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acclaimed Clemente Course in the Humanities.The partnership will launch a Clemente Veterans’ Initiative (CVI) course that will take place in the coming spring semester. CVI was developed in 2014 to provide a meaningful intellectual community to veterans who are working to adapt to civilian life, and is based on the idea that guided discussion of humanities texts can provide these veterans with an opportunity to reflect on their military experiences and move out of isolation and into community. “Pacific

June 15, 2009 PLU wins Simon Award This spring, PLU received a powerful acknowledgement that it continues to be seen as a leader in globally focused education. The university was awarded the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on and off campus to engage the world and the international community. PLU is the first and only private college in the West to have received this honor. “This kind of recognition confirms a

How to Visit PLU This Fall Posted by: mhines / September 19, 2024 September 19, 2024 Are you already scheduling some of your fall college visits? If you’re checking out colleges in the Pacific Northwest, PLU should definitely be on your list! Here are some options to put on your calendar: Fall Preview Day – November 11 Our biggest fall event includes info sessions based on your academic interests, a campus tour, lunch, campus life & academic resource fair, and the chance to learn more about PLU

New Learning Community: Outdoor Experience Community Posted by: mhines / May 10, 2024 May 10, 2024 Do you love the outdoors? This fall, we’re launching a brand-new Outdoor Experience Community, one of our many themed learning communities (LCs) on campus. When living on campus, students have the option of living in a hall with a learning community that fits their passions and/or identities (and there is a Commuter LC, too!). LCs connect students, faculty, and staff and provide co-curricular

Washington College by a 13-second margin. The Lutes raced down the 2,000-meter course in six minutes, 56.721 seconds with the Shorewomen a distant second in 7:10.297. “Anytime you’re at the national championships you want to win a race. When you line up at the national championships you want to come in first and we were able to execute our race plan,” said Head Coach Andy Foltz. Jessie Dougherty coxswained the 1V8+ that was crewed by Ali Smith, Elizabeth Horner, Hannah Beach, Harper Bolz-Weber, Julianna

be together on Friday nights to do our prayers together,” Eaton said. Four years later all that has changed. Thanks to Eaton, the Alijah Jewish Club has been rebuilt. Having graduated with an undergraduate degree in nursing last month, Eaton leaves behind a club with a healthy membership base. “Now, there are six Jews on our leadership team and about 20 others who regularly attend Shabbats and other meetings and activities,” she said. “We also have big events at Hanukkah in the fall and Passover

November 1, 2010 Ramstad Scholarship a fitting tribute to a PLU leader By Greg Brewis Gifts in memory of a loved one are a cherished part of the close relationship with the university that are often built by PLU families. There is surely no more poignant example of this than the establishment of an endowed scholarship by family and friends in memory of Marvin J. Ramstad ’38. The scholarship is the recognition and reaffirmation of the significance of one young man’s college experience, an

assembled master’s and bachelor’s graduates to practice the attitude of gratitude, courage and wonder. President Loren J. Anderson enters the Tacoma Dome to give his last commencement address on Sunday, May 27, 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) Counting himself as an honorary Class of 2012 graduate- Anderson retires May 31 after 20 years of service to PLU – he acknowledged that stepping out beyond the “Lutedome” can be unsettling and and anxious times for graduates who ranged in age on Sunday from 20 to

Renzhi Cao innovates in the classroom Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Lisa Patterson ’98ResoLute ContributorIf you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D., you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a new piece of research is published. But what he finds most rewarding is bringing his students alongside and sharing with them the value of hard work, hands-on learning and

The End of an Era Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 Dave Robbins Steps Down after 33 Years as Chair of the Department of Music Greg Youtz’s first glimpse of Dave Robbins was him strolling down a hallway in Eastvold, while his two-year-old daughter toddled along at his side, clutching his finger. “I remember thinking that Dave is not only this great dad to his kids, but that was an image the rest of us felt – like we were holding on to Dave’s finger too, and he was sort of