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  • reThinking how sustainability is taught at PLU using a novel approach at reDesign House. The art of sustainability By Chris Albert Across the street from the Martin J. Neeb Center sits an old house – not built to the exacting LEED environmental standards of Neeb,…

    together to experiment with sustainable environmental practices in a real, physical space. But the reDesign House is more than just a place to experiment with sustainable living practices. It is also an emblem of a holistic approach that blends environmental practices and social change with the disciplines of art and design. Lace Smith, Chrissy Cooley and JP Avila in the reDesign House. (Photo by John Froschauer) “The eventual goal is to have a space that is a learning laboratory,” Sustainability

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 22, 2018) — It’s official. The Class of 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University is wrapping up the final list of “lasts.” There are the lasts that students (soon to be alumni) are likely happy to bid farewell: the last final, the last…

    PLU,” Bridgewater said. “I am excited to reflect and reminisce with my peers.” Bridgewater, who is joining the Peace Corps and traveling to Guinea in July, is one of several speakers scheduled to address the crowd at the Tacoma Dome at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. She will join Freeman Hrabowski III, the keynote speaker and longtime president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (yes, that UMBC).  Haley Bridgewater '18 (left) is pictured along with Margaret Chell '18 and Madeline Wentz '18

  • On Exhibit: Library Resources about Homelessness “’Homelessness’ refers to much more than the situation of individuals who find themselves without an adequate place of residence. The standard legal definitions of homelessness . . . overlook the conditions of detachment or separation from mainstream society that…

    knowledge, and codes of behavior, which help them survive and cope with the adverse conditions under which they live. Nevertheless, most members of mainstream society who encounter homeless men and women neither understand nor appreciate the root causes of homelessness, the intelligence and resourcefulness of the homeless community, and the daily struggles for survival on the street.” — From Deutsch, J. I. (2013). Homelessness. In C. G. Bates, & J. Ciment (Eds.), Global social issues: An encyclopedia

  • By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 9, 2015)—Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruiting for Pacific Lutheran University, will deliver the keynote address at the City of Tacoma’s signature January event— the 27th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration .…

    draw roughly 2,000-3,000 attendees, the event “seeks to build on Dr. King’s message of service and encourages the entire community to join together to celebrate Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, as a day on, not a day off.” To say that Cunningham has some familiarity with Tacoma’s annual event would be an understatement. She was a driving force in its creation in the late ’80s when she was the city’s Equal Opportunity Employment Officer. City officials say Cunningham’s instrumental leadership in the event’s

  • By Matthew Salzano ’18 PLU Communication Student TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 26, 2014)—I woke up at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 7, 2014, to an email from Michael Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication…

    four students worked at KOMO-TV. Each year since 2008, Communication students have worked with local media outlets to cover election night—one of the only programs in the country where students work Election Night alongside the professionals.) PLU Communication students Michael Diambri ’18 and Matthew Salzano ’18 at the Yes on I-591 rally on Election Night 2014. (Photo: Carolyn Adolph/KUOW) I signed up with my best friend, Michael Diambri, a fellow journalism major (and my employee at PLU’s college

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 10, 2017)- Washington communities facing health care shortages are about to get a much-needed boost, thanks to Pacific Lutheran University. The Tacoma institution’s School of Nursing recently received a $1.4 million grant from the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) , a program…

    the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grant is targeted at expanding curriculum, doubling nurse practitioner student numbers and sending those students into medically underserved areas around the state. “PLU is a leading center of higher education in the Pacific Northwest, and I commend its commitment to increasing the capacity of the mental health workforce and expanding access to these critical services in the region,” U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said in her letter of

  • Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software , Rhino for short. Created…

    March 14, 2008 Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software, Rhino for short. Created by Seattle-based Robert McNeel and Associates, the software is the newest addition to the art department. In February, McNeel employee and 1985 PLU graduate Dale Fugier donated 30 software licenses and several rendering packages

  • First year students reflect on ‘big questions’ When senior Kerri Greenaway talked about love being the one thing that can always be taken to the extreme, it struck a cord with first year Danyelle Thomas.“It made me think about why I do what I do,”…

    students the keys to guide their college experience and avoid looking back on it after graduation and wondering, “What if?” Students are able to learn what PLU has to offer early in their college careers and begin figuring out what they want to achieve in their time here. It also aims to help students begin the process of discovering their vocation, identity and purpose. The first years are just beginning to understand what the vocation of a student is, how that fits with what they are studying and how

  • Lutes find trip to New Orleans inspiring, shocking At first, the neighborhoods seemed like any other to the PLU students traveling around New Orleans over spring break. But then they began to notice that many of the houses were empty, as hollow-eyed windows stared blankly…

    teams used when Katrina struck this city in 2005: the number of people rescued, bodies found, pets recovered or lost. “That was one of the things that really hit me,” said junior Anna Holzemer, who went to the Big Easy along with 14 other students and three staff members to help out residents who are still struggling to recover from the destruction of their world almost three years ago. “These homes looked like a normal block of any neighborhood, and then you’d see the writing, that showed two

  • Lutheran Studies Conference 2013 Breaking rules, honoring the ordinary, opening up God: Lutheran perspectives on Jesus of Nazareth The Lutheran Studies Conference will take place at Pacific Lutheran University on Sept. 26. All presentations – which will begin at 2 p.m. –  will take place…

    September 18, 2013 Lutheran Studies Conference 2013 Breaking rules, honoring the ordinary, opening up God: Lutheran perspectives on Jesus of Nazareth The Lutheran Studies Conference will take place at Pacific Lutheran University on Sept. 26. All presentations – which will begin at 2 p.m. –  will take place in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at the Anderson University Center on the upper campus of PLU (Park Avenue and 122nd Street South). Online registration began on Monday, August 26, at the