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February 21, 2008 Dealing in historical coins is rare gift Todd Imhof ’86 wasn’t planning a career in rare coin dealing when he left PLU with a degree in political science. In fact, he was leaving for New York to work in the banking business at Chase. Then a friend from high school pulled him aside and told him about a business idea to sell rare coins. Imhof jumped in, begging off Wall Street and opening Hertzberg Rare Coins in Tacoma. “I found myself intrigued by both the coins and the

June 26, 2009 MBA student says program gives him flexibility and challenges in “real time”. “One might say that Bryan Hopkins has received his masters in world travels already after working at Intel Corp. research and development site in DuPont, WA. His job as a project development manager for server platforms at the research and development site has allowed him to travel extensively in the Far East, including trips to China, Taiwan, Malaysia, as well as trips to Europe and Africa. And although

January 3, 2011 Student-satisfaction remains high in national survey PLU continues to exceed national norms on 10 of 12 scales. By Greg Brewis According to the results of a national survey, student satisfaction with PLU continues to exceed national norms on 10 of 12 scales. The Student Satisfaction Inventory asks students to identify the issues that are most important to them. It’s the primary tool used by PLU – and many other universities – to assess the effectiveness of campus services. PLU

May 14, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlyO7OxYBp4 Rowing ropes in students from other sports By Katie Scaff ’13 While most of campus is still asleep, 29 students are up eating their oatmeal or their bananas and piling into their cars to drive to American Lake. They typically arrive around 4:50 a.m., so they have enough time to open the boathouse and carry the boats and gear down to the water. “One foot in,” the coxswain will direct them, “and in,” and off they go onto the cool dark

March 1, 2013 PLU pair starts theater company in NYC By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Tristan and Julie Morris are quite the couple. They graduated from PLU together in 2008 and took off to pursue their performing careers. In 2011???, the couple decided to start their own non-profit theater company, Babel, to help other performers get ahead in the business. “I think it is a wonderful place where a community can come together and learn what it means to be human,” said Tristan Morris. “It is a place to

May 7, 2013 PLU President Tom Krise teaches a course on Caribbean literature during the spring semester. (Photos by John Froschauer) President Krise goes to the front of the class…to teach By Katie Scaff ’13 When students walked into Admin 214 at the beginning of spring semester for English 216: African and Caribbean short stories, some were a little surprised to find the university president, Tom Krise, standing in the front of the room with Professor Barbara Temple-Thurston. “There were some

PLU Receives $14,000 in NADA Foundation Grants Posted by: Sandy Dunham / May 21, 2015 Image: (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 21, 2015 By PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (May 21, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University has received two $7,000 grants from the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation.The donations were made through the NADA Foundation’s Joseph J. Sanchez Memorial Fund, which supports the emergency needs of students, and the John P. Winston Sr. Memorial Fund

Lutes storm annual Wayzgoose event in Tacoma Posted by: Kari Plog / May 2, 2017 Image: Students transport one of many giant prints created with a carved 3-by-3-foot sheet of linoleum and a steamroller at the 13th annual Wayzgoose letterpress festival in Tacoma on Sunday, April 30. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) May 2, 2017 TACOMA, Wash. (May 2, 2017)—Pacific Lutheran University students and instructors participated in the 13th annual Wayzgoose on April 29-30. Lutes joined the annual letterpress

Firmly Committed: In Response to DACA decision Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 6, 2017 Image: In the spring of 2016, students, staff and faculty joined in on the PLU4US: For and With Undocumented Students crowd funding campaign to raise over $30,000 for undocumented PLU students (Photo: PLU/Hansel Doan) September 6, 2017 Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm

PLU announces new major in criminal justice Posted by: Zach Powers / April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 11, 2020) — Pacific Lutheran University is announcing a new major in criminal justice. Officially launching in fall 2020, the new program is designed for students interested in a wide variety of career fields, including law, policing, corrections, and victim services and advocacy.“PLU is known for being a service-focused institution