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  • Meant to Live: Keynote speaker shows a passion for service and nursing By Barbara Clements When Charleen Tachibana, ’77, first stepped on to the Pacific Lutheran University campus, she knew she had found a place that felt like home. Tachibana had moved out to the…

    matched my own,” she says. “This job is my vocation, and I haven’t had any reason to move on to another organization.” After starting work at Virginia Mason in 1977, she rose through the ranks until she reached her current position in July 2007. As the chief nursing officer, Tachibana oversees 1,000 nurses, providing support so they can do their jobs. Tachibana has taken several trips to Japan to study their management techniques, and has returned to Virginia Mason more energized than ever. “Those

  • PLU’s first solar panel system arrives in 2012 By: Katie Scaff ’13 PLU is that much closer to being carbon neutral by 2020 thanks to a $50,000 Solar 4R Schools grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The grant will pay for a 20-ft solar panel…

    October 21, 2011 PLU’s first solar panel system arrives in 2012 By: Katie Scaff ’13 PLU is that much closer to being carbon neutral by 2020 thanks to a $50,000 Solar 4R Schools grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The grant will pay for a 20-ft solar panel system, which will be installed on the Facilities Building   in March 2012.Designs are currently underway. Chrissy Cooley, sustainability manager through facilities management, worked with students to write the grant, and

  • Sol y Luna is a center in Mexico that serves severely disabled children. (Photos by Greg Williams) Drawn to serve By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU professor Greg Williams Mexico is more than a spot to vacation – it’s a place to continue his service…

    and Leadership at PLU, started his teaching career at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center, a state institution in Bremerton, which closed earlier this year. At the time, it served autistic children ages 3 to 13. “That was my first introduction really to teaching and being responsible for the instructional management of kids with those types of disabilities,” Williams said. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCaTNPMKwgQ Thirty-seven years later, Williams is still doing this work. “I’m still working with

  • State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series Fall 2012 Business leaders throughout industry come to PLU to share their insight through the State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series. Lectures are held in Leraas Hall, Rieke Science Center from 6 to 7 p.m., with refreshments served from…

    savings of $75 million. Prior to working as a Project Manager, she was a member of the executive management team that launched and managed a 1200+ person financial call center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This Business Center was responsible for managing a $27.2 billion portfolio in an 18-state region. Krise also was one of the founding Market Representation Managers responsible for building the Infiniti franchise network. She successfully recruited, selected & installed 16 dealers in a 22-state

  • This past summer, Nathan Page ’13, left, worked on Mt. Rainier conducting research on glaciers. Each week, the group spent two nights on Mt. Rainier, hiking anywhere from three to 15 miles to their research area, collecting a sample before bed, then getting up at…

    When college students dream up the perfect summer, it usually doesn’t involve getting up at 3 a.m. to take water samples, living out of your backpack, and sleeping in the trees. But for geosciences major Nathan Page, there was no better way to spend the last summer of his undergraduate education. Page set out on a series of research trips with four of his peers and Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Claire Todd to study waste management on Mt. Rainier. It was a great way

  • Anthony Markuson ’14, Bill Pursell (Kelsie Leu’s uncle), Anna McCracken ’13, and Leu ’13 summited Mt. Kilimanjaro to celebrate the end of their study away experiences. One step at a time By Chris Albert The guides up the mountain keep a cadence of “pole, pole”…

    will call me back.” Last spring, the three friends realized they were all going to be studying in Africa for the fall semester. McCracken had plans to travel to South Africa to study social and political transformation. Leu would be in Zanzibar, where she would study coastal ecology and work on a waste-management program. Markuson, who intends to go to medical school after graduation, would be in Botswana where he would work on community health issues. Africa is a big place. But they knew they had

  • By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communication Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 24, 2014)—Longtime teacher (and former PLU student and instructor) Andrew Milton has released his first book, centered on the regulations and social expectations that are harmful to our schools. Milton has been…

    Education, discusses the regulations and politics that have become ingrained in many school systems. As he explains, “The pattern in which regulators assume a program will have a predictable effect on all schools, regardless of circumstances, is seriously detrimental.” Milton discusses that as school regulations move from local to state to federal governments, the requirements become more intense, yet less useful to the classroom setting. This book argues increasing governmental management, in other

  • Michael Burris ’09 worked at the intersection of business and healthcare since before even graduating from PLU with a business major and economics minor . While in his third year at PLU, he began an internship with MultiCare Health Systems, working as the CFO’s “right-hand…

    third year at PLU, he began an internship with MultiCare Health Systems, working as the CFO’s “right-hand man.” He was offered a job before graduation. Now, Burris lives in North Tacoma with his wife Claire and 18-month-old son Van and has worked at Sound Physicians for eight years. As regional president, Burris delivers Sound Physicians’ strategic and operational management of inpatient care for health systems nationwide, and leads a dynamic team that measurably improves quality, satisfaction and

  • Making Marty is no easy task. Martin Luther sculpture at PLU, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Spencer Ebbinga, associate professor of art and design, has been busy working on a special project: 17-inch statues of Martin Luther. These colorful gems are hidden around…

    with an emphasis in ceramics and sculpture, and later went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Arizona State University. I was hired as an assistant professor of art at PLU 10 years ago, and have been making gigantic messes ever since! Read Previous Just a spark: Student-faculty research explores technology and argument Read Next Helping one bowl at a time LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive

  • Bonnie Nelson ’08 on top of a bactrian camel in Mongolia. (Photo courtesy of Bonnie Nelson) A volunteer experience in an elementary school sets alum on path to Mongolia By Barbara Clements University Communications After growing up in a small town near Chehalis, Wash., Bonnie…

    surprised me,” she said. “I’d be in a grocery line and someone in traditional dress would be buying something like an iPad.” Aside from the fact there are no trees within eyeshot, or mountains – “I miss Mount Rainier!” – Nelson has had to get used to the cold. She has a nice apartment at Mongolian University of Science & Technology, sometimes the heater doesn’t work. And when it’s 20 degrees below out, that can be a problem. “I wrap up in all the blankets I have and get near a space heater,” she laughed