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  • PLU Theatre presents an exciting new production, The Shape of Things, opening May 3rd. The story is a twisted tale that explores what people are willing to do for love and what can happen when love takes things too far. The play written by Neil…

    a featured film starring Paul Rudd. The Shape of Things runs May 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 pm and May 5 (student discount performance) and 6 at 2 pm in the Studio Theater of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online on Eventbrite. $10 – General admission; $5 – 60+, military, PLU alumni and students; free – high school students and younger. The Shape of Things follows Adam, a college student who is a little overweight, not very confident, and without much going for

  • PLU Theatre presents an exciting new production, The Shape of Things, opening May 3rd. The story is a twisted tale that explores what people are willing to do for love and what can happen when love takes things too far. The play written by Neil…

    a featured film starring Paul Rudd. The Shape of Things runs May 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 pm and May 5 (student discount performance) and 6 at 2 pm in the Studio Theater of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online on Eventbrite. $10 – General admission; $5 – 60+, military, PLU alumni and students; free – high school students and younger. The Shape of Things follows Adam, a college student who is a little overweight, not very confident, and without much going for

  • The Role of Water Among Women in Shillong, India By Katie Scaff ’13 Water is a prime resource, a basic human need, and a precious asset, according to Sister Helen Puwein, a native of Shillong, India and head of Bellefonte Community College. “Every living thing…

    ’ Read Next Alum donates $10,000 in equipment 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 "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Lutes celebrate another impactful Bjug Day of Giving: a PLU tradition in support

  • Pacific Lutheran University’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will host the spring virtual convening of The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness conference on March 30. The People’s Gathering conference is a day-long Zoom-based professional and personal development experience offering a supportive space to…

    in the public space. The conversation will examine what it means to double down on becoming an anti-racist leader.” Featured presenters for the morning session are PLU Professor of History Dr. Beth Kraig and Dr. Tessa Sutton, the assistant superintendent of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the South Bend School Corporation in Indiana.Kraig’s discussion, “Taking Stolen Goods Seriously,” will focus on how teaching history, in particular about racism in the United States, has become complicated

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2017)- The third biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on March 1 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Shamil Idriss, a global leader in diplomacy and global…

    approach to advocating for our causes,” he said. Established in 2013 and presented by the PLU Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, the Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of the extraordinary public servant killed on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. “To be invited to speak at an event that is named after Ambassador Stevens is genuinely an honor,” said Idriss. “What he represented in the way that he lived his life was a profound excitement, passion and

  • Digging into history When Bradford Andrews looks at an obsidian core in his hand, he doesn’t see its indigo beauty, as it sparks back against the spotlight. The palm-sized flake gives PLU’s assistant visiting professor of anthropology a window into the everyday life of a…

    up a window for Andrews and his students into a thriving agrarian culture that flourished in Mexico 500 years ago, before the conquest by the Spanish in 1521. This summer, Andrews and anthropology students Elisa Hoelter, ‘11 an David Treichel, ‘10 spent the summer down in Calixtlahuaca (pronounced Ka-less_TLA-wa-Ka), a village of 10,000 that flourished about 31 miles east of Mexico City, cataloging flakes. Thousands of flakes, arrowheads and other items.  As many as 9,000 in one month by

  • Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation By Barbara Clements The 2010 Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation, will feature many speakers and topics on the global impact of sports and recreation. Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and…

    the world’s attention to the plight of the population of Darfur. (Find out more about the Wang Canter International Symposium) In 2006, after winning two medals at the Turin Olympics, Cheek donated his $40,000 in award money to Right to Play, an international aid organization focused on bringing the benefits of sport and play to the most disadvantaged children in the world. Cheek’s donation inspired his sponsors and other athletes to collectively donate more than $1 million to children in Darfur

  • From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back again In 1994, Mike Halvorson was the first one to write a book about something nobody else cared about. The book? How to use a little-known software program called Microsoft Office. We can guess how that turned out.…

    described it, he “pushed the re-set button.” He decided to earn his master’s – then his Ph.D. – in European history. And soon thereafter, he found himself back at his alma mater teaching about Martin Luther and Reformation Germany (and writing books about the subject, of course). He realizes it is an odd combination: Not many people are experts in cutting-edge computer programming and 500-year old political and religious history. He’s also aware that some people might suggest that, in studying 16th

  • PLU and the UW have agreed to extend the deadline for completion of the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) for KUOW to acquire KPLU to  January 29, 2016 , so that the due diligence review can be concluded.  Additionally, the two universities have agreed to allow a community…

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  • In the summer of 2016, Rev. Jen Rude and her spouse Deb packed their things and drove two thousand miles West on Interstate 90 to a new home and a new call. Six-and-half years later, Rude is no longer PLU’s “new pastor from Chicago.” Now…

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