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Convocation, Opening of the New Year Posted by: Thomas Krise / September 9, 2014 September 9, 2014 PLU marks the opening of our ‘new year’ with Convocation. This ceremony dates back to customs from medieval universities meant to welcome new students and new faculty, and to set intentions for the year ahead — together. This morning, I had the honor of speaking to our Lute community and sharing in the tradition and energy of the day! Creating a culture of sustainable and responsible citizenship

-in day 2024 September 4, 2024 PLU Director of Athletics and Recreation Mike Snyder named President of NADIIIAA August 16, 2024 PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie Johnson July 24, 2024 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024

Editor Gary Jasinek, sat down and gave Wells the cold hard facts of journalism: He was probably going to face long hours and make half of what he was making at AT&T. Maybe less. But Wells was resolute. “I remember wanting to feel involved in something, something larger than myself.” The interview concluded, and Wells was walking out of the door of the TNT and into the fall sunshine, figuring “oh well, back to PR” when he heard someone hail him. Jasinek told Wells that an internship would be available

still follow that stuff avidly,” Youtz says. “I wanted to be a philosopher, I wanted be a historian, I love anthropology, of course I have no formal training in any of these. “Music just kept pulling me back.” Arriving in Champagne, Youtz signed on as an able-bodied migrant laborer, picking champagne grapes along the French countryside. Following four weeks of fieldwork, Youtz hitchhiked south with burgundy-stained digits, and stumbled into employment at L’Aigle (The Eagle), a ski resort nestled

, 2016)- The scene: a cramped room somewhere in a Pacific Lutheran University residence hall at the beginning of the millennium. The characters: five nerdy dudes, each with a handful of dice and plenty of junk food.This is “The Gamers,” a film produced by a bunch of Lutes that started as a fun side project and turned into a viral movement and lifelong vocation. It follows the group as they work their way through the latest round of a role-playing fantasy game during their time as students at the

cranking out five introductions (one for each part of the Work) in the space of three months; we knew these would be crucial for allowing readers to understand Dupin’s context and appreciate her claims.  Wow, that is a lot of work! Yeah, and clearly, the jurors who selected our book for the 2024 French-American Foundation Translation Prize took a broad view of translation. They embraced all of the labor that went into making Dupin’s Work on Women accessible to English speakers, and we are so moved by

named President of NADIIIAA August 16, 2024 PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie Johnson July 24, 2024 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024

Jazz Under the Stars 20th anniversary and concert lineup announced Posted by: Kate Williams / May 8, 2018 Image: Ranger and the Re-Arrangers, an Eclectic string swing band, perform for Jazz Under the Stars in the Mary Baker Russell Amphitheater at PLU, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 8, 2018 By Kate WilliamsOutreach ManagerThe 2018 Jazz Under the Stars series will begin on Thursday, July 19 in the outdoor amphitheater of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. This

Studies program, which is welcoming its first class of new minors this year. In the program, there is always an emphasis on encouraging students to think about problems, big and small, in new ways. This could be in a business setting or connected to a social project or new idea that a student has come up with. To learn more about innovation, I sat down with Kory Brown (Assistant Professor, School of Business) in order to gain a better idea of how the business world views innovation and puts it into

How Matt Bliss ’98 turned a family tradition into Modern Christmas Trees Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 18, 2020 Image: Alumnus Matt Bliss ’98 (photo by JC Buck) November 18, 2020 By Kat BrazPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterAs a child, Matt Bliss ’98 relished celebrating the holidays at his grandparents’ Broomfield, Colorado, home where the Christmas tree was anything but ordinary. Bliss’s grandfather, Lawrence Stoecker, designed his own tree, an artful cascade of concentric rings