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January 28, 2010 Uganda: Market Exploration By Theodore Charles Over the past couple of days I have been experimenting with the local system of bartering. There is a local price and ‘Mzungu price’ which is usually double that of the local one. In one market, where I purchased basketry and various items I bargained hard enough to save 20,000 shillings (about ten dollars) and leave the market happily. “Ugandan markets contain stores that are packed tightly together and it is often hard to
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March 4, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE MediaLab returns with a new groundbreaking documentary in April By Katie Baumann ’14 The award winning MediaLab is proud to present its newest film, “Beyond Burkas and Bombers: Anti Muslim Sentiment in America,” premiering during Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Arts + Communication (SOAC) annual Focus Series, under this year’s theme: “Empowerment.” With this production, filmmakers JuliAnne Rose ’13 and Heather Perry ’13 have set
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Despite pandemic challenges, transfer student finds community at PLU Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 23, 2022 Image: Biology major Monya-Dawn Wilson ’22 (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) May 23, 2022 By Isabella DaltosoPLU Marketing & Communications Student WriterMonya-Dawn Wilson ’22 is a DJS Fellow and Rieke Scholar who came to PLU as a transfer student. Wilson is a Biology major, and dreams of becoming a pediatrician.“I’ve always liked science and learning,” said Wilson. “I like learning about the
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September 30, 2009 Rising Star By Barbara Clements and Bryanna Plog ’10 Standing backstage, waiting for his cue to step onstage, Louis Hobson ’00 does a reality check. He’s in New York. He’s on Broadway – in a Tony Award winning, and now Pulitzer-winning,musical no less. And he has a lead part. By following his passion, a PLU theater major, Louis Hobson ’00, finds himself standing on the world’s greatest stage – on Broadway. (Images courtesy of Louis Hobson and Tom D’Ambrosio) “Sometimes I
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& Environmental Engineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. You’ll participate in research with one or more of our faculty, learn about careers in science and engineering, and see how scientists blend knowledge and skills from physics, chemistry and biology to investigate some of the most challenging problems in environmental sciences. We encourage applications from undergraduate students who are citizens or permanent residents of the U.S., especially attending universities other than Georgia Tech
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initiative developed by Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change in partnership with Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). “The Seed Teachers program is a perfect fit for our district. It creates continuity for students to pursue a degree so that they can come back and have an impact on students in their home community. This journey will empower graduates with scholarships, mentorship, and hands-on work experience within our schools, shaping them into future leaders in education,” said Franklin Pierce
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April 11, 2011 Earth Week The celebration and dedication of a student led effort to restore habitat on campus to its native state, is one of the many highlights for Earth Week at PLU. Habitat Restoration Project dedication: Senior Reed Ojala-Barbour was looking for a way to make his passion for environmental activism tangible. He found it in a habitat restoration project on PLU’s campus. The project involved clearing invasive plant species from a site on lower campus and planting native species
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PLU Opera ushers you into the dark underworld Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 10, 2015 November 10, 2015 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach Manager There will be high notes and high kicks as you travel to the depths of the dark underground this November at Pacific Lutheran University. PLU’s opera program will perform Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld for four performances on the Karen Hille Phillips Mainstage: November 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30pm and Sunday, November 22 at 3pm. In this madcap re
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February 14, 2008 Get ready, Relay for Life set for April For the third time in as many years, PLU will host a Relay for Life event on campus. The annual fund-raising event for the American Cancer Society also celebrates cancer survivors and caregivers and remembers those who’ve died from the disease. Relay events are held in communities across the nation. Teams of students, faculty, staff and alumni are already forming for PLU’s 18-hour walk around the university track on April 25 and 26. This
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across the nation. But in Tacoma, a collection of passionate people at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts has come together to keep the performing arts alive and well. About TEDxTacoma When: 3-9 p.m. Feb. 28. Where: Theater on the Square, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. Tickets: $79. More information and tickets: Click here. Five of these passionate people are Lutes: Associate Director of Events Leilani Balais ’99, Education and Events Associate Adam Utley ’04, Marketing Coordinator Mariesa Bus ’06
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