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Regan Zeebuyth ’01 helps shape culture and solve puzzles at Amazon https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/05/31/regan-zeebuyth-amazon-2/

Regan Zeebuyth ’01 helps shape culture and solve puzzles at Amazon Posted by: Zach Powers / May 31, 2022 Image: As the senior manager for corporate affairs business operations, Regan Zeebuyth ’01 leads the business operations team for worldwide communications at Amazon. (Photo by Silong Chhun) May 31, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsRegan Zeebuyth ’01 has always been curious. Curious about words, about ideas, and about systems. He’s always trusted that curiosity to guide

Jon Grande ’92 embraces innovation, talent and fun at Amazon Games https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/06/03/jon-grande/

Jon Grande ’92 embraces innovation, talent and fun at Amazon Games Posted by: Silong Chhun / June 3, 2022 June 3, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsJon Grande ’92 was an intern at Microsoft the summer before he enrolled at PLU. His supervisor was a young marketing manager named Melinda French. He remembers advice Melinda — now Melinda French Gates — gave him a few weeks before the fall semester began.“Don’t bother majoring in business,” he can still hear her telling him

Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/11/21/gina-gillie/

Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 21, 2022 Image: Professor of Music, French Horn Gina Gillie (PLU photo/John Froschauer) November 21, 2022 By Zach PowersMarketing & Communications Professor of Music Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the

Olympian and advocate Elana Meyers Taylor to deliver PLU Commencement address https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/04/25/elana-meyers-taylor-commencement/

Olympian and advocate Elana Meyers Taylor to deliver PLU Commencement address Posted by: Zach Powers / April 25, 2023 April 25, 2023 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University will welcome Elana Meyers Taylor to the Tacoma Dome on Saturday, May 27 to deliver a Commencement address to the university’s graduating class. Meyers Taylor will share reflections inspired by her historic career as the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history and a tireless

Family ties and academic pursuits: Parker Brocker-Knapp’s journey at PLU https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/05/19/family-hispanic-studies-parker-brocker-knapps-journey-at-plu/

Family ties and academic pursuits: Parker Brocker-Knapp’s journey at PLU Posted by: mhines / May 19, 2023 Image: Parker Brocker-Knapp ’23 (PLU Photo / Emma Stafki). May 19, 2023 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterParker Brocker-Knapp ’23 grew up in Portland, but Puget Sound never seemed far—thanks to close family ties to PLU. We sat down with Brocker-Knapp to learn more about how this senior made the most of his time at PLU.How did you choose PLU? I only entertained the

Dos and Don’ts of Working with a Student with a Disability https://www.plu.edu/oaa/documents/dos-and-donts-of-working-with-a-student-with-a-disability/

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A Weekend with Mother Earth and the Zapotecs – Oaxaca Program 2017 https://www.plu.edu/oaxaca-2017/a-weekend-with-mother-earth-and-the-zapotecs/

Posted on November 16, 2017October 31, 2018 A Weekend with Mother Earth and the Zapotecs Scroll down to see more content The third weekend in September, at the end of our Spanish Intensivo and right before the beginning of Term II, we set off to Pueblos Mancomunados del Norte, in Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte. More specifically, we travelled to a small town called La Nevería. While there, we were honored to be welcomed into a Zapotec community to learn about their culture and traditions. The community

Third Rail Inquiry: Learning, In, Through, and For Community, Part II https://www.plu.edu/prism/inquiry-and-community-sites-of-discovery-part-two/

Third Rail Inquiry: Learning, In, Through, and For Community, Part II The Conversation in Action The Conversation has expanded my understanding of third rail inquiry. First, this group values the story as a way of knowing. Each week we begin with a ten-minute personal anecdote. Often our stories disclose the psychological burden of living the color line, but they can capture any dimension of our experience, any encounter or event that shapes how we see the world. Narratives highlight

Five Guys, One Basketball and Fifty Years – Resolute Online: Spring 2019 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2019/five-guys-basketball-fifty-years/

Five Guys, One Basketball and Fifty Years Five Guys, One Basketball and Fifty Years https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2019/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Logan Logan https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/df88b9152697d03169d961f6b1582ddd?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 10, 2019 June 13, 2019 By Bob Ericksen, ’67 First, about those five guys and one basketball. I arrived at PLU in the fall of 1963, thinking I might play a little basketball. There I met five guys who were bigger

Domestic Travel Insurance for Faculty and Staff – 2023 Travel Assist Summary https://www.plu.edu/risk-services/documents/domestic-travel-insurance-for-faculty-and-staff-2023-travel-assist-summary/

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