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administration. It was there that he met his future bride, Lisa (Treadwell ’97) Lawrence. Gård, meaning “farm” in many of the Scandinavian languages, is a tribute to the family’s Scandinavian heritage and farming tradition. Mountain Dome is owned and operated by the Manz family. Erik Manz graduated from PLU in 1998. Mountain Dome is located on a 85 acre forest in the foothills of Mount Spokane and is the only family-owned business in Washington devoted almost exclusively to making sparkling wines. Tasawick

far, the university offers nearly 30 courses, either online or blended, across seven academic disciplines and professional schools. Class sizes are comparable to traditional, face-to-face classes, limited to roughly 20 students. Online courses are offered during Summer Session, while blended courses are offered during any term. The disciplines range from languages and religion to communication and business. Regardless of the topic, though, PLU faculty who have completed the online institute agree

PLU students intern with Trinidad and Tobago Division of Health, Wellness and Social Protection Posted by: mhines / February 12, 2024 Image: PLU students at the Division of Health orientation during J-Term 2024. February 12, 2024 January Term (J-Term for short), PLU’s month-long term between fall and spring semesters, is when many of our students take advantage of our incredible study away options in multiple places around the world. Planned and coordinated by professors and PLU’s study away

Communications and psychology double major Alex Reed ’23 explored film and storytelling at PLU Posted by: nicolacs / May 19, 2023 May 19, 2023 By Lisa PattersonMarketing & Communications Guest WriterSometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions.Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I started looking at colleges,” she said

organizations who haven’t had the privilege or capacity to apply?” Born and raised in Hawaii, Gines moved to Tacoma to attend PLU. She feels rooted in Tacoma—where she works, plays, and spends time with family. “I’m pretty committed to serving the city and being part of this community,” she says. But like many of us who’ve moved here, her heart still resides in Hawaii. “It’s this weird thing where home can be two places, right?” Gines encourages college students to keep an open mind about future career

,” he said. On taking risks, Hobson stressed that is was better to fail spectacularly, rather than simply turn in mediocre work. “It’s better to attempt to be brilliant and fail, than just accept being mediocre,” he said. Read Previous Alumni Check-in: Angela Tennant ’12 Read Next The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens May 10 LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre

,” he said. On taking risks, Hobson stressed that is was better to fail spectacularly, rather than simply turn in mediocre work. “It’s better to attempt to be brilliant and fail, than just accept being mediocre,” he said. Read Previous Alumni Check-in: Angela Tennant ’12 Read Next The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens May 10 LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre

was the Chair of Department of Music at that time.   During Penderecki’s residency at PLU, he asked McTee if she would be interested in traveling to Poland for the coming year to teach his family English in exchange for studying with him at the Cracow Conservatory. Cindy did just that. “At first, I didn’t believe he was serious, and I was also a bit apprehensive about the idea of living behind the Iron Curtain,” she says. Despite her hesitation, McTee eventually agreed and moved from her hometown

2016-2017 academic year on sabbatical, a year which she dedicated to investigating the texts of Hermann Broch, an Austrian 20th century Modernist writer, with the explicit mission of exploring evidence of visual tropes and metaphors of seeing in Broch’s novels. Broch was born in Vienna on November 1, 1886, into a Jewish family. As a writer aligned with the Modernist movement, which prioritized individuality and subjectivity, he wrote fiction and poetry and was known for his unique and often

when we looked at a belching smokestack from a pulp producer, or at a burning river, and blamed Big Business. The biggest threat to the health of Puget Sound now, she said, is surface runoff—from drains, dairies, roadways and lawns—and from the 4.5 million people who live around the Sound. Tangible effects of the runoff include the closures of shellfish beds and dead fish blanketing the surface of Hood Canal.“These shellfish are the canary in the coal mine for us,” she said. “You look at the