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PLU Biology professor nationally recognized Posted by: vcraker / September 21, 2022 September 21, 2022 Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Biology Amy Siegesmund received the American Society for Microbiology’s 2023 Carski Award for Undergraduate Teaching. The award recognizes a university educator for outstanding teaching of microbiology to undergraduate students. What I love about teaching microbiology is that I get to share with students a discipline that I am passionate about and

MediaLab recognized for latest documentary on higher education Posted by: Todd / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016 By Amanda Williams '16MediaLab receives an Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition of Southern California and the Grand Prize in the documentary category in the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) Electronic Media Competition.MediaLab received two awards for its most recent documentary film, These Four Years. The documentary, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned

How Museums Make Meaning: Study Away J-term 2020 Posted by: Reesa Nelson / December 4, 2019 December 4, 2019 Museums collect and interpret objects, and the stories they tell with their collections articulate cultural identity and values. Based in the historic university city of Oxford, this J-term 2020 class will explore how museums make meaning. Students will study numerous examples of contemporary museum theory and practice, engage with local professionals, and participate in museum-based

PLU opera opens Handel’s ‘Alcina’ this January Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 13, 2015 January 13, 2015 Travel to Alcina’s island for a story of magic, enchantment and song. This January, surround yourself with magnificent music when Pacific Lutheran University Opera performs Handel’s Alcina on the Karen Hille Phillips Mainstage. There are four opportunities to view the production:  January 22, 23, and 24 at 7:30pm and January 25, at 2pm. James L. Brown will conduct and stage direct. Taken

March 27, 2008 Conference addresses men’s role in violence At PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program Conference, men’s role in ending violence against women will be examined. Titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Men’s Role in Ending Violence Against Women,” the conference is unique because of the focus on men’s role in preventing domestic and sexual violence against women, said Jonathan Grove, director of PLU’s Men Against Violence program. To his knowledge, there have been only three other

March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life

March 1, 2011 PLU’s MediaLab takes on ‘compassion fatigue’ Compassion fatigue is a condition people have never heard of, and MediaLab is striving to make people aware through its next documentary project. “We thought it was an interesting topic that isn’t talked about and everyone should know about it,” said sophomore Katie Scaff, a MediaLab filmmaker. Scaff said compassion fatigue is a fairly new condition that experts are still trying to define. It occurs when people are overexposed to

MediaLab’s ‘Changing Currents’ nominated for Emmy Posted by: Kari Plog / May 4, 2017 Image: Rachel Lovrovich ’18, general manager of MediaLab and creative director for “Changing Currents,” films at the Connecticut River. (Photo courtesy of MediaLab) May 4, 2017 By Robert Marshall WellsContributing writerTACOMA, WASH. (May 4, 2017)- MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a 2017 Emmy Award nomination from the National Academy of

Tapped Out Explores our Global Water Crisis Posted by: Todd / April 16, 2014 April 16, 2014 Water is the basis of life on planet Earth, but from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle and beyond, many major waterways and water supplies are threatened by drought, pollution and population growth. Thursday, April 10, PLU and the greater community are invited to view MediaLab’s newest documentary Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis, in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts

Austin Beierman ‘18 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Victoria SchultzAustin Beierman, class of 2018, Reike Scholar, and newly appointed Director of Accessibility and Accommodations, continues to live the Diversity Center’s mission of care and equity.As a high school junior, Austin joined a PLU volleyball camp sponsored by College Bound, a non-profit that helped with college access programming. Austin explained that he and his friends would eat in the UC and then play