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March 27, 2008 Conference addresses men’s role in violence At PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program Conference, men’s role in ending violence against women will be examined. Titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Men’s Role in Ending Violence Against Women,” the conference is unique because of the focus on men’s role in preventing domestic and sexual violence against women, said Jonathan Grove, director of PLU’s Men Against Violence program. To his knowledge, there have been only three other

April 10, 2013 Key Master A conversation with Steve Maxwell, President, KeyBank South Puget Sound District Photo by John Froschauer Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Steve Maxwell ’90 always knew he would major in business. However he wasn’t so sure what he’d do with a business degree. Maxwell, who is now president of KeyBank South Puget Sound District, looks back on his time at PLU, and considers the value of internships and the other unique learning experiences that were made available to him

November 5, 2012 PLU students take part in election day coverage at the News Tribune. Playing reporter on election night By Katie Scaff ’13 Election night is a momentous occasion for all who eagerly await the results, but, for a small number of PLU students, election night is about more than sitting on the couch and watching the results come in on TV. November 5, 2012 Lute perspectives PLU students share what’s important to them this election cycle. More For the last five years, students have

Richard “Dick” Moe celebration of life service rescheduled to March 2 Posted by: Julie Winters / January 10, 2019 Image: Marcia and Dick Moe in their North Tacoma home, July 1, 2015. / Peter Haley / Staff photographer – Tacoma News Tribune January 10, 2019 Note: Acting out of concern for the safety of guests, the celebration of life service for Dick has been rescheduled due to a significant winter storm that is predicted to affect the South Sound. In consultation with the family, the new date

March 19, 2014 MSF Team’s Stock Rises at Major Financial Competitions PLU’s CFA Challenge team at the local competition in Seattle (which it won!). From left: Kirk Swanson, Tobias Kornberg, Raji Kaur, Kristoffer Dahle, Evan Turner. (Photo: CFA Seattle.) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications PLU Master of Science in Finance students have won the local 2014 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge and competed in its prestigious Americas Regional Finals. And

. Franklin hasn’t been concerned with what is usual. She's concerned with bringing people together to solve problems. Franklin, the first African-American woman to serve as a Washington state senator, attended several South Sound universities, but earned her master’s degree in social science and human relations from Pacific Lutheran University in 1974. At the time of her attendance, Franklin was raising children, working and taking night classes. “At PLU, you get to see your professors, you get to see

about her, reflective of her roots as a farm girl. And you would have been quite wrong. Karen Phillips, who passed away in 2010l at age 78, was all of those things and much, much more. She was modest and shy, but well known for her charming smile and distinctive laugh. Her friends say she had a keen intellect and was a voracious reader of everything from faculty authors to newspapers and periodicals. And, they say, she was just plain fun to be around. She was a deeply religious Christian and member

2014 Minnesota Book Award for Young People’s Literature and was nominated and/or a finalist for several other Really Big Deals. What kind of mixture of surprise/relief/excitement/validation did that elicit? When did it hit you that you had seriously knocked your first book out of the park?When the Morris Award announcement came, I was little shocked. It was very odd, but yes, it felt wonderful to know that the librarians and book people who had read it felt that it deserved that distinction. The

October 21, 2014 MediaLab’s Newest Film Breaks Down the Food Equation MediaLab member Olivia Ash, left, conducts an interview in London while Taylor Lunka operates the camera. (Photo courtesy of MediaLab) ‘Waste Not’ premieres in Tacoma on Nov. 8 By Natalie DeFord ‘16 MediaLab TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 23, 3014)—An estimated one-third of food produced in the world each year goes to waste, causing economic, energy and environmental losses of more than $750 billion annually, according to a 2013 United

March 14, 2011 Embracing the past to learn about the future To understand the future there is a need to understand the past. Angie Hambrick, director of the Pacific Lutheran University Diversity Center, said too many people have forgotten the past.“We’re so wrapped up in our present,” she said. “There’s a connection between the past and what’s happening in the present. You can’t forget about history.” Hambrick said it is the lack of historical knowledge that led to the development of this