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January 3, 2014 PLU Earns Prestigious Mortar Board Chapter By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU is populated with outstanding student leaders and meaningful, campuswide ways to recognize them—from Emerging Leaders to the Ubuntu Award and Pinnacle Society—but until now, there was no opportunity for national recognition. That’s where Mortar Board comes in. PLU now has its own chapter of the premier national honor society, which recognizes college seniors for superior achievement in scholarship, leadership
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), and a grand prize finalist nomination from the National Broadcasting Society (NBS), all in the categories of long-form documentary.Watch ``Waste Not``Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m. Studio Theater, Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing ArtsSenior Producer and Communication major Amanda Brasgalla ’15 said she is excited about the acknowledgements, especially given the high level of competition. “We beat out a lot of big broadcasting schools,” Brasgalla said. “Every award we receive shows a
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PLU interns combat climate change one tree at a time Posted by: nicolacs / November 8, 2022 Image: Image: Autumn Johansen ’23, Dalen Todorov ’23, Zoee Kooser ’22, Elijah Paez ’24 and Dr. Lowell Wyse, the Tacoma Tree Foundation executive director. November 8, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsA group of PLU students interning with the Tacoma Tree Foundation spent the summer increasing the number of trees in the city to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and heat during the
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State Debate Coalition.PLU was picked as a host site by the Governance Committee from a pool of 19 applicant organizations from around the state, and is working with community partners Bethel School District, Eatonville School District, Franklin Pierce School District and Tacoma Public Schools to host the debate in October.“Pacific Lutheran University is honored to host a U.S. Senate debate, providing Puget Sound residents an important opportunity to hear directly from the candidates about how they
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“Impressions” exhibition hits its mark Posted by: Mollie Smith / January 25, 2017 January 25, 2017 A retrospective exhibit featuring printmaker and artist Craig Cornwall premieres at PLU on February 8. (Monday, January 23, 2017 – TACOMA, WA) It all starts with a mark: drawings with graphite, charcoal, ink and color, lithographs with marks of crayon, washes, rich color with multiple layers and wood cuts with marks that are created by the gouge of a knife. In the upcoming Pacific Lutheran Gallery
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Women’s Center’s Warwick Selected for National Think Tank Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 5, 2015 Image: Jennifer Warwick, PLU Victim Advocate and Voices Against Violence Project Administrator. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 5, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Jennifer Warwick, PLU Victim Advocate and Voices Against Violence Project Administrator, has been selected to participate in the national Think Tank on Sexual Violence Prevention
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October 13, 2008 “Tyranny of Oil” author to appear at PLU A nationally-known expert and critic of Big Oil will speak at PLU on Saturday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. The address is free and open to the public. Antonia Juhasz has exposed an industry that thrives on secrecy and described how it hides its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, from consumers to get what it wants through money, influence and
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allowing college students to take unique life pathways that might stray from conventional norms for the sake of their mental health, a topic she has advanced with her capstone research. Zambrano acknowledges her own challenges of transitioning to college and hopes to help other students who may be dealing with similar struggles. She expanded more on her passion for psychology and advice-giving in a Q&A session. What made you decide to attend PLU? I thankfully had a really good GPA in high school, so I
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during Trump’s first two years in office. President Trump has also hinted that he will work with the Republican-led Congress to revive a proposal, formerly called the Dream Act, which would give some form of legal status to those immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children. Nevertheless, several PLU faculty and staff members have been preparing for the worst case and working on resources, services and policies to support and protect our DACA students, as well as international students and
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July 23, 2009 One-on-one: Behrens By Barb Clements Being a marine biologist is a pretty good gig. And why wouldn’t it be? There are obvious perks, Michael Behrens admits, to having a job where diving is part of the package. Seeing creatures swim by as they hunt for food in the Galopagos is a nice benefit, as well as diving in the rocky shoals of Washington state, which he counts as among the most beautiful places on earth. For PLU Assistant Professor of Biology Michael Behrens diving gives him
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