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first-year residence hall. All Lutes are encouraged to participate, to highlight the importance of food beyond taste and presentation. Food is about coming together and sharing an experience, exercising hospitality and building community. Share your experience and check out www.plu.edu/resolute later this month to see what’s cookin’. Deadline for submissions is May 18, but early submissions are strongly recommended. Read Previous PLU alumna, first black woman to serve as state senator, dedicated 20

objectives of Summer Academy include building a strong community of support around incoming students and ensuring students know how to access the many supportive resources offered by the university. Ciscell pointed to research that suggests achieving these objectives can be paramount to a student’s long-term collegiate success. “We know that one of the biggest retention factors for students is whether they make a connection on campus, be it with a club, student organization or faculty or staff member

improv is what it does for the human brain.  There’s exciting new research about what’s called the Default Mode Network (DMN): it’s the home of creativity, and flow, innovation and breakthrough insight. Improv strengthens the DMN. It activates empathy, self-value, and the synthesis of ideas. Improvisational relationships — where each relationship participant is equal and unique — are healthy, productive, synergistic relationships. And so, businesses thrive when the minds that make them up are improv

to imagine they won’t. Plus, the top-of-the-line soccer ball and T-shirt that all campers receive thanks to Hacker’s USA Soccer-forged relationship with Nike can surely only help. Read Previous PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” Read Next School of Business Faculty Member Elected President of CFA Society Seattle 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

-specific perks you may not have heard about: Music Lessons Have you been itching to learn Blackbird on the guitar? Have you wanted to learn how to play something other than The Office theme song on the piano? Good news: The Music Department offers lessons to Lutes regardless of major! Beginning musicians simply can head to the Music office, on the second floor of the Mary Baker Russell building, and fill out a questionnaire. Students then can choose whether they’d like to take the lessons for one or

protections for Queer people in housing and employment in the City of Seattle. By studying the political factions that united at this time, Gracie hopes to understand more deeply the importance of coalition-building, in which disparate groups align based on a shared priority, such as labor rights or economic necessity. The faculty mentor for this project is Peter Grosvenor (Global Studies, Sociology). Gracie has served most recently as President of the Associated Students of PLU. The Benson summer

heritage speakers, designed to affirm and build on the language abilities of students who grew up speaking Spanish but may not have had the opportunity to study it formally. Due to its focus on the inherent relationship between language and identity, and Latino/a experiences in the United States, the course fulfills the “Alternative Perspectives” General Education requirement. The second course in the series, HISP 252, can be applied to a Hispanic Studies major or minor. “It’s a great way to honor the

in China, England and Holden Village in the Cascades. Her experiences humanized other countries, she said, and she decided to get involved. Going from involvement to the internship, however, was a long process. After being accepted, Lee applied for financial aid and received the Joe Smith Peace Building Award from PLU. “I want to give credit where credit is due,” Lee said. “Without the award, this wouldn’t be possible. I just want to thank everyone involved … who believed in me.” Lee’s award will

he had a really profound impact, not only across the Arab world but also in the U.S.” On March 1 at PLU, Idriss will encourage attendees to lean into the process of achieving peace and building communities defined by civil discourse and cooperation. “Peace is not just the absence of violence, but also the presence of something,” Idriss said. “Now in this country, as well as in a number of other countries across the world, that’s never been so much on people’s mind.” Admission to the third

most recent project – an untitled book that aims to help students promote themselves, get jobs and start building their careers. Sears spoke at the Executive Leadership Series, hosted by the School of Business, on Feb. 22 to give PLU students a sneak peek. The series supports business programs at PLU by giving industry and organizational leaders a platform to share their expertise and insight.Executive Leadership SeriesNext speaker March 14 Maureen Faccia, Director of Women’s Careline and Retail