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DC watching President Barack Obama take the oath of office and become the 44th president. I can’t think of another time that will bring me mere feet away from Chris Matthews or when I will watch Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow reporting live in front of me. So all of you at home, I hoped you enjoyed your warm houses, your HD TVs with surround sound. Yes you probably had a better view than I did and I was frozen from the inside out by the end of the day and yes I got windburn and probably some

April 25, 2011 Fred L. Tobiason,Reed Ojala-Barbour and President Loren J. Anderson at the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center in April. (Photo by John Froschauer) Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center dedicated By Kari Plog ’11 With a single snip of a blackberry vine, students and staff made a mark for sustainability on the PLU campus last week. Monday, April 18, saw one of the first sunny days of 2011, and with that came the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor

April 2, 2012 Austin Goble ’09, Ruth Tollefson ’09, Raechelle Baghirov 05, listen while Sallie Strueby ’11, speaks during an Alumni panel discussion on service opportunities at PLU on Thursday, March 22, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) A life of service after PLU By Katie Scaff ’13 Volunteer service is about taking what you’re learning in the classroom and making it bigger, according to four recent PLU graduates. The grads, Sallie Strueby ’11, Austin Goble ’09, Ruth Tollefson ’09, and

October 21, 2013 PLU’s MediaLab dived into the global water crisis with its latest documentary “Tapped Out,” which premiered Oct. 26 at the Seattle Central Public Library. MediaLab filmmakers wade into global water crisis By Amanda Brasgalla ’15 Four PLU students who spent more than a year researching water problems around the world premiered a new documentary film Oct. 26 titled Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis. Tapped Out focuses on water-related issues in the U.S., Canada and

hopes you’ll learn and heed: That voice will come through PLU’s new outdoor speaker system, part of a larger, and also new, Emergency Notification System.On Tuesday, it’ll be tested for the first time on the Pacific Lutheran University campus to sound the all-clear for a scheduled fire drill. More broadly, the system—which includes eight directional outdoor stadium speakers tied to Metis Help Station interior devices, all on Upper Campus—will increase PLU’s capacity to respond to the campus

McClure ’15, tennis; Amy Wooten ’15, volleyball; Nicoya Benham-Marin ’16, soccer; Rigoberto Loreto ’17, soccer; Kelly White ’17, soccer; Bryce Kennedy ’16, soccer; Hannah Walton ’16, track and field; Machaela Graddy ’18, soccer. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) April 1, 2015 Celebration, Black & Gold Friday set for April 10 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 30, 2015)—In true competitive Lute fashion, PLU student-athletes have reached—and certainly will surpass—the

25th and 101st in the two respective categories. The Washington Monthly, a Washington, D.C.-based news magazine, began ranking colleges 11 years ago, as a direct response to the rankings published by U.S. News & World Report. “Every year, (U.S. News & World Report) would rate the nation’s institutions of higher learning on measures of wealth, fame and exclusivity, then publish the results as a list of ‘best’ colleges,” Kevin Carey wrote in the September/October 2016 issue of Washington Monthly

Students return to in-person research at PLU Posted by: vcraker / December 9, 2021 December 9, 2021 Thanks, to a $213,500 three-year research award from the National Science Foundation, four undergrad PLU students spent 10 weeks this past summer participating in intensive lab research. “The first week or two of working in the lab was very stressful. I, like my coworkers, lacked lab experience due to the pandemic and everything was intimidating at first,” engineering major Sandy Montgomery ’23

Jessica Waiau ‘08 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Felix HalvorsonPLU student Jessica Waiau (‘08) used her time at PLU to work with the Diversity Center, Hawai’i Club, the Education Program, and then started working immediately after graduation. She recently joined me for an interview in which she discussed how the Diversity Center impacted her identity development, communication skills, and perspectives on community. Our conversation was filled with warmth, funny

March 16, 2009 PLU recognized for first class global studies Pacific Lutheran University has received the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on and off campus to engage the world and the international community. PLU is the first and only private college in the West to have received this honor. On March 10, NASFA: Association of International Educators announced the recipients of the award, which aside from PLU