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.When Deines made a pivot from professional sports to the finance master’s program at Pacific Lutheran University, it was a bit of an adjustment.   “Soccer came easy. I’ve always known it’s something I’m good at. But with finance I’ve had to work really hard to prove myself,” said Deines, who graduated last month with a Master of Science in Finance. “It was scary to go from soccer and my identity as a soccer player and go into the completely foreign territory of finance, something that I had no

him construct his story. Serko crossed paths with the PLU community when Professor of Music Greg Youtz introduced him to interested faculty and staff. This group began a discussion about bringing Serko to PLU to “engage students around gender, AIDS and activism,” says Jonathan Yglesias, Director of the PLU Men’s Project, the primary organization responsible for the event. “While PLU has a lot of robust and wonderful work around gender, sexuality and LGBTQ activism happening on campus, there also

team noted several of PLU’s innovative and best practices in the School of Business, including: Nourish Project: Students, trained by a professor of practice and alumni in the art of consulting, work as consultants to women- and minority-owned businesses. Guide X Side: This program links alumni, business leaders and community members with first-year and first-generation students, who meet with volunteer mentors periodically during the academic year. Business Justice Initiative: Launched in fall

Nursing Students Help Provide Thanksgiving Dinner to Over 225 Families Posted by: Zach Powers / December 1, 2015 Image: (All photos courtesy of the PLU School of Nursing Facebook page.) December 1, 2015 By Samantha Lund ‘16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2015)- More than 225 families were able to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner last week thanks in large part to the Pacific Lutheran University Delta Lota Chi Turkey Basket Drive.The student-led Turkey Basket Drive is organized by

Jesus Gonzalez to revive the student organization formerly known as Latinos Unidos. Carrasco said they decided to change the name to Amigos Unidos to make the student-run group more inclusive for Lutes who might not identify as Latino/a. “Amigos Unidos seeks to empower the Hispanic/Latin@ student population for the purpose of providing scholarly support, cultural awareness, social enrichment and community outreach,” said Carrasco, the group’s student president. “Not only are we planning events that

do it again. “The giggles were endless,” she told her loyal Facebook followers at the end of the tour with the Flynn Creek Circus, based out of Mendocino, California. Laumb’s final post rounded out months of social media updates that included videos and photos of her doing spins and splits on a rope with a hand loop — a routine called Spanish web — above 63 audiences throughout 10 cities. A winding vocational path led Laumb to the circus life. She earned a journalism degree at Pacific Lutheran

: Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Associate Professor of Political Science Maria Chavez and Adjunct School of Business Faculty Bradd Busick. We met recently with the three to discuss how they’ve been preparing for the opportunity to add their voices to the TEDx anthology. Did you ever imagine yourself giving a TEDx talk? Chavez: Never, I never thought I’d do one. It was just something that when the opportunity came up, I thought I’d pitch my idea, and when I got it I thought, “Oh, now what

“follow-on project.” Students use the follow-on project to spread knowledge of study away and encourage students to participate in programs abroad. Zimmerman plans to do her project at her alma mater, Naselle High School, in southwestern Washington. She said the school is understaffed and underfunded, but it is the place that encouraged her to look into study away opportunities. She said she hopes to share her experiences with the students at Naselle so they can “dream bigger.” "Coming from a little

scholastic projects. DeLaRosby said students have control over how much work they invest in their membership with Phi Kappa Phi. “When I joined I never thought I’d use it for anything other than just being a member,” DeLaRosby said. But several years after joining, DeLaRosby reached out to Phi Kappa Phi to help fund his dissertation research.  The scholarship DeLaRosby received was the Love of Learning award in 2013 for a pilot study investigating characteristics of successful college students who were

for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Shamil Idriss, a global leader in diplomacy and global affairs will deliver a lecture titled “Conflict is Inevitable, Violence is Not.”Idriss is President and CEO of Search for Common Ground, a global conflict transformation organization with offices in 35 countries. He previously served as Deputy Director of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and Senior Advisor at the World Economic Forum. Idriss, whose life’s work has been defined