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of the national 2015 Washington Monthly College Rankings; and was named a Best Bang for the Buck university by The Washington Monthly. “This designation acknowledges how PLU’s culture of care and collaboration directly contributes to the connectedness of the FYEP and Residential Learning Communities experiences,” said Joanna Royce-Davis, Vice President for Student Life at PLU. “Both learning opportunities purposefully integrate course-based learning with intentionally positioned opportunities to

Choral Union Tour Preview Concert Posted by: marshrl / July 3, 2017 July 3, 2017 The Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union will present a tour preview concert on Tuesday, July 11th at 7:30 pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall. This summer’s two-week tour will be to France, with concerts scheduled in Arles, Alixan, Colmar, Troyes, Bayeux and Paris. The tour repertoire includes works by Ko Matsushita, Jake Runestad, Francis Poulenc, Cecilia McDowall, Kirke Mechem, Stephen Paulus, Eric Whitacre and

A Silent Story: PLU Faculty Member is a Witness to Refugee Crisis Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 8, 2015 Image: Millions of children have been affected by the war in Syria. (File photo) September 8, 2015 By Antonios FinitsisAssociate Professor and Religion Department ChairTACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 8, 2015)—The story I want to share with you is silent. No words were exchanged. It is one of those cases in which words fail to express the extent of human despair. Thank God, it is also a case in

Musher turned author: Alumna harnesses her PLU education to recount experiences on Iditarod Trail Posted by: Kari Plog / February 22, 2016 Image: Debbie Moderow is pictured with her sled dog team (courtesy photo). February 22, 2016 By Brooke Thames '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 24, 2016)- Debbie Moderow’s future in Iditarod racing started in her family’s backyard with a retired sled dog named Salt. The 7-year-old Husky was the first member of a backyard sled dog team that

& CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 1, 2016)- Performing with Pacific Lutheran University’s gospel choir hooked Josiah McDonald. The ninth-grader at Franklin Pierce High School pledged to apply to PLU come senior year, after participating in the spiritual and celebratory Gospel Experience.McDonald was one of more than 100 members of the Tacoma-Seattle community who filled the Karen Hille Phillips Center to attend the event Feb. 20. It’s designed to connect PLU to the larger gospel community off campus. Organized

storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for smartphones. Now, he hopes to team up with students across the country and help market their skills when entering the job force for the first time.Sears (’87, ’95) worked at AT&T after graduating from PLU, eventually moving to T-Mobile where he became vice president of product marketing and management until 2005. Then he shifted to Android, where he took on the

Breana Downs ’24: A summer soaring with native birds at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 4, 2023 Image: Breana Downs ’24 is glove training one of Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance’s ambassadors, Kingston! Kingston is a Red-Tailed Hawk who was admitted as a patient just over a year ago after running into a second-story window on one of his very first flights. (All photos in this article are provided by Breana Downs.) October 4, 2023 By Ava EdmondsPLU Marketing

June 29, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0eHyaJ26Ks Patience and a good ear essential in studying elusive crossbills, which live, breed and sing in the canopy By Barbara Clements Having a conversation with Julie Smith is a stop and go affair. In mid-conversation, she’ll stop, and listen. And then pick up the thread without missing a beat. Smith, an assistant professor of biology, and biology major Aaron Grossberg ’12, are picking their way on a muddy trail to a beach near La Push, Wash

important to help them understand that the idea of the liberal arts is rooted in ancient Greek and Roman culture and the term describes those skills and subjects that were deemed necessary for the education of free people—libera being the Latin root for liberty. In the medieval period, those arts were identified with seven subjects—grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. I like to refer to these by name to emphasize that the liberal arts have always included the sciences

Sarah Seder: New Dance Faculty Posted by: Reesa Nelson / February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19Sarah Seder’s passion for dance has taken her all over North America. Now, she returns home to the Seattle area bringing with her unique experiences, a vast repertoire of skills, and an effervescent personality. She will lead PLU students through Ballet 1, Contemporary Dance 1 and 2, and hone their skills in Dance Composition.Get to know Sarah What is your background?I grew up on