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September 8, 2008 Profs, students talk about going green PLU has made great strides in reaching its sustainability goals, campus leaders and students stressed last week. However, especially in the area in energy conservation, PLU staff and students need to be conscious off turning off the lights or reducing the heat. After President Loren J. Anderson’s State of the University address, about a dozen faculty and students talked about how the campus was doing in its conservation goals, including

Team will be joining other U.S. teams from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Yale at the tournament. There are preliminary rounds and then 32 teams head on to the finals, all with the goal of dethroning the debate kings from the Land Down Under. The Aussies? Yes, both woman agree, they are, year after year, the team to beat. “They are a juggernaut,” Franke said. As are the Irish. Whether PLU places in the finals or not, both women say they can’t wait to try out their debating skills on the world stage

February 1, 2013 Bryce Manso ’10 Bryce Manso ’10 with colleagues Tisha Graham ’09 and Julie Williams ’09 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash. Bryce Manso ’10 Major: Biology Employer: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center PLU Connection: Everyone! His boss, his profs, his colleagues Five weeks after Bryce Manso graduated with his biology degree from PLU, he got his first job as a lab technician at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He remembers his

September 5, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0AIF4hW6o Learning to Brew By Chris Albert The summer after graduating, Ken Thoburn ’09 hung out at backyard BBQs, sipping on home brews he and his friends had made. Everyone kept saying, “Guys, you should start a brewery,” Thoburn recalled. That’s when the Chinese Studies major and some friends, who also had recently graduated from local colleges—and also had not planned on selling beer—took their backyard beverages to brand-new heights

May 5, 2014 LollaPLUza 2014 This year’s LollaPLUza logo was designed by Samuel Hosman ’14.  Student Input Helps Make Music/Street Festival Bigger and Better Than Ever By Katie Baumann ‘14 Something great is coming to PLU. It’s big. It’s free. It’s LollaPLUza 2014. And it’s coming to Garfield Street, right across from Harstad Hall, from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, May 10. And this year’s LollaPLUza (commonly referred to as “Lolla” by PLU insiders) is going to be bigger and better than any before, says

Vote! Women’s Center seeks community feedback on new name Posted by: marcom / February 20, 2016 February 20, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 22, 2016) - Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. After 25 years, the Women's Center will change its name to fit its expanded, mission-based work.A name says a lot. Students, faculty and

PCORI Engagement Awards program through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for her research titled Treating Trauma in College Students: Creating Teams for Change. This project will investigate the use of evidence-based, trauma-focused treatments in University Counseling Centers and create a pathway to disseminate and implement these treatments. The generous PCORI contract is an exciting opportunity for Artime to expand the scope of her research. “Up until this point, my projects have

July 7, 2008 Leading the fight Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. With apologies to Twain, I’d like to suggest that many people today are talking about global health but nobody seems to agree on what to do about it. Increasingly, arguments are flaring in this burgeoning field that go to root principles. And if the basic concept itself is fuzzy, the core principles are also up for debate. Just a decade ago, a precise definition of

How to Create a Basic Online Lesson Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 6, 2020 March 6, 2020 By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When on-campus class sessions cannot be held as scheduled, online lessons provide an alternative method for teaching. Online lessons created in Sakai can provide faculty and students with access to all the major components of a course, including instructional content, activities, and assessments. While a fully online class is best designed through the PLUTO

April 11, 2008 World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s role in ending violence against women. “The men who commit violence against women are a small percentage of men,” Jhally conceded. “However, the reason the violence goes on is the