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and triumphant. Other student soloist winners, Devin Turner and Austin Baduria, will play with the PLU Wind Ensemble on May 15. Purchase tickets online, at the Concierge Desk in the Anderson University Center and by phone at 253-535-7411. Tickets are $8 General Admission, $5 Senior Citizen and Alumni, and free for PLU Community, any student ID, and 18 and under. Read Previous Metropolitan Opera singer offers masterclass to faculty-nominated students Read Next Jazz Under the Stars concert lineup

stints at several prestigious hotels and restaurants across the nation, teaching at the culinary institute and numerous awards. Along with PLU staff and local experts and alumni, Arnone hosted several interactive cooking sessions throughout the week that were open to the PLU community. “We thought as long as we’ve got Ken on campus and have him in the back of the house teaching staff, why not make the same types of things available for students, faculty and staff?” McGinnis said. The interactive

April 18, 2008 Relay for Life returns to PLU track Students, faculty, staff and alumni will paint the campus purple on April 25 and 26 during PLU’s third annual Relay for Life The relay begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 25. At least one member from each team will circle the university track for 18 hours, with the relay ending at noon on Saturday, April 26. Relay for Life is an annual fund raising event for the American Cancer Society. Held in communities and at universities across the nation in

of Our Teeth,” will be presented from 8 to 11 p.m. on Dec. 10-13 and from 2 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 14. The Dec. 10 Student Preview is $2, and tickets for other show times are $5 for students, faculty and alumni and $8 for community members. For tickets, contact Campus Concierge at 253-525-741. Read Previous Doing fieldwork is more than just academia Read Next Explore! offers first year students a chance to bond. COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might

is reward enough for businesses to join in and take part in the site, Hart said. The idea has been such a success; it won the PLU Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Herbert B. Jones Foundation,   earlier this year. The competition is open to PLU students or alumni who have started a business that’s less than a year old. Since Hart and Pogue first came up with the idea in April of 2009, then launched the site with $7,500 in start up money, it has taken off and is now in the black.  Hart

the life of the mind and teaching people like you is their ‘Wild Hope,’” Krise said. “In the end, PLU is all about you – the students,” he said. “PLU’s strong commitment is for you to realize your ‘Wild Hope.’” Krise reminded the class of 2016, there are many alumni who have found a passion and carrying on that tradition in the world today. Like Brian Bannon ’97, who now heads the Chicago Library system, the second largest library system in the country. And there’s William Foege ’57, who this year

Seattle’s production.” Huertas said that the experience was a “fun challenge,” especially after playing the dual roles of cellist and actor as the Master of Ceremonies in PLU’s production of Cabaret under the direction of Jeff Clapp, associate professor of theatre, when he was a sophomore. Fellow alumni and best friend Kirsten deLohr Helland ’10 also played in the Seattle production at the Balagan theatre as Ilse. After becoming friends during productions at PLU, they knew they wanted to stick together

Baltimore thanks to Lutheran Volunteer Corps, a national volunteer service program that someone recommended to Markuson as a way to help him understand service and figure out the next step of his life. (PLU has seven alumni serving in this year’s Lutheran Volunteer Corps class—the third-largest group from any college or university.) In Baltimore, Markuson was connected to AIRS, a nonprofit organization that provides housing for low-income and homeless people and families living with or at risk of HIV

want to learn to make it and I can’t find the resource for it, I just look it up on YouTube.” Since Ragoonanan has been studying at PLU, he has self-designed and hand-made costumes for each year of his dance ensemble production. Not only has his work added diversity to the show; it also has enriched the audience’s cultural experience. Dance 2014 When: 7:30 p.m. April 11 and 12 Where: Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Tickets: $8 general admission/$5 senior citizens and alumni/$3

previous space, which was located in “the bowels of Eastvold,” according to veteran Costume Designer Kathy Anderson. ‘Macbeth’ at PLU May 8: Student preview, 7:30 p.m. May 9-10 and May 16-17: 7:30 p.m. May 18: 2 p.m. Tickets: $8 general/$5 senior citizens and alumni/$3 PLU Community, students and 18 and under. Call 253-535-7411. Now, rectangles of sunlight illuminate sewing machines, mannequins and labeled racks of tailored costumes as students pull needles through, or stand still while Anderson