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Nursing Students Help Provide Thanksgiving Dinner to Over 225 Families Posted by: Zach Powers / December 1, 2015 Image: (All photos courtesy of the PLU School of Nursing Facebook page.) December 1, 2015 By Samantha Lund ‘16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2015)- More than 225 families were able to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner last week thanks in large part to the Pacific Lutheran University Delta Lota Chi Turkey Basket Drive.The student-led Turkey Basket Drive is organized by

pandemic she returned to Oslo and took a year of PLU classes remotely. It seemed like a typical distance learning story, until she began experimenting with her mother’s 25-year-old sewing machine. PLU Innovation Studies minor Mariken Lund in Olso, Norway. “I saw this old machine sitting in the closet and wondered if I could sew a skirt with it,” Mariken recalled. “After some training videos and a little effort, I was making clothes and having fun!” During the 2020-2021 school year, Mariken also worked

PLU’s warm, sunny greenhouse, watching for genetic traits that help millet grow taller or produce more seeds. “The Danforth Center is crowdsourcing genetic research,” Laurie-Berry says. “We’re helping Danforth go through thousands of seeds, identifying which are worth studying. No one knows how each one will behave.” PLU students are joining high school and undergraduate students in analyzing lab-generated mutant seed populations in partnership with Danforth. Students care for the plants, recording

to Washington, and we’ve been here ever since. I attended Lakes High School and swam varsity. Once I became a junior, I did Running Start, so that knocked off two years of college, and I was able to transfer all of my credits over to PLU. I chose to attend PLU because I heard it has an outstanding nursing school and just excellent faculty for teaching science classes. When I was applying to colleges, I knew I wanted to be a biology major, so I looked for local schools with strong STEM programs

Alumni Profile: What makes an American an American? Posted by: shortea / November 28, 2018 November 28, 2018 By Genny Boots '18PLU AlumThis is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes.Except for one: actually being a legal citizen. Kim is one of the approximately 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Center with nurturing her identity. Conversations with former Diversity Center director Angie Hambrick and the annual Students of Color Retreat cultivated this. “I was so blown away. I didn’t know that I needed a space to vocalize. I was so focused on assimilating to the culture that was at PLU. I’m fine, I fit in fine. I don’t have issues with me being a certain color or whatever. When I went to the Students of Color Retreat, it totally shifted the way I thought.” Becoming a Rieke Scholar in her

seems to be, everything. Just last month, Hobson acknowledged he will be artistic director of Seattle’s Balagan Theatre in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Hobson will also star in the Balagan’s first show of the season: Les Miserables, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmxjmnKK-w which will begin its run in September. Hobson also hopes to use his New York City ties to bring some off-Broadway productions to the Seattle theater. “Here we go, fingers crossed,” he said in a recent interview at the Studio

” flag (that she plans to hang on the front of her walker), 93-year-old Perry beamed with nostalgia. “That brings back many, many, many memories,” she said. Perry and her twin sister, Helen Jansen, played softball together at PLU in the early 1940s. They joined the team after years of playing together as kids. “That’s how we got so good,” she recalled. Perry played left field. Her sister, who died in April, played shortstop. Perry was also an active chorus member on campus. The twins both studied

her love for the people, language and culture of Japan. But because the professor who taught Japanese at PLU had retired, she pursued an Education degree. Now a resident of Federal Way, Wash., Kullberg lived in Stuen Residence Hall all four years at PLU. The art building was visible from her window, so she watched art students go to class, never considering herself “good enough” to take an art class herself. Her own artistic epiphany came later, after graduating, marrying, moving back to Oregon

An internship with the Portland Pickles solidifies Simon Luedtke’s plans for the future Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / November 29, 2023 Image: Simon Luedtke ’24 spent the summer interning for the Portland Pickles, a collegiate wood-bat baseball team based out of Portland, OR. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) November 29, 2023 By Jeffrey RobertsPLU Marketing & CommunicationsSimon Luedtke ’24 is a strategic communication major from Newberg, Oregon. His communication studies, combined with his part-time job