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PLU alumni husband-wife duo doing their part in New York City’s COVID-19 battle Posted by: nicolacs / April 14, 2020 Image: Sean Boaglio ’13 and Chrissy Boaglio ‘14 are both in the thick of New York City’s fight to contain COVID-19 — Sean as a physician and Chrissy as a physician assistant. April 14, 2020 By By Lora ShinnMarketing & Communications Guest WriterTACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — In a parking lot outside Stony Brook University Hospital, two tents allow physicians to triage up to 100

PLU student recounts election-night experience in TV newsroom Posted by: Kari Plog / November 17, 2016 Image: A newsroom employee at KCPQ-TV in Seattle monitors election results with Lutes on election night. (Photo by Molly Ivey ’20) November 17, 2016 By Lucas Schaumberg '17Contributing writerTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 17, 2016)- Editor's note: A group of Pacific Lutheran University students volunteered in a TV newsroom on election night, as they have for every election in newsrooms across the region

Amy Spieker ’09 on community health advocacy, service and building relationships Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 18, 2020 Image: Former PLU basketball student-athlete Amy Spieker ’09 is now the director of Community Health and Analysis at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Institute for Population Health in Wyoming. (Photo courtesy Amy Spieker/Janelle Rose Photography) February 18, 2020 By Lisa Patterson ‘98Marketing & Communications Guest WriterTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 18, 2020) — If you’ve

Theatre & Dance Cancels the Spring Musical, Urinetown Posted by: Reesa Nelson / March 11, 2020 March 11, 2020 It is with a very heavy heart that we announce our production of Urinetown could not be rescheduled and, therefore, we are announcing its cancellation. No one could have anticipated the events leading up to this week, and the entire department recognizes how much hard work, passion and dedication went into this production. There will certainly be a period of grieving this loss. We wish

Theatre & Dance Cancels the Spring Musical, Urinetown Posted by: Reesa Nelson / March 11, 2020 March 11, 2020 It is with a very heavy heart that we announce our production of Urinetown could not be rescheduled and, therefore, we are announcing its cancellation. No one could have anticipated the events leading up to this week, and the entire department recognizes how much hard work, passion and dedication went into this production. There will certainly be a period of grieving this loss. We wish

Interactive debate on drone policy shifts audience opinions Posted by: Todd / December 30, 2013 December 30, 2013 “Is U.S. drone program fatally flawed?” This was the question debaters from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and University of Puget Sound (UPS) focused on during the first annual Ruth Anderson public debate on Wednesday, December 4. More than 100 people attended the debate on the PLU campus with more than 80 scoring the debate electronically. Debate participants included Pauline

Austin Beierman ‘18 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Victoria SchultzAustin Beierman, class of 2018, Reike Scholar, and newly appointed Director of Accessibility and Accommodations, continues to live the Diversity Center’s mission of care and equity.As a high school junior, Austin joined a PLU volleyball camp sponsored by College Bound, a non-profit that helped with college access programming. Austin explained that he and his friends would eat in the UC and then play

A passion for dance, a call to teach Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / September 4, 2015 September 4, 2015 For Ariella Brown, dance has always been her passion, but not always her full-time job. While working behind a desk during the day, and carving out time in the evening to dance, she realized those few hours would never satisfy her. She made the decision to get an advanced dance degree with hopes of someday teaching at the university level. In graduate school, she taught students who wanted to

the most open and welcoming community I've ever been a part of,” she says.Throughout the extensive interview process and her first few days on campus, Myrick, an experienced business operations leader who has spent much of her career in the healthcare sector, has felt a palpable connection with the mission and people she’s been introduced to at PLU. “This is the first time I have really encountered an organization where I felt called to the work and the place,” Myrick says. “Not only is our campus

A passion for dance, a call to teach Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / September 4, 2015 September 4, 2015 For Ariella Brown, dance has always been her passion, but not always her full-time job. While working behind a desk during the day, and carving out time in the evening to dance, she realized those few hours would never satisfy her. She made the decision to get an advanced dance degree with hopes of someday teaching at the university level. In graduate school, she taught students who wanted to