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PLU’s Website, Online Magazine Win Web Marketing Awards Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 22, 2015 September 22, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 22, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s website has won a 2015 Outstanding WebAward from the Web Marketing Association, and the spring 2015 edition of the university’s flagship magazine, ResoLUTE, won its Magazine Standard of Excellence Award. Judges wrote of www.plu.edu: “Beautiful site, great layout

guests, their visit was of special importance to me as I prepare to leave for Kigali, Rwanda, in January. Members of iDebate Rwanda meet students in PLU’s Diversity Center.. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) As a student of History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies, I have long been fascinated by Rwanda’s past and culture, so the opportunity to hear firsthand the stories of Rwandans was one that I did not take lightly. After a rigorous application process, these four students won a competition through an

: Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Associate Professor of Political Science Maria Chavez and Adjunct School of Business Faculty Bradd Busick. We met recently with the three to discuss how they’ve been preparing for the opportunity to add their voices to the TEDx anthology. Did you ever imagine yourself giving a TEDx talk? Chavez: Never, I never thought I’d do one. It was just something that when the opportunity came up, I thought I’d pitch my idea, and when I got it I thought, “Oh, now what

of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney.   Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for

is sponsored by PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, which includes the Kurt Mayer Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. (In Fall 2014, PLU became one of only a handful of universities nationwide to offer a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.) The debaters’ visit follows PLU’s October 2014 standing-room-only screening of Sweet Dreams, a documentary about Rwandan women working to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 1994

been blocked off, as had all of Interstate 5 between Seattle and Tacoma. Dr. Gregory Youtz sits behind seats designated for the Chinese president and his wife at Tacoma’s Lincoln High School. (Photo: Courtesy Dr. Gregory Youtz) Then finally we were inside, looking for assigned seats with our names on them. We all knew how lucky we were to have been chosen—and that many obvious invitees had not made the final cut. Many of us were looking at two nametags written on small yellow pieces of paper and

students’ efforts to brainstorm solutions on how to best message to young drivers. DECA, an organization encouraging students to problem solve in a business setting, is prevalent throughout the state of Washington and provides  students the opportunity to address driving-related problems on their own. Mason has been working for the past two years with students to come up with methods to change poor driving behaviors, and all with great success. By allowing young drivers to initiate the conversation

the very best thing about getting kids involved in adapted sports is seeing the smiles of pure joy on their faces as they have fun while accomplishing physical feats they never thought were possible. How did studying Biology at PLU help prepare you for medical school? The Biology and other science curriculum at PLU provided a strong foundation for further learning in medical school. Upper-level courses in Biology at PLU were taught at a level of difficulty equivalent to many first-year medical

University. After graduating from PLU in 2008, Cushman jumped into being a teacher and mentor for students with stories similar to his own.7th Biennial Wang Center SymposiumWatch other speakers from last month's event.As an English teacher and coach at his high school alma mater, Cushman strives to show love, compassion and care to students who might otherwise never receive them. He believes that adults are responsible for helping kids discover their own potential, and through his work tries to validate

simple — they’re good, and I wanted people to see that,” Wong said. “I really wanted it to be part of a larger community and have the public come in.” Khilfeh, an English writing major with a fiction and poetry emphasis, shared several poems exploring her Palestinian heritage. Khilfeh appears white, and said it’s more natural to use poetry to explore her “ethnicity that’s hidden.”“I think that poetry is probably the easiest place for me to talk about heritage,” Khilfeh said. “In poetry, lots of