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April 6, 2014 New Series of Hebrew Idol Premieres—Your Vote Counts! By Shunying Wang ’15 The new PLU Hebrew Idol season is here, with another group of talented Lutes. And, just as with its inspiration, American Idol, it’s up to voters to determine the winner. Hebrew Idol is a microfilm competition series organized by Religion Professor Antonios Finitsis. Students in his introductory course on the Hebrew Bible—Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible—are required to apply their

October 11, 2010 ‘No Salvation Apart from Earth’ By Chris Albert The Fifth Annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture will feature Mark Brocker ’79 speaking about “No Salvation Apart from the Earth” starting at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 18 in the CK Hall of the UC. Mark Brocker ’79 is the speaker for the 5th Annual Knutson lecture. As a student at PLU, David Knutson was his professor for “Modern Thought and Christian Consciousness.” Brocker will discuss Lutheran Pastor and Nazi resister Dietrich

PLU selected to host 2018 U.S. Senate debate Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / July 3, 2018 Image: Washington state senator candidates face off in a debate hosted by the Washington Debate Coalition in Gonzaga University’s Hemmingson Center Ballroom on October 16th, 2016. (Photo by Edward Bell) July 3, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 11, 2018) — Pacific Lutheran University has been selected to host a 2018 U.S. Senate Debate on Oct. 8 by the Washington

March 19, 2009 Senior capstone: ‘the toughest class they will ever take’ If Tosh Kakar has his way, James Crosetto, Jeremy Ellison and Seth Schwiethale will have spent most of their senior year trapped in a project room just off Morken 212.It is a state-of-the-art room adjacent to the electronics lab. This room is theirs for the year, where they will study and experiment – as well as nap on a beat-up couch, and work into the wee hours of the night, fueled on carbonated caffeine drinks and

October 7, 2011 Benson lecturer poses question: Would slavery have ended without the Civil War? If the Civil War didn’t end slavery, something else would have, said history professor Peter A. Coclanis. By 1861 slavery was dying out,” Coclanis said , who teaches at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Slavery probably would not have survived much longer. Coclanis presented a lecture entitled, “Would Slavery Have Survived Without the Civil War? A Counterfactual Analysis,” on Monday

Nicole Jordan ‘15 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Rylan MoultonNicole Renee Jordan ‘15 self-describes herself as “a very values driven young adult.”During her time at PLU she was involved in many different aspects of life on campus, enough to have a box full of gold name tags. Her work ranged from Admissions to Res Life to the Diversity Center, all with a focus on fostering community and sustainability. In addition, she was a Rieke Scholar (2012-2015) and a

University of Illinois at Chicago. “We must acknowledge our middle-class bourgeois character and embrace it and perfect it. Greed is not good. We should take our roles as innovators — the market judges of innovators — and court it the respect it’s due,” McCloskey said. McCloskey presented a lecture entitled, “Bourgeois Virtue? Why being Middle-Class is Good for us,” on Monday, October 15, at the 8th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The annual lecture series was established

Society for Microbiology's 2023 Carski Award for Undergraduate Teaching. The award recognizes a university educator for outstanding teaching of microbiology to undergraduate students.What I love about teaching microbiology is that I get to share with students a discipline that I am passionate about and excites me every day,” said Siegesmund. “I get the opportunity to bring students together in a learning community to understand how the microbial world is intricately tied to our lives and our deaths

war. All medical supplies must be flown in. This is the end of the world. It’s a place Ingrid Ford ’97 knows well. A graduate of PLU’s School of Nursing, she visited the site periodically while working for MSF. She saw the people who traveled hundreds of miles, often on foot, to be seen by the doctors and nurses at this remote outpost. This influx of people underscores why Ford spent six years with MSF in Africa and France: she believes access to health care is a basic human right. “I don’t care

arts community in Tacoma. The AMOCAT art award categories include art patron; community outreach by an organization; and community outreach by an individual, which Spring received. “It’s a surprise and an honor to receive the AMOCAT award,” Spring said. “Tacoma is such a strong, supportive place to be an artist and a teacher, and I’m constantly energized by the opportunities here.” Spring has brought the art of letterpress to Tacoma. As an undergraduate English major, she began setting cold type on