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January 25, 2010 Memoir chronicles the life of Nazi Germany refugee and successful Tacoma entrepreneur – Kurt Mayer Tacoma businessman, philanthropist and community leader, Kurt Mayer, has written a rags to riches story of his life and times. “My Personal Brush with History,” written with Joe Peterson, is a story of hardship, opportunity, triumphs, mistakes, family and faith.“My book is intended to give my grandchildren – ages 12, 10 and 8 – an opportunity to read, later in life, about what
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Two PLU students spend the summer reading the stars Physic professors Katrina Hay and Sean O’Neill and students Julian Kop ’24 and Jessica Ordaz ’24 observe and characterize variable stars and globular clusters at PLU’s W. M. Keck Observatory. Posted by: mhines / August 28, 2023 Image: As part of their summer research at PLU, physics professors Sean O’Neill and Katrina Hay, and student researchers Julian Kop (pictured) and Jessica Ordaz utilize the specialized telescope at the W. M. Keck
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categories in our survey — one explores taking a gap year vs. entering a graduate program straightaway, another would be changing careers vs. settling within a career, and the last would be marriage vs. divorce.PsychologyLearn more about the Psychology program at PLUWhat did you learn in your internship with the Dean of Students Office? I loved that internship mostly because Susan [Pavur, Student Care Network manager], Eva [Frey, dean of students], Austin [Beiermann, accessibility and accommodation
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funded by the Loren J. and MaryAnn W. Anderson Global Scholarship Endowment Fund Mary Elaine and Erling Anderson Scholarship Tom and Kathryn Anderson Endowed Scholarship Vivian L. Anderson Endowed Gap Scholarship William and Jeanie Anderson Endowed Scholarship Olive Anderson-Aust and Gerald Aust Endowed Scholarship Faye M. Anderson-Van Beek Endowed Scholarship for Community and Volunteer Service Andrews Family Endowed Scholarship Ruth Anenson Memorial Scholarship Ankrim-Miller Endowed Scholarship
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look and feel slightly different today compared to your years as a student. But the conversation between Laubach and Huey shows the transformational experience PLU continues to offer, now and in perpetuity. Homecoming 2018 Save the date: Nov. 2-4 We miss you! Come back for PLU’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. When was the last time you stood in Red Square, hiked up Hinderlie hill, cheered “Attaway!” or listened to a lecture in Xavier? If you have to think about it, it’s been too long. With many
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Obituaries Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Highlights Featured Stories Welcome Ed Grogan, chair of the Board of Regents, shares his story as a first-generation Lute who rebuilt the engine of his ’62 Chevrolet Impala — with his dad’s help — to cover tuition. Read about why Grogan advocates for the ever-growing contingent of first-in-the-family students at PLU. Read More What it Means to be First PLU administrators — all the way to the president’s office — embrace and celebrate the first-generation
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Local Peacebuilding in Practice – Resolute Online: Spring 2017 Search Features Features Welcome Thorniley Collection Spice for Life Building the Biz FabLab Tacoma Baby Steps From Dreaming to Doing The Other Washington Makers in the Making Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Alumni News Local Peacebuilding in Practice Summer Family Fun Homecoming and Family Weekend Hawaii dCenter Gallery Alumni Profiles Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar
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create a tiny home village for veterans experiencing homelessness. The project broken ground in January 2020 and are expected to have their first guests move in this Spring. The village can house up to 35 chronically homeless veterans in Pierce County.YMCA HousingThe YWCA Pierce County recently opened Dorothy Height Apartments in Tacoma, a few blocks from Wright Park. The development welcomed it’s first family in February 2021 and features 54 units of low-cost housing. 75% of the units are reserved
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Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural
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Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural
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