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PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” Posted by: Zach Powers / June 22, 2015 Image: (Photo by Josh Trujillo/SPJ) June 22, 2015 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsKari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier this month, Plog was named “New Journalist of the

Arts and technology center would bring new opportunities to Parkland Posted by: Zach Powers / February 28, 2017 February 28, 2017 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 28, 2017)- Community leaders behind the Pierce Center for Arts & Technology (PCAT) have big plans to create a wide variety of new opportunities for both youth and adults in the South Sound region. The recently established nonprofit organization is working toward raising the funds needed to renovate

Natalie Mayer endows new Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture series Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / May 2, 2018 Image: Natalie Mayer has endowed a new lecture series at Pacific Lutheran University, the Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture, with the hopes of connecting the lessons of our past to the issues of the present. May 2, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — The Mayer family has a long, storied history of philanthropic

PLU debuts new ‘CheckFive’ initiative, designed to strengthen communities virtually Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 9, 2020 April 9, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 9, 2020) — Physical distancing and shelter-in-place directives have made traditional ways of keeping in community challenging at best during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why PLU is rolling out “CheckFive,” a social media initiative designed to rebuild networks and spark connections among

PLU Partners with Palmer Scholars to Create New Scholarship Opportunity Posted by: Silong Chhun / January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University and Palmer Scholars are expanding their partnership to better serve students of color in Pierce County. For many years, Palmer Scholars have chosen PLU as their top private school choice. Since 2016, PLU has accepted 19 Scholars and has nine currently enrolled.To continue to support these

Meet Mike Snyder, PLU’s New Director of Athletics and Recreation Posted by: Zach Powers / May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 Pacific Lutheran University and President Allan Belton are excited to announce Mike Snyder as the new Director of Athletics and Recreation, following a national search.“I’m thrilled to welcome Mike to the Lute family,” said Belton. “He brings proven experience and an exciting vision for PLU athletics and recreation that will build on tradition, focus on the student experience, and

PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service welcomes new Director Posted by: hassonja / September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018 CCES welcomes Kristin Menson as new DirectorIn late August, PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES) welcomed Kristen Menson as its new Director. Kristin comes to PLU from Louisiana State University (LSU) where she was the Program Manager in the Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership. Her work at LSU centered around supporting

Students take on the new Karen Hille Phillips Center Mainstage Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 19, 2014 March 19, 2014 APO Production, “In the Garden of Live Flowers” opens March 7 In the Garden of Live Flowers: A Fantasia of the Life and Work of Rachel Carson, by Attilio Favorini and Lynne Conner, opens March 7 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Eastvold Auditorium. The production will run March 6*, 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 7:30pm and March 16 at 2pm. Produced by our

New documentary addresses Islamophobia in America, premieres Thursday, April 11, 2013 Posted by: Todd / April 8, 2013 April 8, 2013 It was reported in 2010 that more than half of Americans had never met a Muslim. Yet hate crimes against Muslims rose 50 percent that year–the same year Florida pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Quran. Pacific Lutheran University’s award-winning MediaLab production team addresses this growing tide of anti-Islamic sentiment in its new documentary: Beyond

Professor Encourages Peers to Engage in Public Dialogue in New Book Posted by: Todd / April 22, 2014 April 22, 2014 In the recently published Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement, associate professor of communication Amy Young addresses the shortcomings in university academia, mainly that intellectuals are not encouraged, and in some ways, don’t know how, to become engaged in public dialogue. “I’m trying to look at how people who are obviously very credentialed