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A recent Niche.com survey revealed an interesting stat: “76% of juniors consider the total cost when deciding where to apply. Colleges with a sticker price over $40,000 per year are eliminated early by about half of students.” At PLU, the sticker price is over $40,000,…
Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024
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Diplomat explores Jewish-German relations By Chris Albert More than 150 people showed up to hear the Consul General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations today. Before a crowded room last week in the UC, Schuette said he would dive…
General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations at PLU. In addition to years of education and experience as a diplomat, before taking the San Francisco post in 2005, Schuette spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley. Some of his experience also includes work in Israel. “The Holocaust is still the
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19-year Air Force vet challenges ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ By Steve Hansen When Major Margaret Witt graduated with a nursing degree from PLU in 1986, she began a highly successful career as a flight nurse with the U.S. Air Force. She served in the Persian…
my old professors [in the Nursing and Women’s And Gender Studies],” she said. “At the trial, PLU was very well represented.” Read Previous Oil Literacy panel Read Next Crime of My Very Existence 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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget
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During a ceremony of remembrance in Red Square, the Norwegian Flag is raised for the victims of the terror attacks this summer. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU professor remembers Norway’s peaceful response to attacks of terror By Katie Scaff ’13 The dignity and resolve of…
Berguson, associate professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian area studies, “the responses seemed natural and anything but naïve.” The Scandinavian Cultural Center and the Department of Languages and Literatures sponsored Berguson’s lecture, “My Little Country’: Norway’s Responses to Terror,” on Tuesday, Sept. 19, to honor the lives lost and provide insight into Norwegian responses to the acts of terror. “The summer became more than what any of us had imagined,” she said of the attacks. Berguson was in
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President Thomas Krise is greeted by well wishers at an informal reception in the Scandinavian Center to mark his first day on the job. (Photo by John Froschauer) President Thomas Krise welcomed to PLU By Barbara Clements Over 200 faculty, staff and students enthusiastically greeted…
. Before moving to UCF, he served 22 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He served on the faculty of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, as a senior military fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., and as vice director of the National Defense University Press. He was the founder and first director of the Air Force Humanities Institute, and deputy head of the Department of English and Fine Arts at the Air Force Academy. He
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Zylstra to lead PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service By Barbara Clements The way Joel Zylstra ’05 sees it , PLU’s mission is all about reaching out, getting involved and making a difference of individuals in the nearby Tacoma and Parkland community. It is…
from PLU with a degree in recreation and environmental studies, spent some time working in the Student Life offices on campus, before spending one year in Kenya working with a non-profit. He then completed his master’s in educational leadership from Miami University in Ohio. Read Previous A calling to teach Read Next A unicycle, persistence and passion take alum to Nike, then to Olympics COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker
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State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series Fall 2012 Business leaders throughout industry come to PLU to share their insight through the State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series. Lectures are held in Leraas Hall, Rieke Science Center from 6 to 7 p.m., with refreshments served from…
region during her tenure. Krise earned a B.A. in Business from Hanover College in Indiana and an M.B.A. from Miami University of Ohio. Read Previous Lutheran Studies conference examines the Lutheran perspective on political life Read Next Voices from empty chairs 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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal
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This past summer, Nathan Page ’13, left, worked on Mt. Rainier conducting research on glaciers. Each week, the group spent two nights on Mt. Rainier, hiking anywhere from three to 15 miles to their research area, collecting a sample before bed, then getting up at…
When college students dream up the perfect summer, it usually doesn’t involve getting up at 3 a.m. to take water samples, living out of your backpack, and sleeping in the trees. But for geosciences major Nathan Page, there was no better way to spend the last summer of his undergraduate education. Page set out on a series of research trips with four of his peers and Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Claire Todd to study waste management on Mt. Rainier. It was a great way
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PLU students took on Mt. Rainier during a snowshoeing expedition with Outdoor Recreation. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Snow much fun By Katie Scaff ’13 Tumbling head-over-heels down Mount Rainier — literally — isn’t how most students spend the Saturday before dead week, but nursing…
sledding evolved into racing down the mountainside, until his snowshoe would get stuck in the powder, sending him flying head-over-heels downward and then to a halt. “I like tumbling,” Hundtofte said rather matter of factly. “The snow doesn’t hurt.” His ability to get right back up after his falls encouraged English and Global Studies double major Maylen Anthony ’16 and nursing major Nina Dam Pedersen ’14 to join in the fun. Pedersen, a Denmark-native studying at PLU for just three-and-a-half months
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Student Composition Wins Statewide Competition Taylor Whatley, right, works with Prof. Greg Youtz on Whatley’s winning composition. (Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) Taylor Whatley’s Original Piece, ‘Fanfare Giocoso,’ Premieres at LUCO’s Season-Opener By Valery Jorgensen ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker Seattle’s renowned Lake Union…
opening of the concert, and I wanted it to be exciting.” At PLU, Whatley is principal bass in the University Symphony Orchestra and spends the bulk of his time practicing, writing and performing classical pieces. As a student of composition, he has participated in composers forums, represented the department in the National Association of Schools of Music concerts and has had works published in the student arts publication Saxifrage. After graduation, Whatley plans to pursue graduate studies in
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