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To PLU Faculty, First, thank you for your patience as the Information & Technology Services team has been working to complete our Zoom license expansion. We’re happy to announce that Zoom licenses are now available to all faculty. Your path to gaining access to licensed…
access and licensing. I&TS staff will be reaching out to the affected users over the next few days to assist with this process. If you know your existing Zoom account is one of those affected you are also welcome to contact the I&TS Helpdesk (253-535-7525, helpdesk@plu.edu, helpdesk.plu.edu) to request assistance with this process. I&TS is also working actively to enable direct integration with Zoom from Sakai, making it easy to manage your course related Zoom meetings. More information on this will
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It’s not all about grading papers for PLU profs There are a few things that tie Mark Anderson ‘71, Jon Grahe and Mike Halvorson together. One is that they are all PLU professors. But another thing is their need to jam. All play in separate…
November 17, 2008 It’s not all about grading papers for PLU profs There are a few things that tie Mark Anderson ‘71, Jon Grahe and Mike Halvorson together. One is that they are all PLU professors. But another thing is their need to jam. All play in separate rock bands and earlier this month about a hundred students, staff and whoever dared to attend were treated to them rocking out with their respective groups in the CAVE for Battle of the Faculty Bands. Well, actually it was an exhibition, all
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Isabel Moore plays with her new therapy dog Luka. (John Froschauer 2011) Canine offers friendship, safety for child By: Katie Scaff ’13 This fall, 4-year-old Isabel Moore made more than a new friend when she met Luka, a one-year-old therapy dog. A few students in…
2009, and her mother Liz Moore was trying to raise funds so Isabel could have her own service dog, one especially trained for someone with autism. A therapy dog had visited Isabel’s school earlier in the year and Liz saw a spark between her daughter and the dog. After seeing the interaction, she began looking into getting Isabel a therapy dog. “He was very calm. He didn’t ask anything of her. He just let her talk so she was just able to sit there and talk,” Liz said. “It was like she knew he was
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dCenter ’emerged’ as a resource for students, fun place to hang out For many, like senior art major Chelsea Putnam, PLU’s Diversity Center is a place to foster one’s individuality.“I really wanted to learn and gain my own individuality with this place,” said Putnam. Initially…
. I came here intended to study exercise. It really changed my path being up here and working with these people.” But the Diversity Center hasn’t always been the resource for students that it is today. When the center began in 2001, it had a lot of programs that resembled Diversity 101, said Eva Johnson, Dean of Student Development and Director of Student Involvement and Leadership. The intent was for students to learn about different cultures and start conversations about diversity. “We spent a
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- With a Catholic mother and Buddhist father, first-year April Nguyen never had to worry about understanding religious diversity in her household — it was just how she was raised. Religion studies and religious diversity weren’t on her radar until she…
First-year student pulls from roots, helps introduce religious diversity to PLU through lecture series Posted by: Kari Plog / March 21, 2016 Image: PLU Students visit Gurudwara Singh Sabah (Sikh Temple) and school in Renton as part of a J-Term class on the religions of Southeast Asia on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. (Photo/John Froschauer) March 21, 2016 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- With a Catholic mother and Buddhist father, first-year April Nguyen
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Lindsey Clark ’24 came to PLU knowing it was where she wanted to be. But Clark—a double major in mathematics and gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way…
and gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way to becoming a math teacher. “Math is kind of what I expected it to be,” says Clark. “I like math and the discipline of working with students. That’s where my passion is.” But it’s her other major, GSRS, that opened doors Clark didn’t know were there. “It’s just so different. It’s cross-disciplinary, so I’m taking classes from all over the
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Student Composition Wins Statewide Competition Taylor Whatley, right, works with Prof. Greg Youtz on Whatley’s winning composition. (Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) Taylor Whatley’s Original Piece, ‘Fanfare Giocoso,’ Premieres at LUCO’s Season-Opener By Valery Jorgensen ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker Seattle’s renowned Lake Union…
, a Music Composition major at Pacific Lutheran University. And his original composition, Fanfare Giocoso, will premiere at Town Hall Seattle at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 as the opening number of LUCO’s first concert of 2014-15. Whatley is one of three winners of LUCO’s Fanfares competition, which was designed to provide outstanding young composers with an opportunity to create a piece for a full symphony orchestra and have it performed. (He also won $500 and will have his prize presented onstage at the
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One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American…
April 25, 2008 One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American out of 257 who stayed in Rwanda through the genocide that claimed one million lives in three months – would not see his family until after the horror had ended. It was tempting to get on the convoys to the border of nearby Burundi, he told a packed audience
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Why a high-flying Wall Street investment banker chose to teach at PLU By Chris Albert There’s a little letter ‘m’ on Kevin Boeh’s American Airlines frequent flier card. Even though it’s hardly noticeable, it signifies a pretty unique club – more than one million miles…
January 26, 2010 Why a high-flying Wall Street investment banker chose to teach at PLU By Chris Albert There’s a little letter ‘m’ on Kevin Boeh’s American Airlines frequent flier card. Even though it’s hardly noticeable, it signifies a pretty unique club – more than one million miles flown.“So I’ve spent a lot of my life on airlines,” the PLU assistant professor of business said. Assistant Professor of Business Kevin Boeh. That’s life when you’re a highly sought after Wall Street investment
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PLU’s 125th Anniversary will come to a spectacular crescendo December 11, 2015, with a televised broadcast, a performance by opera star Angela Meade ’01 and a world premiere by an acclaimed Hollywood composer-all in one very special concert. It may just have turned to fall,…
Christmas at Pacific Lutheran University. PLU is pulling out all the stops for the 2015 Christmas Concerts in celebration of PLU’s 125th Anniversary. Lutes are invited to be a part of history in the making by purchasing a ticket to the 125th Anniversary Gala Concert on Friday, December 11. Attendees will enjoy a pre-concert reception with plentiful hors d’oeuvres and champagne before the concert. This special one-night-only performance will be recorded and broadcast on Christmas Eve and Christmas 2015
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