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High school choir and guitar teacher Alonso Brizuela ’14 was in Spokane at a national choral directors conference in mid-March of 2020. Just a day and half days into events, the conference shut down early—due to a mysterious new illness that had arrived in the…
. Pandemic instruction was a learning process for everyone in San Antonio, Zwang, who majored in elementary education and Spanish at PLU, said. “April was a disaster, but by May, we started getting back on track,” she says. Her STEM-centered school already had laptops for each child. The district bought hotspots for some families and hotspot-equipped school buses parked in large sports arenas for others. She loosened expectations for her kindergarteners, many of whom had parents working essential jobs as
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Harmony invites campus into the discussion There are a lot of people listening about how candidates are going to address issues that are important to them this election. With concerns like the economy being at the forefront of political discussion, the Harmony Club wanted to…
co-commissioner. Although gay rights are not at the top of national political discussion at the moment, more and more people are paying attention to what is going on, he added. “There’s a lot of people paying attention right now,” Fisher said. “We just want to make people aware of it.” Club members decided a visual display made the greatest statement about the issues they care about. On display at the event was a wedding dress with a groom’s jacket over it. Any one who wished to show their
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TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 14, 2018) — Mary Moller has always been a revolutionary. After becoming the first nurse to be named to the editorial boards of two prestigious psychiatric journals, the Pacific Lutheran University associate professor was honored with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association’s Psychiatric…
and the clinic, which at that time served over 800 primarily public sector patients, was forced to close for financial reasons. It was on to the next challenge for Moller. Moving into academia In 2009, she began a six-year stint as the coordinator for the Psych Nurse Practitioner program at Yale’s School of Nursing. The work was rewarding, but something kept pulling her back to Washington state: family. As a faculty member at such a prestigious institution, Moller periodically received invitations
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by Jon Grahe, Professor of Psychology at PLU It never occurred to me that I needed the Open Science Framework (OSF) . It was shared with me because the developers knew that I was interested in trying to create large scale collaborative research projects, and…
The Open Science Framework Changed my Workflow (for the better!) Posted by: Jenna S / April 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 by Jon Grahe, Professor of Psychology at PLU It never occurred to me that I needed the Open Science Framework (OSF). It was shared with me because the developers knew that I was interested in trying to create large scale collaborative research projects, and so I ended up on their email list. The Center for Open Science developed the OSF (free to all users) to provide researchers
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Lutes played to more than 800 students, band directors and music lovers who packed the house at the Western International Band Clinic on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The PLU Wind Ensemble was featured during the festival’s Saturday night performance and was one of only four…
The University Wind Ensemble featured at the Western International Band Clinic Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 Lutes played to more than 800 students, band directors and music lovers who packed the house at the Western International Band Clinic on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The PLU Wind Ensemble was featured during the festival’s Saturday night performance and was one of only four groups selected to perform and the only band selected west of Texas. “Our
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On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…
Saving the World with a Starship Mathematics professor Daniel Heath’s Starship Design class uses interstellar travel as a lens to focus on issues here on Earth. Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 3, 2022 November 3, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterOn day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it.The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON
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PLU choirs and local orchestras will combine this spring to perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony three times this May, with the Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, PLU’s University Symphony Orchestra and the Tacoma Youth Symphony Orchestra. Tacoma Youth Symphony and Everett Philharmonic Orchestra conductor, Dr. Paul Elliott Cobbs,…
. Featuring Marlette Buchanan, LeeAnne Campos, Stephen Rumph, Barry Johnson on the Ninth Symphony. C-Major Mass will feature Erin White, Annie Herzog, John Marzano, and Julian Reisenthel. Tickets available by calling the PLU Concierge Desk at 253-535-7411. Sunday, May 19 | 3 pm | Pantages Theater The Choir of the West and the Choral Union perform with the Tacoma Youth Symphony Orchestra for the Orchestra’s 50th anniversary celebration. The Ninth Symphony will feature the Choral Union’s Jennifer Gorham and
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Caring at the Core Four young doctors describe the moment they found their passion in medicine At PLU, we talk a lot about finding one’s passion. That has been at the core of the university – and those who have studied here – since its…
March 30, 2012 Caring at the Core Four young doctors describe the moment they found their passion in medicine At PLU, we talk a lot about finding one’s passion. That has been at the core of the university – and those who have studied here – since its inception. With this in mind, we decided to ask a few alums from a single profession how they came to find their passion. We asked four young physicians – those who graduated PLU in the ’90s or later – to describe how they came to the profession
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The Women’s Center is joining in the state-wide effort to raise awareness about how to get involved with creating safer communities through the Green Dot campaign. (Photo by John Froschauer) Making the community safer By Kari Plog ’11 Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has been…
. “All the things that help make our community safer are made possible through this grant funding,” said Bobbi Hughes ‘00, director of the Women’s Center. “We’re really a leader in making the community safer.” This is the third time the center has applied for and received the funding, formally called “The Grant to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus,” which is awarded specifically to colleges and universities that address and prevent intimate partner
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UPDATE: SAAC’s Inclusion Initiative Just Keeps on Winning By earning the first-ever NCAA Division III Diversity Spotlight Initiative award, PLU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has received its highest-profile recognition yet for its focus on inclusion—and it’d already received quite a bit. The NCAA’s new award…
more inclusive campus and bridge the gap between athletics and the student body. Taylor also highlighted the positive impact that a student-athlete’s actions and words can have on his or her teammates to ultimately foster a safe space within the locker room and on the playing field. “Many of my teammates have said that they would not have a problem if a teammate were gay, but that speaking out against others that were opposed would be harder to do,” PLU football student-athlete Blake Petersen said
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