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March 2, 2009 Making study away possible A new $2 million scholarship fund will increase study abroad opportunities for low-income students at Pacific Lutheran University. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university a $1 million challenge grant to initiate the endowment fund a year ago. Since then, a matching $1 million has been raised from donors, including the estate of Arthur H. Hansen, Loren and MaryAnn Anderson, Charles Bergman and Susan Mann, and Iver and Ginny Haugen

Board of Regents. The $3 million project has been funded by gifts from more than 400 donors and at least 20 former and current regents, he said. A gift from Wilson Construction and the Don and Kim Wilson family was instrumental in breaking ground on the athletic fields project. Bjerke said, adding that without their gift this project would not be happening. “This is a great thing to celebrate,” he said. The new synthetic surface field will serve the men’s and women’s soccer programs as a practice

.” The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit national competitions in the performing arts providing cash awards, professional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition for the best recorded performances by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States at the professional, college/university, church, community and secondary school levels. Administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Danbury, Connecticut, The American Prize

in large quantities over the country by Allied Forces. As part of its U.S. tour, the exhibit, which chronicles and remembers the courage and resolve of the White Rose members, has made stops in Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, New York and Iowa and, in the Pacific Northwest, at Washington State University and the University of Washington. At PLU, the free exhibit is open to the public and will be displayed on the first, second and third-floor lobbies of Mortvedt Library during regular library hours. Read

PLU announces spring partnership with the Clemente Course in the Humanities Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / June 7, 2019 Image: Pacific Lutheran University is partnering with the Clemente Course in the Humanities this coming spring. June 7, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (June 7, 2019) — Thanks to a new 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Pacific Lutheran University is happy to announce a Spring 2020 partnership with the nationally

others are exposed to new insights about people who are different from them,” says Cunningham. PLU Senior Ian Rice, a member of University Congregation, attended last year’s Gospel Experience Concert and reflected on his experience of the event. “Overall the concert was very different than what I’m used to, especially because Lutherans traditionally sit and stand fairly still while singing a hymn. This was louder and longer — since each song seemed Spirit-led in terms of when it actually finished