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  • It’s a warm summer morning and the scent of scrambled eggs drifts from the kitchen at Trinity Lutheran Church into an adjoining room where more than a dozen campers busily make beaded jewelry. Ranging from second to sixth grade, the kids are participants in the…

    students to pursue music. “As a Black individual, it’s really important to me to educate other students of color,” Oliver-Chandler, from Lakewood, Washington, says. “The music field is predominantly white, so I think it’s important for children to see someone like them who is making it in that field. It creates this positive cycle where they feel empowered.” Kaila Harris ’24 (left), Zyreal Oliver-Chandler ’25 (middle) and Madison Ely ’23 (right) give an enthusiastic thumbs up during AMP Camp

  • On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations . Interested PLU students…

    Amazon? For one thing, Amazon is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. It also has over 540,000 employees after the recent merger with Whole Foods, making it the second-largest employer in the United States. Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies The company started as an online bookstore in 1994 and later broadened its offerings to include video and audio content, electronics, apparel, furniture, and many of its own brands and

  • Melissa Castor ’14 helps a sixth grade student at Keithley Middle School with her math work. (Photos by John Froschauer) Lives of Service: It’s what neighbors do By Chris Albert In Mrs. Allen’s sixth grade math class at Keithley Middle School , Ms. Castor is…

    building and their seeing what happens when you make an effort and care about being stewards of hope. “One student started the year telling me ‘I don’t like school, I don’t like anything here,'” Hasse said. “And now she’s telling me how much she likes science.” “It’s working toward making a community connection,” Castor said. “We’re here for four years – how can I reach out? What’s my impact going to be? We’re really getting out there and starting to live that.” Club Keithley is about making that

  • Melissa Castor ’14 helps a sixth grade student at Keithley Middle School with her math work. (Photos by John Froschauer) Lives of Service: It’s what neighbors do By Chris Albert In Mrs. Allen’s sixth grade math class at Keithley Middle School , Ms. Castor is…

    building and their seeing what happens when you make an effort and care about being stewards of hope. “One student started the year telling me ‘I don’t like school, I don’t like anything here,'” Hasse said. “And now she’s telling me how much she likes science.” “It’s working toward making a community connection,” Castor said. “We’re here for four years – how can I reach out? What’s my impact going to be? We’re really getting out there and starting to live that.” Club Keithley is about making that

  • FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Ann Kullberg ’79 has never taken a formal art course, but her work is internationally known—and her story is as colorful as her art. Though the lines were not always straight, and there were rough patches along the way, Kullberg…

    creates colored-pencil masterpieces.Born in rural Japan to Lutheran missionary parents, Kullberg lived there until she was 7 and has loved drawing for as long as she can remember. She said her parents were incredibly supportive, always making sure she had art materials even “when the budget was already stretched too tight, and there really was no extra money.” Arriving at PLU in 1975 from her new home in Oregon, Kullberg was drawn (pun intended) not to art but instead to classes in Japanese, thanks to

  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career…

    is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. It also has over 540,000 employees after the recent merger with Whole Foods, making it the second-largest employer in the United States. The company started as an online bookstore in 1994 and later broadened its offerings to include video and audio content, electronics, apparel, furniture, and many of its own brands and products (Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo, AmazonBasics, Stone & Beam). Amazon

  • Originally published in 2012 There’s something strange that goes on with texts, readers, writers, and time. I mean, look at you: there you are, reading this now, in the spring of 2012. And here I am, in your past, and it’s not even (technically) winter…

    other publications. So tell us about your own language past and present, and help shape the future of languages at PLU. Professor Patrick Moneyang’s French class in 2017 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in UniversitiesIndigenizing the Academy Read Previous Sustainability in Monastic Communities Read Next Indigenizing the Academy LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender

  • Speakers tell PLU audiences to reach outside themselves Rich, diverse and often divergent voices came to PLU over the last year to challenge our outlook on life and our choices. Should one eat meat, or not? What of world hunger, the environment, corporate greed, genocide…

    400 orphans targeted to be hacked to death by local militia bands. He stressed that relationships and the willingness to stand firm helped him survive the horror and be at peace with his decision to stay. “You need to realize the potential of taking that first step,” he said. Read Previous Building relationships, building scholars Read Next College: First in family COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

  • Around the world to find a calling By Chris Albert While waiting for a flight, a fellow passenger starts to make small talk with Najib Abbas. The conversation starts with pleasantries, maybe they discuss the weather, but before long the fellow traveler will be telling…

    resiliency and ability to connect with his clients and his colleagues. He will be sorely missed in the program.” He recently finished an internship in West Seattle – at Navos. Being able to practice therapy showed Abbas that he had made the right decision. Like the guidance he received from the PLU MFT program faculty, the support from his Navos supervisor, Victor Place, enhanced his fire for MFT and helped set his path toward his passion. Being able to help clients reach clarity or help guide them

  • Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila reads “Into the Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea. Editor’s note: Luis Alberto Urrea, author of “Into the Beautiful North” will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in Lagerquist Concert Hall. The book you…

    context of the Tucson School Board’s decision to remove his works and many others, including Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” from the high school curriculum for fear that they would provoke ethnic pride and separatism. She stresses that beyond the story and relatability of the characters, it is important to think about the book in terms of current discourse and legislation about immigration and Americanization, discourse that can be ugly, ideological and censorious. While such topics may be weighty for