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March 12, 2012 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 and the Bloch Bauers had fled Austria during WWll. Stolen treasures, stolen lives – the story of the plunder of art in Europe during WWII By Barbara Clements The ambulance bumped along a nameless track

Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLU Posted by: Lace M. Smith / June 28, 2016 Image: Neeb Center at PLU as seen from Tingelstad Hall. (John Froschauer/PLU) June 28, 2016 Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLUContributions of $7 million from 18,000 donors preserve KPLU as an independent, community-licensed public radio station Tacoma, WA — Pacific Lutheran University and Friends of 88.5 FM, a

Former State Superintendent joins PLU as interim dean of the School of Education and Kinesiology Posted by: Zach Powers / July 7, 2016 Image: Terry Bergeson, interim dean of the PLU School of Education and Kinesiology. (photo by John Froschauer/PLU) July 7, 2016 By Donna GibbsPLU Marketing & Communications Former three-term State Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson, Ph.D., succeeds, Frank Kline, Ph.D.TACOMA, WASH. (July 7, 2016) – Terry Bergeson, Ph.D., has joined Pacific

Lutes celebrate another impactful Bjug Day of Giving: a PLU tradition in support of students Posted by: mhines / October 29, 2024 Image: Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Anderson University Center for a Bjug Day of Giving campus celebration on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 (Photo PLU / Sy Bean) October 29, 2024 By Miranda BeiermannConstituent EngagementThe PLU campus community is grateful to the nearly 2,000 Lutes who came together to celebrate and support what they love at PLU during

up to two faculty scholars who have made significant contributions to their disciplines through disseminating research findings related to the discovery, integration, or application of knowledge. Chair of the Physics Department Bret Underwood was one of the recipients of the K.T. Tang Faculty Excellence Award in Research.The university sponsors the Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring

significant contributions to their disciplines through disseminating research findings related to the discovery, integration, or application of knowledge. Chair of the Physics Department Bret Underwood was one of the recipients of the K.T. Tang Faculty Excellence Award in Research. The university sponsors the Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring, research, and service. Their peers have nominated and

students of diverse faiths would find themselves in similar situations, Alazadi decided to bring a request to the Diversity Center. She wanted PLU to consider creating a place where students of diverse faiths could worship freely—a place for prayer, meditation, and reflection. “I was proposing that PLU create a place for religious tolerance, a place where discussion would be welcome and where dialogue and understanding of one another’s religious beliefs and practices would flourish,” Alazadi said. “A

some of these new practices that you became active in education communities online and on social media? Yes, this is when I started blogging and sharing on social media about my classroom successes and challenges. It was through this process that I became an advocate for blended learning as an avenue to achieve seamless technology integration, differentiation and personalization in my science class. I also had the opportunity to work as a BetterLesson Blended Master Teacher and have my classroom

Collaborative COVID-19 Research Posted by: guerreay / July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020 By Anna Leon-GuerreroDean, Division of Social SciencesPsi Chi, the International Honors Society for PsychologyPsi Chi, the International Honors Society for Psychology, recently announced a Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) research proposal (https://osf.io/gdske/) to study beliefs and coping responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal was authored by Dr. Corey Cook (PLU Psychology) and