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PLU receives a major gift to fund environmental issues programming Posted by: nicolacs / October 3, 2022 Image: Image: Appearing from left to right: Professor Sergia Hay, President Allan Belton, David Steen ’57, Lorilie Steen ’58, and Chair of Environmental Studies Adela Ramos accepts the generous gift to fund the PLU Environmental Studies program’s new annual symposium. October 3, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University is excited to announce the

February 17, 2010 Sports brings the world to PLU – The Wang Center Symposium By Barbara Clements International sports will be on everyone’s mind as first the Winter Olympics wraps up in Vancouver BC next week, which will be followed a month later by the Paralympics in March. Tucked in between these two events, PLU will host the 2010 Wang Center International Symposium on March 4 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center and on the PLU campus. The event will feature numerous international thinkers

November 1, 2010 Cammocks ensure PLU remains a place for students to grow By Chris Albert There is one thing Craig Cammock ’91 finds to be true every time he encounters a Lute in the world: “They’re always a pleasure to run into.” It’s a big reason why Cammock and his wife, Carrie, support education at Pacific Lutheran University through financial support to initiatives like Q Club student scholarships, the Morken Center, the athletic fields and gifts to the economics department, which included

January 1, 2013 Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in April of 2012 after winning second place in the Raphael Lemkin essay contest in March of the same year for my paper “Letters Written in Blood: the Holocaust in Poetry”. The fellowship application was for the

Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies at PLU. McCracken, a global studies and anthropology major, said that after she graduates, she hopes to do volunteer work with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, and work with countries or communities in conflict “to build a common community and move forward.” McCracken said she found her passion when she spent time in Northern Ireland, last J-term, and last fall in South Africa. “After those experiences, I decided, ‘yes!’ this is what I want to do,” she said

March 18, 2013 PLU chef prepares to blow his competition’s taste buds away PLU chef Chuk Blessum will compete in the National Association of College & University Food Services March 21. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) By Katie Baumann ’14 For the fifth year in a row, Pacific Lutheran University is sending one of its own talented chefs to compete in the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) Pacific Regional Culinary Competition. In the past four years, PLU has taken

July 13, 2014 PLU Awarded PSE Foundation Grant to Update Campus Emergency-Notification System PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University has received a $15,000 grant from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation to increase the university’s capacity to respond to the campus community and the public during emergencies and natural disasters. As a result, PLU is implementing a new Emergency Notification System this summer: the Metis Secure MS-5100 Indoor Emergency Help Station. For less

October 2, 2014 PLU Line Cook is Set to Sizzle at National Competition Jason Sipe, an MBA student and line cook at the Anderson University Center, has been selected to compete in the first-ever ment’or Young Chef Competition. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)  By Taylor Lunka ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Most days, MBA student Jason Sipe works as a line cook at PLU’s Anderson University Center. But on Oct. 30, he’ll take his considerable culinary skills to the swanky

PLU Idol Competition Takes to the Stage During J-Term Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 13, 2015 January 13, 2015 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 12, 2015)—Once Ryan Seacrest starts in with his trademark “THIS is ‘American Idol’” catchphrase on TV, you know another Idol is just waiting in the wings. Yep. It’s time for PLU Idol. Same premise as the national singing competition—but decidedly PLU. “PLU Idol is a traditional event hosted by the Residence Hall

PLU’s Black Student Union Holds ‘Die-In’ To Show Solidarity Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 7, 2015 Image: PLU’s Black Student Union has scheduled a Die-in protest for April 8 to continue the discussion on racial inequality begun after events in Ferguson, Missouri. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 7, 2015 By Matthew Salzano '18 PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 7, 2015)—The Black Student Union of Pacific Lutheran University is holding a ``Die-In`` protest at 10:30 a.m. April