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Jared Wright ’14 discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 2, 2020 Image: (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 2, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14 arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement he felt

January 29, 2014 From PLU to Sochi: Professor Colleen Hacker teaches teams, individuals to possess a gold-medal attitude. By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Kinesiology Professor Colleen Hacker knows all the Olympics predictions, all the stats for the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team. World champs. Favored to win the gold in Sochi. The ones to beat. As she faces her fifth Olympics, and first Winter Olympics, Hacker, the mental-skills coach for the U.S. team, said she doesn’t think

April 23, 2014 Former Governor Christine Gregoire talks about personal responsibility during PLU’s Earth Day celebration. (John Froschauer, Photo) Get involved, take personal responsibility and, by the way, vote, former governor says during Earth Day lecture Barbara Clements, Director of Content Development Turn off the tap. Scoop your dog’s poop. Plant a rain garden. Don’t use pesticides. Be satisfied with a blemished apple. And oh, all Pacific Lutheran University students in the audience: Run

PLU alumna is helping educators nationwide adapt to teaching from a distance Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 14, 2020 Image: Jessica Anderson ’07, Montana’s Teacher of the Year in 2016, has been helping fellow teachers transition to distance learning in her role as Manager of Learning & Development for Virtual Instructional Coaching for an EdTech company. April 14, 2020 By Lisa Patterson ‘98Marketing & Communications Guest WriterTACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — Jessica Anderson ’07 is

awarded the first four categories, and the audience selected the People’s Choice award. In the film, a man is dancing around and throwing his hands in the air in the middle of a park. A number of characters view him from a distance, and each attributes his antics to different causes, such as warming up for a run, being in love or practicing Tai Chi. The end of the film reveals the truth: the man is being attacked by bees. “It’s about how you put yourself on other people – how you project yourself on

Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower’s Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic By Jack M. Holl ’59 In 1918, Dwight D. Eisenhower, while in command of the Tank Corps at Camp Colt in Gettysburg, PA, played a key role in the US Army’s fight with the 1918 influenza pandemic that ravaged US troops near the end of World War I. Before the pandemic ran its course, the 1918 flu killed almost as many American soldiers as died in battle during Europe’s savage war.  While the deaths of young soldiers at Camp Colt were

ties between Lute rowing and the iconic Husky Clipper, unveiling the intricate connection to “The Boys in the Boat.” In 1967, the University of Washington donated several Pocock racing shells to the fledgling rowing programs at PLU and UPS. One of those shells was the most decorated boat George Pocock ever built, the Husky Clipper. In 1936, a Husky crew captured gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics rowing in the Clipper in front of Adolph Hitler. Photo by PLU photographer Ken Dunmire Photo by PLU

Jordan Levy: Anthropology and a Just Society Posted by: Julie Winters / November 18, 2019 Image: Image: Professor Jordan Levy in front of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tacoma. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 18, 2019 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday, he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system.He first visited the Central American nation to perform

Jeremy Knapp ’21 talks interning for a state senator in Olympia, passion for political science and future career Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 2, 2020 April 2, 2020 By Ernest JasminGuest Writer for PLU Marketing and CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 16, 2020) — Pacific Lutheran University political science major Jeremy Knapp '21 swears he has not desire to run for office, but his resume speaks of someone with great political aspirations nonetheless.The junior turned 21 on March 4, and he

she never considered before. She asked herself an essential question: How do normal people apply social justice to their everyday lives and jobs? She had prepared thoroughly to become a medical doctor. Even though her passion wasn’t gone, something was changing. Thiele participated in a summer undergraduate research project with Mary Ellard-Ivey, associate professor of biology. They worked to create better plant development in third-world countries. She never thought about working with plants, but