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HACU-member school, this event is available to PLU students. The deadline to apply has been extended to next Wednesday, April 21st. The Emerging Leaders’ Summit gathers undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring in STEM, Business, Communications, and Liberal Arts to participate in professional development training throughout the day, as well as learn about available internships and full-time roles with some of HACU’s corporate partners. Find full details and apply here: www.hacu.net/hacu

HACU-member school, this event is available to PLU students. The deadline to apply has been extended to next Wednesday, April 21st. The Emerging Leaders’ Summit gathers undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring in STEM, Business, Communications, and Liberal Arts to participate in professional development training throughout the day, as well as learn about available internships and full-time roles with some of HACU’s corporate partners. Find full details and apply here: www.hacu.net/hacu

decades, a majority of his 40-year career in education. He’s been at the district’s helm for 11 years. Beyond his commitment to the partnership with PLU and his full-time administrative work, he serves on the boards of the Junior Achievement of Washington, Latino/a Education Achievement Project, Parkland-Spanaway Kiwanis Foundation, Pierce Center for Arts & Technology and the Pierce County Skills Center. He also is a longtime member of PLU’s Administrative Professional Education Advisory Board and

that has the potential to transform how we do things here. What is it? Sarah Cornell-Maier (Class of 2019) When you hear talk about innovation in the news, the automatic connection that many of us make is to invention or high technology.  However, innovation actually has a broader meaning in some of the leading companies and organizations in the U.S.  I was excited to hear that PLU is leading the conversation about the term among liberal arts colleges with professional schools. Most modern

, 10 months. Life has seemingly come full circle for the performing arts major, who after appearing in a number of plays after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University in 2000, decided in 2008 that it was time to take the plunge and see if he could make it in New York City. So with no prospects and only the promise of a blow up mattress on a friend’s living room in Queens, Hobson left his wife behind and took the risk. And that make all the difference for the Puyallup native. Within a few weeks

together on this commission and will also perform the work. University Wind Ensemble conductor, Dr. Edwin Powell, is well known in Tennessee, having taught conducting courses and music education methods at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was Assistant Director of Bands. “It’s exciting to return to Tennessee where I spent five years before I came to PLU,” Powell said. “I look forward to reconnecting with colleagues and many former students while I’m there, and of course, sharing the

documentary films, including the Emmy award-winning film “Illicit Exchanges: Canada, the U.S. and Crime” and “Oil Literacy,” which premiered last October and has since been awarded an honorable mention in the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Documentary Competition. For more information about MediaLab and the projects the organization has produced, visit https://www.plu.edu/medialab/. Read Previous Actors explore the world of Japanese puppetry Read Next Coming Full Circle

panel was asked if a PLU and a liberal arts education was worth the financial investment.  Without hesitation each said “yes.” “I couldn’t do what I do without it,” Anderson said. Read Previous Gordon Campbell ’75 tells Lutes to follow their passion. Read Next Do you like cookies? Cocoa? Coffee? Music? Do you like Christmas and cool Christmas videos? COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a

benefits different Tacoma charities. Initially, college was supposed to be just something for Thoburn to do between tours with his band. “I didn’t plan on going to college all that much, but I got a good education at PLU,” he said. Having grown up in Tacoma—he went to the School of the Arts – Thoburn wanted to stay in the area after college, so his buddies’ brewery suggestion struck just the right note. “If you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead,” Thoburn said. Read Previous Capstone

journal, The Matrix; contribute poetry, short stories, sheet music, art or photographs to PLU’s literary and arts magazine, Saxifrage; or become a DJ for PLU’s radio station, LASR. For more information on PLU student media, check out the website and attend the Sept. 11 Involvement Fair.Community Garden Finally, for those looking to get their hands a little dirty, check out the PLU Community Garden. Located on 121st Street, across from Ingram Hall, the PLU Community Garden provides students with the