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  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 21, 2015) —Pacific Lutheran University has received two $7,000 grants from the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation. The donations were made through the NADA Foundation’s Joseph J. Sanchez Memorial Fund, which supports the emergency needs of students, and the John P. Winston…

    , dedicated to the study of ethics. “We are deeply grateful to the NADA Foundation’s gift to support the emergency needs of students and ethics programs,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise. “With more than a quarter of our students eligible for the federal Pell Grant program, the university has a number of students who walk a fine line with their finances. When an emergency arises, these students are especially vulnerable to disruptions in their incomes. This NADA Foundation grant will help soften the

  • One thing about artists is their ability to find creative solutions during the unpredictability of the coronavirus pandemic. Adapting to COVID-19, the PLU Theatre and Dance Department has done just that to bring The Christians, a play about faith in America and the trouble with…

    don’t think about the focal length and depth of field of the computer’s camera”.  Shelby Hickman, media liaison for the play, says having everyone in separate rooms, in entirely different buildings, presents the biggest challenge for the live multi-stream, but is also the most rewarding obstacle to overcome.  From adapting to technical difficulties to coaching actors in an isolated environment, the show must go on!  The Christians virtual play is streaming for free on November 12 to 14 at 7:30 pm

  • Pacific Lutheran University is excited to welcome Dayna Baumeister, a professor at Arizona State University who holds a doctorate in organismic biology and ecology, to deliver the 2022 Rachel Carson Science, Technology and Society Lecture. Baumeister will present “(Re)Buiding a Thriving World–Mentored By Nature’s Genius”…

    Genius” on March 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Karen Hille Phillips Center at PLU.  Baumeister is co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a bio-inspired consultancy offering biological intelligence consulting, professional training, and inspirational speaking. Her work has been critical to the biomimicry movement, establishing it as a new and innovative practice and a philosophy to meet the world’s sustainability challenges.  She has helped more than 100 companies consult the natural world for elegant and sustainable

  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 10, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Nursing is ranked among the best 100 in the nation in U.S. News & World Report ‘s 2016 edition of Best Graduate Schools . In addition to its in-demand undergraduate and continuing education nursing programs, PLU…

    Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice. “We are very proud of our students, faculty and graduates across all School of Nursing program levels,” said Sheila Smith, Dean of the PLU School of Nursing. “The work of our graduates provides our best testimonial—our faculty work very hard to educate nursing leaders who demonstrate excellent leadership skills and who contribute to improved health outcomes for the patients they serve.” Since its inception in 1991, nearly

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)- Travel from the shores of Puget Sound to the fjords of Norway with the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Sea , on view exclusively at Tacoma Art Museum April 9 through July 17, 2016. This is your opportunity to dive…

    his exceptional prints and a key painting.TAM has brought these dynamic works to Tacoma from major institutions across the country, including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, deYoung Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and from private collectors. “While he’s best known for his iconic work The Scream, Munch explored a host of other subjects. This exhibition focuses on the sea as a profound element in his work. He used the sea as the subject of

  • What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones,…

    endeavored to move a several-hundred – pound whale skeleton from the chicken coop – located at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife storage facility in Lakewood – to PLU earlier this year. He propped up the third – obviously older jawbone- in the corner, and then turned his attention to the other two. With a heave, these were placed in the back of a pickup. On to the next group of bones. For two hours, Behrens, along with Audrey Thornburg, the Rieke Science Center’s biology lab manager, and

  • Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow…

    September 30, 2011 Featured speaker Benjamin Stewart, a professor and chair at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, gives the example of the Chicago River as a waterway that is viewed in a different light by varying parties.(Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) The deep and powerful flow of mercy and justice. A debate on water in today’s world By: By Barbara Clements Evidence of water as a force for destruction can be easily found, both in the headlines and the Bible. There are the floods

  • Marcus Borg, who serves as Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland and Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, presented a lecture entitled, “Speaking Christian: Reclaiming Christian Language,” on Wednesday, November 3, at the 6th…

    alternative and more biblical framework for understanding speaking Christian, said Jesus scholar Marcus Borg.“Religions are like languages,” Borg said. “To be part of a religion includes using, hearing and understanding that language’s religion.” The problem is, “for many people in our time Christian language is an increasingly unfamiliar language.” Borg, who serves as Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland and Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture Emeritus in the Philosophy

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uu94p78Pz0 ‘Sunrise’ and Stardom By Sandy Deneau Dunham One amazing Sunrise is shining quite a spotlight on Luke Olson ’16. Olson and his band, The Olson Bros, are the new national champions of The Texaco Country Showdown songwriting contest, billed as the nation’s largest and…

    the Texaco Country Live Showdown—the competition’s national finals—and spend a day consulting with music-industry professionals. Known for its onstage energy, original music and sweet-as-pie harmonies, The Olson Bros band is no stranger to victory—it won the 2013 Battle of the Bands at Capital Lakefair in Olympia—but the Texaco title was a big win and a hard win. The Showdown started in spring and continued for six months; to advance, a song had to land in the top five fan favorites each month

  • Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    in the northwest United States, and the unique ways the sea has influenced their culture and identity. Reid prepared the following abstract for his lecture: “Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements