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. Everything from selecting a college to filling out applications, from choosing electives to choosing a meal plan can be a bigger challenge for first-generation students who have no one at home to offer advice based on personal experience. And once they clear the big hurdles — gaining admission, securing scholarships and loans — first-in-the-family students may find themselves on campus struggling with the feeling that they don’t really belong there. Kate Luther ’02, who chairs the PLU Department of

as a birthright. Everything from selecting a college to filling out applications, from choosing electives to choosing a meal plan can be a bigger challenge for first-generation students who have no one at home to offer advice based on personal experience. And once they clear the big hurdles — gaining admission, securing scholarships and loans — first-in-the-family students may find themselves on campus struggling with the feeling that they don’t really belong there. Kate Luther ’02, who chairs

with streamlining and increasing transparency of the student season selection process. Sarah has been a Mainstage fixture at PLU since her freshman year, with lead roles in Kiss me, Kate, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, and Our Town, and as Stage Manager for The Boys Next Door.  Sarah has also been a member of The Choir of the West for 2 years, and previously University Chorale and Singers. Samantha Lund: BA in

to better understand what sorts of strategies immigrants living on the US/Mexico border have developed to determine their own circumstances, often in the context of injustice, social inequality, geographical displacement, and human rights violations. Our program also included visits with Kate Pritchard (PLU ’14) and Brian Erickson (PLU ’09), two PLU Hispanic Studies alumni who are currently working on supporting and advocating for immigrant communities on the US/Mexico Border. Border Patrol

supported: The 2019 Life Under Drones Symposium and the Department of Communication Curators: Holly Senn, Librarian, and Professor Kate Hoyt     Books in Support of the 2019 Common Read The 2019 Common Reading book is Octavia Butler’s Kindred A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. The books in this exhibit related to the themes and issues in, and form of, the adaptation. Exhibit supported: The 2019 PLU First Year Experience Common Read Curator: Holly Senn, Librarian2018-2019

. Luther’s voice comes in. A professor teaches in a classroom with a map in the background. A student takes notes.] Dr. Kate Luther, Department Chair of Sociology & Criminal Justice: we are not teaching students about how to investigate a crime scene instead we are teaching students to look at the criminal justice system through a [video: Dr. Luther speaks to the camera in her office.] Dr. Luther: sociological lens which means looking at inequalities in the system thinking about how different communities

By:Zach Powers '10 May 26, 2016 0 Performers on and off the stage https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/spaceworks-cover_03-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Zach Powers '10 Zach Powers '10 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/zach-powers-100x100.jpg May 26, 2016 May 24, 2017 Performers on and off the stage Kate Monthy ’04 and Dmitry Mikheyev ’10 are, among many things, performers.Monthy graces audiences as an accomplished

Magnolias by Robert Harling Directed by Lori Lee Wallace March 5-14 Spotlight Series Dance 2015 Directed by Maureen McGoll April 10-11 Bug by Tracy Letts Directed by Cameron Waters April 17-18 Spotlight Series Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim Directed by Jeff Clapp; music directed by Molly Barnes May 7-172013-2014Mainstage ProductionsKiss Me, Kate October 11-13 and 18-20 Combine Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with Porter’s music and lyrics to get Kiss Me, Kate a fun, melodious and

Barnes May 7-172013-2014Mainstage ProductionsKiss Me, Kate October 11-13 and 18-20 Combine Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with Porter’s music and lyrics to get Kiss Me, Kate a fun, melodious and sophisticated musical. This play-within-a-play shows each cast member’s on-stage life becoming complicated by events happening offstage. Musical numbers include Why Can’t You Behave, So In Love Am I, Wunderbar, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare. Winner of five Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Produced Show

History and Women’s and Gender Studies and a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She received the Kurt Mayer Summer Research Fellowship in 2015 and 2016. Last semester, she studied abroad in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Carli is the PLU history tutor, a global ambassador at the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, and a tour guide. She also swims on the three-time conference winning team at PLU. Kate WileyTitle: Mayer Summer Research Fellow presentation Who: Kate Wiley, Junior