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  • Before debating challenger Susan Hutchison in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts on Oct. 8, Sen. Maria Cantwell took time to stop by a classroom and field questions from some inquisitive PLU students. My dream job is Sen. Cantwell’s job,” said Gracie Anderson…

    makes a difference in people’s lives.” “It’s an excellent opportunity,” political science professor Michael Artime agreed. “(Students) have lots of questions about what politicians think about various issues, and I can research on those things — but that’s very different than having a candidate there they can directly ask those questions to.” Anderson is working to capitalize on that student interest and turn it into student action. She’s the data coordinator for Lute Vote, a PLU student government

  • Donors share value of Holocaust Education Last week, stories of survival and the lessons of history were on the forefront of many people’s minds. On Oct. 21, more than 150 people gathered for the Second Annual Powell and Heller Family Conference in support of Holocaust…

    Heller. His parents, John and Georgette, survived the horrors of concentration camps. They were honored at the conference, along with the six million who lost their lives during the Holocaust. The event also marked the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. In November of 1938, the windows of many Jewish businesses where mashed, hence Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass.” The Nazis blamed all the problems Germany was facing on the Jewish people. The event spiraled Jewish resentment into repression

  • East Campus holiday event successful In parade-like fashion, Dolly Hale’s first grader class from Tacoma’s Elmhurst Elementary School marched across the pavement. Each purposefully carried the toy they had purchased with their parents to the waiting car. The toys were donated to PLU’s East Campus…

    January 11, 2008 East Campus holiday event successful In parade-like fashion, Dolly Hale’s first grader class from Tacoma’s Elmhurst Elementary School marched across the pavement. Each purposefully carried the toy they had purchased with their parents to the waiting car. The toys were donated to PLU’s East Campus holiday event, which serves 300 needy families living in the area. The huge outpouring of support from PLU and community organizations – like those elementary school students – made

  • Every game day, usually around lunch time, Jordan Thomas and Chad Murray sit down to have a chat. The Pacific Lutheran University men’s basketball star and the team’s head coach meet in Murray’s office to talk about anything and everything. The meeting can be as…

    schoolwork, marriage, sports and anything in between. It is a part of a special bond that began four years ago when Thomas first set foot on campus. “It’s therapeutic for me,” Thomas said. “I’ve been honest with him since Day 1 and he knows everything about me. I’ve had relationships like this in the past, but never to this extent. “I consider him family.” With the last game of the regular season at 8 p.m. tonight against Linfield University in Olson Gymnasium, the pair once again will meet to chat

  • Lutes often find ways to show gratitude to the community that supported their education, but Justin Foster ’02 got started early. An entrepreneur, marketer, and technology developer, he has been an active supporter of PLU and the School of Business since graduation. “I received a…

    working with students, as a judge for business plan competitions and as an organizer of E-Business Day, an event connecting students to business leaders. Dr. Chung-Shing Lee and Mr. Justin Foster '02 at the School of Business E-Business Day event in 2001. Of course, he’s a leader himself. His first start-up, the e-commerce company Liveclicker, was co-founded in 2008, and sold in July 2018. Foster also founded two leading trade groups, the Video Commerce Consortium and the Email Marketing Roundtable

  • Maria Altmann worked for decades to reclaim five family owned portraits painted by Gustav Klimt for her family, including this portrait of her aunt,  Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting had been shown in an Austrian art museum for years. Nazis had stolen the painting after Altmann…

    Amoureux Jeunes (The Young Lovers)” by Francois Boucherhat – was being shown in the Utah Museum of Fine Art. Once the true owners  of  the painting made contact with the gallery, with little fuss, the painting was returned to  Claude Delibes and Suzanne Geiss Robbins, Les Amoureux Jeunes (The Young Lovers) by Francois Boucherhat living heirs of French art dealer Andre Jean Seligmann. Robbins recalled that Seligmann had thrown Goering out of his shop before the war. When the Nazis returned, Seligmann’s

  • Sol y Luna is a center in Mexico that serves severely disabled children. (Photos by Greg Williams) Drawn to serve By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU professor Greg Williams Mexico is more than a spot to vacation – it’s a place to continue his service…

    and Leadership at PLU, started his teaching career at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center, a state institution in Bremerton, which closed earlier this year. At the time, it served autistic children ages 3 to 13. “That was my first introduction really to teaching and being responsible for the instructional management of kids with those types of disabilities,” Williams said. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCaTNPMKwgQ Thirty-seven years later, Williams is still doing this work. “I’m still working with

  • Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu .

    Summer Camp Positions with Tacoma MESA Posted by: nicolacs / April 22, 2022 April 22, 2022 Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu. Read Previous Accelerated MS in Electrochemical Technology Read Next Keck Graduate Institute LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program October 30

  • Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu .

    Summer Camp Positions with Tacoma MESA Posted by: nicolacs / April 22, 2022 April 22, 2022 Email MESA Director Penda Samba at psamba@plu.edu. Read Previous Accelerated MS in Electrochemical Technology at the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry Read Next Keck Graduate Institute LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program October 29, 2024 Summer Research – Army HBCU-MI SPARK October 29, 2024 IMOD Summer Research

  • Tacoma Public Utilities is holding an internship information/networking session on February 18th. You can find details here:  https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/tacoma/jobs/2700494-0/tpu-engineering-mix-mingle

    Summer Internships with Tacoma Public Utilities Posted by: alemanem / February 10, 2020 February 10, 2020 Tacoma Public Utilities is holding an internship information/networking session on February 18th. You can find details here: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/tacoma/jobs/2700494-0/tpu-engineering-mix-mingle Read Previous National Security Internship Program Read Next WSEHA 2020 Student Scholarships LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental