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  • Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s…

    in the Studio Theater of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Want to show off your spelling talents? Four audience volunteers are recruited before each performance to participate on-stage as guest spellers, making each performance as unique as the one before it. The willing contestants are chosen through a careful vetting process, utilizing pre-show lobby interviews and audience questionnaires. Tickets can be purchased at the Campus Concierge at 253-535-7411 or at the door

  • Class Acts The everyday triumphs, joys and challenges of eight dedicated educators – all Lutes – at a single bustling middle school. Who would want to teach hormone-laced, boundary-pushing, in-your-face, preteen and teenage students? The teachers at Cascade Middle School, that’s who. Their number includes…

    education class 8:05 A.M. Ms. Dozier’s eighth grade literature class 9 A.M. Assistant Principal Heinen’s office 9:52 A.M. Mr. Homfeldt’s eighth grade history class 11:15 A.M. Mr. MacDougall’s seventh grade language arts class 11:20 A.M. Cascade Middle School cafeteria 1:05 P.M. Mr. McNeese’s gym class Story by Chris Albert and Barbara Clements Photos by Jordan Hartman Read Previous Biologist use Murdock grants to study birds, fish Read Next Looking into the laws behind adoption COMMENTS*Note: All

  • Take a walk through Ingram Hall on  November  13 between 10 a.m. and noon, and you’ll see scurrying student artists framing prints, attaching hanging wires and putting the final touches on their creations. Artists will be arriving at the University Gallery to submit work to…

    by Mare Blocker a visiting instructor who teaches the Art of the Book classes. “We chose to invite Mare to jury the show because of her professional experience as an artist, which includes  activity and exhibitions throughout Seattle and the Northwest, and as far away as the Center for Book Arts in New York,” Heather Mathews, gallery coordinator, said. “It was, especially, Mare‘s work as an educator, most recently at Whitman College, which made her an excellent choice as a juror. With a decade of

  • Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Five time novelist, Eric Goodman will have a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 in the Regency Room of the UC. There will be a Q & A with the writer at 3:30 p.m. that day at the…

    March 9, 2012 Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Five time novelist, Eric Goodman will have a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 in the Regency Room of the UC. There will be a Q & A with the writer at 3:30 p.m. that day at the GBC. Goodman is the author of five novels, including In Days of Awe and Child of My Right Hand, which won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Foreword Magazine. He has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council fellowships and residencies at the Headland Center for the

  • Senior Elana Tracy ‘21 has mixed feelings now that her studies at Pacific Lutheran University are coming to an end. On the one hand, PLU allowed her to discover a passion for global studies while studying abroad in Great Britain; but on the other, she…

    . The Las Vegas native initially wanted to attend a bigger school, but she saw the promise of a more intimate liberal arts setting after a tour of campuses in the Pacific Northwest. “Everyone told me that the rain was really going to get to me, but in Vegas everyone gets excited when it rains,” she said. “I was more surprised to hear some of the jargon that is different from what I’m used to. This is super niche, but have you ever heard of jojos?”Tracy is part of PLU’s international honors program

  • The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane,…

    between the organic and the mechanical, combining an eclectic range of both classical and vernacular influences with a polyamorous harmonic language. A recipient of the 2018 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peter has received fellowships from Composers Now, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has been commissioned by American Chamber Winds (Radix Tyrannis, a concerto for Joseph Alessi

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfe90PTrXY Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address By President Thomas W. Krise Before we get started, I’d like to have a word with the brand new freshmen and transfer students. You are, after all, MY class.  We all become Lutes together today. I have proof that…

    Norwegian pioneer founders envisioned an institution that drew upon three millennia of liberal arts tradition. It is a tradition that stretches back to the prophetic quest for social justice, to the ancient Greek tradition of philosophical inquiry, to rabbinic argumentation, to the Christian monastic schools, and to the Islamic advances in the sciences. Our founders also drew on centuries of Lutheran higher education tradition. The presence of representatives from many Lutheran colleges and universities

  • The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…

    raised in the Inland Northwest of Washington State. After crossing the Cascades, she began working toward a double major in studio art and English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, with the intent of becoming a secondary educator in the field of art or English. While not attending to her own education, she spent her summers away from college teaching preschool and elementary school aged children ne arts at the Corbin Art Center in Spokane, WA. Like the children she taught, art

  • “Creative Collaborations in Mathematical Art” is part of the UWT Winter Math Enthusiast Series which takes place Thursdays from 4:40-5:40pm at the UWT Campus in Joy 117 or virtually via Zoom.  In 2020, during the COVID lockdowns, Seattle-based  mathematician Jessica Sklar and New Jersey-based  artist…

    talk, they discuss their joint work as QED Arts, LLC, and talk about Mathemalchemy, a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics. Jessica K. Sklar is a professor of mathematics at Pacific Lutheran University. She earned B.A.s in mathematics and English at Swarthmore College, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include recreational math, math in popular culture, and mathematical art. She’s passionate about

  • VWS: Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken Washington State Poet Laureate, and MFA alum, Kathleen Flenniken ’07 is the next guest in PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Wednesday, May 2. Her visit starts with The Writer’s Story: Q&A at 3:30 p.m. at Garfield Books and concludes…

    the Arts and Artist Trust, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from Artist Trust and the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the PLU Rainier Writing Workshop and was awarded an Emerging Writer’s Fellowship by The Writer’s Center in Bethesda in 2010. Flenniken is a co-editor and president of Floating Bridge Press, a non-profit press dedicated to publishing Washington State poets. Read Previous PLU named leader in recycling Read Next Engineer turned poet