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  • The annual Lutheran Studies Conference provides an opportunity for the university, the larger community, and persons from diverse religious and humanistic viewpoints to explore particular and pressing issues within the thoughtful and generous milieu of Lutheran higher education. Each conference welcomes scholars, artists, and religious leaders whose expertise is offered in an engaging and thought-provoking manner. Past conferences have been devoted to the limited gift of water (2011), political

  • , Standard Biodiesel driver Don Nisbet, accompanied by the company mascot, a black retriever mix named Biodiesel Belle, pulls up to the loading dock outside the UC. Just short of five minutes later, he’s sucked the slippery mess from the barrel to his truck, which carries, when full, about 1,600 gallons. It’s then taken back to the plant, the impurities (think hamburger scraps and old French fries) are taken out and the amber liquid is purified, catalyst added and a smidgen of diesel – and viola, an

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 11, 2016)- A project in a marketing class has turned into a passionate effort to register student voters during a major election year. A group of business students at Pacific Lutheran University say they are concerned about lagging voter turnout that has historically…

    because it should be that important,” Johnson said, adding that new classrooms will get kids excited to learn. And PLU students don’t have to be from here to vote here. A voting residence is a person’s permanent address or a transitional address where he or she physically resides. “Students away at school have the option of retaining their address at home or registering at their address at school,” Pierce County Elections Manager Mike Rooney said. In other words, students don’t lose their residency

  • Achievement Award applicants. Since 2014-15, we have grown 29% in the number of annual scholarship auditions, interviews, and portfolio reviews conducted by our Music, Theatre, Dance, Art & Design and Forensics (Speech & Debate) programs. In addition, our matriculation rate of these award recipients has increased 6.4% – now to a point that more than 50% of all award recipients accept and attend PLU. Increased freshman-sophomore retention rates. Since 2010, we have increased our freshman to sophomore

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2016)- Gloria Perry repeated “I’ll be darned” over and over upon hearing the news that she’ll step onto the mound at Cheney Stadium to represent Pacific Lutheran University and throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Tacoma Rainiers game Aug.…

    ” flag (that she plans to hang on the front of her walker), 93-year-old Perry beamed with nostalgia. “That brings back many, many, many memories,” she said. Perry and her twin sister, Helen Jansen, played softball together at PLU in the early 1940s. They joined the team after years of playing together as kids. “That’s how we got so good,” she recalled. Perry played left field. Her sister, who died in April, played shortstop. Perry was also an active chorus member on campus. The twins both studied

  • Knutson Lecture

    16th Annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture“Bonhoeffer, the Church, and the Climate Question”Rev. Dr. James B. Martin-Schramm '81 Tuesday, November 2, 2021 7:00pm (Pacific time) Zoom Webinar   Contact person: Dr. Agnes Choi, Chair of the Religion Department choiaa@plu.edu Free and Open to the Public Video of the LectureThe 16th annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture begins with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s provocative 1933 essay on “The Church and the Jewish Question” and draws parallels to

  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Friday, December 8, 2017, three PLU students will present the results of their summer research projects in a public presentation connected to PLU’s Business and Economic History program. The presenters are Michael Diambri, Teresa…

    Benson Student Research Fellows to Present at PLU Posted by: halvormj / November 7, 2017 November 7, 2017 By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Friday, December 8, 2017, three PLU students will present the results of their summer research projects in a public presentation connected to PLU’s Business and Economic History program. The presenters are Michael Diambri, Teresa Hackler, and Alex Lund, and each spent the summer of 2017 working with a faculty mentor to

  • university give their students foundational knowledge and methodologies necessary to discuss contemporary problems of interest to that discipline and contribute to their solution.  How that plays out, however, depends on each discipline’s focus.  English, for example, may ask students to become familiar with the literature of a particular time and place and how “critical traditions critical traditions frame our approaches to texts and define the issues that keep them meaningful and relevant in our lives

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    The Tournées Film Festival brings nine acclaimed international films and an award-winning filmmaker to PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / September 28, 2016 Image: PLU professors Giovanna Urdangarain (left) and Rebecca Wilkin (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 28, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine