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  • TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 1, 2015)—Dr. Janice E. Brunstrom-Hernandez ’83 will be returning to campus on Thursday, Oct. 8, to deliver the 2015 Meant to Live Lecture. The inaugural event of Homecoming weekend, Brunstrom-Hernandez’s lecture will shed light on the personal and professional rewards she has reaped…

    . Jan,” as her patients call her, has established several adapted sports programs and founded the Pediatric Neurology Cerebral Palsy Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and 1 CP Place in Plano, Texas, where she currently practices. What are a couple of aspects of sports rehabilitation that you especially enjoy? Adapted sports programs allow people with disabilities to experience athletics, competition and teamwork. Sports motivate patients to work harder to get stronger and learn new skills. But

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…

    exhibition.Munch, a Norwegian artist, is best known for the famous painting “The Scream,” but much of his art encompasses the same approach. The artist focused on love, relationships, anxiety and other deeply emotional themes that resonate in the names of the pieces, in addition to the art itself: Lovers at the Seaside, Alpha’s Despair, Separation II, Angst, Two Human Beings: The Lonely Ones and more. The exhibit at TAM focuses on Munch’s relationship with the sea and its symbolism in his works. “His

  • TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…

    of the employee. After talking to people working as sales associates to people in Corporate positions, I knew that Nordstrom upheld their employees and invested in them, a culture that I wanted to contribute and grow in. In regards to finding and securing the internship, I asked a lot of questions. I connected with a member of Tacoma Nordstrom’s HR Team and met with her, reviewed my resume, chatted about the internship (and random things as well)—I really tried to curate genuine relationships

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 17, 2016)- MediaLab at Pacific Lutheran University, the multimedia, applied research organization that celebrates 10 years of success this fall, counts more than 200 students as participants throughout the decade. Those participants are invited to mark the organization’s milestone anniversary Nov. 5…

    group, MediaLab has had to contend with constant staff changes. "I’ve made so many important relationships with my peers, clients and past MediaLab members who will support me in the years to come. I’m inspired by the support and success of past members who have come through MediaLab in the past 10 years."- Rachel Lovrovich ’17, MediaLab general manager “I’ve often referred to MediaLab as this race car traveling down the track at 70 to 80 miles per hour,” Wells said, “and because we’re at a

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 24, 2016)- As Hannah Park poses for a few quick photos outside the main office of Franklin Pierce High School, it seems she is well-liked by everyone in the close-knit community. “Hey Hannah, should you be in class?” a staff member playfully…

    Park in the first class of 253 PLU Bound Scholarship recipients will be Alex Gutierrez, who, earlier this month, graduated from Federal Way’s Decatur High School. When he began his senior year of high school, Gutierrez figured that after he graduated he’d attend local community college for two years prior to enrolling at a university to avoid going deep into debt. Gutierrez’s plan changed a couple of days before winter break, when he and about a dozen of his peers were excused from class to attend

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 10, 2016)- Bradford Andrews has spent a decade inviting his students to participate in archaeological research in the Mount Rainier area. This year, the work helped uncover details about prehistoric hunting groups. “This is the sort of opportunity that can only come…

    decade inviting his students to participate in archaeological research in the Mount Rainier area. This year, the work helped uncover details about prehistoric hunting groups.“This is the sort of opportunity that can only come from having relationships with your professors,” said Emma Holm ’17, who worked this year on the project. “I really wanted to take advantage of undergraduate opportunities.” Andrews, associate professor of anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University, works in conjunction with

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 24, 2015)—Courtney Lee ’15 applied for an internship with the U.S. State Department four times. After missing the mark three times and not hearing back the fourth, Lee had all but forgotten about it and was already looking at other positions. Then…

    working at a German wine company in Chengdu, locals asked her about U.S. policies and affairs. That, Lee said, opened her eyes to the way other countries perceive the United States. “United States policy influences our relationships with the Chinese and other cultures,” Lee said. “I felt like I had a responsibility to be informed and understand our policies. American policy in general is seen as economic, religious and militant.” In her four years at Pacific Lutheran University, Lee has studied away

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 18, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Nursing earned $350,000 to further its long history of placing Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students in rural and underserved communities to administer primary care to those in need. The money comes in the form of…

    with the underserved,” Woo said. “They go to inner-city jobs that are higher paid.” PLU graduates are picking those jobs, she said, because they build meaningful relationships with clinics in those areas during their time at PLU. “Our students are driving all over to have experiences working in those areas,” Woo said. “They understand what it’s like to work in an area like that.” The primary challenge for the communities in question is a lack of resources: patients are located far away from

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2016)- Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him. Instead of walking with his head down past the crying stranger in the lobby of a residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University, he…

    was sure I’d bring out the naked baby pictures or something,” she said, laughing. Now, Mary keeps in contact with those who were closest to Brian. She once invited a couple of his female friends over to sew. If Brian knew that, Mary said with a laugh, “he would be mortified.” Mary said her son’s spirit lives on through connections made by she and her husband, Paul, with people they would never have met otherwise. “We’ve learned more about Brian than we would have,” she said. Among the many stories

  • Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The…

    jersey with the team’s name, “Abes,” on it and the number 1. After he joined us in the elegant 1913-style auditorium, the choir sang an American song and a Chinese song (in Chinese!), joined by five students from Lincoln’s partner school in our Chinese Sister City of Fuzhou. A film began, featuring a number of us involved with Tacoma-Chinese affairs speaking to the importance of our many relationships with China.President Xi was the tip of the iceberg of perhaps 1000 Chinese dignitaries and