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Lutes sing their way through the Southwest on Choir of the West tour Posted by: Kari Plog / March 13, 2017 Image: Kiana Norman-Slack ’17 stands in front of the Choir of the West tour bus during the Southwest tour in January. (Photo courtesy of Norman-Slack) March 13, 2017 By Kiana Norman-Slack '17PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 13, 2017)- Hop on my pink tour bus and let me tell you about the craziest days I experienced this past January — or the days we called the Choir of

May 9, 2012 Professor Colleen Hacker brings experiences working with world-class athletes to students at PLU. Athlete. Coach. Educator. By Katie Scaff ’13 PLU professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker rarely uses hypothetical situations to help her students learn new concepts—as an athlete that has competed in five different sports on the national level, and a mental skills coach that has worked with some of the world’s best since 1995, there aren’t many situations

-annual event features prints from across the United States and surveys the range of mark making and imagery of some of the finest printmakers in the country. The opening kicks off the 2015 SOAC Focus Series on perspective. This year’s events explore the connection of people, disciplines, and the ideas that draw meaning to our worldview. The Print Exhibition is the first of five events in the series. The show reveals perspectives on printmaking and communicates the maker’s outlook, while revealing to

thing on Jatar’s mind. He is one of 26 Somali refugee children who have recently resettled in Tacoma and participated in a unique tutoring program during the spring semester of 2007. It was developed through a joint effort by PLU and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church by the Narrows in Tacoma. “With the older kids, it’s hard to get them to focus,” Baumer said. “I’m there to teach them, but I feel like we’re friends, too.” Baumer was one of 19 PLU students and one staff member who devoted two hours every

February 10, 2014 PLU Ranks 3rd Nationwide for Peace Corps Volunteers PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University has catapulted 15 spots up the Peace Corps’ list of the top volunteer-producing colleges and universities for 2014—from No. 18 all the way to No. 3. The annual list recognizes small, medium, large and graduate institutions; PLU tied for third this year in the category of small universities (fewer than 5,000 students), with 16 undergraduate alumni currently serving as

that most professional screenwriters use. The focus of this course will be “Speculative Scripts,” intended to teach students how to create scripts based on original ideas. “I would love to be able to share with the PLU community how scripts get made, picked up and purchased,” Minter said. “There aren’t a lot of opportunities to work with professional screenwriters in this capacity.” Students from the video-production group, PLU Showrunners, say the course will be particularly beneficial for them

September 1, 2011 Book project gives voice to the past The memories of 60 years of the School of Nursing are being brought together for a book, being released this fall. The book examines the history of the school, the people who make up its pulse and personal perspectives from alumni. In it, the journey of a growing institution is captured and the memories of the people who are called to lives of care and service are recalled. The School of Nursing has alumni that serve in all corners of the

family and eat a nice home-cooked meal.But PLU’s service-based nursing club, Delta Iota Chi, has a way for students to help those in the community who may not have a home or a meal waiting for them on Thanksgiving Day.   During the holidays, some families in the Parkland community worry about putting food on the table. Each year, Delta Iota Chi works to organize the Thanksgiving Basket Drive for community members. They collect Thanksgiving baskets, which include items such as turkeys, potatoes

continue to teach for another year?“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.  Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power

university with debt but without a degree. We need to stop that cycle.” University officials are confident in the potential benefits of the tuition guarantee, both to the well-being of students and to the enrollment of the institution. “This guarantee has the potential to widen our pool of prospective students, but most importantly, we think it has the potential to substantially improve graduation rates by removing the unnecessary financial burdens caused by tuition increases,” said Mike Frechette, PLU’s