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Sarah Seder: New Dance Faculty Posted by: Reesa Nelson / February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19Sarah Seder’s passion for dance has taken her all over North America. Now, she returns home to the Seattle area bringing with her unique experiences, a vast repertoire of skills, and an effervescent personality. She will lead PLU students through Ballet 1, Contemporary Dance 1 and 2, and hone their skills in Dance Composition.Get to know Sarah What is your background?I grew up on

Sarah Seder: New Dance Faculty Posted by: Reesa Nelson / February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19Sarah Seder’s passion for dance has taken her all over North America. Now, she returns home to the Seattle area bringing with her unique experiences, a vast repertoire of skills, and an effervescent personality. She will lead PLU students through Ballet 1, Contemporary Dance 1 and 2, and hone their skills in Dance Composition.Get to know Sarah What is your background?I grew up on

March 30, 2011 Busy dad envisions healthy ‘Plan B’ for parents Just like so many other families, Peter Gradwohl ’90 and his wife, Andrea, once struggled to balance busy work schedules with the stress of providing healthy food for their three kids. So, three years ago, with people like themselves in mind, the Gradwohls launched Fantazimo, a Seattle-based company that packs well-balanced lunches for local school kids. “I kind of had an ah-ha moment,” Peter Gradwohl said, “when I was making three

March 23, 2014 PLU’s MediaLab Documentary Wins 2014 National Broadcasting Society Award Film premieres on campus April 10 By PLU Marketing & Communications and Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s MediaLab has won a 2014 Grand Prize Award from the National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho for its documentary film Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis. Tapped Out, which premiered publicly in Seattle in October 2013 and will debut on the PLU campus at 7 p.m. April 10

You can’t argue with Success Posted by: Todd / April 20, 2014 April 20, 2014 At a liberal-arts college such as Pacific Lutheran University where open dialogue is not just encouraged but expected a healthy argument between students is a common occurrence. But no one crafts strategic arguments like the Lutes of PLU’s historic Speech and Debate team. You could argue that PLU’s rich history of success in the arena of competitive debate is one of the university’s best-kept secrets: Debater Andrew

around the world and documenting its beauty, weathered a terrible storm that day in 2008. He made his way up the mountain at Haleakala National Park in Hawaii, scouting a location for his sunrise photoshoot. Legend says, as Ebi tells it, a demigod lassoed the sun there and released it only after it promised to move more slowly across the sky. So, perhaps Ebi has that demigod to thank for the perfect shot that is circulating as part of a series of 16 stamps depicting national parks. Of course, Ebi’s

Congrats Bernice! Posted by: Marcom Web Team / December 10, 2019 December 10, 2019 The Department of Economics congratulates Bernice Monkah (2013) for receiving her MSc in Development Economics from the University of Manchester, UK. Congratulations Bernice! Read Previous Joel Earlywine ’17 Wins Best Research Abstract Award Read Next J-Term 2020 – Study Away in Italy LATEST POSTS Meet Cameron Emerson ’08 April 14, 2019 PLU Alum Visits Department of Economics April 15, 2019 National Conference on

energy consumption, promote alternative transportation, provide funding to student and faculty-led green proposals and take other measures to benefit the environment. Among the PLU achievements cited in the rankings, BestColleges.com highlighted: 1.    PLU is working to earn (at least) LEED Gold Certification for every building on campus. 2.    PLU’s Dining & Culinary Services recently adopted a zero-waste policy using the Green Tray Program. 3.    Students and faculty members who would rather not

Questions.” No doubt you have your own reasons why PLU remains a top choice. Probably a lot. Here are some of the things we feel like PLU does really, really well. (And many students agree.) So dive in. As you make one of the most important decisions of your life – the university you will attend – remember that more than 3,500 students all have their own reasons why PLU is a good fit for them. We look forward to hearing yours. Ian Kinder-Pyle ’14 likes that PLU provides numerous opportunities to get

success after another—and perhaps destined by one very early experience: The first article she wrote, on cafeteria lunches, ran in her elementary-school newspaper. “I thought it was so much fun seeing my name in the paper,” Patterson said She picked up reporting again in high school, working for her school’s paper and freelancing for The News Tribune’s Young Adult Pages. She also delivered newspapers. “There was a point in time when I was delivering the paper and had a byline,” Patterson said. Still