maintaining tissue homeostasis (equilibrium) requires the coordinated effort of many cells acting in concert. Controlling these concerted cell movements are the cell adhesion and cytoskeletal machinery, which work

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    of his acting career, such as accounting, marketing and management theories. Today, he works at Stage3 Agency, a production company based in California that helps brands create digital content.Andrew Miller ’14Discover how Miller, a graduate of PLU’s MBA program, became the CEO of Spinach Bus Ventures and led a remarkable turnaround at Tulip Town. When the global pandemic hit in 2020, Miller leveraged the skills and knowledge from his PLU MBA to navigate the unprecedented challenges in

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  • Barry Johnson has performed in over 25 roles in the Seattle and Tacoma Operas, while also teaching voice and opera lessons at PLU for over 20 years. Today, you can find him teaching full-time to music students at PLU. What is your background? I was…

    on a full scholarship- an opportunity I never imagined possible. I had never seen an opera until I was in one my freshman year. I took music classes, but also many dance and acting classes too as I was a music theater major for a time. I ended up getting my degree in Music Education and taught high school and junior high for a year before starting a graduate program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I started teaching on the voice faculty at PLU as an adjunct lecturer in 1989, immediately

  • PLU top placer in the Peace Corps This year, Pacific Lutheran University ranks No.18 on Peace Corps’ 2013 Top Colleges for small schools. The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities for small, medium, large and graduate institutions. There are currently 15 undergraduate…

    in the nation. Since 1961, PLU has produced 242 volunteers in the Peace Corps. “Every year, graduates of colleges and universities across the United States are making a difference in communities overseas through Peace Corps service,” said Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet. “As a result of the top-notch education they receive, these graduates are well prepared for the challenge of international service. They become leaders in their host communities and carry the spirit of service

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 25, 2020) — Noted academics, activists and practitioners whose life’s work engages polarization — within and across disciplines, traditions, communities and peoples — will gather at Pacific Lutheran University on March 5-6 for the 9th Biennial Wang Center Symposium, “Disarming Polarization: Navigating…

    independent and creative thinking that are necessary for our communities and societies to thrive,” said Tamara R. Williams, Executive Director of PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and coordinator of the event. “If there is one thread that connects the speakers and panels in this symposium, it is that they disrupt predictable and repetitive ways of thinking and acting; they all invite the audience to reflect more deeply on what humans have in common rather than what keeps us apart.” Read Previous Amy

  • Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.

    construction of the observatory, worked closely with students in assembling the dome and installing the telescope, and oversaw several undergraduate research projects. The observatory has been a valuable addition to the university’s astronomy curriculum and to its public outreach efforts through PLU’s annual Jazz Under the Stars concerts and through occasional events held in collaboration with the Tacoma Astronomical Society. Prior to becoming acting provost in 2009 and then provost in 2010, his university

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    On the Court and in the Classroom: A Brother and Sister Find Success at PLU On the day of high school class choices, a middle school teacher noticed the normally outgoing Jackson Reisner sitting quietly, acting withdrawn. Jackson grew increasingly anxious as the morning progressed. A movie buff, the Burlington eighth grader had seen all the difficult depictions of high… March 23, 2023 AthleticsCurrent StudentsEducationLife on Campus

  • It’s 11 a.m. in Harlem. Justin Huertas ’09 and Kiki deLohr ’10 are feeling loose, relaxed — even a bit silly — as they sip coffee outside Sugar Hill Café. In a few short hours they will make their off-Broadway debuts in a musical written…

    classmates who expected to land the leading roles. “They were looking at a couple students who were older than us,” deLohr says. “And then we came in and just kind of stole those roles.”I Dreamed A DreamKiki deLohr sings “Terrible Ride” from Lizard Boy. Though both had starred in high school musicals, neither Huertas nor deLohr enrolled at PLU intending to major in theater. DeLohr planned to study psychology and Huertas was a music performance major specializing in the cello. After meeting in Acting 101

  • ‘Souls of Black Girls’ When filmmaker Daphne Valerius flipped through magazines as a young girl, she rarely, if ever, saw anyone that looked like her – then a shy young black girl growing up in Rhode Island.“You looked through the magazines and didn’t see one…

    masters in journalism from Emerson College. Still, with all these academic credentials behind her, Valerius remembers turning away from an acting career because “I thought I wasn’t pretty enough.” Black women are also conditioned from a very young age to fit into a certain role, she added. There are certain roles, both socially and professionally for men and women in black culture. “We are conditioned on what a woman buys or doesn’t buy, and to wear high heels and look like Barbies. For the media

  • A backstage peek behind “A Streetcar Named Desire” By Loren Liden ’11 The PLU theater department added a dramatic splash to campus with month with the opening of the last play of the season, Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Well known in any performance…

    minute’s worth of dialogue for us to change (the set),” Rud said. After all those changes, the supers still have to switch back into their costumes for curtain call, and then back into their blacks to clean up the stage and reset it for the next performance. “By the time it’s all said and done, I have usually been there for five or six hours,” Rud said. Rud is looking forward to the final weekend, hoping to tighten up his work and avoid the previous slip ups. As for acting anxiety, the real butterflies