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  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 18, 2015)- As summer approaches, moving out is on the mind, and Pacific Lutheran University’s Office of Sustainability and Office of Residential Life are partnering with Goodwill for the second straight year to make sure that sustainability is on every Lute’s mind…

    PLU & Goodwill Partner to Create Sustainable Options for Spring Move-Out Posted by: Zach Powers / May 18, 2015 Image: (photo by John Froschauer/PLU) May 18, 2015 By Matthew Salzano '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 18, 2015)- As summer approaches, moving out is on the mind, and Pacific Lutheran University’s Office of Sustainability and Office of Residential Life are partnering with Goodwill for the second straight year to make sure that sustainability is on every Lute’s mind

  • Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…

    new ensemble program and plans to perform with it for the next few years. And—coming back to the income part of vocation—she works as the manager of another local chamber ensemble. “It’s like connecting dots; one incident leads to another,” Rottle said. That also means you can’t always see the end of the dotted line—and that’s absolutely OK, too. Rottle never saw her successful, busy, musical life coming. She advises undergraduates in similar circumstances to pause for a second, make slow progress

  • A leap of faith: one Lute finds that one person can make a difference By Barbara Clements Matt Kennedy ’07 sat in front of his computer screen and tried not to hyperventilate. On one side of the screen was his bank account, on the other…

    be really  happy, I had to feel like as I was contributing to life in general, something meaningful,” said Kennedy in an interview before the Wang Center Symposium, which will take place March 4-5 on the PLU Campus. Kennedy will speak the second day of the event, the theme of which is “Understanding the World Through Sports.” The transformation from budding bicycle repair teacher to soccer tournament organizer and life coach, came about fairly quickly after Kennedy stepped off that plane in

  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 1, 2015)—The public will have two opportunities to see His Majesty King Harald V of Norway on May 23 when he visits Tacoma in honor of Pacific Lutheran University’s 125 anniversary: during his arrival at PLU, at 11:15 a.m., and at the…

    Public Opportunities to See the King During His Visit to PLU Posted by: Sandy Dunham / May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (May 1, 2015)—The public will have two opportunities to see His Majesty King Harald V of Norway on May 23 when he visits Tacoma in honor of Pacific Lutheran University’s 125 anniversary: during his arrival at PLU, at 11:15 a.m., and at the Tacoma Dome, where the King will deliver PLU’s Commencement address and receive an

  • Curt Malloy, left, and Barbara Naess juggle in the shadows of a volcano in Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala. (Photo: Bill Latham) Juggling His Way to a Career in Global Health By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Juggling has become more than an act for Curt Malloy ’88. Malloy…

    exactly what I want to do,” Malloy said about his new job. And, in a way, Malloy even juggles all three of his degrees in his current career. “The intersection of science and public health and law has really been valuable in terms of opening up doors and demystifying what is going on—be it activities in the laboratory, in the clinic or in licensing global health technology to commercialization partners,” Malloy said. Malloy grew up globally, since his dad worked in the military, but moved to Puyallup

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 15, 2016)- An anthropology and global studies double major from Kalispell, Montana, Ellie Lapp ’17 is passionate about a wide variety of social justice issues. She’s hopeful that her tenure as president of Associate Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) will be…

    ASPLU president Ellie Lapp on student government, research and preparing for life after graduation Posted by: Zach Powers / September 15, 2016 Image: “I was excited about the opportunity to be more political and be involved with making positive changes at the university.” ASPLU president Ellie Lapp ’17 (photo by Zach Powers/PLU) September 15, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 15, 2016)- An anthropology and global studies double major from Kalispell

  • The PLU Dance team opens with their upcoming show on Saturday, November 10th in the Eastvold Auditorium. The winter show will center around original works created by members of the PLU Dance Team that portray various emotions, events and concepts. The stories describe the highs…

    emotions, events and concepts. The stories describe the highs and lows of life in unique ways that pertain to each of them. In contrast to previous years, the choreographers attempted to stray away from conventional styles of dance and incorporate not only their abstract thoughts, but attempt to communicate to the audience their stories in their most raw form. The show will have a variety of pieces – some with smaller groups of dancers, as well as two pieces performed by the entire team. The dancers

  • The PLU Dance team opens with their upcoming show on Saturday, November 10th in the Eastvold Auditorium. The winter show will center around original works created by members of the PLU Dance Team that portray various emotions, events and concepts. The stories describe the highs…

    emotions, events and concepts. The stories describe the highs and lows of life in unique ways that pertain to each of them. In contrast to previous years, the choreographers attempted to stray away from conventional styles of dance and incorporate not only their abstract thoughts, but attempt to communicate to the audience their stories in their most raw form. The show will have a variety of pieces – some with smaller groups of dancers, as well as two pieces performed by the entire team. The dancers

  • Pacific Lutheran University’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will host the spring virtual convening of The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness conference on March 30. The People’s Gathering conference is a day-long Zoom-based professional and personal development experience offering a supportive space to…

    Consciousness conference on March 30.The People’s Gathering conference is a day-long Zoom-based professional and personal development experience offering a supportive space to engage in frank and open dialogue about race and racial disparities systemically present in work, school, and everyday life. “The consciousness of this country is shifting,” said Melannie Denise Cunningham, PLU’s director of multicultural outreach and engagement and the founder of the People’s Gathering in a ResoLute magazine feature

  • The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music and the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies will host the PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival on Tuesday, March 21. The public is invited to the festival’s evening concert showcase featuring Aubrey Logan, the PLU…

    livestreamed as in past years. Aubrey Logan’s appearance is possible thanks to the generosity of Richard Weathermon ’50. Her visit to PLU is part of the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies at PLU. Both Richard and Helen relished the “joyful noise” of jazz. 2023 PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival TUESDAY MARCH 21, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. KAREN HILLE PHILLIPS CENTER, EASTVOLD AUDITORIUM Tickets $10 general admission $8 senior citizens (55+), military, or alumni Free for PLU -faculty/staff