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September 30, 2009 Rising Star By Barbara Clements and Bryanna Plog ’10 Standing backstage, waiting for his cue to step onstage, Louis Hobson ’00 does a reality check. He’s in New York. He’s on Broadway – in a Tony Award winning, and now Pulitzer-winning,musical no less. And he has a lead part. By following his passion, a PLU theater major, Louis Hobson ’00, finds himself standing on the world’s greatest stage – on Broadway. (Images courtesy of Louis Hobson and Tom D’Ambrosio) “Sometimes I
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March 5, 2010 Olympic medalist encourages symposium crowd to make a difference By Barbara Clements Joey Cheek was sprawled out on a couch in 2005, wondering what he was going to do with a free afternoon after training all morning in an Austrian skating facility, when a BBC program caught his eye. Wang Center Symposium keynote speaker Joey Cheek addresses the crowd about making a difference in the world. Women and children were running and screaming out of a village being set afire by rebels in
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March 25, 2013 A path of discovery By Katie Scaff ’13 For Austin Goble ’09, volunteering after graduation was anything but a gap year. Goble wasn’t ready to jump right into the workforce, so after graduating in December 2009 Goble spent a year volunteering with Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC), and then a year with AmeriCorps. “For me a year of service was intentional,” said Goble, “an intentional path of self-discovery.” Goble met a recruiter from LVC at a career development fair before
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MediaLab recognized for latest documentary on higher education Posted by: Todd / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016 By Amanda Williams '16MediaLab receives an Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition of Southern California and the Grand Prize in the documentary category in the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) Electronic Media Competition.MediaLab received two awards for its most recent documentary film, These Four Years. The documentary, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned
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July 13, 2014 Workers install new furnishings in a Stuen Hall room on July 8. The renovated residence hall will be ready for residents in Fall 2014. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Upgrading Residence Halls With $10 Million Bond PLU Marketing & Communication Pacific Lutheran University will save millions of dollars in interest on upgrades to three residence halls, thanks to bonds issued July 10 by the Washington Higher Education Facilities Authority. The upgrades will include structural and
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Cece Chan: First-Year Student, Long-Term Goals Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 28, 2020 Image: In her first year at PLU, CeCe Chan has contributed to and lead on matters of social justice within education while pursuing a major in political science. February 28, 2020 By Lora ShinMarketing & Communications guest writerTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 28, 2020 ) — Cece Chan’s activism awakening came in high school. As a third-generation Asian young woman, she realized Seattle Public Schools’ majority
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June 16, 2008 Graduate breaks new ground It’s been a whirlwind four years for Candice Hughes ’08.An international student from Trinidad and Tobago, Hughes participated in theater and Dance Ensemble, held leadership roles in the Diversity Center and ASPLU, and spearheaded the first campus Caribbean Carnival in February 2006. She even fit in a semester studying away in Botswana. At Spring Commencement 2008, the geosciences major capped off her university career as the senior class speaker. Her
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August 23, 2010 Lute athletic facilities: ‘Defining a vision, planning for the future’ What does it take to mount a successful athletic program these days? A few things immediately come to mind: talented and highly motivated student athletes; experienced, dedicated and supportive coaches and staff; and high-quality equipment. According to Laurie Turner, director of athletics, PLU is doing all of these things very well.“We have had remarkable success over the years in our athletic program,” she
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MFA alumnus — out of options to treat his cancer — works to raise $500,000 for clinical trial Posted by: Kari Plog / November 27, 2017 Image: Keven Drews ’16 with his wife, Yvette, and their 7-year-old twins. (Photo courtesy of Drews) November 27, 2017 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 27, 2017)- “You have to raise $500,000 or you’re going to die.” In so many words, that’s what Keven Drews ’16 says his doctor told him over the phone in October, when Drews
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February 14, 2008 New York artist’s exhibit inspires reflection Over the past 30 years, New York City artist Constance Evans admits her work has evolved, changing from large colorful field paintings on canvas to smaller, representational works on paper. The works of art at either end of my career, thus far, are visually quite different, but the nuances of color, light and texture are very much the same, she writes in her artist’s statement. Evans drawings, paintings and mixed media pigment
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