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Jon Grande ’92 was an intern at Microsoft the summer before he enrolled at PLU. His supervisor was a young marketing manager named Melinda French. He remembers advice Melinda — now Melinda French Gates — gave him a few weeks before the fall semester began.…
helping them turn that passion into a craft.” Grande often jokes that “making games isn’t curing cancer.” But he finds meaning and reward in designing experiences that people can do for fun to escape the more urgent matters in life. “It’s fun building games that I know my friends and family are going to enjoy and can bring a smile to people’s faces.”Lute Powered is a series highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known organizations in the Puget Sound region. Jon Grande ’92 is the second of
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Clarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU’s art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn’t easy—she had a child during her senior year, and juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as…
people will respect that.”Lute Powered is a project highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known organizations across the Puget Sound region. Clarissa Gines ’12 is the second of three Lutes being featured from the City of Tacoma. Previous Lute Powered series highlighted PLU alumni at Amazon and MultiCare Health System. × × Read Previous City of Tacoma environmental scientist Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 loves asking questions Read Next Lisa Woods ’92 helps move Tacoma forward as the city’s Chief
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Last October, a new club emerged on campus: the Student Neurodiversity Club. Although small, this club is having a growing impact on the PLU community. When attending a recent SNC meeting in the first floor Stuen lounge, I was greeted by a cheerful collective of…
A new space for neurodiverse students on campus Posted by: Zach Powers / April 27, 2023 Image: Members of PLU’s Student Neurodiversity Club at a recent meeting. Club president Ryan Browne is top row, second in on the right side. (Photo by Alex Reed) April 27, 2023 By Alex Reed ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Student WriterLast October, a new club emerged on campus: the Student Neurodiversity Club. Although small, this club is having a growing impact on the PLU community.When attending a
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First, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we definitely care about you and your growth as a learner, a person, and a historian. Whether you are starting…
The Smooth Path to a BA in History! Ready to Join Us? Posted by: shimkojm / October 17, 2018 Image: Prof. Gina Hames and history major Sandra Estrada ’20 October 17, 2018 By Department of HistoryFirst, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we definitely care about you and your growth as a learner, a person, and a historian. Whether you are starting your first year, your second, or your third
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‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of…
horror that was going on in lower Manhattan that day,” Senn told us. “Going into work I had a spring in my step, couldn’t wait to get there.” Everything changed at 8:45 a.m. As soon as he arrived on scene, he witnessed the tail end of the second plane just before it hit the south tower. Looking up at the towers, he said he could see people in the windows one hundred floors up. They started jumping. “It was an excess of 100 degrees up there,” Senn said. “They knew this was it. There was nothing we
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 13, 2017)- “We made a magazine!” Taryn Collis exclaimed to a group of Pacific Lutheran University students and several inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. “It’s impressive,” continued Collis, an actor and educator with Seattle-based Freehold Theatre Lab Studio. “Everybody…
as well as a diversity and literature class. “They rise to the challenge,” Smith said of the inmates she teaches. “They are just amazing students. They support each other and cheer each other on.” In spring 2014, Smith’s work at PLU — which includes serving as director of the Center for Gender Equity — and her work at WCCW collided. The student directors for “The Vagina Monologues” connected with Collis to bring the production to the prison. The audience was “electrified,” as Smith says, leading
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As you know, PLU went through a difficult process of prioritization this year, responding to lower enrollments and seeking to proactively budget for a sustainable future rather than wait until we reached emergency conditions. This led to hard conversations and hard choices, ultimately made by…
understanding ancient literature in regards to sexuality and autonomy and critiques the current systems we have in place of acknowledging sexuality and addressing issues of consent. We are incredibly proud of these and all our other Classics graduates. We regret that this effective, innovative, and valuable program will no longer be available as a major, but we are very happy to be retaining our Classics minor, and a related minor in Early Christian Studies through a partnership with the Religion Department
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 22, 2018) — It’s official. The Class of 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University is wrapping up the final list of “lasts.” There are the lasts that students (soon to be alumni) are likely happy to bid farewell: the last final, the last…
?” Brass’ post-graduation plans are a bit unorthodox: he’ll spend a year at a temple in China studying wing-chun and shaolin style Kung Fu. “I am mainly going for my mind, body and spirit,” Brass said. “I know I’ll have to push myself, exactly like I pushed myself at PLU.” One of Brass’ highlights from his time at PLU was his internship — and now volunteer service — at the Puyallup Activity Center. He teaches a functional mobility class for seniors, helping them with movements that make everyday
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Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…
said. In the weeks leading up to J-Term, all 14 students agreed to community guidelines, including two specific to Inauguration Day. For one, they vowed to stick together, making the decision to navigate the event in one or two groups. Second, as their instructors suggested, they planned to be “neutral observers.” The morning of the inauguration, Sill, Schletter and eight students boarded a Metro train at Bethesda Station and headed downtown. Six other students in the class left more than an hour
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PLU can connect you to out-of-this-world professional experiences through internships ! PLU even offers scholarships for internship-related expenses so you can get the internship experience without worrying about funding. Downs is weighing a severely emaciated juvenile Golden Eagle about two weeks after he was first…
Internships: Breana Downs ’24 spends the summer with native birds at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance Posted by: mhines / November 22, 2023 Image: Breana Downs ’24 is glove training one of Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance’s ambassadors, Kingston! Kingston is a Red-Tailed Hawk who was admitted as a patient just over a year ago after running into a second-story window on one of his very first flights. (All photos in this article are provided by Breana Downs.) November 22, 2023 PLU can connect
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