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computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024 Cece Chan ’24 elevates the experience of Hmong Farmers and their rich history with Seattle’s Pike Place Market May 20, 2024
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essentially pulled back into Tacoma to do what I was doing before, but on a professional level,” Lindhartsen said. In just the 30-year history of the individualized major, PLU students have designed degrees in digital media, Indigenous studies, global health, and environmental education. To do this, students draw from PLU courses and develop their expertise through extensive and rigorous conversations and planning with a committee of faculty who support and guide them. “You take courses from all around
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capital projects will be fully funded, including the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts and lower-campus athletic fields. The Andersons, who came to PLU in 1992, say they are not retiring but are completing 20 years of service to the university and then moving on to new areas of professional focus and service. MaryAnn Anderson, 52, calls their decision, “a Wild Hope moment.” “We are living true to Mary Oliver’s line of poetry: ‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and
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with homecoming. Even before the merger, the idea behind the two events focused on the same things: To bring together Lutes from all ages and disciplines, and let them talk about their own vocational passions. And judging by the group assembled in the University Center on Friday, Oct. 8., the union was a big success. With this year’s homecoming affinity group being graduates of the School of the Arts and Communication, Meant to Live organizers tapped filmmaker and advertising guru Jim Walker ’76 to
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the liberal arts, and a deep connection with the faculty that first President Thomas Krise speaks to the crowd at the June 1 reception. (Photo by John Froschauer) caught the attention of many on the search committee, said Kevin O’Brien, assistant professor of religion, and search committee member. “Tom has a legacy of service and thoughtful inquiry,” he said. “In each place he’s been at, he has served with fierce intelligence, creativity and a collaborative approach.” Angie Hambrick, director of
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the presence of technology on stage carries in our centuries-old performance traditions. As a result, I’m inclined to connect the use of electronics in live performance to paradigms of technology in our lives, more broadly. Thus, in writing this piece for wind ensemble and electronics, I wanted to find ways that our echo chambers of tribalism might connect with the sonic origins of the term, and how growing presence in our socio-technological lives might be explored through musical storytelling
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Northwest Conference Championships. PLU has 19 NCAA Division III varsity sports and more than 450 student-athletes. In addition, students can participate in a multitude of club sports and intramurals. Read the full story on the Lutes Athletics page. Bailey Forsyth '21 won two national titles during the 2021 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Global Studies at PLUThis program is designed to equip students with the skills and analytical methods needed to comprehend and engage with
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was elected ELCA’s fourth presiding bishop at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, marking the first time in history that a woman became the leader of the largest Lutheran denomination in North America. Nationwide, the ELCA has nearly 4.2 million members. “Her unexpected election as the first female leader of the national church is a breaking of that glass ceiling that previously kept women on the sidelines,” said Dr. Samuel Torvend, who holds the University Chair in Lutheran Studies at PLU. Event
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contributes to the group tasks of doing dishes and sorting garbage, for example)”. Located in the Glacier Peaks wilderness, Holden Village was originally built for workers at a copper mine, before being donated as a Lutheran retreat center. The mining history lives on, though, and the village recently hosted mine remediation workers who were cleaning the local creek and repositioning mining waste. Living in this place gives students on the study away trip to Holden Village the opportunity to grasp a
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March 14, 2008 Civil War love letter inspires wind ensemble As the story goes, Maj. Sullivan Ballou was like most men in the Northern army at the start of the Civil War. He fought not to end slavery, but to preserve the Union. At 32, Ballou had a promising career as a lawyer, a wife and two sons. An ardent Republican and devoted supporter of Abraham Lincoln, he volunteered in the spring of 1861. Ballou and his men left Providence, R.I., for Washington, D.C., on June 19. Ballou wrote a letter to
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