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July 14, 2008 Fellowship encourages senior to find calling Since childhood, Timothy Siburg’s sought to determine his life’s purpose. At PLU, the quest to find his vocation has only intensified. The senior religion and economics double major knows he wants to serve others, but he isn’t sure in what capacity. His friends tell him to stop stressing, that everything will work out. Still, he frets about choosing the right path. “For better or for worse, I feel there are certain gifts I have to serve

February 1, 2013 Jessica McGifford ’12 Jessica McGifford ’12 and Abi McLane ’08 at the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center. Jessica McGifford ’12 Major: Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies Employer: Our Sister’s House PLU Connection: Abi McLane ’08, victim services supervisor at Crystal Judson Family Justice Center As part of her senior year capstone project, Jessica McGifford was required to take an internship. Through a recommendation from the PLU Women’s Center, she wound up at Pierce

February 5, 2013 PLU top placer in the Peace Corps This year, Pacific Lutheran University ranks No.18 on Peace Corps’ 2013 Top Colleges for small schools. The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities for small, medium, large and graduate institutions. There are currently 15 undergraduate alumni from PLU serving overseas. Last year PLU produced only 9 volunteers, and by doubling their number this year they have joined the top 25 volunteer-producing schools

May 26, 2014 5 New Fulbright Scholars Bring PLU’s Total to 100 2014 graduates, from left, Tommy Flanagan, Brianna Walling and Lillian Ferraz are three of PLU’s five new Fulbright Scholars. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Lutes Will Travel the World to Teach and Study Under Prestigious Program By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications This year, Lutes will go to China, to Turkey and to Germany, Taiwan and Argentina, as five Pacific Lutheran University graduates were accepted into the

count— yes, count—yeast cells for the next eight hours. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. Deane, a biology major, is working 10 weeks this summer with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Tina Saxowsky, doing a series of experiments that will look at the evolution of the little critters that make your bread rise. How do they mutate, and how did these traits give them an advantage to survive? How does drug resistance happen? Or tumor growth? “It really helps with critical thinking,” said Deane

PLU Raises Black Lives Matter Flag on Red Square Posted by: Zach Powers / September 5, 2020 Image: Andre Jones ’22, speaking during the ceremony raising the Black Lives Matter flag. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) September 5, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsMembers of the Pacific Lutheran University Black Student Union led a ceremony raising the Black Lives Matter flag on Red Square on Friday evening. Organized by BSU student leaders, the ceremony featured Black

Angela Rodriguez Hinojosa ’24 lights up when talking about her role in the Murdock Trust-funded research on RNA detection. A collaboration between faculty and students at Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle Pacific University, and Northwest University, the interdisciplinary project aims to fill the gaps in what we know about RNA and its function. Under the direction of chemistry professor Neal Yakelis, Angela has been working to develop an organic compound that can better visualize and track RNA in

October 22, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmbzzLNVje0 Three PLU MediaLab students went from Canada to the Gulf to explore the issue of oil for their documentary “Oil Literacy.” Understanding oil By Chris Albert This past summer, students from PLU’s MediaLab embarked on a journey to learn, ask and explore oil and energy consumption in the United States. “It’s not about the either or debate,” said Lorna Rodriguez, a senior communication major who worked on the film, along with Kari Plog and

March 21, 2011 Stories of real people give a face to atrocities As Noemi Schoenberger Ban looked at her mother, one last time, the message was clear, Ban recalled. “Her eyes told me to take care of myself,” Ban said. And then her mother, baby brother and younger sister were gone, lost in the line that was going toward a barracks to “take a shower.” It was only weeks later that Ban realized what had really happened to her family in Auschwitz concentration camp. Ban told her story to a hushed

Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food Posted by: Todd / March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food. The first paper entitled “Rhetoric & Foodways” outlines the potential for a rhetorical examination of food