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An internship with the Portland Pickles solidifies Simon Luedtke’s plans for the future Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / November 29, 2023 Image: Simon Luedtke ’24 spent the summer interning for the Portland Pickles, a collegiate wood-bat baseball team based out of Portland, OR. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) November 29, 2023 By Jeffrey RobertsPLU Marketing & CommunicationsSimon Luedtke ’24 is a strategic communication major from Newberg, Oregon. His communication studies, combined with his part-time job

Psychology major Stephanie Aparicio Zambrano ’23 on her internship & student experience Posted by: shortea / March 30, 2023 March 30, 2023 By Grant Hoskins '23PLU Marketing & Communications Student Writer Once a major in communication, Stephanie Aparicio Zambrano ’23 found burgeoning success turning her advice-giving prowess into a future career path. Zambrano found her calling in working with college students as an intern in PLU’s Dean of Students Office. There, she learned the importance of

host a variety of events in November to promote advocacy, awareness and issues around hunger and homelessness. Students are encouraged to participate in the events, which kick off on Wednesday, Nov. 12, and run through Saturday, Nov. 22, or volunteer to help out at one of the service projects PLU will be working on. In addition to the events, PLU will participate in a food drive during the month of November. Students, faculty and staff can donate peanut butter that will go to the Emergency Food

College kin: Mother, son attend PLU together Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 27, 2020 Image: Skyler Ramirez-Ortiz, left, and mother Mirna Morris are attending Pacific Lutheran University together. January 27, 2020 By Ernest JasminGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2020) — On the PLU campus this winter, two of the faces you’ll pass might look a little similar.Mirna Morris, 39, recently started attending PLU full time to get a BSN in nursing, a final step

had voluntarily committed to compost most food waste – a program that has diverted nearly 70 percent of dining waste from the landfill. A snazzy new lighting system goes beyond simple sensors that turn off lights when a room is unoccupied. This system has an internal, perpetual calendar. It controls what lights turn on and when, based on the rising and setting of the sun, or the percentage of daylight infiltrating a space. Additionally, building occupants received “task lights.” The fluorescent

encouraged us to go after hard-hitting stories, and she advocated for student journalists when we requested permission to attend a faculty meeting. When that permission was ultimately denied and we couldn’t get the information we were looking for, she didn’t just say, “Oh, well”—she told us to write about that. My friends and I like to joke that every time we walk into Joanne’s office, we walk out with a new life plan. Joanne is full of ideas and has an incredible network of professional connections

accessed online or through an app. “My hope is to create a small bridge of resources so everyone can know what’s out there,” Scott said. This year’s other Sustainability Fellow, Bailey Smith ’16, is examining the spectrum of food from production to compost. She’s now compiling research, which she will present this May. “My goal is to examine which areas of the food spectrum contribute the most waste, particularly on a PLU scale,” Smith said. “We may not be making a change now, but we have the

Lutes learn self defense from Karate Club Posted by: Kari Plog / October 5, 2017 Image: Lutes practice self defense as part of five-week training, sponsored by the Karate Club, the Center for Gender Equity and Harstad Hall. (Photo by Oliver Johnson ’18) October 5, 2017 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 5, 2017)- “If you find yourself in a confrontation, the first thing you want to do is get low,” said master karate instructor Marc Cordice, moving his body into

time at PLU, he has been involved with the Wild Hope Center for Vocation as both a vocation intern and Wild Hope Fellow. He has found ways to use his interest and expertise in vocation and philosophy to inspire his peers through his vocation drop-in hours, which he hosts every Monday from 5:30-7:30 pm.Etzell became involved in Wild Hope during his junior year after being recommended for the Wild Hope Fellows Program. He applied out of curiosity, and learned quickly that the Fellowship is for people

Public health concerns update Posted by: Student Life / August 23, 2022 August 23, 2022 Dear PLU Community, We are writing today to provide you with a follow up to the communication that you received on July 29, 2022. In that communication, we outlined fall protocols for both COVID-19 and MPX (previously referred to as Monkeypox). Now that more detailed information about risk mitigation for MPX has become available from the CDC, the Washington Department of Health (WADOH), and Tacoma–Pierce