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Innovating for Access: PLU lives out its mission by blazing new trails Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach Powers '10ResoLute EditorHe was working by age 8, picking cherries and apples under the Yakima Valley sun. In the spring he worked as a smudger. He’d sleep overnight in an orchard and when the alarms rang he’d sprint to light the smudge pots that warmed the trees before the fruit froze. By age ten, it was his job to clean the bathrooms and fill the machines at a

January 7, 2008 Senior studying in Tanzania discovers self As a philosophy and classics major, senior Lindsey Webb always planned to spend a semester studying away in Greece. However, a student-faculty research project with philosophy professor Erin McKenna changed her plans. McKenna and Webb studied great apes and ethics last year. During the project, Webb completed an apprenticeship at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash. After

August 5, 2010 Why eating at PLU is not your typical college dining experience By Chris Albert At PLU, eating isn’t just a cafeteria experience of hot dogs and French fries. You can get those too, but not every college dining experience also includes menu items like Korean tacos. By the way: Don’t call it a cafeteria. It is kind of a bad word around PLU’s Dining and Culinary Services, said Erin McGinnis ’90, its director. PLU has significantly remodeled its University Center, ensuring its

January 3, 2014 PLU Earns Prestigious Mortar Board Chapter By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU is populated with outstanding student leaders and meaningful, campuswide ways to recognize them—from Emerging Leaders to the Ubuntu Award and Pinnacle Society—but until now, there was no opportunity for national recognition. That’s where Mortar Board comes in. PLU now has its own chapter of the premier national honor society, which recognizes college seniors for superior achievement in scholarship, leadership

The Parkland Literacy Center Posted by: hoskinsk / May 7, 2020 Image: PLU’s Parkland Literacy Center, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) May 7, 2020 By Grace Rowe '20Political Science MajorThe Parkland Literacy Center (PLC), created in 2018 by English Writing Professor Scott Rogers and Hispanic Studies Professor Bridget Yaden, is located on the western edge of PLU’s campus.The PLC, as it’s called, offers after-school tutoring in all academic subjects to Keithley Middle School and

physicians, what this all can look like and what the medical field is all about. Is connecting with working doctors and others in the field a big part of what the club does? Yes it is. Recently we’ve had a lot of alums come in who are currently in medical school, or physicians sharing about their experience of applying to medical school, how they prepared during their undergrad years, and just talking about the process and easing people’s anxieties about medical school. Everyone in the club is excited

& Student Connections has gone virtual to make sure resources to help you through those and related issues remain available despite remote learning and physical distancing mandates.Kevin Andrew, PLU’s Director of Career, Learning and Engagement, is part of a Connections team that helps Lutes build their own career vision — then connects them to the opportunities, resources and people that can help make those dreams a reality. We connected with Andrew to explore Alumni & Student Connections’ virtual

to lead the team.So when Pacific Lutheran University dedicates its new baseball-field press box to Kittilsby on May 3, he’s pretty sure he is not being honored for his athletic prowess. Jim Kittilsby ’60 “I’m humbled and elated and extremely honored to be recognized,” Kittilsby said. “But it’s got to be for my behind-the-scenes work, if anything, because I certainly wouldn’t be recognized for my coaching record or my batting average as a three-year-starting Lute outfielder in the late 1950s. To

Sustainability in Monastic Communities Posted by: alex.reed / May 22, 2022 May 22, 2022 By Joy Edwards, ‘21 (Religion and English Major)Originally published in 2021Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they were going to be there for a

From foster care to doctoral degree: Lizbett Benge’s educational journey Posted by: bennetrr / July 29, 2020 July 29, 2020 By Kolby Harvey '08Guest Writer for PLU Marketing and CommunicationsLizbett Benge ’11 describes her educational journey as “a long and winding road.” It began with her immersion into foster care and deeply influenced her time at PLU, where she grappled with a set of life experiences few of her peers could understand.Benge felt socially isolated, making few significant