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  • From the right, Kim Wilson ’76, Sheri Tonn, Tom Absher, Brad Cheney, Laurie Turner, Bruce Bjerke ’72, Frank Hewins ’86, and Thomas Suek ’12, shovel dirt. (Photo by John Froschauer) Groundbreaking sets all-purpose field plans in motion By Chris Albert This past Friday, April 13,…

    Board of Regents. The $3 million project has been funded by gifts from more than 400 donors and at least 20 former and current regents, he said. A gift from Wilson Construction and the Don and Kim Wilson family was instrumental in breaking ground on the athletic fields project. Bjerke said, adding that without their gift this project would not be happening. “This is a great thing to celebrate,” he said. The new synthetic surface field will serve the men’s and women’s soccer programs as a practice

  • Former Rieke Scholar Shayna Doi 09’uses critical reflection, perspective taking, community and care everyday. Diversity Center values underscore her life, relationships, and work. “I don’t know who I would be if I didn’t have that opportunity.” Shayna joined the Diversity Center via Hawai’i Club after…

    Center with nurturing her identity. Conversations with former Diversity Center director Angie Hambrick and the annual Students of Color Retreat cultivated this. “I was so blown away. I didn’t know that I needed a space to vocalize. I was so focused on assimilating to the culture that was at PLU. I’m fine, I fit in fine. I don’t have issues with me being a certain color or whatever. When I went to the Students of Color Retreat, it totally shifted the way I thought.” Becoming a Rieke Scholar in her

  • A reminder that the 2-year and 4-year college student scholarships are due April 1. In addition, there is a NEW DEIR Scholarship available for historically underrepresented students. $1500 Scholarships from the American Chemical Society: Four-year college students: Julia A Rutherford Scholarship for 4-year college students, deadline April…

    college students, deadline April 1 Please see the following documents to apply: 4-year college Scholarship Application DEIR Scholarship Read Previous Reimagine Indians into Medicine (RISE) Summer Academy 2023 Read Next New DPT program at PNWU LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program October 30

  • PLU Relay for Life Wins 5th National Top 10 Award Participants in PLU’s 2013 Relay for Life raised more than $25,000 for the American Cancer Society. (Photo: John Froschauer / PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham Content Editor In April 2013, more than 400 Lutes participated…

    : www.plurelay.org The PLU Relay for Life has earned its fifth Nationwide Top Ten award for per-capita fundraising, contributing more than $25,000 from the 2013 event to the American Cancer Society. Since the first PLU Relay, in 2006, Lutes have raised nearly $200,000. “It is a great reminder of what a group of dedicated students can do to help in the battle against cancer,” said Ray Lader, Associate Director for Student Rights and Responsibilities at PLU. Each year, PLU’s Colleges Against Cancer club works to

  • PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and…

    April 26, 2013 PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and raised nearly $20,000. Relay For Life is a volunteer-driven cancer fundraising event of the American Cancer Society. Each relay team is required to have one person walking on the track at all times during the event. Mackenzie

  • PLU students Karyssa Allbritton and Kristin Neuneker get a lesson in blowgun use from Bolivar Endominga in Ecuador on a 2012 Study Away program. (Photo by Kyle Monahan.) PLU ranks in Top 10 for Study Away Pacific Lutheran University ranked ninth in the nation in…

    . Department of State, PLU was ranked in the category “Leading Institutions by Undergraduate Participation in Study Abroad: Top 40 Master’s Institutions.” The report found that the number of U.S. students studying abroad expanded by 3.4 percent to an all-time high of 283,332 in 2011-12, quadrupling over the past two decades from 71,000 students in 1991-92. PLU’s Study Away program is a fundamental element of the university’s commitment to global education. PLU was the first American university to have

  • Watch the Lutes chop down the Loggers in four sets! #GoLutes

    YouTube Short: PLU volleyball takes on cross-town rivals! Posted by: mhines / October 13, 2023 October 13, 2023 Watch the Lutes chop down the Loggers in four sets! #GoLutes Read Previous YouTube Short: Favorite hangout spots at PLU Read Next You Ask, We Answer: What is public transportation like around PLU? LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major

  • This is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen.…

    recipients in the United States. DACA grants temporary visas to young people who arrived in the United States with their parents as undocumented immigrants. While Kim might not be an American legally, he is certainly a Lute. Kim graduated in 2015 with degrees in mathematical economics and psychology and a minor in statistics. Currently, he is in his third year at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law School at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ.“PLU really set things well for me,” Kim said. But the

  • Associate Vice President Karen McConnell , Ph.D., recently stepped into a new role. It’s not only new for her, but also for PLU. She is the school’s first chief institutional effectiveness officer. McConnell explains that in this role she will help ensure that evidence-based decision-making…

    throughout the university, that core priorities are being upheld, and that progress is being measured and accounted for, so the school can adapt, respond, improve and thrive. “The work itself involves the intentional integration of strategic leadership, assessment, institutional research and accreditation,” McConnell says. “Ultimately the goal is to support people and processes and help move the university forward with intentionality and integrity to our mission.” McConnell joined the PLU faculty as a

  • Uganda Blog: Third entry By Theodore Charles ’12 We have been in Uganda for three days including our arrival through Entebbe on Sunday the 10th. I have never been more amazed by a country as I was when we were making our final descent into…

    .” (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in the world, houses a vast array of wildlife a majority of the fish that I have been consuming in Kampala. The smell is breathtaking, much like gardening on a hot day, with a thick smell of earth and sweet smell that I have yet to identify. We hopped into a van and headed forty-five minutes across a crazy traffic filled stretch of roadway into the heart of Kampala for groceries. Everyone was incredibly exhausted and after