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Senior Profiles: Class of 2019 Is Making a Difference Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / May 23, 2019 Image: April Rose Nguyen ’19, an Act Six Scholar, International Honors student and Rieke Scholar, was this year’s Commencement student speaker. May 23, 2019 By Vince SchleitwilerMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019 ) — Judging by its accomplishments, Pacific Lutheran University's Class of 2019 is poised to make an immediate impact on the world — mostly because they already have
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have programs and courses about vocation. We have Days of Vocation. We even joke about it (which is how you know its part of the culture!) “How am I being called to serve my neighbor using the gifts, passions, and opportunities that I have been given?” That is a very Lutheran question that we ask all the time at PLU. In fact, we believe that if more people asked that question, the world would be a better place. As our President, Tom Krise, likes to say, “The world needs more PLU.” There are some
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Senior Profiles: Class of 2015 Already Has Made a Difference Posted by: Sandy Dunham / May 22, 2015 May 22, 2015 By Taylor Lunka ’15PLU Marketing & Communications Student WriterTACOMA, Wash. (May 22, 2015)—With Commencement on May 23, Pacific Lutheran University sends its largest class ever out into the world—more than 800 Lutes are eligible to graduate, with 755 expected to participate in the Commencement ceremony. Judging by the accomplishments of the Class of 2015, we’re guessing those Lutes
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started working with Crown S Ranch, which raises cattle, pigs, sheep, and poultry without toxic drugs or chemicals on organic pastures in Winthrop, Wash. “I’ve been out to the farm and they have the chickens running around between the sheep, eating what chickens like to eat, and living a life chickens should live,” Swenson said. Swenson said knowing where the food comes from makes him feel a lot better about serving it. Dining uses the farm’s whole chicken and recently switched completely over to its
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Makaela Whalen ’23 pursues newly launched pre-law minor Posted by: vcraker / June 7, 2022 Image: Image: (From left to right) Honorable Philip K. Sorensen, Connor Lemma ’22, Makaela Whalen ’23, Calissa Hagen ’24, Honorable Clarence Henderson, Jr. (photo courtesy of Judge Sorensen) June 7, 2022 Makaela Whalen ’23 has a passion for the environment and animals. Her desire to find a meaningful vocation that feeds those passions resulted in her pursuing a degree in either environmental or animal law
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it causes disease. One of the big diseases that we will focus on will be Huntington’s. After I get my Ph.D., I want to be a professor at a small personal institution like PLU because it has left its mark and the professors I have encountered have inspired me to be like them. But if there is anything that I have learned from PLU, it is to keep an open mind and follow your passion wherever it leads. Lynsey Tveit – Bachelor of Arts in elementary education with an English language learners
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Senior Profiles: Class of 2019 Is Making a Difference Posted by: Lace M. Smith / May 24, 2019 Image: April Rose Nguyen ’19, an Act Six Scholar, International Honors student and Rieke Scholar, is this year’s Commencement student speaker. May 24, 2019 By Vince SchleitwilerGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019)—With Commencement on May 25, Pacific Lutheran University sends its next class out into the world—more than 800 Lutes are eligible to graduate, with 700
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how, the why. Through my personal explorations in my work I balance between what can draw on certain emotions, versus what can be used to express them more blatantly, as well as how a piece may interact in its created environment. How can I catch that brief flicker of something that may not be there in another moment? And how can it be shared? Outside of the six universal emotions, what are the techniques I can use to express even more of them? Where do art and emotion meet? Where do they differ
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Student-athlete finds a community more than 2,600 miles from home Posted by: vcraker / November 14, 2022 November 14, 2022 Rylie Wada ’25, a nursing major from Honolulu, Hawaii, shares her experience finding community on the mainland. The softball player says she’s fortunate to have found a home at PLU in the classroom and field. Why did you choose to attend PLU? I really wanted to play softball, and the Division III aspect of it would allow me to focus on school in my education, which is
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December 23, 2014 From Pacific Lutheran University to you and yours, have a warm and happy holiday season! Read Previous PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition Read Next Novelist Leslye Walton ’04 Nominated for Prestigious Morris Award 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. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make
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