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Inaugural Christmas Music Scholarship Concert premieres Saturday, December 13 Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 13, 2014 November 13, 2014 New concert fills need for additional campus performances Pacific Lutheran University’s annual Christmas Concerts are a beloved seasonal celebration on campus and across the Northwest. This year, more than 150 students will perform the world premiere of Oregon composer Robert Kyr’s Christmas Oratorio in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma, and hundreds will try

students? “Everything just felt so nice – everyone was so welcoming,” she said. Alazadi values community – it is an essential component of her family life and her Muslim faith. Her family fled Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 1990 after a failed uprising and a subsequent crackdown from dictator Saddam Hussein. After four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, she and her family landed in Everett, Wash. She was only four. The tight-knit Iraqi community of 100- or-so families has sustained her ever since. Alazadi’s

] Paul Tillich.” Paso graduated with a degree in religion and German, and after spending some time working in downtown Tacoma at a church, left last year to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Armin Kohnle, director of the Institute of Church History at the University of Leipzig. With Kohnle, Paso studied “common chest” ordinances in the early reformation period. “Common chest” literally refers to a locked box where donations where kept for the poor in a church. “It was basically early

April 24, 2014 Making Fitness Fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW0Q7W7mDaw&feature=youtu.be There’s so much more to P.E. at PLU than chin-ups (although those are healthy, too!) Editor’s note: This package was conceived and produced entirely by PLU Marketing & Communications student workers. Story by James Olson ’14; video by John Struzenberg ’15; interviews by Katie Baumann ’14 and Valery Jorgensen ’15. By James Olson ’14 Pacific Lutheran University requires students to take at least four

May 13, 2014 Preparing to Pitch for PLU Incoming first-year student-athlete Marissa Miller was a star on her high-school softball team. (Photo courtesy Marissa Miller) Incoming Softball Star Looks Ahead to Lute Team—and Education By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Puyallup High School senior and softball star Marissa Miller is eager to make the transition to college and begin her latest athletic career. In high school, she lettered in basketball and softball during her four years. Miller and her

Diversity Center Alumni: Performative Allyship Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / November 14, 2019 Image: From left: Associate Vice President of Marketing & Communications Lace Smith, Dean of Inclusive Excellence Jennifer Smith and Boo Dodson ’12 sit down with host Angie Hambrick, PLU’s Associate Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, to discuss Performative Allyship — what it looks like, how it hurts minoritized communities and how to be better allies. November 14, 2019 By

On Exhibit: Hispanic Heritage Month Posted by: Roberto Arteaga / September 26, 2023 September 26, 2023 In collaboration with PLU’s Hispanic and Latino Studies Program, the Mortvedt Library has organized an exhibit in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. This exhibit includes an art display, featuring works by prominent Chicanx artists, and a selection of literary and academic texts by Hispanic/Latinx authors. National Hispanic Heritage Month (Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana) is celebrated from

INMED – Reimagine Indians Into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2021 Posted by: nicolacs / February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021 INMED – Reimagine IndianS into MedicinE (RISE) Summer Academy 2021 The RISE Summer Academy, a 6-week program, will be open to 28 American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Focus of the RISE Summer Academy: MCAT Prep: The program will provide a full MCAT course through Kaplan to be taken in the summer program and continuing following the program. Supplemental Basic Science

Charged Up Professor Dean Waldow explores the future of batteries while training future chemists Posted by: nicolacs / November 1, 2021 Image: Alyssa Bright ’22 and Professor Dean Waldow share a discussion in a PLU chemistry lab. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) November 1, 2021 By By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterPLU Chemistry professor Dean Waldow hopes to one day become useless. After all, as an educator, his job is to empower students to work confidently and independently in a field

February 22, 2011 Programs that engage the world By Kari Plog ’11 At PLU, studying doesn’t just take place inside a classroom. Nearly half of the students enrolled at PLU will study away by the time they graduate, and the Wang Center for Global Education recently showcased what these experiences can offer through World Conversations. Every January, hundreds of PLU students study around the world. (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) “World Conversations is designed to give students the opportunity