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Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 18, 2023 Image: Margaret Murdoch ’24 spent the summer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center researching acute myeloid leukemia cells. (All photos provided by Murdoch.) October 18, 2023 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsMargaret Murdoch ’24, a biology and religious studies major with a minor in gender and sexuality studies, spent their summer in Seattle alongside some of the nation’s best

Off to the Faeroes! Posted by: wardei / August 18, 2016 August 18, 2016 By Dr. Elisabeth I. WardDirector, Scandinavian Cultural Center4 days of adventure! Read Previous PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center selected for Registrars to the Rescue service project LATEST POSTS PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center selected for Registrars to the Rescue service project July 28, 2016

highlight their multifaceted identities and intersecting movement work — they show up across social and civil rights movements, mediums, and communities. We invite you to explore these authors and delve into their worlds; racial equity work in the 1950s and 60s, womanism and civil rights activism in the 70s and 80s, Chicana cultural experiences and queerness of the 80s and 90s; mutual aid organizing, prison abolition, transformative justice and healing, degendering fashion, disability justice, class

Concert Hall. Stefan Parkman, who has conducted many of Europe’s finest professional choirs, will guest conduct. Soloists include Metropolitan Opera star soprano Angela Meade, along with PLU vocal alumni – Annie Herzog (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Webb (tenor), Eric Olson (baritone) and Benjamin Harris (bass baritone). James Brown, PLU Chair of Vocal studies, has sung the Evangelist in both of the Bach Passions and coached a quartet of vocal students singing the role of the Evangelist. Sandström will

School. Tomorrow we’ll visit ‘Iolani High School, and then share a final luau dinner and show at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We’ll get up early and head home the final day. Thank you to all of the wind ensemble student performers, Dr. Powell, all other PLU family, and our school hosts. We have had a wonderful time in Hawaii and we are honored to have shared our tour with all of you. Our tour has been a success and we can’t wait until the next time we are able to return.   Mahalo! ~ Ryan Marsh

, Director of PLU Forensics, said. “It is quite fascinating to see the cultural shift that took place.” Zarefsky is a Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and is considered to be the world’s most renowned scholar on Lincoln. His research and teaching are in the areas of rhetorical history and criticism, argumentation, debate and forensics. Zarefsky has authored more than 100 articles in professional journals and two of his books have won the Winans-Wichelns Award for

showcasing the music of African Americans, the program also will feature works of European composers from the early 20th Century inspired by African-American music, including Milhaud’s La Creation du Monde and the second movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. In addition, the PLU Jazz Ensemble will perform the music of Duke Ellington, accompanying the PLU Swing Club dance troupe. The concert, organized by David Deacon-Joyner, PLU Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, serves as the first

have done. What’s your favorite memory from your time at PLU? Within the past year, there have been a lot of fun beach trips I have got to go on through the geosciences department. Those are always fun to hang out with kids in the class I would not normally be around. I have enjoyed getting to go and discover new things at Manchester State Park in the fresh air, out of the classroom and doing some fieldwork. What makes PLU impactful to you? The small class sizes and learning aspect is really unique

spaces. By high school, he had learned enough from his dad to become a skilled forager, someone who knew his capstones from his shaggy ink caps. (Those are mushrooms, for the uninitiated.)“I think a big thing for me was when my mom brought home this baby ‘possum whose mother and siblings had been killed by a car,” he said, recalling a third-grade memory. “She was this one possum that was left. So we raised her before sending her off to a wildlife refuge.” It’s little wonder that Evanishyn chose to

. What’s your favorite memory from your time at PLU? Within the past year, there have been a lot of fun beach trips I have got to go on through the geosciences department. Those are always fun to hang out with kids in the class I would not normally be around. I have enjoyed getting to go and discover new things at Manchester State Park in the fresh air, out of the classroom and doing some fieldwork. What makes PLU impactful to you? The small class sizes and learning aspect is really unique to PLU. If