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  • Celebrating Shabbat with the PLU family Why would Lauren Eaton rebuild the Jewish club at a Lutheran college? WHEN SHE ARRIVED on campus as a first-year student, Lauren Eaton set out looking for the Alijah Jewish Club that she had read about. She didn’t find…

    in the spring when we have between 50 and 75 people attend.” “There are many different reasons why people come to Jewish club. Some of them want to keep their traditions alive. Many of them are in a religion class and they are interested in learning more. Many of them are just friends of ours,” Eaton said. “I think some of them only come for my freshly baked bread.” “For me spirituality is a sense of oneness and a sense of community. You are part of something larger than yourself. Whether you are

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 7, 2019) — Thanks to a new 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Pacific Lutheran University is happy to announce a Spring 2020 partnership with the nationally acclaimed Clemente Course in the Humanities. The partnership will launch a Clemente…

    acclaimed Clemente Course in the Humanities.The partnership will launch a Clemente Veterans’ Initiative (CVI) course that will take place in the coming spring semester. CVI was developed in 2014 to provide a meaningful intellectual community to veterans who are working to adapt to civilian life, and is based on the idea that guided discussion of humanities texts can provide these veterans with an opportunity to reflect on their military experiences and move out of isolation and into community. “Pacific

  • On Tuesday, Pacific Lutheran University celebrated Tacoma Pride Week with its second annual pride flag raising. Hosted by the dCenter, the online/campus hybrid event featured five student speakers, who spoke about what pride means to them, especially in 2020. “Although this is only our second…

    ceremony there is a 51-year history of pride in our country which was ignited by (the Stonewall) rebellion against police brutality and discrimination. Leaders in the initial movement included Marsha P. Johnson, Stormé DeLarverie, and Sylvia Rivera,” said Luke Ruiz assistant director of commuter and transfers student connections.  “This year we are truly living the most authentic version of pride, despite the cancelation of the festivals and the closing of the streets, we have a unique chance to lean

  • The 253 PLU Bound scholarship recipient from the Key Peninsula near Tacoma began his first year intending to major in music education. But best-laid plans often go awry. Lindhartsen soon realized that wasn’t the path for him. He knew he wanted to study music, but…

    knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience

  • This week we sat down with Dr. Rønning to talk about everything from Rick Steves to Rachmaninoff. Read on! How did you first get started playing the violin? What drew you to the instrument? My mother tells me that she noticed that I loved to…

    loved playing the Suzuki songs, but I also loved to sing and sang in a group like the Tacoma Youth Chorus (the Northwest Boychoir) as well. I also took piano lessons from my mother, and later from a local high school student named Rick Steves (yes, he grew up to be THE Rick Steves!). I loved all of these things (and continue to), but by the time I was finishing grade school I knew I had to make a choice. I gave violin my all, but learned a bit of guitar, and occasionally sang in choirs. When I was

  • Caltech is excited to announce two summer research opportunities available to continuing undergraduate students. The WAVE Fellows program provides support for talented undergraduates intent on pursuing a Ph.D. to conduct a 10-week summer research project at Caltech. The WAVE Fellows program aims to foster diversity…

    Undergraduate Research at Caltech Posted by: alemanem / November 12, 2019 November 12, 2019 Caltech is excited to announce two summer research opportunities available to continuing undergraduate students. The WAVE Fellows program provides support for talented undergraduates intent on pursuing a Ph.D. to conduct a 10-week summer research project at Caltech. The WAVE Fellows program aims to foster diversity by increasing the participation of underrepresented students in science and engineering

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 22, 2017)- Bonnie Nelson ’08 didn’t always plan on joining the Peace Corps. But when she met a returned volunteer in graduate school who helped her learn more about the organization, her plans changed. “It was through conversations with her about her…

    alumni, who are also Lutes, will speak on a panel at 3:45 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center before the evening lecture, which features Shamil Idriss, president and CEO of Search for Common Ground. PLU’s new program will help ensure that Lutes interested in service work will meet all the necessary requirements to apply for service with the Peace Corps and other international or domestic service programs. And this is just the next step for PLU and the Peace Corps. More than 260 Lutes have served

  • Unfiltered , the 2013 Senior Exhibition at Pacific Lutheran University will commence with an opening reception on April 24, 2013 from 5p.m. to 7p.m. The exhibit will display 23 graduating students’ finest pieces. “[ Unfiltered ] doesn’t describe the art directly, because no two people…

    . “Every one is there, raw, authentic, unfiltered.” Visitors will see a wide variety of media from ceramics, sculpture and painting, to photography and graphic design. There will also be plenty of opportunities to talk one on one with the artists themselves. “Viewers should be very open-minded when coming to the gallery. There is going to be a large variety of artwork on display, with all types of themes and genres,” Krista Fredricks, head advertiser and senior artist, said. “I like to believe that art

  • PLU wins Simon Award This spring, PLU received a powerful acknowledgement that it continues to be seen as a leader in globally focused education. The university was awarded the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on…

    June 15, 2009 PLU wins Simon Award This spring, PLU received a powerful acknowledgement that it continues to be seen as a leader in globally focused education. The university was awarded the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on and off campus to engage the world and the international community. PLU is the first and only private college in the West to have received this honor. “This kind of recognition confirms a

  • UPDATE (1.8.17): Due to weather concerns, the Learning from Standing Rock event has been moved to Chris Knutzen Hall (CK) in PLU’s Anderson University Center. TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 31, 2017)- Pacific Lutheran University will host an event titled “Learning from Standing Rock” on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at…

    titled “Learning from Standing Rock” on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 5 p.m. PLU and South Puget Sound community members will gather in Red Square to listen to indigenous leaders share what they’ve learned from the recent events at Standing Rock, as well as local environmental conflicts.“The ‘NODAPL’ protection efforts at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota have captured the attention of the entire world,” said Darren Moore, a computer purchasing and services coordinator at PLU and a co