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MediaLab receives three major recognitions for “Waste Not” film Posted by: Todd / February 25, 2015 February 25, 2015 MediaLab has received three prestigious recognitions for its 2014 original documentary, Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food Equation. Waste Not, which explores global food waste and hunger, received a national second-place award from the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Competition, a Rising-Star Award from the Canada International Film Festival (CIFF

Chamber of Commerce CEO, Union Strategist to Team with PLU Students for Minimum Wage Debate Posted by: Todd / October 6, 2015 October 6, 2015 Chamber of Commerce CEO, Union Strategist to Team with PLU Students for Minimum Wage DebateOn Thursday, October 8, 2015, members of the Pacific Lutheran University Speech and Debate team will partner with local policy experts to publicly debate the potential benefits and pitfalls of Initiative 1, an initiative posed to Tacoma voters that, if approved

September 5, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0AIF4hW6o Learning to Brew By Chris Albert The summer after graduating, Ken Thoburn ’09 hung out at backyard BBQs, sipping on home brews he and his friends had made. Everyone kept saying, “Guys, you should start a brewery,” Thoburn recalled. That’s when the Chinese Studies major and some friends, who also had recently graduated from local colleges—and also had not planned on selling beer—took their backyard beverages to brand-new heights

since the early 2000s. Here is a first-hand, real-time account from one of those students, Lucas Schaumberg.Nov. 8, 2016 Pacific Lutheran University has a hidden tradition on Election Day. Tonight, nine communication students and I join a select group who’ve experienced elections at KCPQ-TV, a Seattle-based news station. We dress in our best professional attire and cram ourselves into a van, the close proximity amplifying our shared nervous energy. No one knows what to expect — from the election or

Summer research opportunity at Univ. of Nebraska – Lincoln Posted by: yakelina / January 21, 2016 January 21, 2016 From Maggie Jobes, Assistant Director of Graduate Recruitment: The Summer Research Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers students an excellent opportunity to hone research skills and to experience life as a graduate student. Students will enhance their academic resume, work closely with faculty and peers, and have fun with social and professional development

PLU Blue Friday: Lutes Fired Up & Ready for the Super Bowl Posted by: Thomas Krise / January 29, 2015 January 29, 2015 Super Bowl Sunday is nearly here, and the PLU community is abuzz about this weekend’s big game!I invite the entire campus to participate in PLU Blue Friday on Jan. 30!  Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to dress in your favorite Seahawks attire. Post your photos/tweets under #Lute12s and #PLUBlueFriday, and we may feature them on PLU social media. Also, for the first

Isamar Henriquez ‘13 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Marin DiefelIsamar Henriquez ’13 left her legacy within the Diversity Center through her advocacy work and creation of the Amigos Unidos Club, a program that is as strong as ever today.During her time at PLU, she worked for the Diversity Center as the International Diversity Advocate supporting “activities… for whole cultures inside PLU” and working alongside former program director Dr. Angie Hambrick (now the

September 15, 2009 Giving a people a voice, a face Filmmaker Neda Sarmast stood in front of more than 200 attending PLU students preparing for the screening of her documentary. Her film, “Nobody’s Enemy: Youth Culture in Iran,” takes the viewer into Iran to learn about, listen to and meet the youth of Iran. The size of the crowd was impressive, exciting to Sarmast. “I was just so moved to see how powerful you are and how powerful your international programs are,” she told the crowd about her

October 25, 2010 The Tlingit tribe wait to come ashore during the Ceremonial Landing and the commencement of Tribal Journeys. We sat for hours, baking in the sun while droves of exuberant people in lavish regalia requested landfall. (Photos by Theodore Charles ’12) My Tribal Journey By Theodore Charles ’12 Every morning in Neah Bay, Wash., the cold fog would sweep through our camp and shake us from our sleep as we trundled across the grounds of the Makah Cultural and Resource Center for the

four students worked at KOMO-TV. Each year since 2008, Communication students have worked with local media outlets to cover election night—one of the only programs in the country where students work Election Night alongside the professionals.) PLU Communication students Michael Diambri ’18 and Matthew Salzano ’18 at the Yes on I-591 rally on Election Night 2014. (Photo: Carolyn Adolph/KUOW) I signed up with my best friend, Michael Diambri, a fellow journalism major (and my employee at PLU’s college