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  • PLU Student Selected for Prestigious National Council Nellie Moran ’15 has been selected as 1 of 10 “campus women to watch out for” on the National Student Advisory Council. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Nellie Moran ’15 is one of ’10 Campus Women to Watch Out For’…

    exceptional leadership. Members will actively participate in women’s advocacy, sharpen their leadership skills, play key roles as peer leaders at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) and launch projects at their schools related to equal pay and other feminist issues. “Being a member of this important group leads to great things, from meeting trailblazers to gaining valuable experience,” said AAUW Vice President of Campus Leadership Programs Kate Farrar. “We look forward to

  • Visiting Writer Series By Kari Plog ’11 Rick Barot, assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was a political science major as an undergraduate before accidentally discovering his passion for poetry. Matthew Dickman came to PLU as part of the Visiting Writer’s Series. He…

    writing when he was forced to attend a poetry reading for one of his classes. He said PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, which is currently in its sixth year, can help students discover similar hidden passions. “It expands [students’] sense of what the world is about,” Barot said. “It introduces possibilities within yourself.” The Visiting Writer Series is an annual speaker series that welcomes accomplished writers, authors and poets to campus. It gives students the opportunity to experience the writers

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 22, 2016)- It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan. An estimated two million people died as a result of war, famine…

    don’t like to show, so I’ve learned to just internalize it. It’s how I’ve learned to keep living despite all that I’ve gone through.” “This is not a vacation. This is a trip that will redefine who I am.” I met David nine years ago, in an international conflict resolution class at Pacific Lutheran University. We quickly became friends and, eventually, roommates. The following summer he invited me to move into a house three blocks from campus, affectionately nicknamed “The Embassy.” It was home to

  • Risk & Reward By Chris Albert The board of directors is listening intently to a fellow member about a decision they need to make. At risk are thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands. They might lose it all. Or, they could reap great…

    December 14, 2009 Risk & Reward By Chris Albert The board of directors is listening intently to a fellow member about a decision they need to make. At risk are thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands. They might lose it all. Or, they could reap great rewards. PLU students ride the economic roller coaster and find out what it’s like to invest real money in the market and what it takes to show gains. This isn’t Wall Street – it is PLU. But the decisions the student members of the

  • Game On! Some of the ‘Stuen Accommodators’ get loud – it’s what they do. From left to right: Kory Miller ’14, Amy Delo ’15, Chris Guiducci ’14, Steffi Mack ’15. By Steve Hansen Chris Guiducci ’14 likes to yell.   So does his intramural team.…

    August 15, 2012 Game On! Some of the ‘Stuen Accommodators’ get loud – it’s what they do. From left to right: Kory Miller ’14, Amy Delo ’15, Chris Guiducci ’14, Steffi Mack ’15. By Steve Hansen Chris Guiducci ’14 likes to yell.  So does his intramural team. It all started when Chris got together with some people from his residence hall to play in a co-ed volleyball league. At the time, they didn’t know each other that well, and they certainly weren’t used to interacting as teammates. The play

  • Business Alum’s Startup Gets Huge Boost From Salesforce.com Neil Crist ’99 Plans to Use Funds to Expand Venuelabs’ Services By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker It takes a lot of work to get a startup company off the ground—something Neil Crist…

    tight for Crist and Venuelabs any more: The small tech company recently closed a deal with Internet giant Salesforce.com for a large venture fund. “Being validated is one thing, but being validated by Salesforce.com, one of the smartest players in the industry, is a completely different level,” Crist said. Crist, a guest speaker at last year’s PLU E-Business Day, has vast experience with the tech industry. Before founding Venuelabs, he worked as a senior product manager for high-level tech companies

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 4, 2017)— It’s been more than a little hot on Pacific Lutheran University’s campus this week. With temperatures creeping toward the 100s, one Lute is offering a reprieve with images of something a lot cooler. McKenna Morin ’19, a communication major, is…

    during a study away experience in Antarctica with the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education earlier this year. The contest receives more than 9,000 entries nationwide and internationally, with submissions from the United States, Canada and 46 other countries. As a contest finalist, Morin’s image of a penguin pointing its beak to the sky will be published in a hardback book that Photographer’s Forum will distribute nationally. She also has the opportunity to win higher-level awards

  • Cunningham’s life of service honored For Melannie Cunningham, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has always been special.“Martin Luther King Jr. Day is really the only day that America has where we focus on unity,” she explained. “That’s why it’s important to me.” Cunningham, associate director…

    them clapping for her. While it’s easy for Cunningham to give praise to others, she said she’s always found it hard to receive praise. More importantly though, the award confirmed how valuable the event is to the people of Tacoma. It’s a day where people of all races are encouraged to find the common ground and look past their differences, Cunningham said. “It’s a day that says it’s OK to make new friends,” she said. “It’s unity in its purest sense.” Cunningham said the program has always been

  • A Month of Veterans Day Events at PLU— Where Tuition is Always ‘Free’ for Qualified Veterans ROTC cadets attend the 2013 Veterans Day Celebration at Pacific Lutheran University. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—Pacific Lutheran University shows its appreciation…

    community-wide events marking Veterans Day: Saturday, Nov. 8: The second annual PLU Military Appreciation Football Game begins at 1 p.m. Nov. 8 at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup, where a service member will perform The National Anthem. The game is free to all military ID cardholders and their dependents—the ID card serves as a ticket to the game and earns a free cocoa at the concessions stand. Gates open at 12 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: All PLU classes are canceled from 10:55 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. during the free

  • A madcap story of mistaken identity featuring two sets of identical twins separated at birth is none other than William Shakespeare ’s play Comedy of Errors . Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Theatre & Dance will present the slapstick comedy October 31 – November 3,…

    Arts. This particular show is an example of PLU’s commitment to providing dynamic and challenging experiences for students in all aspects of theater with classical text, a large cast, and unique stage effects. Shakespeare’s shortest play begins with a shipwreck that separates a family: twin brothers with a matching pair of twin servants are separated into brother/servant pairs and each assume the others have died. Many years later, all four find themselves in the same town with farcical results