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Meet Mike Snyder, PLU’s New Director of Athletics and Recreation https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2021/05/25/meet-mike-snyder/

.) “I would like to thank President Belton and the hiring committee for this opportunity,” said Snyder. “My family and I are thrilled to join the Lute community and cannot wait to get to know all the student-athletes, alumni, staff, and faculty who make PLU such a wonderful institution.” “When I look at Pacific Lutheran, I see a long and storied history of athletic success across multiple sports. This foundation has been built on the legacy of our alumni, and I look forward to partnering with them

Growing into her own: Sarah Davis ’23 discovers her passion for plant biology at PLU https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/04/26/sarah-davis/

and health care would be the ultimate goal, but then a couple of classes focused on plant development and global agriculture grew a new passion.“I have a family history of agriculture, my grandfather used to have apple orchards in Eastern Washington,” she said, explaining why her PLU biology classes resonated with her. “From that point forward, I began to pursue plant biology, as I had both personal and academic passion in the subject.” On her way to her degree, Davis completed a capstone project

Jen Cohen ’94 – Resolute Online: Fall 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2016/jen-cohen/

service work they perform. “I never really looked back,” she recalled. “I wanted to do exactly what I’m doing today.” Cohen said the support from the legendary coach and others means a lot, especially as a woman in her male-dominated field. She’s only the second female AD in UW history and the only current female AD in the Pac-12 Conference. Cohen said PLU was a perfect fit for her. She served as a graduate assistant, working primarily with the baseball team. She also helped coach the volleyball team

Featured Stories – Resolute Online: Winter 2017 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2017/featured-stories/

. Read More Neah Bay For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history. Read about the introductory anthropology class and how the relationship fostered by a longtime professor has tribal members saying “welcome back” each year. Read More Expanding Roots at PLU Yannet Urgessa ’16 has lived on three continents and speaks five languages. But it took coming to PLU for her to feel comfortable in her own skin for the first time. Learn

Tom Smith https://www.plu.edu/theatre-dance/staff/tom-smith/

Theatre in Higher Education, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Montreal, Canada (August 2015) Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Integrating New Plays and Playwrights into a University Season, Montreal, Canada (August 2015) NMSU College of Arts and Sciences, Adapting History to the Stage, Las Cruces, NM (February 2014) Selected Articles "Charles Ludlam Lives! Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company by Sean F. Edgecomb

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253-535-7323

smithtt@plu.edu

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Playwriting

Directing

Improvisation

Theatre Management

Acting

Collin Brown: A Lute Returns Home https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/collin-brown-a-lute-returns/

PLU mission of inquiry, leadership, service and care. “The reason I’m interested in my dissertation and the research involved is because it is inquiry into an area of Lutheran history that is not widely studied––in Scandinavia or here. The Lutheran Church is becoming more and more global, so that means you have a Lutheran tradition that’s being reinterpreted by different communities and cultural backgrounds. Especially in this five-hundred-year anniversary of the Reformation it is important to say

Learning to Pay Attention to the Environment and Religion with Professor Sarah Robinson-Bertoni https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/learning-to-pay-attention-to-the-environment-and-religion-with-professor-sarah-robinson-bertoni/

Studies with a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies. Later, she received her Masters in History at the Graduate Theological Union, and then got her Ph.D. in Religion at Claremont Graduate University. Sarah Robinson-Bertoni, Visiting Assistant Professor Religion and Environment Many factors have influenced Robinson-Bertoni’s career path. The first is her love for the environment. This love was strengthened through the conversations she had with her father, a poet. Robinson-Bertoni is also a poet

The Importance of Dead Languages https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/the-importance-of-dead-languages/

how many students would actually be interested in doing it. I definitely didn’t think there would be as many as there are right now. The interest is far greater than I ever thought.” The Dead Languages’ Society has about eight members who show up regularly, and there are a handful of other students who drop in periodically. It is clear after talking with Brown that learning dead languages is important because we learn so much through ancient texts. These texts contain the combined history of the

Kari Plog ’11 – Resolute Online: Spring 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2016/author/plogkr/

apart. Scott graduated in 1996, earning a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in political science. Rebecca graduated with an education degree two years later. She teaches fourth grade in Chelan. After working a technical job at Boeing right out of college, Scott Benson changed course and the pieces started falling into place for his future in the wine business. “We made a very abrupt plan to move down to Willamette Valley,” a region in Oregon known for its wine, Benson said of him and his

In the Eye of the Beholder: Georgiana and her Portrait https://www.plu.edu/jane-austen/news/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-georgiana-and-her-portrait/

commonly, Black people appeared in the background of portraits by white artists as exotic subjects. A notable exception being Josiah Wedgwood’s “Am I not a man and a brother” emblem first appearing in 1787 for use in the abolitionist movement.Black agency was rarely conveyed in European portraiture. Georgiana’s portrait is meant to rewrite, or rather, repaint this history, and the portrait itself is likely conversant with one of Georgiana’s real-life historical contemporaries, Dido Elizabeth Belle