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  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 19, 2015)—Author, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney is the keynote speaker for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University on April 21. Finney’s lecture, “ This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging ,” is…

    Cultural/Environmental Expert Returns to Campus for Earth Day Lecture Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 19, 2015 Image: Dr. Carolyn Finney of UC-Berkeley spoke at PLU’s Fall Conference in September 2014 and returns April 21 for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture (photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 19, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (March 19, 2015)—Author, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney is the keynote speaker for the 2015 Earth Day Lecture at

  • About two and a half hours east of Tacoma sits the farming community of Yakima, Washington. The Central Washington county has about 243,000 residents and is probably most notable for producing the majority of the nation’s apples and hops. But it’s also where Henry Temple…

    about five hours a week on top of the meetings that we do.” Growing up in Yakima, Temple enjoyed performing, but the thought of scripting, acting and shooting skits was intimidating to him at first.  Henry Temple ‘21 (Photo by Jake Parrish) “I didn’t know if I could do it or not until I sat in my room and opened up my laptop,” he said. “My first two years (at PLU) gave me the confidence that I could do this if I really worked at it. I think, yes, I’ve always wanted to do it, but I hadn’t had the

  • Pacific Lutheran University and President Allan Belton are excited to announce Mike Snyder as the new Director of Athletics and Recreation, following a national search. “I’m thrilled to welcome Mike to the Lute family,” said Belton. “He brings proven experience and an exciting vision for…

    elevate the national profile of Lute athletics. Mike was the overwhelming choice of the hiring committee made up of students, staff, faculty, and alumni.” Snyder heads to Tacoma after spending the previous seven years as Director of Athletics at fellow Division III institution Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. While at Illinois College, Snyder oversaw an athletic department with 23 varsity sports and nearly 500 student-athletes. (PLU has 19 varsity sports and more than 450 student-athletes

  • Job Title: QC Intern Department: Quality Control Open position: Seasonal Internship Supervisor: Manager, Quality Control Schedule: Weekly commitment of 20-40 hours per week. Duration 6 weeks to 6 months, agreed on upon hire. Actual schedule determined per selectee availability. Qualifications: Degree seeking student or recent…

    Quality Control Intern – Calllisons Posted by: nicolacs / April 13, 2021 April 13, 2021 Job Title: QC Intern Department: Quality Control Open position: Seasonal Internship Supervisor: Manager, Quality Control Schedule: Weekly commitment of 20-40 hours per week. Duration 6 weeks to 6 months, agreed on upon hire. Actual schedule determined per selectee availability. Qualifications: Degree seeking student or recent Graduate. Minimum of 20 hours of science coursework, with an emphasis in chemistry

  • Former ASPLU VP tagged as Rising Star This November at the NASPA Awards Luncheon, Tamara Power-Drutis ’08 received the Undergraduate Rising Star Award for Region V. The award is given to a undergraduate annually based on service to others, demonstrating outstanding leadership skills, significantly contributing…

    December 8, 2008 Former ASPLU VP tagged as Rising Star This November at the NASPA Awards Luncheon, Tamara Power-Drutis ’08 received the Undergraduate Rising Star Award for Region V. The award is given to a undergraduate annually based on service to others, demonstrating outstanding leadership skills, significantly contributing to their institution by planning an activity or program that benefits students, involvement in research that would benefit the student affairs profession, helping to make

  • Things That Go Boom—on Purpose! Students cover their ears as a balloon filled with hydrogen and oxygen bursts during the Chemistry Department’s Desserts and Demos Night on April 15. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Anyone who (misguidedly) thinks chemistry isn’t fun obviously hasn’t been to the PLU…

    campus for liquid-nitrogen ice cream and desserts, hands-on chemistry activities and flashy chemical demonstrations by faculty and Chem Club students. This year’s event was held April 15 in the Rieke Lobby and Open Chem Lab, where science projects popped, banged, flashed, glowed and even oozed—and science fans oohed and ahhed (and covered their ears).—Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Read Previous PLU Forensics Team Places Among Top 30 in the Nation Read Next Pacific Lutheran

  • New Chemistry department instrument will help students and profs probe world of the atom It looks like a rather fat, squat water heater. But to the students and professors gathered around it – or, more accurately, the computer that transmits readouts from it, the machine…

    substance. Yakelis gives the students a rundown on how to order the machine to drop the sample into the depths of the NMR, and then await test results on how protons are oriented in the unknown liquid. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the machine. There, a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field spins the compound at super-fast speeds. As

  • Bashair Alazadi ’13 and Carlos Sandoval ’13 look forward to talking about the perceptions and the realities with the Muslim club. (Photo by John Froschauer) Engaging faith: A Muslim Student’s Perspective The first question that Bashair Alazadi ’13 gets from fellow students usually is framed…

    to be taken seriously as a woman, student and professional. And no, it’s not something that her husband, and convert from Roman Catholicism, makes her do, she adds with a smile at Carlos Sandoval, ’13, who is sitting across from her at a picnic table in Red Square. Both Alazadi and Sandoval were spending a rare sunny afternoon this spring talking about their efforts to create a Muslim club at PLU this fall, their faith path, as well as their path that led them to PLU in the first place. Both are

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 5, 2020) — After a lifetime devoted to care and service, Kathy (Welsh) Krogstad ‘85 wasn’t going to stand on the sidelines during the COVID-19 global health crisis if she could help it. “I just always wanted to be a nurse,” she…

    Answering the call: PLU nursing alum volunteers for COVID-19 testing unit transfer Posted by: Marcom Web Team / May 5, 2020 Image: Kathy (Welsh) Krogstad ‘85, a registered nurse at Providence Hospital in Torrance, California, volunteered for one of her state’s first mobile coronavirus testing units. May 5, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 5, 2020) — After a lifetime devoted to care and service, Kathy (Welsh) Krogstad ‘85 wasn’t going to stand on the

  • A summer job that doesn’t suck By Steve Hansen Of all the potentially tedious summer jobs, here’s a new one: spending hours on your knees, rolling over one boulder after another, just to see what’s underneath. For Stephanie Agoncillo ’08 and Melissa Youngquist ’09, this…

    . In the natural sciences alone, each summer, more than nine faculty members worked with more than 21 students to conduct fieldwork, as well as gather and analyze data. And the number of projects keep on growing. The trio was part of nine student-faculty summer research projects in the natural sciences, many of which conducted fieldwork in the nearby forests, mountains and coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest. It is why they are here, just a couple hours away from the PLU campus, ankle-deep in