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PLU Chinese studies chair serves as catalyst for cross-cultural arts and poetry project; related symposium comes to campus Posted by: Kari Plog / October 6, 2016 October 6, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 6, 2016)- The scholarship of a Pacific Lutheran University faculty member has evolved into a three-part, cross-cultural project that brings together artists and scholars from around the world.Paul Manfredi, chair of Chinese studies, recently published his

Sarah Saavedra ’22 shares her experience as a first-gen college student Posted by: vcraker / June 8, 2022 Image: Sarah Saavedra ’22, poses for a photo, Friday, March 18, 2022, at PLU. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) June 8, 2022 Sarah Saavedra ’22 is a social work major with a minor in psychology and a certificate in Peace Corps Prep. The Auburn resident is the first in her family to go to college. She credits her many scholarships for navigating college as a first-year student. While at PLU

Lutheran University as interim dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology. Bergeson has extensive experience in state education, having served as Washington state superintendent of public instruction from 1997 to 2009, and as executive director of the Washington Commission on Student Learning from 1993 to 1996.  Bergeson was most recently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she taught a course in Human Resources in Educational Institutions to students pursuing

Endowed Internship Allows Lute a Full-Circle Vocational First Step Posted by: Zach Powers / August 6, 2015 Image: Patricia Krise, Jessica Milian ’15 and PLU President Thomas W Krise at the Gonyea House. [Photo by John Struzenberg ’16/PLU] August 6, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ’18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (August 6, 2015) — Thanks to a major award, one Lute is spending her summer in a juvenile detention center — as a mentor who is paying it forward.Jessica Milian ’15 is the second

,” Dean said. “It means that I can go to school next year.” Before Price died in August 2015, he was named an honorary member of the Red Feather Warrior Society by a Oglala Lakota medicine man and tribal leader. The honor is bestowed on soldiers who have fought in war. Both Price and Farnum were honored as members and given a carved buffalo leg bone, shaped into a feather and painted in red ochre. “He was very touched by that,” Farnum said of his father-in-law. “He lived up in Skagit Valley so he knew

grade. “I never really looked back,” she recalled. “I wanted to do exactly what I’m doing today.”PLU AthleticsLearn more about PLU teams and the community service work they perform.Cohen said the support from the legendary coach and others means a lot, especially as a woman in her male-dominated field. She’s only the second female AD in UW history and the only current female AD in the Pac-12 Conference. Cohen said PLU was a perfect fit for her. She served as a graduate assistant, working primarily

. And Meyer loves fairy tales. She was entranced when she first watched The Little Mermaid at 5 years old. But she never quite figured out how to combine those two passions until she had a dream one night in 2008 about Cinderella as a cyborg and her foot falling off as she tried to run away from the ball. “I woke up and said, ‘Thank you, subconscious,’” Meyer laughed during a recent visit to campus. Meyer is currently writing the fourth book of her Luna Series, which places fairy-tale characters

people see things differently you go “Holy crap. Maybe the way that I see things has a reason, a history and there’s a why to the way I think and perceive the world.” I feel like everybody should learn another language. I feel that what learning another language does is super important to our development as humans. Learning and understanding language as a network of meanings and a system of communication; learning how language shapes our world view and everything, and how it actually works, all of

PLU faculty member and acclaimed filmmaker were friends as teens in Mexico City, will reunite for screening of “Güeros” Posted by: Zach Powers / April 19, 2016 Image: “Güeros is an Alice in Wonderland in Mexico City, an incredible visual and sensory exercise on a group of characters orphans of home and identity.” -Alejandro Alemán, El Universal April 19, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April. 19, 2016)- ``Güeros,`` an award-winning drama set in Mexico City

global education, student research, embracing lives of service and fostering PLU’s Lutheran Heritage. “Working together the campus community has realized so many important dreams,” Anderson said. “All of us together have sharpened and focused our mission as a Lutheran university. Together we have achieved our goals to cultivate academic excellence, to enhance our global perspective, to build an engaged community and to nurture life as vocation in the fullest sense. “Our community has turned these