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  • Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center for Global Education, discusses PLU’s holistic approach to global education and its role in an increasingly interconnected world amid conflict

    Welcome Welcome https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/05/namibia-dunes-welcome-header-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Tamara Williams Tamara Williams https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2017/01/tamara-williams.jpg January 20, 2017 February 16, 2017 Reflecting on the state of the world and our own communities can be overwhelming. Unprecedented migrant and refugee crises throughout the globe, including our own southern border, have

  • PLU alumna serves as interim director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center.

    Laura Brewer ’03 Laura Brewer ’03 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/laura-brewer-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Brooke Thames '18 Brooke Thames '18 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/brooke-thames-e1464106633496.jpg May 18, 2016 May 5, 2017 TACOMA, WASH. (March 8, 2017)- Laura Brewer ’03 was no stranger to activism when she started volunteering at the Tacoma Rainbow Center in 2000. An active Lute, Brewer engaged

  • PLU rowers reminisce about their daring journey in Puget Sound 50 years ago.

    Attaway Lutes Attaway Lutes https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/01/plu-rowdown-crew-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 30, 2017 September 28, 2017 PLU rowers reminisce about their daring journey in Puget Sound 50 years ago Some of the rowers told their moms about the crazy idea. Others opted to beg for forgiveness, especially once the

  • Landon Packard ’17 says it’s time to rescue the rescuers. The sociology major researched first responders’ emotional labor — the process of managing emotions to satisfy the requirements of a

    Emotional Labor Emotional Labor https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/01/landon-flashing-lights-cover-1024x576.gif 1024 576 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 24, 2017 September 25, 2017 “Those two are the reason I was able to get this thing done,” Landon Packard ’17 said of his faculty mentors, Joanna Gregson and Anna Leon-Guerrero. “I wouldn’t have been able to do

  • Coach Dickerson retires after 14 years cultivating character on and off the court.

    Attaway Lutes Attaway Lutes https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/01/attaway-lutes-coach-dickerson-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 30, 2017 May 22, 2017 Emotions ran high for senior Brandon Lester in his final basketball game at Pacific Lutheran University. Lester and his teammates fought hard through a lingering double-digit

  • Cause Haun ’93 went from frustrated mom searching for appropriate children’s footwear to owner of a shoe company worthy of Nordstrom’s shelves.

    Baby Steps Baby Steps https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/05/shoes-1-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 25, 2017 May 22, 2017 Back then, it was just another class project. Cause Haun ’93, pretending to be CEO of a shoe company in a business class at Pacific Lutheran University, was tasked with critically analyzing what would set her brand

  • William Davis ’06 is co-founder of FabLab Tacoma, a makerspace dedicated to project-based learning, entrepreneurship and tinkering.

    FabLab Tacoma FabLab Tacoma https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/05/william_davis_fab_lab-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 24, 2017 May 22, 2017 A guitar-playing robot plucks out the first few chords to the song “Here Comes the Sun.”A retired Tacoma resident crafts high-end chef’s knives and fishing poles. A group of college students

  • Molly Lindberg ’17 was an unlikely passenger in the boat on the River Thames in Oxford, England.

    Attaway Lutes Attaway Lutes https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/05/molly-lindberg-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Mark Albanese Mark Albanese https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/09/mark-albanese.jpg January 30, 2017 February 16, 2017 Molly Lindberg ’17 claims important seat in a men’s team boat in Oxford, England Molly Lindberg ’17 was an unlikely passenger in the boat on the River Thames in Oxford, England. Despite

  • For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.

    Neah Bay Neah Bay https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/09/neah-bay-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 26, 2017 June 5, 2019 Makah tribe continues longtime tradition of sharing its story with Lutes The white vans pulled into the parking lot at Washburn’s General Store along Bayview Avenue — known to locals as Front Street — as they

  • Four PLU women from the Department of Economics present their research at a national undergraduate conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

    Economics Students Expand Possibilities Economics Students Expand Possibilities https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/01/anna-jessen-downtown-seattle-econ-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 “The research I’ve done has given me real-life experiences that I can draw from on a day-to-day basis and continue to