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  • Thomas W. Krise arrived as Pacific Lutheran University’s 13th president on June 1. He was chosen for his passion for a liberal arts education, as well as being a strategic thinker and first and foremost a teacher and an academic. (Photos by John Froschauer) What’s…

    celebrate the team’s national championship with the first pitch of a Seattle Mariner’s game. Soon the meet-and-greets will turn to the types of things that, as he said, “keeps every college president up at night.” Until then, both he and Patty will continue to introduce themselves to the PLU community. At one of PLU’s summer traditions – the berry festivals – the Krises step out of the Hauge Administration Building, they are greeted by the warm sounds of Caribbean music from a steel drum band. Before he

  • Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure…

    weekend, the PLU community will celebrate the completion of one of the university’s more ambitious projects, the complete remodel of Eastvold Chapel, renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The 45,900-square-foot center takes the name of Karen Hille Phillips ’55, a nursing graduate and former PLU regent who, upon her death, bequeathed more than $10 million to alma mater which was used for the completion of the project. All told, Phillips left nearly $25 million to PLU, making

  • Pacific Lutheran University Assistant Professor of Biology Lathiena Nervo was recently named one of Cell Mentor’s “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America.” A developmental biologist in her second year at PLU, Nervo is equally passionate about teaching, biological research, and increasing diverse representation in science.…

    honored and really humbled to be on it.  It was also really nice to see people on that list that I know and that I’ve met, either at conferences or I actually went to grad school with, or who are in my little niche of developmental biology. Being a Black woman in science, and being a hyper minority in that sense, sometimes you tend to feel very isolated and alone. But this list made me think of all the different individuals across the country and made me feel like we are a tight-knit community.  How

  • In honor of Women’s History Month, we are “commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” ( https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/ ). This exhibit includes a short list of just a few women’s first achievements in the past six…

    feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that’s smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read.”–publisher’s description Hildegard of Bingen (ML410.H618M43 2018) “A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe’s elite, founded and led a noted women’s religious community, and

  • This week we sat down with Dr. Zachary Lyman to talk about everything from recording issues and Bach, to the new Lyric Brass CD and everyone involved in this project. Read on! What can we find in this CD? The CD contains 4 works by…

    Symphony Orchestras. Lyman has also performed as featured soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, PLU Wind Ensemble, PLU Symphony Orchestra, The University Chorale, Choir of the West, the Tacoma Community College Orchestra, and the Tacoma Brass Band.  He plays throughout the northwest as a member of the Seattle-based Mosaic Brass Quintet. He has appeared with the Vashon Opera and Tacoma Symphony Orchestras, at the Olympic Music Festival, and is on the summer faculty at the Evergreen Music Festival

  • Q&A With Professor Michael Stasinos and Associate Professor Bradford Andrews By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, WA (Jan. 16, 2015)—In a groundbreaking merger of art and anthropology, Pacific Lutheran University Art Professor Michael Stasinos has been developing important historical illustrations…

    brought the city to life, and that’s exactly what we wanted. FOR MORE INFORMATION To learn more about The Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project and the city of Calixtlahuaca, please visit the official website. Bradford Andrews has written blogs about this anthropology and art collaboration.         Read Previous PLU Community Encouraged to Attend Listening Session Regarding JBLM Personnel Cuts Read Next PLU Wind Ensemble to Premiere Crowd-Commissioned Composition on Tour of Tennessee COMMENTS*Note: All

  • Spring, 2022 This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge…

    Sciences at PLU. Change is never easy, but this new structure will present opportunities, particularly by allowing us to build stronger connections among programs that share a deep commitment to the liberal arts. As I have been pondering this transition, I have been re-reading back issues of Prism. The Division of Humanities has produced this publication since 1987, and so it offers an energizing record and a meaningful tribute to the learning, community, and scholarship nurtured here. You can re-read

  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    said. In the weeks leading up to J-Term, all 14 students agreed to community guidelines, including two specific to Inauguration Day. For one, they vowed to stick together, making the decision to navigate the event in one or two groups. Second, as their instructors suggested, they planned to be “neutral observers.” The morning of the inauguration, Sill, Schletter and eight students boarded a Metro train at Bethesda Station and headed downtown. Six other students in the class left more than an hour

  • The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…

    Gallery, the Scandinavian Cultural Center, and via online galleries. She hopes to continue to grow in her work and see where her lenses, pens, and brushes will take her after completing her B.A double major at PLU in May of 2017 and beginning a Master of Arts in Education program soon after. ARTIST STATEMENT As an artist, I have always found myself drawn to portraiture and human figures. I believe that artists have the power to depict certain aspects of personalities with the tiniest details, from a

  • Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…

    prepared to conclude that their beliefs are quite improbable, they should be equally unprepared to look for empirical confirmation of their faith. As William Austin has summarized this objection, It is of the nature of religious faith that adherence to religious doctrines must be unconditional, come what may in the way of evidence…The religious believer is committed to the doctrines of his community in the sense that it would be faithless for him to abandon them in the face of evidence; to hold them