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February 28, 2008 English professor receives prestigious award Assistant Professor of English Rona Kaufman was named a recipient of a 2008 Graves Award in the Humanities. The award is given every two years to eight to 10 faculty members from private, liberal-arts colleges in California, Washington and Oregon. Recipients must exhibit exemplary skill and enthusiasm as teachers, and use the award stipend for a research project that will enhance their skill in the classroom. “It’s an award for good

September 30, 2009 Rising Star By Barbara Clements and Bryanna Plog ’10 Standing backstage, waiting for his cue to step onstage, Louis Hobson ’00 does a reality check. He’s in New York. He’s on Broadway – in a Tony Award winning, and now Pulitzer-winning,musical no less. And he has a lead part. By following his passion, a PLU theater major, Louis Hobson ’00, finds himself standing on the world’s greatest stage – on Broadway. (Images courtesy of Louis Hobson and Tom D’Ambrosio) “Sometimes I

prints were on display in the University Gallery in an exhibit titled “In Search of the Desert.” The objects depicted in the display represented her journey in search of poustinia, a Russian word meaning not the geographical connotation, but rather the place of silence and solitude to find the peace within. Her art has a firm foundation in abstraction. Throughout her career, Evans has always tried to inspire quiet reflection through her work, both for herself and for the viewer. Much of her

. “That’s what I’d encourage for students. Really follow your bliss.” Foster is now the co-owner of a community supported agriculture program, Zestful Gardens. Joining Foster were Stephen Alexander , who majored in anthropology and manages an offshore team in New Delhi, India for Russell Investments; Andrea Sander ’05, who majored in political science and English and is currently an attorney for Microsoft; and Kevin Anderson ’80, who majored in religion and is the president and CEO of Wesley Homes, a

Music under David Robbins, who remains the head of the department. Kopta taught private voice lessons at PLU for 11 years. She also taught in her private voice studio while also serving as a choral director. Kopta left PLU in the spring of 2007, but not without making a positive impact on the lives of students of all ages, all levels of ability and all walks of life. Her teaching career was complimented by her career in performing. Kopta spent many years in Seattle and Rome. She was selected to be

Summer REU Opportunities – Clean Energy & Materials Research Posted by: alemanem / December 9, 2022 December 9, 2022 Applications open December 15, 2022 for the Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates and the Clean Energy Bridge to Research (CEBR) Summer Program! Applications for both programs are due February 15, 2023. University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) aims to accelerate the development of future

services, the difference LuteLink can make for graduating seniors, and more. PLU: What makes Alumni & Student Connections an important resource for students? Andrew: The office of Alumni and Student Connections exists to support students and alumni — both now and after graduation. When you go to college, the goal is that you’re going to move on to graduate school, you’re gonna move on to employment, maybe moving on to the Peace Corps, whatever that is. But we’re always there to kind of help students

Sound and decided to compete in Miss Pierce County after transferring to PLU. After winning that, Leibold went on to take second place at the Miss Washington pageant and won the award for Talent. Leibold graduated from PLU with a Bachelor’s of Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance and now teaches private voice and piano lessons at the Washington Academy of Music and sings with the jazz combo The Pit Crew in Tacoma. “I don’t think there is that appreciation of classical music; one thing I

make a case for me to receive an award like this, it wasn’t because of my performance!” Kittilsby is humble, if not a home-run hero. His contributions to athletics, baseball and PLU are considerable—and often not so behind-the-scenes. Kittilsby: worked as PLU’s Sports Information Director and Assistant Athletic Director while coaching baseball. He then a Major Gift Director in the Office of Development, where he worked until retiring from PLU in 1993; worked in administration for professional

signal coverage on KUOW (thanks to the greater reach of KPLU’s network) and more resources for local news programming at 94.9.  KPLU and KUOW currently have EIGHT hours a day of duplicated NPR content, and KPLU programs only ONE hour of original news programming per day.  Since the stations have considerable overlap in listeners and donor base, donors are supporting two stations, which are spending millions on duplicated programming.  Freeing that up allows the news teams to pursue more original