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October 28, 2009 Much more than event planners Student Involvement and Leadership isn’t just a department that plans events, but rather a partner and active participant in learning, in supporting the complete college student. That couldn’t be truer than at Pacific Lutheran University and a lot of that has to do with the leadership of Eva Johnson ’95, director of Student Involvement and Leadership. She’s been a leader in integrating how the department integrates learning into campus life, as

December 2, 2011 PLU students put their best dance moves to the test during Swing Club. (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) More than a two-step By Katie Scaff ’13 Students in PLU’s Swing Club dance to improve their skills and make friends. The club brings together new and experienced members who share a common love for dance so they can learn from one another. “I just showed up and fell in love,” said senior English major Jen Jepsen. Jepsen came to a meeting her first year at PLU and hasn’t looked

November 13, 2014 Former PLU Professor’s Legacy Lives On The Rev. Richard Tietjen stands in front of a piece of artwork by former PLU Professor Ernst Schwidder. Schwidder’s art is found all across the country, including in PLU’s Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) The Ernst Schwidder Project Chronicles and Preserves Art That Enhanced Worship By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 14, 2014)—Former PLU

out. And at Pacific Lutheran University, that causes problems on several levels. In 2010, PLU adopted a campuswide winter temperature “set point” of 68 degrees, said Joe Bell, PLU’s director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Emergency Programs. Keep it at 68 … squarely in the official “comfort zone.”(Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) “This temperature should be acceptable and comfortable for the majority of people,” he said—but people (and buildings) have their own settings, too … and their own

Thu “Kim” Le interns with Benaroya Research Institute, doing cancer research from home Posted by: bennetrr / September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21Marketing & CommunicationsAs the pandemic has progressed many of found ourselves thinking more about health and disease, however, Thu “Kim” Le ‘21 has spent most of her college career researching these topics.Le recently completed a six-week summer internship with the Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) at Virginia Mason, where

Musical genius hits PLU Theatre in Amadeus Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 10, 2016 October 10, 2016 PLU opens their 2016-2017 season with arguably the greatest composer in history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Amadeus, the scene is the 18th Century and Antonio Salieri is an established composer. Salieri has given himself to God so he might realize his sole ambition to be a great composer.  Enter Mozart a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who has that which is beyond Salieri’s grasp: Genius

government facilities conducting research in DHS relevant areas? If you answered “Yes”, to the above questions, the HS-POWER program is for you! The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Office of University Programs sponsors the Professional Opportunities for the Student Workforce to Experience Research Program (HS-POWER) for undergraduate and graduate students. HS-POWER is open to students majoring in a broad spectrum of homeland security related science

July 7, 2008 Tutoring program touches refugees The makeshift classroom buzzed with life as dozens of Somali Bantu children worked with PLU student-volunteers to solve math problems, sound out words and learn their colors. Jessica Baumer ’09 tried to get 13-year-old Murjan Jatar to focus on completing his math homework. But the middle schooler, who calls himself “Tex,” insisted she first read a rough draft of a love letter he wrote for his girlfriend. Like most teenagers, school is the last

August 20, 2013 PLU Professor Jan Weiss in Namibia. One on One: Jan Weiss By Barbara Clements A 22-year-old Jan Weiss walked into the elementary school southeast of Portland, Ore., and looked at her third-grade class. Twenty-five faces looked back. And Weiss realized that she knew nothing about their world, nor they, hers. Weiss grew up in a relatively prosperous home near San Jose, Calif., where dad was an engineer who worked on the Apollo and Gemini launches for a major aerospace company, and

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