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prospective students in their beautiful home,” Van Beek said. “We became friends and stayed in touch over the years. “When they retired and moved to Seattle in 1991, Art and Jennie became more involved and supportive of university activities.” Art and Jennie Hansen ’34. Their support continued through significant bequests to the university. The couple made countless generous donations to PLU, including gifts to the Rieke Science Center, the Mary Baker Russell Music Center, and $2.5 million to the Morken
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March 19, 2012 President Loren J. Anderson will be the Spring Commencement speaker. (Photo by John Froschauer) A final address In his 20th and final year as Pacific Lutheran University’s President, Loren J. Anderson will give the Spring Commencement keynote address Sunday, May 27 at the Tacoma Dome. For 20 years, Anderson’s leadership has guided the university through a series of community-based, long-range plans, major fundraising campaigns, outstanding student achievements, with emphasis in
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January 14, 2013 Artifact Day gives the community a chance to learn about their hidden treasures Jesse Major ’14 The Parkland community is invited to learn more about artifacts they have inherited, collected from their property, or acquired in any other way on the first Artifact Day. Artifact Day, hosted by the students of Anthropology 487, will take place on Jan. 25 in Xavier Hall 201 at Pacific Lutheran University from 5:30-8:30 pm. This event is meant to reach out to the public and allow
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looking to satisfy their sweet teeth. For almost a dozen years, the university and Garfield Street have provided a safe place for kids to enjoy Halloween festivities. Students living on campus can sign up through their residence halls to pass out candy to children on Halloween night. “Most of them [the students] really enjoy having the little kids come,” said Rebecca Rumpza, office supervisor of PLU’s Residential Life. On Garfield Street, many businesses offer activities such as cookie decorating
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make the system work. The pumps that circulate the thermal medium among the heat pumps are run off variable speed drives so the pumps only pump based on need from the heat pumps. This is all tied together by the HVAC control system, which saves a great deal of energy over standard HVAC systems. The roof is painted white to reflect light, helping to manage the climate of the building naturally. When entering any room in the building the lights are automated and all bulbs used are LED or highly
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works full time at the venture. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve left film making behind has a passion. Quite the opposite. Ben Dobyns, ’01, works as a freelance film maker now in Seattle, working on films ranging from “no budget” to films with budgets in the millions. Don Early, ’00, is the general manager of Dead Gentlemen LLC, and also works for Thrivent Financial Lutheran as a financial representative in Bellingham, WA. Matt Vancil, ’01, work in Los Angeles on as development director for Epic
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PLU Faculty Member Named to Nationwide ‘40 Under 40: Professors Who Inspire’ List Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 23, 2015 Image: Kate Luther, Assistant Professor of Sociology at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 23, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 23, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University Assistant Professor of Sociology Kate Luther has been named to NerdScholar’s new nationwide list of “40 Under 40: Professors Who Inspire.”The 40 professors were
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February 18, 2010 Road map to a green campus At PLU, sustainable practices isn’t just a buzzword or passing fad By Chris Albert This semester, the university has put the concept into action by making a comprehensive sustainability plan – PLU’s Climate Action Plan and Sustainability Guide. PLU has a road map to making its carbon footprint nothing. “We have a long history of practicing sustainable environmental stewardship at PLU,”said President Loren J. Anderson. “Now this comprehensive plan
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. “First I do my homework,” Ryan said. “The fieldwork in some ways is the tip of the pyramid. No pun intended.” But what is born from the shelves, books and transcripts of the library can really take on a life of its own in the field. Ryan highlights his adventures throughout the years in his most recent book “Beneath the Sands of Egypt – Adventures of an Unconventional Archeologists.” In much of the book, he talks about his work in Egypt, where his team discovered the mummy of the famous female
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The Open Science Framework Changed my Workflow (for the better!) Posted by: Jenna S / April 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 by Jon Grahe, Professor of Psychology at PLU It never occurred to me that I needed the Open Science Framework (OSF). It was shared with me because the developers knew that I was interested in trying to create large scale collaborative research projects, and so I ended up on their email list. The Center for Open Science developed the OSF (free to all users) to provide researchers
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