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To catch Josh Wallace, you’ll have to call him — and he’ll probably be on the move when you do so. The busy MBA student is juggling school classes, his job as a marketing intern… and a starring role in The Fern Shakespeare Company’s “Othello,”…
— such as auditions — but not accounting, marketing and management theories. Many artists could learn more about marketing, he says: “As an actor, you need to know how to market yourself, especially in the digital age,” whether through Instagram or another form of social media. He’s learning more about marketing in his MBA program. With teammates, Wallace delves into case studies and learns about marketing tools. For the year-end project, his group is crafting a real-world marketing plan for a
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Pacific Lutheran University alumna Jessica Anderson ’07 is passionate about education, geosciences and technology, and has combined all three to become an award-winning educator.
professors Steven Benham and Duncan Foley, my outlook on science changed. I became deeply passionate about geosciences, almost to the point of switching my major. In the end, I found the best route was a mix of teaching and geosciences. “PLU is where I learned how to learn… It was in college that learning became authentic and meaningful. It felt like my learning had a purpose. In retrospect, it wasn’t the teaching concepts or philosophies that have gotten me to this point of my career, but the modeling
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PLU’s MSMR Candidates are doing great things! Following last semester’s project with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, MSMR Candidate, Jessica Wagner, was invited to be a panelist at the 2018 Traffic Safety Conference! Shelly Baldwin, Legislative Liaison and Media Relations Manager at the Washington Traffic Safety…
encouraged to interact by only scratching off three of the nine sections for them, inciting in the audience the psychological need to finish the task. Wagner on Knudsen’s presentation, “it was one of those light bulb moments, listening to Jessie’s presentation – their strategies were in line with not only our own research findings but also with what we have been learning throughout the year on effective marketing strategies.” Mason, Director of Development at Washington DECA, highlighted high school
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For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.
Neah Bay Neah Bay https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/09/neah-bay-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 26, 2017 June 5, 2019 Makah tribe continues longtime tradition of sharing its story with Lutes The white vans pulled into the parking lot at Washburn’s General Store along Bayview Avenue — known to locals as Front Street — as they
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2016)- Co-founder of Android and Pacific Lutheran University graduate Nick Sears took the technology world by storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for…
role as co-founder and chief strategy officer before Google purchased the operating system in July 2005. Sears remained involved at Google, working on Android product development and marketing. By every account, Sears spent more than seven years creating and perfecting the modern-day smartphone. He credits PLU with helping him get there. “I came to PLU to study business,” Sears said, “but I left with a lot more than a (Bachelor of Business Administration).” Now, another former Lute has inspired his
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Kate Monthy ’04 and Dmitry Mikheyev ’10 empower fellow artists at Spaceworks.
science at Pacific Lutheran University, serves as Spaceworks’ development coordinator, a position she says “entails cultivating a lot of relationships in Tacoma with people who are interested in investing their time, money or other resources in our work.” Monthy’s natural gifts and charisma, her teammates say, is key to the success she’s enjoyed at Spaceworks. “It takes a certain personality to be successful at fundraising,” said Heather Joy, Spaceworks’ manager. “Kate has such a way with people that
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU.…
Nation, a Coast Salish nation from Puget Sound. She didn’t know what she wanted to study by the end of her first year at PLU, so she decided to pursue her love of her own Native American heritage and the cultures of other tribes. A group on campus had been working with Crawford-O’Brien, associate professor of religion and culture, to create a new program that would involve the study of Native Americans. But that program was not ready in time for Hall to major in it during her time at PLU. Above is a
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TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 1, 2016)- Bryanna Plog ’10 seems to have done it all in her years after Pacific Lutheran University – teaching English abroad in Colombia, writing books about travel and interning for a conservation nonprofit. But now, she says, serving as a park…
at PLU and the year she spent teaching English in Colombia. The books – available through Amazon – also include “bad travel advice,” or what happens when you ignore good advice. Bryanna Plog '10 with her most recent travel book. (Photo courtesy of Plog) “I’ve always been fascinated by different ways people travel,” she said, “and in fact that’s something I experience every day when people from around the world come to visit the park.” For her future in the Park Service, Plog says she might end up
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William Davis ’06 is co-founder of FabLab Tacoma, a makerspace dedicated to project-based learning, entrepreneurship and tinkering.
FabLab Tacoma FabLab Tacoma https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/05/william_davis_fab_lab-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 24, 2017 May 22, 2017 A guitar-playing robot plucks out the first few chords to the song “Here Comes the Sun.”A retired Tacoma resident crafts high-end chef’s knives and fishing poles. A group of college students
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TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…
that type of reporting that only an alt-publication with young people could pull off. It ended up being one of the Inlander‘s most-liked Facebook posts, and it turns up pretty high on Google results – it was really cool to see how something you’re proud of can end up actually reaching people. Has this internship challenged any of your perceptions of the field of journalism or of what you’d like do for your career? It definitely has reassured me that I’m in the right career field. I love reporting
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