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tutoring, mentoring, spiritual development and leadership development for under-resourced youth. President and Mrs. Krise established the highly competitive internship in 2014. One student applicant per summer will be awarded $2,000 in financial support, opening up unpaid internship opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach. Ames, from Sacramento, is an English Literature major with a minor in Non-Profit Leadership; she also will receive academic credit for her internship. At The GreenHouse

Sunset for ½” VHS Videotape Players Posted by: Jenna S / May 11, 2015 May 11, 2015 by Layne Nordgren and Travis Pagel For over 25 years Video Home System (better known as ½” VHS) players provided access to analog video recordings in classrooms. But as technology continued to improve, this format was gradually supplanted by DVD players. What this means at PLU, is that what was once a standard component of classroom podiums, is now obsolete. In May of 2013, Instructional Technologies emailed all

campus for liquid-nitrogen ice cream and desserts, hands-on chemistry activities and flashy chemical demonstrations by faculty and Chem Club students. This year’s event was held April 15 in the Rieke Lobby and Open Chem Lab, where science projects popped, banged, flashed, glowed and even oozed—and science fans oohed and ahhed (and covered their ears).—Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Read Previous PLU Forensics Team Places Among Top 30 in the Nation Read Next Pacific Lutheran

April 3, 2012 PLU prof’s book wins ChLA Book Award Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tales of Modernity, has received the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Book Award for books published in 2010. The book was written by Nathalie op de Beeck, PLU associate professor of English. It was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Suspended Animation analyzes the phenomenon of American picture books and what their imaginative form and content reveal about the

Presidents Climate Commitment last January and PLU’s master planning documents. “It’s been a focus of PLU even before we wrote it down,” Kohler said. “That’s the culture. It’s the best thing about PLU.” The construction of the Morken Center for Learning and Technology essentially launched the idea to purchase renewable energy, Kohler explained. PLU designed the environmentally friendly building based on the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The

Associate Vice President for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability) and several others. After finding out there hadn’t been a Latinos club in many years, Isamar took it upon herself to create one, now known as the Amigos Unidos Club. Although PLU hadn’t been her first pick for college, Isamar was grateful for the support she was offered. As a finalist for the Act Six Scholarship, she was put on a roster of schools that sponsor the Act Six Scholarship. PLU was one of those schools and they were able to

Alumni Feature: Kari Plog ’11 returns to PLU as a Senior Editor Posted by: Todd / February 5, 2016 February 5, 2016 Kari Plog ’11 has been in the ‘real world’ for half a decade, but her life experiences feel like they account for far more then five years worth of work. She’s gone to and reported on the Super Bowl and the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, and was a mainstay at the Tacoma News Tribune since her graduation from PLU. To cap it all off, in June 2015, Plog was named “New Journalist of the

PLU Media Lab students win Emmy for documentary Posted by: vcraker / July 1, 2021 July 1, 2021 The documentary Eyes Above: Militarization of Sacred Land was produced, filmed, and edited by an all undergraduate team of students. The students recorded footage in early 2020 and edited it remotely during the pandemic. Eyes Above: Militarization of Sacred Land explores how the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona grapples with the encroaching surveillance technologies implemented on their land

Public Opportunities to See the King During His Visit to PLU Posted by: Sandy Dunham / May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (May 1, 2015)—The public will have two opportunities to see His Majesty King Harald V of Norway on May 23 when he visits Tacoma in honor of Pacific Lutheran University’s 125 anniversary: during his arrival at PLU, at 11:15 a.m., and at the Tacoma Dome, where the King will deliver PLU’s Commencement address and receive an

worth telling.Designed to provoke conversations and build connections over social issues in a world that’s growing more and more divided, Noltner’s traveling multimedia art exhibit “A Peace of My Mind” is a response to this question: “What does peace mean to you?” Through the portraits and personal accounts of everyday people, he has been searching for an answer since 2009. Humanity’s common experience and communal instincts are displayed and celebrated through the exhibit’s striking posters, which