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PLU student team finishes in the top five at international math modeling competition Posted by: mhines / June 16, 2023 Image: Natural Sciences students compete in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, a competition that goes 24-hours a day from Thursday to Monday (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) June 16, 2023 By Emily Holt, MFA ’16PLU Marketing and Communications Guest Writer Each year, around 10,000 teams participate in The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, an international contest where teams of

final season. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die,” says Cersei Lannister to Ned Stark—the lead character and hero of Game of Thrones—right before he is imprisoned and executed in Season 1. Not only does the moment of Ned’s execution shock the audience by ignoring an established rule of television—do not kill your main character, especially in Season 1—it set the tone for what Thrones would continue to do until its completion. HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy

The Power of Female Mentors Posted by: vcraker / December 9, 2020 Image: Barbara Gilchrist ’20 and Nicole Jordan ’15, Coordinator for The Center for Gender Equity, pose for a photo, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Lakewood. Both were involved with the Sista Circle event. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) December 9, 2020 College is more than your experiences in the classroom. It’s also about the relationships you build with other students. These relationships can even grow into mentorships among peers

April 24, 2014 New MediaLab Event Features Career Advice from Successful Alumni By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Six alumni came back to Pacific Lutheran University on April 22 to serve as panelists for the inaugural MediaLab Presents event. The panelists, who graduated from PLU in 2005 or more recently, all work in high-profile jobs in communication and business: 1.    Chris Bowen ’09 graduated with a degree in PR and Advertising and now works as a Senior Project Manager at Radarworks in Seattle. 2

loved playing the Suzuki songs, but I also loved to sing and sang in a group like the Tacoma Youth Chorus (the Northwest Boychoir) as well. I also took piano lessons from my mother, and later from a local high school student named Rick Steves (yes, he grew up to be THE Rick Steves!). I loved all of these things (and continue to), but by the time I was finishing grade school I knew I had to make a choice. I gave violin my all, but learned a bit of guitar, and occasionally sang in choirs. When I was

August 1, 2013 Ed Hrivnak ’96 with a poster of his new book “Wounded,” which tells of his experiences in the Iraq War. (Photo by Quinn Huelsbeck ’16) Scribbled notes on surgical tape become new book about Iraqi War by PLU nurse By Barbara Clements University Communications In the pre-dawn darkness, the exhausted medic looked at Ed Hrivnak ’96, and begged him to wait, just a little more, for helicopters carrying wounded out of a firefight near Baghdad in 2003. But the pilots of the C-141 was

it’s his stage the Hawks will stand on. Dilts is the CEO and founding partner of Pyramid Staging & Events, LLC, a multimillion-dollar organization that works with big-name clients such as Starbucks and Microsoft; on PLU events including Commencement, LollaPLUza and the Karen Hille Phillips Center dedication; and on hugely high-profile events including Bumbershoot, the Sasquatch Music Festival—and a ton of Seahawks stuff. Dilts said his company has provided staging, roof systems, lighting and more

Angela Rodriguez Hinojosa ’24 lights up when talking about her role in the Murdock Trust-funded research on RNA detection. A collaboration between faculty and students at Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle Pacific University, and Northwest University, the interdisciplinary project aims to fill the gaps in what we know about RNA and its function. Under the direction of chemistry professor Neal Yakelis, Angela has been working to develop an organic compound that can better visualize and track RNA in

March 28, 2012 Hong Kong native Winston Zee rises in global law firm while retaining close PLU ties By Dwight Daniels ’79 Attorney Winston K.T. Zee ’76 says he has learned one truth in decades of practicing law on the international level from his office in Hong Kong. “No one and no nation is an island,” he said. “Countries and economies are complexly intertwined and we are truly all in it together.” Now serving on the top executive committee of the global law firm Baker & McKenzie, the lawyer

August 3, 2012 Brian Bannon ’97, CEO of the Chicago Public Library System. (Photo provided by Brian Bannon) Alumni Profile: An Unlikely Librarian By Hailey Rile ’12, University Communications Brian Bannon ’97 couldn’t have imagined he would become the head of the country’s second largest library system, the Chicago Public Library. He has always loved books but never saw libraries as his calling, until his late college years. His interest and expertise in the intersection between libraries and