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, Brad Tilden ’83. When Tilden entered the lobby, he greeted all of his employees by name. Tilden, who lived in Pflueger, Hinderlie and Tingelstad, said he received a fantastic education at Pacific Lutheran University and loved its approach on vocation and education. Vocation is exactly the reason Phil McKinney’ 13, psychology major, went to Alaska Airlines. “I’m looking for a direction to take when I look for a job,” McKinney said. Like McKinney, nearly every other student there was a senior looking
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Elijah Paez ’24 developed passions for environmental justice, mathematics and bird watching during his PLU years Posted by: nicolacs / March 27, 2024 Image: Inspired by his study away experience in Oxford, England, Elijah Paez ’24 founded the Birders of PLU club. March 27, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in environmental studies and mathematics. While at PLU, he founded Birders of PLU, served as a Peace Scholar, and
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July 8, 2008 Third-generation Lute takes the long route to PLU For Zach Klein, the old saying, “you can’t get there from here,” comes about as close to accurate as one can imagine. A freshman guard on the PLU men’s basketball team, most people probably haven’t heard about him. After all, little is written about the team’s reserve players. His story is compelling, nonetheless, because most of his growing-up years were spent in hard-to-reach villages whose populaces could be counted in the
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October 21, 2014 MediaLab’s Newest Film Breaks Down the Food Equation MediaLab member Olivia Ash, left, conducts an interview in London while Taylor Lunka operates the camera. (Photo courtesy of MediaLab) ‘Waste Not’ premieres in Tacoma on Nov. 8 By Natalie DeFord ‘16 MediaLab TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 23, 3014)—An estimated one-third of food produced in the world each year goes to waste, causing economic, energy and environmental losses of more than $750 billion annually, according to a 2013 United
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, it’s lucky she did. In 2006, for example, Jones received a Most Innovative Foreign Language Teacher Award for starting a French immersion program at Tacoma’s Jason Lee Middle School. She currently works at Washington’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction as the assistant director of student achievement and director of as director of the Center for the Improvement of Student Learning (CISL), a program that provides resources for parents and schools. “I work with kids of color and kids
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February 3, 2011 PLU ROTC awarded prestigious MacArthur Award By Chris Albert The PLU ROTC program was recently named a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Award. The nation has recognized the program at PLU as one of the top nationally,” said Lt. Col. Jason K. Shrader, professor of military science – U.S. Army ROTC. Nearly 120 PLU students are cadets in the PLU Army ROTC program, including six from the graduating class who are distinguished military graduates. The MacArthur Award is named
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August 23, 2010 Lute athletic facilities: ‘Defining a vision, planning for the future’ What does it take to mount a successful athletic program these days? A few things immediately come to mind: talented and highly motivated student athletes; experienced, dedicated and supportive coaches and staff; and high-quality equipment. According to Laurie Turner, director of athletics, PLU is doing all of these things very well.“We have had remarkable success over the years in our athletic program,” she
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attorney for Dalton and Associates, PA and sexual assault victim advocate. Klein, who was one the first known survivors of former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, is a widely respected speaker and advocate for legal and cultural change.Klein, who spoke on behalf of over 400 “Sister Survivors” at the 2018 ESPY Awards as they collectively received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, will visit PLU on Feb. 26 for an impactful evening in which she shares her story and
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August 1, 2013 Ed Hrivnak ’96 with a poster of his new book “Wounded,” which tells of his experiences in the Iraq War. (Photo by Quinn Huelsbeck ’16) Scribbled notes on surgical tape become new book about Iraqi War by PLU nurse By Barbara Clements University Communications In the pre-dawn darkness, the exhausted medic looked at Ed Hrivnak ’96, and begged him to wait, just a little more, for helicopters carrying wounded out of a firefight near Baghdad in 2003. But the pilots of the C-141 was
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April 25, 2008 AAUP president discusses faculty leadership Campus Voice spoke with Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, prior to his campus address in April. The interview has been edited for length. Campus Voice: What is the role of the president of the American Association of University Professors? Cary Nelson: First of all it is to be a spokesperson for the organization. I’d been writing about higher education policies for about 20 years before I
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