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May 2021 Graduates Congratulations to our seven Innovation Studies graduates! Posted by: halvormj / May 22, 2021 May 22, 2021 By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies. We are delighted to announce the graduation of seven Innovation Studies minors this May, and we wish them well in all future endeavors. This year’s graduates include Sage Allen, Anastasia Bidne, Megan Goninan, Robert Helle, Benjamin Leschensky, Michelle Mendoza, and Blaise Osborne. Each student completed the INOV 350

Perfect Timing: Pursue a Marketing Analytics Career Posted by: Julie Winters / December 17, 2019 Image: MSMA class at PLU, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) December 17, 2019 Those who are fascinated with marketing, numbers and data will want to consider a career in marketing analytics. This game-changing field leverages big data to evaluate, analyze, and manage marketing efforts. Careers in this field capture viable data and analyze that data, translating it into meaningful

Two Anniversaries, One World Premiere Posted by: Reesa Nelson / October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 Music Professor Emeritus Jerry Kracht (conductor, University Symphony Orchestra, 1967-2001) was ready and waiting to celebrate two significant anniversaries in the Department of Music at PLU: ready since 2013 when he composed Fanfare, Fantasia and Finale (On a locally familiar tune), and waiting until 2020, the fiftieth anniversary of Lawrence Meyer’s Processional of Joy as well as the twenty-fifth

City of Tacoma environmental scientist Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 loves asking questions Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 27, 2022 June 27, 2022 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterFrom an early age, Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 always thought he'd be a wildlife biologist. He'd pore over issues of National Geographic and One World magazines his dad purchased, studying photos and text of exotic animals. Chontofalsky is now an environmental scientist with the City of Tacoma, analyzing

students the keys to guide their college experience and avoid looking back on it after graduation and wondering, “What if?” Students are able to learn what PLU has to offer early in their college careers and begin figuring out what they want to achieve in their time here. It also aims to help students begin the process of discovering their vocation, identity and purpose. The first years are just beginning to understand what the vocation of a student is, how that fits with what they are studying and how

June 16, 2008 Fulbright awards scholarships to three alums Ericka Hummel ’08 and Daniel Wilson ’06 both have early memories of Germany, as both visited or lived in the country as children. Now, they will return as Fulbright scholars.“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Hummel said. “I’m excited about everything.”Hummel lived in Germany for three years as a young girl, spent a J-Term in Berlin and majored in German. Wilson, who also majored in the language, first visited the country as a

DC watching President Barack Obama take the oath of office and become the 44th president. I can’t think of another time that will bring me mere feet away from Chris Matthews or when I will watch Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow reporting live in front of me. So all of you at home, I hoped you enjoyed your warm houses, your HD TVs with surround sound. Yes you probably had a better view than I did and I was frozen from the inside out by the end of the day and yes I got windburn and probably some

April 25, 2011 Fred L. Tobiason,Reed Ojala-Barbour and President Loren J. Anderson at the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center in April. (Photo by John Froschauer) Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center dedicated By Kari Plog ’11 With a single snip of a blackberry vine, students and staff made a mark for sustainability on the PLU campus last week. Monday, April 18, saw one of the first sunny days of 2011, and with that came the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor

April 2, 2012 Austin Goble ’09, Ruth Tollefson ’09, Raechelle Baghirov 05, listen while Sallie Strueby ’11, speaks during an Alumni panel discussion on service opportunities at PLU on Thursday, March 22, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) A life of service after PLU By Katie Scaff ’13 Volunteer service is about taking what you’re learning in the classroom and making it bigger, according to four recent PLU graduates. The grads, Sallie Strueby ’11, Austin Goble ’09, Ruth Tollefson ’09, and

October 21, 2013 PLU’s MediaLab dived into the global water crisis with its latest documentary “Tapped Out,” which premiered Oct. 26 at the Seattle Central Public Library. MediaLab filmmakers wade into global water crisis By Amanda Brasgalla ’15 Four PLU students who spent more than a year researching water problems around the world premiered a new documentary film Oct. 26 titled Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis. Tapped Out focuses on water-related issues in the U.S., Canada and