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  • Matthew Conover ’19 explains how PLU helped prepare him for a career in software engineering Posted by: vcraker / January 10, 2022 January 10, 2022 By Lisa Patterson '98PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said. “I sincerely believe that no matter what I

  • Welcome to the Parkland Literacy CenterThe Parkland Literacy Center (PLC) is an organization at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) that establishes, implements, and conducts various programs that serve the academic needs of our local community. The PLC is composed of PLU student staff as well as student volunteers. The mission of the PLC is to serve the greater Parkland community through literacy training and academic support. Currently, we provide any subject of tutoring to K-12 students within

  • Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Editor’s Note Featured / January 22, 2014 A Time To Restart, Renew and Refresh W e have no idea how it turned into September already, but if the days are going to insist on shortening and the skies are going to persist in clouding, the least we can do is brighten up the month with some exciting PLU news. So, to coincide with the start of a brand-new school year at PLU—the 125th(!), speaking of time flying—we

  • December 1, 2009 The Meeting Pace Chris McKnight ’12 likes to think of Hinderlie Hall as a meeting place between upper and lower campus. And he has a point: the hall sits right on the slope – called Hinderlie Hill, no less – that divides upper and lower campus. But to McKnight, a sophomore math major from LaConner, Wash., the idea of a meeting place means more than that. He considers it the place where all types of PLU students come together. “Hinderlie is the bridge – there is a little bit of

  • About opera at PLUPLU Opera offers two productions per academic year – a complete main stage opera with orchestra and an opera scenes program with piano in alternating semesters. Members participate in all facets of production, including set and costume design, staging and performance. The full productions are planned in a three-year cycle that includes early music, standard repertoire, and 20th/21st century. Recent productions have included Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

  • Download the Quick Guide in PDF /* fix for jQuery UI library issues when using the date picker popup */ jQuery.browser = {}; (function () { jQuery.browser.msie = false; jQuery.browser.version = 0; if(navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE ([0-9]+)\./)) { jQuery.browser.msie = true; jQuery.browser.version = RegExp.$1; } })(); You do not have javascript enabled. You can complete this form by following this link: https://plu.formstack.com/forms/personal_statement_quick_guide Read the blog article on

  • The PLU 2015 - 2016 Wind EnsembleFlute Paige Balut Kelli Bower Meagan Gaskill+ Mary Jostin Katherine Nakasone Torsen Necessary+ Oboe/English Horn Marissa Dallaire Gretchen Johnson Lydia Robinson* Bassoon Megan Cummings* Avery Floyd TJ Mallos Clarinet Daniel Aliment Lyndi Knox (Spring) Ian Lindhartsen Tim Loescher Ingrid Smith* Dru Wickenkamp Bass Clarinet Grant Benson Contra Bass Clarinet Abigail SheddAlto Saxophone Austin Baduria* Deborah Schmidt Will Radford (Spring) Gabe Johnson (Spring

  • university. That gift – almost $107,000 provided by 67 generous alums – sought to endow the Meant to Live program, part of PLU’s signature “Wild Hope Project.” “Meant to Live is the convergence of a gift from the Class of 1958 and homecoming, where an alumnus of the university can speak to students about his or her life’s work,” said Samuel Torvend, project director of the Wild Hope Project and professor of the history of Christianity. This was the first year that Meant to Live was officially associated

  • Matt Young Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024). His stories and essays have appeared in TIME, Granta, Tin House, Catapult, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from Words After War and The Carey Institute for Global Good, and teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington