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and sustained service through maintaining community partnerships and designing opportunities for PLU students and community members to join in monthly build days. Other nominees included Chem Club, The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), Circle K International and Habitat Restoration. Nicholaus Townsend Falck, left, with PLU President Thomas W. Krise. The 2015 David T. Alger Student Service Award and the 2015 David T. Alger Faculty/Administrator/Staff Service Award, named in honor of the

key member of the Real News Network from 2009-11, he produced more than 100 investigative video pieces on economics, politics and social movements in North and Central America. Since 2012, Freeston has directed five documentaries for TeleSUR, the world’s largest public Spanish-language broadcaster. Resistencia is his second documentary film on Honduras. The screening is a collaborative project, co-sponsored by the PLU Departments of Anthropology, History and Global Studies; International Honors

PLU students intern with Trinidad and Tobago Division of Health, Wellness and Social Protection Posted by: mhines / February 12, 2024 Image: PLU students at the Division of Health orientation during J-Term 2024. February 12, 2024 January Term (J-Term for short), PLU’s month-long term between fall and spring semesters, is when many of our students take advantage of our incredible study away options in multiple places around the world. Planned and coordinated by professors and PLU’s study away

Communications and psychology double major Alex Reed ’23 explored film and storytelling at PLU Posted by: nicolacs / May 19, 2023 May 19, 2023 By Lisa PattersonMarketing & Communications Guest WriterSometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions.Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I started looking at colleges,” she said

PLU communication, religion and theatre professors discuss superheroes, Martin Luther and what it means to “interpret” Posted by: Zach Powers / February 24, 2016 February 24, 2016 TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 24, 2016)- The sixth episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “interpret” among host and Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Assistant Professor of Religion Michael Zbaraschuk and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Kane Anderson. Conversation Highlights

Communications and psychology double major Alex Reed ’23 explored film and storytelling at PLU Posted by: mhines / May 19, 2023 Image: Alex Reed ’23 (PLU Photos by Emma Stafki) May 19, 2023 By Lisa PattersonMarketing & Communications Guest WriterSometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions. Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my

endeavors with Pacific Lutheran University. Natalie Mayer wanted to build on that good work by endowing a lecture series that addressed what she saw as a growing need — the spike in racist and anti-Semitic acts across the United States.The inaugural Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture, taking place on May 2, hosts language scholar and international expert Dr. Lid King, who will discuss how hate speech has flourished on the internet and detail how we must work to build a counter

Understanding Loan Forgiveness, Grants and Scholarships for Future Teachers Posted by: chaconac / August 26, 2022 August 26, 2022 You’ve chosen to be a teacher because you want to make real, tangible change in the lives of the next generation.Your passion for inspiring and educating others is contagious, but we realize that your financial needs could be seen as a challenge as you consider going back to school for a graduate education degree. Graduate school is an investment, but the

April 1, 2013 Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes By James Olson ’14 In 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore before college. In the dead space between high school and “higher learning,” potential itineraries sprawled

International Honors social justice class and understanding that working toward a big amorphous goal like equity takes time and patience and allowing space for all the different problems that can come up. We also read the Myth of Sisyphus, where this guy is doomed to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it fall down and roll it back up, forever. And he eventually comes to find contentment in the fact that he has a job to do, something to find a purpose in. So, melding all that together (laughs)… Even though it’s