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Building in downtown Tacoma. His last day is Wednesday, Jan. 9. “It’s another challenge,” Villahermosa said of his new position. “I’m excited to bring a lot of what I learned here – the skills I learned, the knowledge and especially the culture – to my new job. “I’ll definitely miss it here, I’ll miss the people.” A reception to bid farewell to Villahermosa and welcome Berger is slated for Jan. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Berger has 21 years of law enforcement experience

to meet somehow, somewhere, while they were there. While sitting in the Anderson University Center on campus it came to them. They’ll meet up in Tanzania and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. Leave it to a few Lutes to celebrate by climbing the highest peak in Africa, at 19,341 feet. None of them had done something like that before, but that wasn’t going to keep them from trying. “Even while we were talking about it we were like ‘is this really going to happen?’,” said Markuson, a biology major. “It’s

United States Army and PLU. Michael Farnum, PLU's director of military outreach, and others deliver 1,200 turkeys to service men and women on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Friday, Nov. 18, thanks to Association of the United States Army, PLU and Puget Sound partners. (Photo courtesy of Farnum) The event, in the Anderson University Center the day before Thanksgiving, will welcome soldiers who are waiting to be assigned to their duty stations. “They’re missing family, they’re missing out on a normal part of

PLU launches new Master of Social Work (MSW) degree Posted by: howardrm / September 20, 2023 September 20, 2023 By MacKenzie HinesPLU Marketing & Communications PLU has added a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree to its offerings and is now accepting applicants for the fall of 2024. Rooted in PLU’s tradition of academic excellence and community engagement, the new MSW program will equip aspiring social work professionals with the skills and knowledge needed to create lasting impacts on

to transport Jewish refugees to America.``What Makes a Man Start Fires?``The topic of this year’s lecture will be “‘What makes a man start fires? Reflections on the Cambodian Genocide 40 Years Later” with Alexander Hinton. The lecture is on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. MoreIn his twenties, he found his way to Tacoma, made his wealth being a developer of affordable housing and became a mainstay in the community, eventually connecting with PLU by way of an

membership year. Mike Snyder has spent the last three years as PLU’s Director of Athletics and Recreation, guiding the department to eight Northwest Conference titles across five different sports. Snyder spearheaded efforts that resulted in men’s soccer hosting its first ever NCAA Regional, made PLU an industry leader at the Division III level in Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), and was instrumental in adding women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport, becoming the department’s first new sport since 1996.PLU

Beiermann ’18, Director of Accessibility and Accommodation Resources Austin Beiermann has been part of the PLU community for nearly 10 years. Prior to his work in the Office of Accessibility and Accommodation Resources, he worked in the Center for Student Success supporting first-year students. Professionally, Austin has a passion for helping students navigate college systems in a smooth and efficient manner. He’s lived in Tacoma all his life, so be sure to ask him for recommendations on places to go

the world’s memory. “That’s the portrait of victims,” Herschkowitz said. “There were very few child survivors.” But he was one of them, as he escaped with his family from Belgium and survived the struggles of hate. On Oct. 24, he shared the stories of the children of the Holocaust at the Second Annual Powell and Heller Family Conference in Support of Holocaust Education in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. It’s important to hear about the lives of survivors, said Provost Patricia O’Connell Killen

break from her busy day as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. “It was amazing on campus, and it was wonderful,” she said. On campus “it just felt like home, it was friendly, people smiled…it wasn’t what I had experienced my last six years in junior high and high school.”  Her time at PLU, Tachibana adds, was simply a time to grow up. PLU’s nursing program was largely self-paced then, and taught her discipline and focus. “That is

this year’s event extremely successful, said Ruth Kohler, director of the Wellness Center. More than 350 children received toys donated by PLU faculty and staff and community organizations, far exceeding Kohler’s initial goal. She’d only dared to hope to collect a toy for each of the 160 preschoolers in the Head Start program. After the party, 75 toys were left and donated to the United Way. “The response we got this year was just incredible,” Kohler said. “A lot of different people stepped up to