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Alternative spring break programs help Lutes connect to Parkland community and beyond Posted by: Kari Plog / April 21, 2016 Image: Students volunteer at the Emergency Food Network on March 30 as part of an alternative spring break program, Parkland Immersion. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 21, 2016 By Natalie DeFord '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific

Tacoma Rescue Mission Executive Director and PLU alumnus Duke Paulson on adapting through the pandemic Posted by: Marcom Web Team / July 13, 2020 July 13, 2020 By Lora ShinnMarketing & Communications Guest WriterDuke Paulson ‘93 graduated from PLU in 1993 with a major in biology and a minor in psychology. While at PLU, he was on the swim and rowing teams, played soccer for a bit, and was heavily involved in Young Life. Today, he's executive director of Tacoma Rescue Mission where COVID-19 has

Kate Hall ’17 builds connections, serves community at ESD 113 Posted by: Silong Chhun / September 6, 2022 Image: PLU alumna Kate Hall ’17 is a communication specialist at ESD 113, a Washington state agency that helps ensure that students in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties receive an excellent and equitable education. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 6, 2022 By Debbie CafazzoPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterKate Hall ’17 remembers the job interview

Choir of the West International Tour 2019 Posted by: marshrl / May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 About the TourChoir of the West is currently on a performance tour of Scotland, England, and Germany from May 26-June 12, 2019. Cities along the way include Edinburgh, York, Cambridge, London, and Oxford in the UK – along with Marktoberdorf, Germany. Choir of the West will share concert performances and social interaction with the University of Edinburgh Chamber Choir, the Choir of Royal Holloway

. Wednesday,  Sept. 9. A light reception will follow. Guests will include President Thomas W. Krise, Interim Campus Pastor John Rosenberg, Vice President of Student Life Joanna Royce-Davis, Associate Vice President of Campus Life Tom Huelsbeck, Resident Director Angel Gonzalez and the Ordal Hall Residence Hall Council. The refurbished Ordal Hall has several new features, including: energy-efficient windows; overhead LED lights in resident rooms that are energy-efficient and provide better lighting than

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

traditional musical theatre, Lizard Boy is a “somewhat-autobiographical solo-show-with-three-actors” that follows a boy with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the PLU Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “I have a lot of my

of a French DoctorFriday, Oct. 7 | 5:30 | Ingram 100 Hippocrates combines the human drama that surrounds medical emergencies with a hard-hitting look at the situation of beleaguered French hospitals. Using young medical student Benjamin as a guide, director Thomas Lilti, himself a doctor by trade, takes the viewer on a “backstage” tour of a labyrinthine Paris hospital where life and death decisions make fuses run short. When Benjamin’s negligence leads to the death of a homeless patient, he

PLU alumna collects, studies mosquitoes in the pursuit of improved public health Posted by: Kari Plog / March 9, 2016 March 9, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 9, 2016)- Mosquitoes are pests to some, but for Rebekah Blakney ’12 they carry a wealth of information that can unlock solutions to global health issues.Now with the outbreak of the Zika virus, that’s as important as ever. Blakney isn’t at the forefront of Zika research, at least yet, but she’s

PLU professor launches new class that immerses students in the local Buddhist community Posted by: Kari Plog / April 25, 2016 Image: Erik Hammerstrom’s class visits Tacoma’s Hongwanji Buddhist Temple on April 24. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 25, 2016 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2016)- Erik Hammerstrom, assistant professor of East Asian and comparative religions, teaches Pacific Lutheran University students the fundamentals of Buddhism from the