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  • #BlackGirlMagic: PLU administrators uplift experiences of black students’ natural-hair journeys https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2018/05/02/black-girl-magic/

    TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Tolu Taiwo and Angie Hambrick know all about wearing natural hair in predominantly white spaces. “Hair is a really important piece of our culture and who we are, and it’s an interesting piece to navigate when you’re also at…

    but also wanting to be in touch with their roots.” "For a lot (of the women), it was a personal health choice. Both thinking about the strength of hair but also wanting to be in touch with their roots."- Tolu Taiwo After the first journal they submitted to didn’t accept the article, Hambrick and Taiwo spent time fine-tuning the content, orienting the paper more toward higher education and student affairs. They then submitted it to the Association for the Study of Higher Education and National

  • Wang Center Photo Contest Winners 2023 Exhibit https://www.plu.edu/library/news/wang-center-photo-contest-winners-2023/

    During the 2022-2023 academic year, 237 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. We…

    Place Salim Houck “Puma on the Prowl” During my program we set up camera traps in the lower mountain cloud forest that surrounded the CIEE Monteverde campus. They were motion activated, capturing a few photos every time they sense movement. Not all cameras successfully captured wildlife, but one caught this puma crossing the trail. Pumas are endangered in Costa Rica and the professors who study wildlife on campus had no idea one was living in the area. Monteverde, Costta Rica March 10, 2022 People

  • PLU sponsors “Edvard Munch and the Sea” at the Tacoma Art Museum https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2016/04/06/edvard-munch-tam/

    TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)- Travel from the shores of Puget Sound to the fjords of Norway with the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Sea , on view exclusively at Tacoma Art Museum April 9 through July 17, 2016. This is your opportunity to dive…

    pastel The Scream became the world’s most expensive work of art ever auctioned (at the time) at Sotheby’s. Although The Scream won’t be on view, the print Angst features the same setting – the Åsgårdstrand pier at sunset – and mask-like fraught faces. Both images are raw expressions of Munch’s lifelong battles with anxiety and loneliness. Several other prints in the exhibition include elements of The Scream, as Munch liked to work and rework the same motifs. TAM has also arranged to have on view Andy

  • PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2024/11/04/from-plu-to-chengdu-two-professors-teaching-and-learning-in-china/

    Two PLU professors were recently invited to teach a summer intensive course at Sichuan University, a 70,000-student public university in Chengdu, China. PLU and Sichuan have a decades-long relationship that dates back to the 1980s. PLU faculty visits took place in 2023, and in summer…

    you had outside the classroom? Auman: We were there slightly over two weeks. During the second week, there were lots of cultural activities. We did several activities with a group of PLU students who were in China at the same time. We saw a Chinese opera with them. Chengdu is massive: lots of cars, motorbikes and people. We rode a high-speed train. Within four minutes, everybody gets off, and the hundreds of people waiting get on. I can’t believe it actually worked. Yaden: We went to the panda