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engage in fulfilling and meaningful work. The program promotes and provides a number of opportunities for the PLU community to engage with, discern, and live out their vocation. The Center’s official mission can be found at plu.edu/vocation. We spoke with Laree Winer, associate director for The Wild Hope Center for Vocation, about the grant and how it will be used to create the Wild Hope Institute to continue to fund the program’s mission.  How would you describe the mission of the Wild Hope Center

Pacific Lutheran University Choirs and Orchestra close “Passion Week” with North American premiere Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 11, 2016 March 11, 2016 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach Manager The Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, Choral Union and the University Symphony Orchestra perform the North American premiere of the “St. Matthew Passion” by Sven-David Sandström, one of the world’s best-known composers, on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8:00 pm in Lagerquist

PLU Holds Inaugural Day of Vocation on April 8 Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 11, 2015 Image: Wild Hope Center for Vocation Director Lynn Hunnicutt, left, meets with two of this year’s Wild Hope Fellows, Evan Schmidt ’16, center, and Carli Snyder ’17. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 11, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 11, 2015)—You hear the word “vocation” a lot at Pacific Lutheran University—in fact, Lutes pretty much have heard about (and

Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Kate Williams '16The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Dance Center for New Music at the University of Georgia

August 24, 2010 Endowment support ensures the growth of ‘intellectual capital’ Throughout PLU’s history, thousands of alumni and friends of the university have been remarkably generous in providing the financial resources that have helped the university succeed. This kind of broad support made possible the construction of the first building on campus, Old Main (now Harstad Hall), and the latest, the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, as well as many of the buildings in between. Similar

Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 18, 2023 Image: Margaret Murdoch ’24 spent the summer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center researching acute myeloid leukemia cells. (All photos provided by Murdoch.) October 18, 2023 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsMargaret Murdoch ’24, a biology and religious studies major with a minor in gender and sexuality studies, spent their summer in Seattle alongside some of the nation’s best

November 4, 2010 Holocaust scholar investigates Nazi campaign to “criminalize” Jews By Barbara Clements Michael Berkowitz first came to Professor Robert Ericksen’s attention about 10 years ago, when he first spotted the aspiring Holocaust scholar at the Ohio State University. Since then, Ericksen – PLU’s Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies – has followed Berkowitz’s career. Prof. Michael Berkowitz will speak at the fall lecture in Holocaust Studies in November on his recent book. The next

September 7, 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor Rosalind Billharz teaches a nursing class on pathophysiology this summer at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) A champion for microbes By Barbara Clements University Communications Everyone, or thing, however small, needs a champion. And for the microbes of the world, they certainly have that in Rosalind Billharz, a visiting assistant professor of biology at Pacific Lutheran University who taught an advanced pathophysiology course for nurses this