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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

Environmental Ethics at Holden Village Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 By Lee Sullivan '21Business MajorHuman impact on the natural world is impossible to ignore. From severe flooding in Africa, melting of the arctic poles, and fires across Australia, recent years have seen a drastic increase in anomalistic climate events. In response to these problems, Pacific Lutheran University values “thinking green”. Our university takes pride in being environmentally conscious stewards of

June 15, 2009 MediaLab wins Emmy award Four student researcher-filmmakers in Pacific Lutheran University’s MediaLab program won a 2009 College Division Emmy Award at the 46th Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards Ceremony. Junior Melissa Campbell and seniors Julie Olds, Shannon Schrecengost and Emilie Firn were honored for their originally produced “Illicit Exchanges: Canada, the U.S. & Crime,” a 30-minute film that explores the effects of crime, drugs and gangs in communities across North

April 25, 2012 VWS: Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken Washington State Poet Laureate, and MFA alum, Kathleen Flenniken ’07 is the next guest in PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Wednesday, May 2. Her visit starts with The Writer’s Story: Q&A at 3:30 p.m. at Garfield Books and concludes with a reading at 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Flenniken’s first book, Famous (University of Nebraska, 2006), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book

Wanted: Fellow Conspirators Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Pauline M. KaurinOriginally published in 2003The daily headlines reflect the relentless march to war and violence: probable war in Iraq, continuing strife in the Middle East and the “war” on terror. Like other members of faith communities across the globe, I find myself wondering how I, how we, should respond to violence in our midst.1 These reflections have led me to wonder how other faith communities responded to

On Exhibit: The Best We Could Do Posted by: Holly Senn / August 23, 2021 August 23, 2021 On Exhibit: Common Reading Book 2021, The Best We Could Do The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book is the critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who escaped the fall of Saigon in 1975. Her book describes how she has come to understand her family’s history and her

July 8, 2008 Third-generation Lute takes the long route to PLU For Zach Klein, the old saying, “you can’t get there from here,” comes about as close to accurate as one can imagine. A freshman guard on the PLU men’s basketball team, most people probably haven’t heard about him. After all, little is written about the team’s reserve players. His story is compelling, nonetheless, because most of his growing-up years were spent in hard-to-reach villages whose populaces could be counted in the

Jared Wright ’14 discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 2, 2020 Image: (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 2, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14 arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement he felt

September 17, 2008 Exchange program enriches campus living and learning Six years ago, Candice Hughes ’08 realized that, despite her ambition, college just wasn’t in the cards. As consolation, the Trinidad and Tobago native dreamed of figuring out a way to go back to school part-time in a few years. Her opportunity emerged just two years later with the advent of a unique exchange program, forged between PLU and the Trinidadian government. For more than a decade, PLU has been sending students

The Key to Innovation Innovation Studies program director Michael Halvorson discusses how understanding the past can unlock the future Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach PowersResoLute EditorMichael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology. He went on to earn