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  • Something I Thought I’d Never Do: I never thought I’d become a rock climber Stretched out against a mock rock face at Tacoma’s Edgeworks Climbing Indoor Rock Gym, Kristi Reidel ’09 considered her next foothold, as she step-by-step scaled a 30-foot vertical wall with routes…

    March 19, 2009 Something I Thought I’d Never Do: I never thought I’d become a rock climber Stretched out against a mock rock face at Tacoma’s Edgeworks Climbing Indoor Rock Gym, Kristi Reidel ’09 considered her next foothold, as she step-by-step scaled a 30-foot vertical wall with routes named “Big Scary Future” and “Channel the Hate.” This test of mental and physical endurance is one of the reasons Reidel, a senior at PLU, decided, almost on a whim, to take an outdoor survival and

  • Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters.

    Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Posted by: marshrl / January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Read Previous Concert web streaming of PLU’s annual Christmas Concert, Gloria Read Next Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural

  • All graduate and certificate students must do the following to officially accept the offer of admission.

    All graduate and certificate students must do the following to officially accept the offer of admission. Make the Advanced Tuition Payment A non-refundable $300 advanced tuition payment is required for all graduate students. This payment is the student’s acknowledgment of acceptance and is credited to the student’s account to be applied toward tuition for the first term of enrollment. Submit Required Acceptance Forms Submit online confirmation of acceptance of admission, which includes

  • Crowd gathers for Take Back the Night event at Red Square. The annual event is part of an international campaign to raise awareness against sexual assault. (John Froschauer, Photo). Take Back the Night event focuses PLU campus on the campaign against sexual assault By Barbara…

    April 25, 2014 Crowd gathers for Take Back the Night event at Red Square. The annual event is part of an international campaign to raise awareness against sexual assault. (John Froschauer, Photo). Take Back the Night event focuses PLU campus on the campaign against sexual assault By Barbara Clements Director of Content Development It comes down to a singular act of courage on an individual’s part, and taking responsibility for one’s own actions, to put a stop to sexual assault and violence

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 21, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University Director of Choral Studies Dr. Richard Nance was recently the recipient of the Northwest American Choral Directors Association Leadership award. Nance, who was awarded the “American Prize” for Choral Conducting in 2011 and 2013, has been a…

    Sandström, one of the world’s best-known composers, on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. in PLU’s Lagerquist Concert Hall. How did it feel to receive the 2016 Northwest ‪ACDA‬ Leadership Award? It was a huge honor! I have such respect and admiration for my colleagues in ACDA circles, many of whom are also very close friends. To be singled out as a leader among them is humbling and wonderful. What would you say are the secrets to being a great leader in the choral world? I don’t know if

  • Care for the earth It all started because of the health department. A year ago, when the University Center closed down for its remodel, Dining and Culinary Services had to find a new place to feed the majority of the university’s students. They moved to…

    September 15, 2008 Care for the earth It all started because of the health department. A year ago, when the University Center closed down for its remodel, Dining and Culinary Services had to find a new place to feed the majority of the university’s students. They moved to the Columbia Center. That space, however, could not accommodate a commercial dishwasher, so meals were served on paper plates to alleviate health department concerns. But what to do with all that paper? Contaminated paper

  • The Psychology Department’s mission is to foster a community of scholars committed to the science of psychology, as an epistemology and as a set of practical tools and ethical obligations.

    Psychology Student Research Conference. Students’ learning in the psychology major enhances their general education at PLU and allows them to engage more fully in on-going campus conversations about the human condition. As students progress systematically through their major milestones in Psychology, they acquire a set of basic tools they will need for a reflective life: multiple ways of framing problems, informed and creative means for generating possible solutions, empirical methods for testing

  • iTech recently finished construction of the Lightboard, which is a new tool that can be used to create written and drawn visuals for instructional videos. The Lightboard can be especially useful to demonstrate complicated material, such as mathematic equations. Our Lightboard is available for campus-wide…

    Introducing: The Lightboard Posted by: berlinma / April 3, 2019 April 3, 2019 iTech recently finished construction of the Lightboard, which is a new tool that can be used to create written and drawn visuals for instructional videos. The Lightboard can be especially useful to demonstrate complicated material, such as mathematic equations. Our Lightboard is available for campus-wide use – watch the video below to check it out! Visit our Lightboard page for more info. Read Previous New

  • ‘The holy cow’ moment As Clarice Swanson ’89 walks in the barn located on her family’s 400-acre Walla Walla cattle ranch, her mind isn’t on the hundred or so Herefords and Black Angus chewing on new grass just down the road. It’s on the tiny…

    May 9, 2008 ‘The holy cow’ moment As Clarice Swanson ’89 walks in the barn located on her family’s 400-acre Walla Walla cattle ranch, her mind isn’t on the hundred or so Herefords and Black Angus chewing on new grass just down the road. It’s on the tiny balls of grey striped fluff peeping at her feet. These turkey chicks, or poults, represent one of the few Unimproved Standard Bronze flocks on the West Coast. Even if the chicks or their parents didn’t have the shelter of a barn to escape the

  • Thank you for your interest in supporting Natural Sciences at PLU! There are many great options for designating your gifts to a particular department or area of the sciences.

    , Lutes across the world come together to celebrate and invest in what they love about PLU. If you’d like to support the Natural Sciences and our students, you can select College of Natural Sciences or Other and specify a certain department, program, or fund on your online donation form. You can elect to give one time or set up monthly recurring gifts. Below you’ll find a list of the incredible programs and funds under the Natural Sciences umbrella. Options for Giving to the Natural SciencesNatural