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earlier. On the train, Brooke Wolfe ’17 and Josie Courtney ’19 shared similar expectations. “It will be interesting,” each of them said. The first four stops were quiet. For a brief time, the students and faculty members were the only people on the subway car. But, as it neared the city center, enthusiastic Donald Trump supporters filled the car. As the group walked from Metro Station to the inauguration grounds, they passed hundreds of protesters who angrily jockeyed with police while chanting “no

of five kids. My desire to teach my little cousins and siblings while growing up signaled to me that teaching might be a good path. Also, my dad passed away when I was in third grade, and my teachers really stepped up to support me. I remember that so fondly. Trauma can really affect students, and I want to be able to show the same care and concern to my students as my teachers showed for me.What led you to PLU? My oldest sister attended PLU for a couple of years, so I was familiar with PLU. I

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

A summer chemistry course…where you bake? Posted by: shortea / August 14, 2019 Image: Prof. Andrea Munro prepping dough in the Scandinavian Center kitchen for an online chemistry class of the chemistry of food at PLU Friday, July 19, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) August 14, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationsDr. Andrea Munro didn’t design Chem 103: Food Chemistry in order to teach students how to cook — but everyone agrees it’s been a pretty tasty side effect. Munro, an

pawed through the detritus on the forest floor. The “one” was a red back salamander,  which had been hiding under a log where students were busily whacking away invasive species that had choked out native plants along Puget Creek in North Tacoma decades ago. The reddish-brown creature, about 6 inches long, seemed rather stunned to be the center of attention as faces peered down at it. The amphibian was then covered with moss and then students carefully worked around its new hideout, so as not to

” (nine years running). In 2009, Hrabowski was named one of “America’s 10 Best College Presidents” by TIME magazine, which also recognized him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2012. The Washington Post and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership named Hrabowski one of seven “Top American Leaders.” His latest claim to fame? “Giddy basketball fan,” according to The Washington Post, following UMBC’s recent victory over No. 1 Virginia — the biggest upset in

budding underground hip hop scene and young women who are attending college. She was even present during the last Iranian Presidential elections. “When I was in Iran, people would say ‘when you go back to America let them know we’re not their enemy,’” Sarmast said. “After traveling all over the world and all over the middle east, I can say for sure the Iranian people are friends of the American people.” The Diversity Center, Student Involvement & Leadership, and the Common Reading Program presented

Professor Charles Bergman’s PLU ‘Swan Song’ is a Talk About Penguins Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 14, 2015 Image: Professor Charles Bergman holds a penguin on South Africa’s Robben Island, where he spent two weeks researching penguins for a Smithsonian article. (Photo courtesy of Charles Bergman) April 14, 2015 By Evan Heringer '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 14, 2015)—If you were to mix Indiana Jones with Steve Irwin and sprinkle in extensive knowledge of Shakespeare

. We in Humanities will be doing all we can to support these programs and the ways they advance PLU’s liberal arts tradition and the vital importance of the Classics to all the work we do. PLU is not alone in facing enrollment challenges —that trend is common throughout the landscape of private higher education.  But by retaining our commitment to the Classics as a minor, we set ourselves apart as a university that cares deeply about questions and traditions that have endured and evolved for many

International Honors Program builds a ‘Starship’ Posted by: vcraker / December 20, 2022 December 20, 2022 On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it is specifically designed to explore a topic through multiple academic departments and subjects. PLU’s IHON web page explains that the