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April 18, 2008 Renowned poet to speak on Earth Day Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver is slated to celebrated Earth Day 2008 with a presentation in Lagerquist Concert Hall. Oliver is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus and transforms the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. Tickets to her speech in Lagerquist and at a satellite viewing location in Ingram sold out quickly. Those who do attend are required to present a PLU ID

March 2, 2009 Using math to build community For the students, from PLU and middle schools around the area, the Mathletes Tutor Program is more than just numbers and equations.“What we are about is community building,” said Bryan Dorner, PLU math professor. Last week, hundreds of area middle schoolers, their parents and about 20 PLU students who take part in the tutoring program gathered at PLU to celebrate the program and mathematics. For the past five years, PLU math students have volunteered

served in Alaska’s House of Representatives in 1992 at the age of 29. He was re-elected in 1994 and served one term in the Alaska State Senate form 1996 to 2000.During his tenure in the governor’s office, he has worked on Alaska’s economy, schools and championed domestic violence legislation. Parnell graduated from PLU with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. Married to his wife, Sandy (Scebold ’84) Parnell, since 1987, they have two daughters. Student commencement speaker   Andrew Reyna

November 2, 2014 Pierce County’s Youngest City Councilmember is a Double-Major at PLU Shannon Reynolds is a full-time double major at PLU and a member of the Fircrest City Council. (Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) Shannon Reynolds ’15 marks her first year as an elected Fircrest official By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 3, 2014)—For Shannon Reynolds ’15, after-school activities extend far beyond campus clubs and sports teams. When she’s not

titled “The Beautiful Mind: A Journey from Thought to Page.” A book signing will follow her lecture. Charles is the author of the children’s book “All Because You Matter.” Described by her publisher as “a lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and brown children everywhere,” the book received wide acclaim, including being named one of Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, and NPR’s Best Books of 2020.Charles has authored multiple other children’s, middle-grade, and young adult books

New partnership leads to new opportunities for PLU pre-health sciences graduates Are you thinking about going into pre-health sciences - medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine and other related fields? Posted by: mhines / June 26, 2023 Image: A PLU student works on pipetting skills in a lab at PLU. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) June 26, 2023 PLU just launched a new partnership with the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) to help PLU students apply to medical or

April 19, 2010 Claim: The unexamined life is not worth living Socrates is heralded as the first real philosopher in the Western tradition. He embarked on a quest for wisdom. Finding little wisdom, but lots of self-certainty, he began his job as the gadfly of Athens. He asked people questions and publicly revealed that their guise of authority and assuredness masked ignorance and inconsistency. He suggested that everyone undertake the task of carefully examining their beliefs and think for

1950. In 1955 she graduated in nursing from Pacific Lutheran College (now PLU) and Emanuel Hospital in Portland. After college graduation Karen served as a nurse in her hometown. She then worked at Swedish Hospital in Seattle before helping to open the new University of Washington Medical Center in 1959. She was its first nurse and worked there for 30 years in clinical nursing and as head of the outpatient clinics for heart, cancer, Alzheimer’s and AIDS patients. After retirement, Karen moved back

April 26, 2013 PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and raised nearly $20,000. Relay For Life is a volunteer-driven cancer fundraising event of the American Cancer Society. Each relay team is required to have one person walking on the track at all times during the event. Mackenzie

January 21, 2014 PLU students Karyssa Allbritton and Kristin Neuneker get a lesson in blowgun use from Bolivar Endominga in Ecuador on a 2012 Study Away program. (Photo by Kyle Monahan.) PLU ranks in Top 10 for Study Away Pacific Lutheran University ranked ninth in the nation in the 2013 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, with 59.4 percent of its undergraduates, or 392 students, participating in a study-abroad program in 2011-12. In the report, released by the U.S