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  • Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, 2018-present David Deacon-Joyner, Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, 2000-2018 David Robbins, former Chair, PLU Music

    number of people and agencies. In the beginning Starbucks provided funding as well as free coffee for all in attendance. PLU Media Services gave JUTS a flat rate (no matter the size of the performing group) and personnel for providing sound reinforcement for the concerts. PLU Stage Services took care of stage setup. KPLU 88.5 FM provided extensive on-air promotion for the concerts and lent their prestigious jazz image to the series. Don Immel, the Director of Jazz Studies at PLU during that time

  • MediaLab news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    MediaLab film “Changing Currents” receives awards in multiple categories MediaLab, the applied research and media services program at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), received a total of six awards on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, from the Accolade Global Film Competition of Southern California for the new documentary “Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.” “Changing Currents,”… December 1, 2016 MediaLab

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    Law school-bound Jasneet Sandu ’23 is passionate about global studies, anthropology, computer science and religion Jasneet Sandhu had planned to minor in global studies. But soon into her PLU experience, she decided to double major in it, along with computer science. She added anthropology and religion as double minors—as part of a strategy to enjoy her college experience at a… May 16, 2023 Computer Science

  • More than 850 students will graduate from PLU for the 2011-2012 academic year. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 27 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a…

    , messy, edgy theater, while focusing on how theater can serve as a tool for the community. My internship surrounds Connectivity which specializes in how to engage the community in the theatrical process, and ask those ever important artistic questions: “Why this project?”, “Why this community?”, and  “Why right now?” After D.C. I will most likely travel, and see where the universe is pulling me next. Katy Allen-Schmid – Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic studies and global studies, minor in anthropology

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2017)- The third biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on March 1 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Shamil Idriss, a global leader in diplomacy and global…

    for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Shamil Idriss, a global leader in diplomacy and global affairs will deliver a lecture titled “Conflict is Inevitable, Violence is Not.”Idriss is President and CEO of Search for Common Ground, a global conflict transformation organization with offices in 35 countries. He previously served as Deputy Director of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and Senior Advisor at the World Economic Forum. Idriss, whose life’s work has been defined

  • #educationisnotacrime

    ., E.U., Africa and Asia.  His firm NobleEdge (www.NobleEdgeconsulting.com), recently completed work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a ground breaking, sustainable food security program in four nations of sub-Saharan Africa.   Dr. Gilbert has served as Provost at Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle, faculty at the University of Washington and Tacoma Community College and adjunct for universities in China, Switzerland, Africa and the Russian Republic. He is also affiliated global

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    In their own words: Global Studies majors on what it’s like to study (and study away!) at PLU Why global studies at PLU? “As a first year, I enrolled in GLST 210 ‘just because’ and by the end of the year had switched my intentions of a pre-med degree to declaring both a Global Studies(GLST) and Political Science major! During this time, I… July 21, 2023 AcademicsGlobal EducationSeekerStudent VoiceStudy AbroadStudy Away

  • Hispanic and Latino Studies faculty and staff.

    Emily Davidson Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies Full Profile 253-535-7311 davidsef@plu.edu

  • CCES history forthcoming! These place profiles were written during the January 2019 iteration of the course ENGL 323: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts.

    A Parkland Tour - A Guided Tour Through Parkland, WA.About the ProjectCCES history forthcoming! These place profiles were written during the January 2019 iteration of the course ENGL 323: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts. Students were asked to select important locations featured in the “Parkland Tour” offered by PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service. Each student would write a profile of the place based on observational, interview, and online research. These profiles

    Adela Ramos
  • Beginning in Fall 2024, PLU will be welcoming Dr. Justin Murphy-Mancini as the Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance . Murphy-Mancini began organ study at age 10, beginning his journey in church, “quite literally as soon as I was tall enough…

    conductor and a synthesizer composer rolled into one. You have access to a very special kind of creativity in making all of the elements of organ music come together.” More information about the program is available on the Organ Study webpage. Read Previous PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan Read Next PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of