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PLU announces Fixed Tuition Guarantee, reducing financial risk to students and running counter to common higher ed practice Posted by: Zach Powers / October 18, 2021 October 18, 2021 By Zach Powers ‘10PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has just announced a Fixed Tuition Guarantee that will ensure tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years at the university.This guarantee disrupts

PLU announces Carol Sheffels Quigg Award winners Posted by: Silong Chhun / December 21, 2022 Image: Carol Sheffels Quigg (left) with Associate Professor of Biology, Romey Haberle (right) in PLU’s greenhouse. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) December 21, 2022 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the

Introducing: The Lightboard Posted by: berlinma / April 3, 2019 April 3, 2019 iTech recently finished construction of the Lightboard, which is a new tool that can be used to create written and drawn visuals for instructional videos. The Lightboard can be especially useful to demonstrate complicated material, such as mathematic equations. Our Lightboard is available for campus-wide use – watch the video below to check it out! Visit our Lightboard page for more info. Read Previous New

Associate Director of the Peace Corps Visits PLU Posted by: Thomas Krise / May 2, 2014 May 2, 2014 Associate Director of the Peace Corps, Helen Lowman, visited PLU this week. PLU ranks 3rd nationwide for Peace Corps volunteers with 16 undergraduate alumni currently serving. Read the story here. Proud to be a Lute! *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Vice President for Student Life & Dean of Students Announcement Read Next Response to New York Times Article: ‘Bryan College Is Torn

Congratulations Alum Natalie Bisceglia! Posted by: Julie Winters / April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 Recently Natalie (’13), who works at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center, received a Daisy Award for her “amazing, informational, and caring service” while caring for an infant who was admitted for monitoring. The family said she went “over and beyond for us which turned this exhausting, scary, frustrating moment into a wonderful pleasant informing hospital trip.” Great job

The Edison Awards: Innovations That Shape the World Posted by: halvormj / February 23, 2018 February 23, 2018 By Damian Alessandro ’19 It’s awards season! Not the Academy Awards–although we do host awards parties at Pacific Lutheran University. I’m writing about the annual awards for innovation that have everyone whispering excitedly in the discipline of Innovation Studies. That’s right–its the Edison Awards, which honor excellence in the development, marketing, and launch of new products and

Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Kate Williams '16The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Dance Center for New Music at the University of Georgia

November 4, 2014 Former Lute Soccer Star Kicks Off New Professional League Andrew Croft ’09 played soccer for a year with the Tacoma Stars. (Photo: ©Wilson Tsoi/goalWA.net) Andrew Croft ’09 is a Goalkeeper for the New Seattle Impact FC, Which Debuts in Kent Nov. 8 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 5, 2014)—Andrew Croft ’09 joined the PLU men’s soccer team in 2005 as a promising first-year goalkeeper—with an uncommonly uncanny knack for scoring goals, too

PLU Teaching Online program incorporates technology into learning, enhances brick-and-mortar experience Posted by: Kari Plog / February 22, 2016 Image: Craig Cornwall reviewing watercolor paintings for his PLUTO online class at PLU on Monday, March 9, 2015. (Photo/John Froschauer) February 22, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 22, 2016)- Kevin O’Brien has been teaching at Pacific Lutheran University for about a decade. But last summer was the first time the

May 18, 2012 More than 850 students will graduate from PLU for the 2011-2012 academic year. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 27 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter in their lives and prepared to turn the next page. In the following, some Lutes shared their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences have been and what will be the next chapter in their lives