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  • In 2008, a student led initiative brought awareness about saving money by consuming tap water. In association with GREAN, RHA and other groups across campus, Environmental Services brought about

    Take Back The Tap In 2008, a student led initiative brought awareness about saving money by consuming tap water. In association with GREAN, RHA and other groups across campus, Environmental Services brought about “Bring Back the Tap,” an initiative encouraging students to purchase plastic Nalgene bottles and use tap water, cutting down on the amount of recycled plastic that goes through our school or some that finds its way into the trash. Since its inception, TBTT has been a great success, and

  • Rosanna Pansino advises wannabe actors to believe in themselves and be persistent. The 2007 graduate came to PLU last week as part of a MediaLab speaking series. Lute reaches for the stars and lands work on hit series Glee By Barbara Clements When Rosanna Pansino…

    . Small classes and attentive professors also helped her get through her studies and overcome dyslexia (another reason she decided against journalism as a career-she just couldn’t keep up with the teleprompter.) The solo performance class helped the 4-foot-10-inch Pansino battle her innate shyness and sparkle in her new-found calling, she said. She also credited trying out for the Lute cheer squad and teaching English in China during a J-term trip with helping her push herself through a natural

  • What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones,…

    May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants

  • Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow…

    all. “Metaphors matter,” Stewart said. “And they determine how we interact with bodies of water.”The conference focused on how different theological leaders,as well as social activists have viewed water over the centuries. Samuel Torvend, Professor of Lutheran Studies and conference moderator, noted that while Martin Luther didn’t speak directly to water resource issues, Luther was keenly aware of using resources for the social good of all. In about 1530, Luther wrote that all of creation mirrors

  • Tacoma Public Utilities is holding an internship information/networking session on February 18th. You can find details here:  https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/tacoma/jobs/2700494-0/tpu-engineering-mix-mingle

    Summer Internships with Tacoma Public Utilities Posted by: alemanem / February 10, 2020 February 10, 2020 Tacoma Public Utilities is holding an internship information/networking session on February 18th. You can find details here: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/tacoma/jobs/2700494-0/tpu-engineering-mix-mingle Read Previous National Security Internship Program Read Next WSEHA 2020 Student Scholarships LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental

  • Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu .

    Summer Camp Positions with Tacoma MESA Posted by: nicolacs / April 22, 2022 April 22, 2022 Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu. Read Previous Accelerated MS in Electrochemical Technology Read Next Keck Graduate Institute LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program October 30

  • Pacific Lutheran University is excited to announce our partnership with Teaching Channel with Learners Edge to offer continuing education opportunities to teachers!

    Teaching Channel with Learners EdgePacific Lutheran University is excited to announce our partnership with Teaching Channel with Learners Edge to offer continuing education opportunities to teachers! Teaching Channel with Learners Edge offers more than 70 online and text-based courses and numerous Certificates to help you achieve unrivaled success in your classroom and career. Join thousands of educators nationwide who make Teaching Channel with Learners Edge and Pacific Lutheran University

  • Just south of Denver, Colorado, tucked beneath the vast mountain range, lies Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance . Their vision soars high above the Rocky Mountains as they unite communities and ignite a passion for wildlife like never before, relentlessly working to deepen public understanding, resolve…

    Breana Downs ’24: A summer soaring with native birds at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 4, 2023 Image: Breana Downs ’24 is glove training one of Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance’s ambassadors, Kingston! Kingston is a Red-Tailed Hawk who was admitted as a patient just over a year ago after running into a second-story window on one of his very first flights. (All photos in this article are provided by Breana Downs.) October 4, 2023 By Ava EdmondsPLU Marketing

  • In the spring of 2021, Kenzie Knapp ’23 was awarded a Udall Foundation scholarship. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships, fellowships, and internships to students pursuing fields of study related to the environment or Native American nations. Knapp has served as a G.R.E.A.N. club officer, is…

    Q & A with ASPLU Environmental Justice Director Posted by: vcraker / September 2, 2021 Image: Kenzie Knapp ’23, incoming ASPLU Environmental Justice Director at the Pierce Co Transit center near campus, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at PLU. One of her goals is encouraging public transit use. (Photo/John Froschauer) September 2, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsIn the spring of 2021, Kenzie Knapp ’23 was awarded a Udall Foundation scholarship. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships

  • Every game day, usually around lunch time, Jordan Thomas and Chad Murray sit down to have a chat. The Pacific Lutheran University men’s basketball star and the team’s head coach meet in Murray’s office to talk about anything and everything. The meeting can be as…

    Student-athlete forms special bond with coach Posted by: vcraker / August 2, 2022 August 2, 2022 By Craig CrakerSports Information Assistant Every game day, usually around lunch time, Jordan Thomas and Chad Murray sit down to have a chat. The Pacific Lutheran University men’s basketball star and the team’s head coach meet in Murray’s office to talk about anything and everything. The meeting can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as an hour. Topics range from that night’s opponent to