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year. Energy savings isn’t just good for the environment, it’s good for the wallet too, Cooley said. To find out all things sustainable at PLU go to the PLU Sustainability Web site. Read Previous Sports brings the world to PLU – The Wang Center Symposium Read Next Raising awareness through song COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU move-in day 2024 September

my heart. Seeing them excel brings me such joy. Sharing our work and knowing we bring smiles to faces is priceless. I thank my choir for allowing me to teach. It fills my soul like nothing else.” Read Previous New man on campus Read Next From Harstad Hall to the Morken Center, donors have built the academy COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU move-in day

then in late summer, installed in the Studio Theater at the future Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The golden honey-colored panels can be seen as a visitor enters the theater. Walking through the hundreds cuts of wood in his warehouse, Fry sees each grain – which may be a rather dull gray or beige now, as how it will become once its sanded and stained. Originally starting the mill for hobbyists, Fry moved into the commercial sector in about 2003. The request to cut the logs for

undergrad degree in geosciences, will be the only new member of the team that includes researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Maine and Berkeley Geochronology Center. And of course, a mountaineering expert. The trip is funded through a National Science Foundation grant secured by Todd, who is making her fourth trip back to the Antarctic. It never gets old, she said. “There is always something new to see, at a new location,” she said. Todd and Hegland obviously can’t wait to get

global strategic environment. The lecture is at 2 p.m. Friday, March 2 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center in the UC. The lecture is entitled, “A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change.” Changes to the environment and climate of the Arctic are offering new opportunities for competition and collaboration among states in its periphery. Dynamism will only increase in the coming decades, as water levels rise, gas and oil reserves are explored, and territorial claims are

March 5, 2012 Explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson highlights his 80 day journey around the Arctic Ocean. (Photo by John Froschauer) Arctic exploration and climate change By Katie Scaff ’13 Changes in the Arctic have become increasingly visible, according to Norwegian explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson, who, with BØrge Ousland, became the first to sail around the Arctic in one, short season in 2010. “These are the facts,” Thorleifsson said. “This is happening.” The Scandinavian Cultural Center set the

, Wash. When she was 9, she switched her home rink to Sprinker Recreation Center, just down the road from PLU, where she continues to train today. Jordan Lee ’17 trains at Sprinker five days a week, two hours a day, and attends classes. (Photo courtesy of Jordan Lee.) As a child, Lee had Olympic aspirations of her own, but as she has grown, so has her plan. “My goals have changed because I got injured a lot, and I lost a lot of time training,” Lee said. “In the future, I want to start coaching.” Lee

Peace Corps volunteers. PLU has produced more than 250 Peace Corps volunteers since 1961—and it seems a natural fit. “PLU graduates are driven toward programs like the Peace Corps because of their orientation toward others, their curiosity about how the world works and their commitment to addressing challenges that impact real people,” said Joel Zylstra, director of PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service. “The Peace Corps provides a framework for graduates to learn about themselves, to

April 10 in the Anderson University Center. Following a brief welcome from PLU Athletic Director Laurie Turner, Patricia Krise shared her thoughts on NCAA Div. III and PLU. Krise, wife of PLU President Thomas W. Krise, played Div. III volleyball and basketball as an undergraduate student at Hanover College in Indiana. One of the key components of Krise’s message was the idea of playing a sport “for the love of the game,” a fixture at the Div. III level, where athletics-based scholarships are not

purchase shirts for $7 in the days leading up to Lolla during dinnertime in the Anderson University Center. If there are still shirts to be sold at the end of the week, ASPLU will sell them at the event. They are expected to go fast. ASPLU wanted to go above and beyond to improve this year’s event, but students also made their voices heard about past Lolla experiences. At least one of the bands playing Saturday was a student suggestion, as was tie-dying. “ASPLU cares so much about Lolla,” McLaughlin