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  • Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Education’s Uukumwe Project, an educational partnership between Pacific Lutheran University and Namibian educators. And at N/a’an ku sê, Delos Reyes had a unique opportunity: to teach Western music concepts to students who wouldn’t otherwise have access to music education. It was a life-changing experience. “I have never had so much fun teaching in my life,” Delos Reyes says. She loves her current practicum at a small K-8 school outside of Olympia but says the connection that develops when you’re relying

  • education a priority at Pacific Lutheran University. He says Lutheran higher education is intellectually inclusive, and therefore his calling to promote interfaith dialogue is a perfect fit. “Free inquiry includes asking about other religious traditions,” said Hammerstrom, associate professor of East Asian and comparative religions. Hammerstrom already teaches classes that immerse students in Buddhist communities here and abroad. During the summer, he took that commitment to the next level. He

  • ) Becklund, Linda (Robertson) Braithwaite, Kathy Benton, Mark Salter, David Lykken, Jim Holland, Terry Ludwig, Mike Willis, Dale Soden, John Nilson, David Bennett, Nikki (Beard) Martin, Samuel Torvend, Karen Fynboe, Elizabeth (Nordberg) Adams.PLU 50th Reunion for the Class of 1973This year marked 50 years since we graduated from PLU. Our fiftieth reunion celebration was on campus Friday, October 6, 2023. We had many opportunities to reconnect, reminisce, and create new memories. We hope you were able to

  • published articles and book chapters on immigration and interest groups, race, religion and labor. She is also the author of /The New Nativism/ (University of Minnesota Press 2008) and coeditor of the volume /Faith and Race in American Political Life/ (University of Virginia Press, 2012). Connecting her knowledge on race, immigration, and social movements and her passion for change, Robin is currently chair of Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest (A.I.D. NW), an organization providing

  • Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and Eugene Symphony with whom she performed the Mater Gloriosa in the Oregon premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Other favorite roles in the symphonic repertoire include Verdi’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Brahms’ Requiem, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Her recent opera roles have been Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Countess Almaviva

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  • Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and Eugene Symphony with whom she performed the Mater Gloriosa in the Oregon premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Other favorite roles in the symphonic repertoire include Verdi’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Brahms’ Requiem, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Her recent opera roles have been Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Countess Almaviva

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  • Commencement 2017: Lutes prepare for life after college Posted by: Kari Plog / May 15, 2017 May 15, 2017 By Staff writersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 15, 2017)- Classes are over, tests are on the horizon and therapy dogs are waiting in the wings. It's the end of spring semester, and for several hundred Lutes that means life after college beckons. Pacific Lutheran University students are fast approaching Commencement 2017, a ceremony that will mark the culmination of their

  • Danielle Lemieux Lecturer - Horn Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: lemieudj@plu.edu Professional Biography Education B.M.E., University of Puget Sound M.M, Horn Performance, New England Conservatory Biography Danielle Lemieux is an active performer in the Puget Sound and is a tenured member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Auburn Symphony Orchestra and Principal Horn of the Northwest Sinfonietta and Vashon Opera. She also plays as needed for the Seattle Opera, 5th Avenue Theater

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  • The Peter and Lydia Beckman ScholarshipEstablished in 1996 to reward outstanding scholarship and encourage graduate study in history, this $2,000 award is presented annually to one or two senior history majors at PLU who intend to study History or a closely-related field in graduate school. For more information, contact department chair Beth Kraig.Holocaust Summer FellowsEach year, 2-3 student research fellows are awarded for paid summer research in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies