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  • New dean of the School of Business named An expert in marketing, management and organizational behavior has been named dean of the School of Business. James L. Brock, 63, has had a distinguished career in higher education administration, teaching and writing. He has been the…

    to provide proven leadership to our talented business faculty and to take full advantage of our new facilities in PLU’s Morken Center for Learning and Technology,” Killen said. “The campus community looks forward to continued collaboration with Dean Brock on our current endeavor to build our values-based business program into one of the truly distinctive, top-quality programs in the West,” she said. Brock sees the position as an opportunity to “help galvanize the PLU School of Business and

  • Kari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier…

    Journalists of Western Washington. Plog, who as a PLU student majored in Journalism and served as Editor-in-Chief of The Mast, a producer for Media Lab, and student writer for University Communications, says she’s loved nearly every moment of her career thus far. When and why did you decide you wanted to be a journalist?  After 9/11, I realized how little I knew about current events and the world around me — and that really bothered me. At that point, I realized that the best way to learn about the world

  • Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s…

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens May 10 Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / May 2, 2013 May 2, 2013 Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s off. The show runs May 9 (Student Preview), 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 7:30 pm and May 19 at 2 pm

  • Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s…

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opens May 10 Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / May 2, 2013 May 2, 2013 Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s off. The show runs May 9 (Student Preview), 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 7:30 pm and May 19 at 2 pm

  • About five years ago, Donovan Conley realized his passion for cooking and good food was something more than a pastime. As an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Nevada, it dawned on him that food had everything to do with his scholarly work.…

    possibilities,” Conley says. The SOAC FOCUS Series brings together SOAC’s talented students and faculty to examine a chosen theme through a multidisciplinary approach. Through music, art, dance, theatre and communication we will explore storytelling, an interactive art form that connects all humans on a deep level, transcending time, location, age and language, while enacting change, understanding and peace. To tell a story is to bring someone into your world, touch their heart, mind and soul. Interested in

  • Every year, the University Symphony Orchestra features a Student Showcase concert for selected students to perform as soloists with the orchestra or to have their compositions premiered. This year, the concert will be performed on Tuesday, March 20th at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall in…

    University Symphony Orchestra ‘goes outdoors’ in the upcoming Student Showcase concert Posted by: Kate Williams / March 9, 2018 Image: PLU Symphony Orchestra, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 9, 2018 By Kate WilliamsOutreach ManagerEvery year, the University Symphony Orchestra features a Student Showcase concert for selected students to perform as soloists with the orchestra or to have their compositions premiered. This year, the concert will be performed on Tuesday

  • Serving undergraduate and graduate students from various science and engineering departments, the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds is a lab focused on transitioning scientific breakthroughs into innovative products. The instrumentation and tool sets used are focused on enabling successful and efficient cleantech product prototyping and scale-up.…

    You’re invited to the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds Student Open House! Posted by: alemanem / November 11, 2019 November 11, 2019 Serving undergraduate and graduate students from various science and engineering departments, the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds is a lab focused on transitioning scientific breakthroughs into innovative products. The instrumentation and tool sets used are focused on enabling successful and efficient cleantech product prototyping and scale-up. The Testbeds have

  • The French-American Foundation has announced that PLU Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin is one of the winners of the 2024 Translation Prize. Wilkin and her co-editor and translator Angela Hunter, an English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the nonfiction prize…

    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

  • One-on-one: Behrens By Barb Clements Being a marine biologist is a pretty good gig. And why wouldn’t it be? There are obvious perks, Michael Behrens admits, to having a job where diving is part of the package. Seeing creatures swim by as they hunt for…

    the chance to discover under the sea. Even on land, he’s busy reconstructing a whale skeleton  that will someday “swim” through PLU’s Rieke Science Center. You might say that Behrens, assistant professor of biology, grew up wiggling his toes in salt water. As a baby, he was part of family outings where he was strapped into a backpack and brought out to the coast. This ritual continued as he grew older. “As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time at tidepools,” he said.  By the time he was 13 or

  • Pacific Lutheran University’s Campus Ministry and Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will co-host the virtual fall convening of The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness (TPG) conference on November 10, 2021, focusing on Critical Race Theory. The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness conference…

    , non-profit and corporate employees to have access to training that helps sharpen their skills to communicate effectively across differences” said Will Rance, WSECU’s Vice President of Community Relations. The People’s Gathering is made possible by the support from WSECU, Korsmo Construction, The Bamford Foundation and Peace Works United.  For more information about the November 10 convening of The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness, visit the event webpage. Registration closes on