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Professor of Education Kent Gerlach Retiring After Award-Winning Career Posted by: Zach Powers / December 17, 2015 December 17, 2015 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 16, 2015)- Classrooms are taking in more students, budgets are decreasing and curricular standards are becoming more rigorous in the modern school atmosphere. With all of the challenges facing today’s educators, one teacher can’t do it alone anymore. Pacific Lutheran University Professor Kent

Reformation, and they pervade our campus in so many ways. In that sense, PLU is as “Lutheran” as it can be. I think what this alumna and others are intuitively asking is, “Yes, we see the emphasis on vocation and service to the community (which you wouldn’t normally see at a secular university), but is PLU still connected to the roots which give life to these things?” Tending to the “roots” requires the presence of a vital Campus Ministry, worship life including Morning Prayer and Sunday Eucharist

Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 1, 2013 April 1, 2013 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore before college. “My music is essentially dramatic, it’s story telling. Because I’ve spent

. Browning often returns to campus – he was, in fact, the opening night speaker at this year’s Holocaust conference. “Chris Browning built such momentum here and created this tremendous attention for PLU. Now when people throughout the United States and in Europe hear Pacific Lutheran University, they recognize it as an important center in Holocaust studies,” said Professor of History and recipient of the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Robert Ericksen. Ericksen himself is an internationally

Porter, Organist Widely known as a performer in the United States and in Europe, Dr. Porter has also achieved international recognition for his skill in improvisation in a wide variety of styles, ancient and modern. Read Previous Elise Rodrigues ’15 voted Eatonville School District Teacher of the Year Read Next A PLU Christmas, Winter Rose LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at University of Texas Posted by: nicolacs / November 8, 2021 November 8, 2021 The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program at UT Southwestern’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is an intensive summer research training experience designed for college students who are preparing for Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. careers in biomedical research. Fellows spend 10 weeks (beginning in early June and ending mid-August) pursuing individual

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at University of Texas Posted by: nicolacs / November 8, 2021 November 8, 2021 The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program at UT Southwestern’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is an intensive summer research training experience designed for college students who are preparing for Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. careers in biomedical research. Fellows spend 10 weeks (beginning in early June and ending mid-August) pursuing individual

the many benefits of my years at PLU, certainly my times studying abroad stand out as some of the greatest. I spent my entire sophomore year studying German language and culture in Freiburg, Germany. It was during that year that I first encountered significant works of Western Art, both in Germany and across Europe. This was, of course, a profound and formative experience, and one that nudged me- shoved me?!- in the direction I now travel. I credit PLU and professor emeritus Rodney Swenson with

backgrounds. "Your participation will make a difference in how this turns out. I hope to inspire people to find out more about the (Lutheran) tradition and to explore more fully what they can do to foster racial justice. "- Dr. Darrell Jodock The Lutheran tradition has a deep connection to the catalyst for the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public work was born out of an admiration for the work of Martin Luther, the leader who sparked the Reformation by asking difficult questions about

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