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PLU named Top 10 Peace Corps producer in the country Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / April 15, 2019 Image: Pacific Lutheran University has been named a Peace Corps Top 5 volunteer-producing college for 2019. April 15, 2019 By StaffPLU and UPS Marketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University ranks fifth on the Peace Corps’ recently published list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2019. There are 14 Lutes currently volunteering with

New exhibit exposes ecological change through art Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 20, 2013 March 20, 2013 The University Gallery’s upcoming exhibit provides audiences with a view of the natural world through the eyes of two Washington artists. The University Gallery presents the work of Cynthia Camlin and Elise Richman in “Each Form Overflows its Present.”  The new exhibition features the ever-changing natural world and is inspired by concerns of climate change. The exhibition will open on

University of North Texas Summer NSF-REU Posted by: nicolacs / December 14, 2021 December 14, 2021 The Chemistry Department at the University of North Texas invites applications for our Summer 2022 NSF-REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Program.  The ten-week program will begin Tuesday, May 31 (arriving Sunday, May 29).  Participants will receive a $5,000 stipend, and housing will be provided.  Funds are available to help defray travel costs to and from the REU site, which is located

Author David Treuer Will Discuss Being “Adrift Between Two Americas” Posted by: Zach Powers / March 21, 2023 March 21, 2023 For Pacific Lutheran University’s 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin Lecture, the university will welcome award-winning author David Treuer to give a presentation titled “Adrift Between Two Americas” on April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Regency Room (Anderson University Center.)Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from northern Minnesota. He grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation with his

Student-athlete makes entrepreneurship look like a piece of cake Posted by: vcraker / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Craig CrakerAsst. Sports Information Director Some people spent their COVID lockdown time learning to bake homemade bread or bingeing TV shows or, frankly, just trying to survive. Pacific Lutheran University junior Jasneet Sandhu spent the spring of 2021 learning to row and launching a business out of her family home.The Sandhu Cake Company is the brainchild of Jasneet and her

First day of school tradition at PLU PLU's academic year starts with convocation, held on the first day of each fall semester. Posted by: mhines / September 15, 2023 September 15, 2023 Convocation is a unique PLU tradition. Professors line up to welcome new students to PLU as they walk across campus. Professors and staff then join this first-day ceremony, which marks the official beginning of a student’s academic journey at PLU.  Read Previous Move-in at PLU 2023 Read Next Major Minute

Recent Music and Theatre graduates share their experience at PLU Theatre major Morgan Roberts ’21 and her roommate and music major Cecilia Lewis ’21 are interviewed by communication major Rosemary Bennett ’21 about their PLU experiences as performing arts majors and their post-graduation plans. Posted by: vcraker / July 1, 2021 July 1, 2021 Read Previous PLU Media Lab students win Emmy for documentary Read Next Major Minute: Tom Smith on Theatre & Dance LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on

university experience – namely, a personal connection. “At some of the other schools, I really had to put myself out there to meet new people, and it was hard,” Taylor recalled. “Here, I can do that. This place has been really accepting and open-minded – people can really be themselves here.” That has certainly been the case on the men’s soccer team, for which Taylor plays. The younger players, which is just about everyone, call him “uncle.” He laughs at that, but notes that the experience has been a

Emmy-Nominated Documentary Screened for Powell-Heller Holocaust Conference Posted by: Zach Powers / March 5, 2015 Image: Filmmaker Steven Pressman at the Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education at Pacific Lutheran University (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 5, 2015 By Evan Heringer '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)- Writer and director Steven Pressman screened his Emmy-nominated documentary film, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus, on

craft, and preparing to work with him brings the focus and intensity in our rehearsals to an even higher level,” Richard Nance, PLU professor and conductor of the Choir of the West, said. “The students know what the level of expectation will be, and they are giving their best effort to achieve it.” At the conference and preview concert, the choir will perform an hour-long program of music selected by Carrington in consultation with Nance. The repertoire will include Libera nos, a Renaissance