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Forum on Education Abroad recognizes PLU for study away excellence Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / April 25, 2019 Image: Pacific Lutheran University has been recognized for conformity with the Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad as established by the Forum on Education Abroad. April 25, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University has been recognized for substantial conformity with the Standards of Good Practice

May 11, 2012 For more than a decade, Professor Craig Fryhle, chair of PLU’s Chemistry Department, has coauthored an organic chemistry textbook that has become standard, celebrated and familiar fare for sophomore students studying organic chemistry in many universities. Fryhle is just finishing up the 11th edition of the book with his coauthor, T.W. Graham Solomons. (Photo by John Froschauer) For organic chemistry students, Prof. Craig Fryhle’s name pops up almost every time they open a book. By

May 11, 2009 New endowed chair created A new endowed chair has been created in the School of Education and Movement Studies – The Jolita Hylland Benson Endowed Chair in Elementary Education honors Jolita Benson. It has been funded by Dale and Jolita Benson through The Benson Family Foundation of Portland, Ore. The inaugural appointment to the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair is Leon (Lenny) Reisberg, professor in the Department of Instructional Development and Leadership in the School of Education

May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants

April 7, 2011 Gift for all-purpose field primes athletic facilities transformation By Greg Brewis Transforming PLU athletic and recreational facilities took a big step forward recently. A gift of $1 million for the construction of an all-weather, multipurpose athletic field on lower campus, is making that closer to a reality. New all-weather, multipurpose athletic field would transform athletic, recreation and wellness opportunities on campus. The gift from Wilson Construction and the Don and

PLU Presents Its First Spring Spotlight Series: “… and Justice for All?” Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 15, 2015 January 15, 2015 Semester-long Themed Events Begin Feb. 12 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The semester beginning Feb. 4 at Pacific Lutheran University takes on a special focus with the inaugural Spring Spotlight Series, four months of events

Two Anniversaries, One World Premiere Posted by: Reesa Nelson / October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 Music Professor Emeritus Jerry Kracht (conductor, University Symphony Orchestra, 1967-2001) was ready and waiting to celebrate two significant anniversaries in the Department of Music at PLU: ready since 2013 when he composed Fanfare, Fantasia and Finale (On a locally familiar tune), and waiting until 2020, the fiftieth anniversary of Lawrence Meyer’s Processional of Joy as well as the twenty-fifth

NW Seaport Alliance CEO John Wolfe ’87 discusses his career in maritime leadership Posted by: Zach Powers / November 3, 2022 Image: John Wolfe ’87 is the CEO of the Northwest Seaport Alliance, a marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) November 3, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsShortly after John Wolfe ’87 graduated from PLU he went to work for a Seattle-based company called SeaLand Shipping Line. In the

May 3, 2013 PLU welcomed into CFA Institute University Recognition Program Pacific Lutheran University has become the latest university to be welcomed into the CFA Institute University Recognition Program. The Master of Science in Finance (MSF) has been acknowledged as incorporating at least 70 percent of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice within the program. This program positions students well

March 22, 2010 Survivor accounts paint picture, provide lessons By Chris Albert, Barbara Clements, Loren Liden ’11 The silence of the ghetto in 1940s Holland is broken by whistling, shouting and the thud of doors being kicked in by the S.S. The teenage Philip Wagenaar, lays in his bed waiting for the horror. He knows the Nazi soldiers are there to take Jews away to concentration camps.   Holocaust survivor Philip Wagenaar shares his story at PLU’s third annual Powell and Heller Holocaust