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  • The Richard D. Moe Organ Series has an exciting line up of performances planned for the 2017-18 academic year. The upcoming October 22 performance will feature duo organists, Dana Robinson and Paul Tegels. Dana Robinson is Associate Professor of Music and Organist at the University…

    Tegels, including arrangements of works by Mozart, Schumann, and an arrangement of the last two movements of the Reformation Symphony by Mendelssohn. Come and hear this glorious setting of “A Mighty Fortress” on the mighty Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ in Lagerquist Hall! The concert begins at 3pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall in Mary Baker Russell Building. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $17 – general admission; $10 – 60+, military, alumni and PLU community (faculty, staff, families); $5

  • Gordon Gilbertson will forever remain a legacy in the PLU music department. David Robbins, Senior Advancement Officer and former chair of the department recounts Gordon’s impact at PLU. “Gordon was hired at PLU in 1954 to serve as band director and teach music education courses.…

    educators trained at PLU, among them my wife, Karen. My wife’s first public school teaching assignment was choral and general music classes in middle school – a true baptism by fire for a first-year teacher. Karen always said she got through it because of Gordon’s strategies and inspiration. Ours are but two examples of the impact this wonderful man had on so many at PLU.” The Gordon O. Gilbertson Instrumental Music Education Scholarship has been created by two former students of Gordon, Alvina Hauf

  • Making an art out of giving of oneself Melinda Cox ’71, has never been shy about volunteering her time to help others. As an art professor at Tacoma Community College and Pierce College, Cox regularly juggles teaching and volunteer work. “I have always volunteered my…

    portion of her time teaching students how to excel in and appreciate art. Cox has taught art courses at TCC for 10 years, and at Pierce College for one. She encourages all potential art majors, and college students in general, to study hard and keep pushing toward their goals. “Take advantage of every opportunity that might come your way,” Cox said. “Because you never know what connections you will make, what you will learn or how it will be of benefit.” Story by Hillary Fazzari ’11 Read Previous

  • Mike Vermuelen always liked rocks. Now he gets to study them up close in Antarctica. By Barbara Clements In a lab littered with Hostess snack bars and French fry wrappers, geosciences student Mike Vermeulen ’12, turns to his computer and pops up a map of…

    give us a context of the recent changes we’ve been seeing,” said Vermeulen, who at first thought of becoming a nurse when he arrived at PLU. And he was interested in playing for the soccer team. But his love of rocks and geology soon took over. As a kid, “I’d be the one collecting rocks. Pretty soon I had giant plastic bins filled up with rocks at home,” he said. “I really never thought I’d have an opportunity like this, said Vermeulen, 22. “As a kid I just had a general interest in rocks. I would

  • Alum pursues research in Prague with follow up in Israel Laura Brade graduated from PLU in 2008, summa cum laude, with a double major in History and German. She took Bob Ericksen’s Holocaust course in the spring of 2006. She then studied for a year…

    Prague. This summer, Brade will be presenting at the Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel. Brade intends to return to the U.S. in August 2013 to finish her research and hopes to defend her dissertation in the spring of 2015. Read Previous KPLU names new general manager Read Next Neurosurgeon focuses on the heart 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

  • The Sankta Lucia festival has been an annual tradition at Pacific Lutheran University since 1951. Photo: PLU files. SCC Holds Annual Sankta Lucia Fest By Sandy Deneau Dunham The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University presents its traditional Sankta Lucia Fest at 7:30 p.m.…

    the PLU campus and includes musical performances by the Lucia applicants, the Swedish Vasa Lodge singers and a children’s choir. A free public reception follows at the Scandinavian Cultural Center. The event is sponsored by IKEA (Lucia applicants also will sing at IKEA on Dec. 7 and at two local retirement homes). Tickets are $8 general, $5 for members of the Scandinavian Cultural Center and free for the PLU community. They are available from the Campus Concierge in the Anderson University Center

  • New MediaLab Event Features Career Advice from Successful Alumni By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Six alumni came back to Pacific Lutheran University on April 22 to serve as panelists for the inaugural MediaLab Presents event. The panelists, who graduated from PLU in 2005 or more recently,…

    like and how to make yourself stand out in a pile of resumes. “This is a great way for students to learn from people who hold jobs that we aspire to have and how to get there ourselves,” said Amanda Brasgalla, MediaLab General Manager. The event consisted of questions prompted by two MediaLab moderators, Valery Jorgensen and Sam Horn, as well as a question-and-answer session. MediaLab Presents, hosted by MediaLab, an applied internship and research program through the School of Arts and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- MediaLab, the applied research and media production program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a prestigious national award for its most recent documentary film. These Four Years, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned a Grand Prize in…

    MediaLab receives national prize for latest documentary film about higher education Posted by: Kari Plog / March 22, 2016 March 22, 2016 By Amanda Williams '16MediaLab General Manager, special to PLU NewsTACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- MediaLab, the applied research and media production program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a prestigious national award for its most recent documentary film.These Four Years, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned a Grand Prize in

  • A film produced by MediaLab students at Pacific Lutheran University has been nominated for the College Emmy Awards. Living on the Edge tells the story of North Cove, Wash., one of the fastest-eroding U.S. coastlines, which loses roughly 150 feet of land per year. The…

    PLU MediaLab Film Project Nominated for Student Emmy Award Posted by: Marcom Web Team / May 13, 2020 Image: The PLU students who directed and produced Living on the Edge: (L-R) Garrett Johnson, Siobhan Chachere, Hanna McCauley, Helen Smith, Hallie Harper (Photo courtesy of MediaLab.) May 13, 2020 By Hanna McCauley '20PLU MediaLab General ManagerA film produced by MediaLab students at Pacific Lutheran University has been nominated for the College Emmy Awards. Living on the Edge tells the story

  • The Faculty Excellence Award in Service recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates academic leadership and who influences the life of the university through service in areas of faculty governance, the university and the community beyond the university. This year, we honor Heather Mathews, Associate Professor…

    managed effectively, regardless of what is thrown at her.”  Another colleague described her as “the glue that has kept the department moving forward successfully.” Beyond the department, Mathews has served on the Global Education Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Long-Range Planning Committee, the Human Participants Review Board, General Education Council, IHON Steering Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies Executive Committee, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies steering committee. She is the