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April 23, 2012 PLU named leader in recycling By Katie Scaff ’13 PLU is a leader in recycling among colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada that participated in the international RecycleMania competition. PLU ranked second in Washington and 15th out of the 605 colleges for recycling efforts in the 2012 competition with a recycling rate of 58.7 percent. RecycleMania coordinator and sustainability technician Princess Reese credits this year’s success in part to their efforts to educate

April 1, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE This past year a group of PLU students, as part of the award-winning MediaLab, dove into the topic of anti-Islamic sentiment in America. This is a first account shared by one of the project leaders JuliAnne Rose ’13. The topic took them across America on a mission of understanding the complexities of the issues at hand. Diving into Islamophobia in America By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Strapped with massive camera equipment, we struggled off the

PLU move-in day 2024 Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / September 4, 2024 September 4, 2024 Our newest Lutes have arrived! With help from family, friends and the PLU community, first-year Lutes moved into PLU’s residence halls on Friday, August 30, kicking off New Student Orientation. The day was full of joy, love and the beginning of lifelong friendships. Read Previous A Will to Lead: Sue Loiland and Jennie Griek ’02 join PLU’s planned giving team Read Next Committed to Kuleana COMMENTS*Note: All

Lost and Found in Translation Posted by: alex.reed / May 21, 2022 May 21, 2022 Excerpted in Prism from Shadows and Echoes, the Language and Literatures Department’s publication, in 2004.In what Shadows and Echoes hopes will be an annual feature, “Lost and Found in Translation” takes a poem by Emily Dickinson and translates it through a number of languages (German, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Latin) before bringing it (or something!) back into English. Each of the translators worked only from

,” she said. “I love being in the process, even if it’s ugly.” After all, Cohen appreciates a good challenge: “Oh, yeah,” she said. “That’s a given.” Read Previous PLU School of Nursing program earns $350,000 grant to continue commitment to helping underserved communities Read Next PLU named the leading distributor of creative arts scholarships among West Coast colleges COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

PLU’s Black Student Union Holds ‘Die-In’ To Show Solidarity Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 7, 2015 Image: PLU’s Black Student Union has scheduled a Die-in protest for April 8 to continue the discussion on racial inequality begun after events in Ferguson, Missouri. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 7, 2015 By Matthew Salzano '18 PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 7, 2015)—The Black Student Union of Pacific Lutheran University is holding a ``Die-In`` protest at 10:30 a.m. April

10,000 acres of palm oil plantations claimed by the country’s largest landowner, and a key player in the coup. Filmed over four years beginning with the coup itself, Resistencia follows three key members of the farmers’ resistance effort as they convert the plantations into a workers co-op and agitate for a more democratic state, all while trying to survive the violent reaction of the landlord and the coup regime. Freeston is a seasoned investigative documentarian and journalist. While serving as a

Interested in the Field of Environmental Public Health? Posted by: alemanem / February 22, 2018 February 22, 2018 If you would like to investigate this field which protects the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and other environmental factors that may impact human health and well-being the  2018 WSEHA Student Scholarship application is now open.  See the 2018 WSEHA Scholarship Flyer or visit https://www.wseha.org/student-scholarships for more information and to apply.   March

abduction but starvation due to a decline in Chinook salmon, their primary food source. Urgent action is needed, she says. A Family Affair Since age 12, Stafki has been making films with her sister Annie, 5 years her junior. The duo entered many of these into the Gig Harbor Film Festival, which they won three times. Her sister—now a high school freshman—acted as co-producer and creator of “Echos of the Sound.” Getting a great shot is challenging. “Orcas can be hard to spot and shoot, while [we’re] being

Interested in green chemistry/environmental toxicology? Awesome workshop in Portland this June! Posted by: yakelina / March 15, 2016 March 15, 2016 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference is in Portland this June! Details on the student workshop:   www.gcande.org | www.acs.org/greenchemistry | @ACSGCI | #gcande20    Read Previous Current students & recent grads: Summer job opportunity! Pre-college summer program instructor in Tacoma Read Next Paid summer school program in radiochemistry at OSU