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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 20, 2016)- Member institutions of the ELCA Network of Colleges and Universities, including Pacific Lutheran University, released a statement Tuesday condemning hateful messages and phone threats directed at a Kansas university and its president. “The 26 member institutions of the ELCA Network…

    member institutions of the ELCA Network of Colleges and Universities condemn the racist attacks and threats of violence made against the president and members of the Bethany College community,” the statement reads. “Such behavior is antithetical to both Christian and American values. All people of good will should stand with us against the racism, bigotry and hatred that is at the root of these recent attacks.” The chalk messages appeared this month on the campus of Bethany College in Lindsborg

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 16, 2015)- Recently ranked the sixth-best university in the country for holiday events by Best College Reviews, Pacific Lutheran University students, staff and faculty collaborated on a wide variety of Christmas events throughout the month of December. Highlights included Christmas concerts on…

    faculty collaborated on a wide variety of Christmas events throughout the month of December.Highlights included Christmas concerts on campus as well as in Seattle and Portland, the 25th Annual Winterfest, and the annual Sankta Lucia Fest. (All photos by PLU photographer John Froschauer unless otherwise noted.)Celebration of LightOn Friday, Dec. 4 the Celebration of Light began with the Jingle Run and concluded with the the tree lighting and festival carols in Red Square.PLU on PBSPLU Christmas Concert

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 1, 2015)—Dr. Janice E. Brunstrom-Hernandez ’83 will be returning to campus on Thursday, Oct. 8, to deliver the 2015 Meant to Live Lecture. The inaugural event of Homecoming weekend, Brunstrom-Hernandez’s lecture will shed light on the personal and professional rewards she has reaped…

    weekend, Brunstrom-Hernandez’s lecture will shed light on the personal and professional rewards she has reaped from diligently pursuing her vocational passion, and encourage current PLU students to do the same. Brunstrom-Hernandez is a board-certified pediatric neurologist, enthusiastically driven to help children with cerebral palsy “live their very best lives, now and in the future.” She is able to empathize with the challenges facing her patients with cerebral palsy as she too has the disorder. “Dr

  • professional concert series, now in its 16th year, focuses on the wealth of jazz talent in the Northwest, as well as nationally known performers with PLU connections. The 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Summer Concert Series When: 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, July 10-Aug. 14. Where: Mary Baker Russell Amphitheatre, Pacific Lutheran University. Admission: Free. The concerts are sponsored by the PLU Department of Music and KPLU 88.5 FM and are held at 7 p.m. Thursdays from July 10-Aug. 14 at the open-air Mary Baker

  • wires that snake over to a computer. The paperwork that the spectrometer will spit out after analyzing liquids or solids doesn’t reveal much to the untrained eye. However, to the scientists, both the spectrometer and the readouts will help them look inside molecules, figure out how they interact with each other and on a more basic scale, help them decipher the compound they are looking at. “It’s not really something that lets you see the molecule,” Fryhle said. “But it gives inference what’s going

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 17, 2015)- Pacific Lutheran University was ranked one of the “Best 295 Business Schools” by the Princeton Review and named one of the best value colleges in Washington state by BestValueSchools.com. The Best 295 Business Schools rankings were created using a survey of…

    of engagement with the larger world,” and its co-curricular media program, MediaLab, for its prolific, award-winning filmmaking over the last 9 years.  PLU was also recently ranked in the Top 4 Percent of America’s Best Master’s Universities, was named a “Best Bang for the Buck” university by Washington Monthly and included in the “Best in the West” list compiled by The Princeton Review.  PLU Named a ‘Best in the West’ University by The Princeton ReviewPLU named the leading distributor of

  • TACOMA, WASH. (October 28, 2015)-Pacific Lutheran University is on the cutting edge of the U.S. government’s financial aid process. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrator (NASFAA) was looking to recommend changes in how students submit their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)…

    delay in financial aid notification and possibly a reduced amount of financial aid. In the new system, PPY will allow schools to use information from two years prior that already has been verified by the IRS–meaning the information will be more accurate, and the schools will do less searching and estimating of a family’s financial status. “This is going to be such a great thing; nobody needs to be afraid of the change,” Soltis said. “It allows us to provide students and their parents with

  • TACOMA, 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 the PLU nursing group Delta…

    the PLU nursing group Delta Lota Chi with the help of other PLU organizations and residence halls. Delta Lota Chi collects money and donations throughout November and uses the funds to go grocery shopping and put together bins with an entire Thanksgiving dinner inside. “Being able to provide Thanksgiving meals to families in need feels amazing,” Kerri Selk ’16 said. “Especially when the majority of the families we serve are single mothers.” The volunteering, shopping and delivering is all done by

  • April 19, 2010 Claim: The jury is still out about global warming Claire Todd, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Recent events such as the snowstorms in the eastern United States have caused some to question whether or not global temperatures are increasing. To address these questions, we can turn to the instrumental temperature record, a record of temperatures measured directly by humans for the past 130 years. These measurements, made with thermometers and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (August 24, 2015)- Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, “Open to Interpretation” is a new podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. The inaugural episode of…

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