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  • Shannon Murphy ’07 loved exploring the beauty that surrounds Pacific Lutheran University’s campus — from majestic Mount Rainier to the sparkling Puget Sound. What she learned as a communication major with minors in public affairs and Spanish and during her time outdoors, set her on…

    internships, jobs, or volunteer experiences that you can before you graduate. While in college, I worked on my first state legislative campaign, had an internship with the City of Tacoma, and an internship at a nonprofit children’s museum in Portland. That gave me experience with a political campaign, a government office, and a nonprofit all of which was valuable experience to learn what I liked and didn’t about each role. Read Previous Passion for solving unanswered questions drives PLU alum’s research

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March. 16, 2020) — Pacific Lutheran University political science major Jeremy Knapp ‘21 swears he has no desire to run for office, but his resume speaks of someone with great political aspirations nonetheless. The junior turned 21 on March 4, and he already…

    years from now? Knapp: So, if I get here (to Olympia) and start working as an LA (legislative assistant) and then get offered a position in the governor’s office, I might very well take that position. If someone in the federal government wants me to work for them, I would be happy to jump into the federal Senate. I am very open, as long as I’m always supporting an amazing candidate who’s fighting for what we need. Read Previous Nicole Jordan ’15 discusses her new role at PLU’s Center for Gender

  • As the world was beginning to realize the enormity of COVID-19, two Pacific Lutheran University professors seized the 2020 moment to do significant research into the psychology of the pandemic. PLU Department of Psychology Chair Jon Grahe and his Statistics 232 students conducted a U.S.…

    Stat232 study featured a series of scales measuring general attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in relation to the pandemic in the U.S., including people’s trust in media, government, knowledge about the virus, its transmission and symptoms, and health behaviors.  One big challenge: getting folks to participate in a study about the pandemic when they were living in it.  “We wanted a large sample from across the country,” Grahe said. “I reached out to some networks. At first, they seemed to think I was

  • Growing up in a small town in Idaho, Lorelei Juntunen ’97 had not spent much time in cities. But when she moved to Parkland to attend PLU, she suddenly had access not only to local cities like Tacoma and Seattle, but also to cities across…

    residents rather than simply meeting antiquated government standards for affordable housing — Juntunen has designed policies to address rapid growth across the West, including in cities like Missoula and Boise. She’s also been able to work on a project closer to PLU: the process of returning Capitol Lake in Olympia to a natural estuary. With the state paying for dam removal and implementing the rebuilding of an estuary, additional sediment is predicted to flow into Budd Inlet. It’s a question of

  • In Cosmosis , the final 2013 SOAC FOCUS Series Event, musicians and scientists explore how failure can empower us to pursue knowledge and success. The three-part event will take place in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on Saturday, May 11, 2013…

    Galante. Cosmosis was inspired by the work of American poet, May Swenson. Her poem The Cross Spider is a response to the news of a Skylab experiment, a project seeing whether a spider, named Arabella, could spin a web in space. Her shape poem, Overboard (a play of gravity) serves as a prelude, which plays with musical equivalents of gravitational force following the shapes laid out in the poem. The spider succeeds in spinning a web on The First Night. A musical interlude follows, reflecting on the

  • Alice Giles, world-renowned harpist, will be performing at Pacific Lutheran University as part of her 2014 world tour on October 19 at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall. The multi-media performance commemorates the Centenary of the First Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. The first part of the…

    , was awarded the coveted Churchill International Fellowship and an Australia Council Grant to study in the USA and made her New York debut recital at Merkin Hall in 1983. The Alice Giles Concert is made possible by the generous support of The Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Harp Society, Patricia Wooster, and an anonymous donor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. Read Previous Going for a Grammy Read Next The Choir of the West: PLU’s Premier Choral Ensemble Keeps Particularly

  • PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and…

    April 26, 2013 PLU Student Involvement organized this year’s Relay For Life event on upper campus Friday April 26. (Photo by Thomas Soerenes ’14) Relay For Life at PLU raises nearly $20,000 By Jesse Major ’14 Roughly 200 people attended the PLU Relay For Life April 26 and raised nearly $20,000. Relay For Life is a volunteer-driven cancer fundraising event of the American Cancer Society. Each relay team is required to have one person walking on the track at all times during the event. Mackenzie

  • PLU students Karyssa Allbritton and Kristin Neuneker get a lesson in blowgun use from Bolivar Endominga in Ecuador on a 2012 Study Away program. (Photo by Kyle Monahan.) PLU ranks in Top 10 for Study Away Pacific Lutheran University ranked ninth in the nation in…

    . Department of State, PLU was ranked in the category “Leading Institutions by Undergraduate Participation in Study Abroad: Top 40 Master’s Institutions.” The report found that the number of U.S. students studying abroad expanded by 3.4 percent to an all-time high of 283,332 in 2011-12, quadrupling over the past two decades from 71,000 students in 1991-92. PLU’s Study Away program is a fundamental element of the university’s commitment to global education. PLU was the first American university to have

  • Pacific Lutheran University alumnus and stage actor Jay Paranada ‘06 will deliver the commencement addresses at the virtual ceremonies for PLU’s classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 29. Paranada majored in sociology at PLU, and also studied at the University of York in England…

    Broadway performer Jay Paranada ‘06 to speak at spring commencement ceremonies Posted by: bennetrr / May 4, 2021 May 4, 2021 Pacific Lutheran University alumnus and stage actor Jay Paranada ‘06 will deliver the commencement addresses at the virtual ceremonies for PLU’s classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 29. Paranada majored in sociology at PLU, and also studied at the University of York in England and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. His cast credits include New York

  • Cover art by Ta-coumba T. Aiken Intersections, Number 50, Fall 2019 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning,…

    Classroom Martha E. Stortz Seeing in a New Way: A Meditation Rev. Kara Baylor Conciliatory and Queer: the Radical Love of Lutheran Higher Education Kiki Kosnick and Sharon Varallo Book Review – The American Myth of White Supremacy: A Review of Myths America Lives By Susan VanZanten Other – Twenty-Sixth Annual Vocation of Lutheran Higher Education Conference From the Publisher Mark Wilhelm From the Editor Jason Mahn View the Full Issue Online Interested in contributing to Intersections with your own