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PLU to Host Events Throughout Holiday Season Posted by: Lace M. Smith / November 24, 2016 November 24, 2016 TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 24, 2016)- It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at Pacific Lutheran University. Throughout its history, PLU has developed numerous holiday pastimes that honor a variety of traditions, cultures and forms of joyful expression. UPCOMING EVENTS Celebration of Light Nov. 30 | 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Red Square The PLU Celebration of Light is Wednesday, November 30th on
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, but she might have taken her most high-profile class just this year: an “Up Close With the Masters” session with Vladimir Feltsman, one of the best-known concert pianists in the world. “Up Close with the Masters” classes are intimate work sessions put on by Portland Piano International each season in concert with its recitals. Offered to the public, for free, the classes provide young musicians an opportunity to see and hear a master teach. Burton did just that on Jan. 13. Feltsman, who was in
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to apply,” said Nelson, who taught English for two years in Baruun-Urt, Mongolia, starting in 2011. Pacific Lutheran University hopes to create similar connections through its new Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program, which launches this semester. Beyond course requirements and hands-on work hours, Peace Corps Prep will include speaking events with Peace Corps alumni, including one that precedes the third biennial Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture on March 1. Nelson and three other Peace Corps
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year – something we should be contemplating with greater seriousness as climate change continues its sad advancement throughout the world.” What lessons can Benedictine communities offer about sustainable living to us in the present day? Dr. Torvend answered with a few questions of his own: “Do you know the region in which you live? Do you know the land and water resources? How do you promote a more equitable sharing of the goods within your region so that no one grows hungry? How do we push
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the Digital Humanities but it did not want it to become a minor or major. They have a good reason for that. They say that when it becomes a minor or major, what ends up happening is that just a few people end up working in it instead of it being a common good. Which is what it should be.” The grant led to a lab which was fully launched in the spring of 2018. Its goal is to educate and support colleagues and students in the digital humanities. With training, faculty can incorporate technological
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Fast Track setting PLU graduate students on right path Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 9, 2018 Image: The School of Business is located in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, PLU’s newest academic building. January 9, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 8, 2018)- Graduate school can be a daunting prospect for anyone. Students fresh off their undergraduate sprint are faced with a complicated application process and daunting
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, plants like her beloved Amorphophallus konjac can live on campus without scaring prospective students away with its distinctive scent—rotting meat. The greenhouse also will serve the campus community by providing space for growing vegetable garden starts for the PLU Community Garden and native plants for the PLU campus landscape. It also will serve as community outreach for the Division of Natural Sciences and the Biology Department. PLU is the host site for the Tacoma/South Puget Sound Math
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blankets that keep kids comfortable and warm.” At PLU, Garabedian learned skills she uses today – in speaking, organizing, communicating, managing logistics and leadership – while working as a tour guide for the Office of Admission, and with the Youth Leadership Institute. “All of those skills benefit you in the workplace,” she says. Shoebox Sharing Around the World Today, Garabedian’s organization makes over 600 fleece blankets for children annually — and next year, the organization will celebrate its
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First MSK Graduate Class: Matt Leslie Posted by: chaconac / November 19, 2021 November 19, 2021 Since its inception two years ago, a total of five students have graduated with their graduate kinesiology degree from PLU. We had the opportunity to speak with Matt Leslie from the first graduating class of the MSK program.Here’s what Matt Leslie had to say about his experience in achieving a master’s in kinesiology from PLU. Reflection from Matt Leslie, '21My name is Matt Leslie. I graduated with a
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degree in nursing program. That was until a friend told her about PLU and the chance its nursing program provided her to earn a bachelor of science in nursing. “A bachelor’s degree had been something I regretted not finishing,” she recalls. Millett and Lopez began classes during the spring semester of 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the first day of classes in early February, neither of the women knew what was coming in just one month — lockdowns, social distancing, the
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