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PLU joins national ranks of prestigious honor society Phi Kappa Phi Posted by: Kari Plog / February 19, 2016 Image: Phi Kappa Phi Chapter instillation ceremony at PLU on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) February 19, 2016 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 19, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University students may soon see their professors, dressed in commencement regalia, coming to classes with a special invitation to join one of the most

vision when she was a child, but that hasn’t stopped her from showing up. And she’s continued to show up all the way to the world stage.McCarthy spent the evening and afternoon of March 15 and 16 — her birthday and the day after — at Pacific Lutheran University talking to students about the importance of always showing up. “That’s half the battle,” she said. The athlete-at-heart has maintained a deep passion for rowing that took her from the PLU crew team all the way to the world championships

May 18, 2009 The finish line The call came from Japan as Masahide Nishimura was finishing up his degree in Chinese Studies at Pacific Lutheran University a decade ago. His grandfather, Jisaburo Nishimura, 92, had had a stroke. Masahide felt he needed to come home and support his grandfather, who had raised him, and help with the family business – Kobe Toyopet Corp. – which distributes Lexus, Toyota and Volkswagen cars. This was a company started by his grandfather some 50 years earlier. “I

July 1, 2011 PLU Associate Professor Vidya Thirumurthy draws a kolam, an artful design that Hindu households use to communicate with their community. (Photo by John Froschauer) Connecting the dots: Letting neighbors know “all is well” with the world By Steve Hansen, Scene Editor Each morning, on the doorstop of every home in Vidya Thirumurthy’s hometown of Chennai – indeed, in much of Southern India – women and girls create what’s known as a kolam out of rice flour. An intricate geometric

are made and amended with the changing nation. “While I love the Constitution, I know it has to changed,” Rose-Avila said. “To the future we are going to, there is no GPS. We have to create it.” He talked about how immigration has been a problem since the beginning of the United States. Avila described how Cuban immigrants are allowed to stay in the U.S.A. if they get one foot in America. However, it is not the same for immigrants from other nations, Rose-Avila said. Rose-Avila helps immigrants

from a technology consulting company, Pariveda Solutions, in Fall 2013. He had met a recruiter from the company at Pacific Lutheran University’s Career Expo, hosted every spring on campus to bring together successful organizations, companies and students. Students who attend can connect with company representatives and gather job information. It turned out that Pariveda didn’t have an available position at the time, so the company guaranteed Stegemoeller, an Applied Physics/Computer Science double

The Two Desks Posted by: alex.reed / May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 By Rick BarotOriginally Published in 2014When I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, the classicist and writer Anne Carson came to campus to give a reading and a colloquium. During the colloquium, she was asked how she navigated among the wild variety of scholarly and creative projects that she was engaged in, and she answered that one of the ways she kept things organized was by having two desks— one desk for her

attempted with nine other climbers from as far east as Michigan, four of whom are from Seattle, adding that the Seattleites have already been in contact, volleying email queries back and forth in the vein of, “so we’re really doing this?” Allison Stephens ’01 will join a group of climbers to raise money for the Lutheran Volunteer Corps by climbing Mt. Rainier. The group, having never met prior to this, was assembled on Facebook, by way of a recruitment message dispersed via the Lutheran Volunteer Corps

June 17, 2014 On June 18, Benjamin Rasmus ’06 began a cross-country bike ride to bring awareness to the issue of hunger and food waste in the U.S. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Lute Cycling from one Washington to the Other to Focus Attention on Hunger and Food Waste By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications Benjamin Rasmus ’06 plans to put some major miles on his bike—3,500, to be exact—as he rides cross-country to promote awareness of hunger in the U.S. as well as locally grown food

August 10, 2011 The renovation to the Tower Chapel, now known as The Ness Family Chapel, will begin in 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) The PLU ‘Imaginarium’ By Chris Albert With continuing construction and updates at the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, PLU is quickly becoming the home of the premier theater venue in the South Sound. This year, Phase II construction will begin on the center, which will include work on Eastvold Auditorium and the renamed Ness Family Chapel