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  • Regan Zeebuyth ’01 has always been curious. Curious about words, about ideas, and about systems. He’s always trusted that curiosity to guide him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major…

    communication organization functions, it benefits me long term.” “I also just find it fun,” he adds with a big smile and shrug. “I can get a little bit bored, just doing the same thing day in and day out so it’s nice to move around and switch things up.”ALUMNI & STUDENT CONNECTIONSAlumni & Student Connections supports Lutes in utilizing the PLU network to help forge new connections and create exciting opportunities.Lute Powered is a new series highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known

  • A PLU education made a difference Three journalism graduates, from three decades, representing three Seattle media outlets shared insights on sports reporting during a Homecoming panel discussion Friday. Art Thiel ’75, Tom Glasgow ’81 and Chris Eagan ’95 spoke on how their PLU education helped…

    October 13, 2008 A PLU education made a difference Three journalism graduates, from three decades, representing three Seattle media outlets shared insights on sports reporting during a Homecoming panel discussion Friday. Art Thiel ’75, Tom Glasgow ’81 and Chris Eagan ’95 spoke on how their PLU education helped them in their careers and on the nature of sports reporting and how it has changed. A sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who is also heard on KPLU, Thiel reflected on how

  • Dr. Bridget Yaden, professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, served as the President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for the very eventful year of 2020. ACTFL is a national organization of language teachers, with a…

    fine.” Students can also plan ahead, and after finishing the current week’s assignments they are able to get a head start on future assignments already posted on Sakai. By utilizing the different resources on Sakai, Dr. Yaden has been able to have more comprehensive exams where students can be tested in different ways than just with pen and paper. Exams through Sakai have the option to include videos and recordings to test the students listening skills as well as the option to submit recordings

  • Today’s Chapel at PLU: Collaboration, Community, Choice (and a Celebratory Song That Needs Your Lyrics!) University Pastor Nancy Connor at the 2013 Blessing of the Animals service in PLU’s Lagerquist Hall. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications In 1952, Pacific…

    the last 60+ years is an understatement of biblical proportions. Well, maybe not quite. But still … just one look at the September Chapel calendar confirms the indisputably interdisciplinary, all-are-welcome approach of today’s Chapel at PLU: Now held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:30 a.m., Chapel has become an inclusive, relevant—optional—oasis that reflects the diversity of religious expression on campus; presents stunning music and influential speakers in a perfectly acoustic setting

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 18, 2019) — PLU Dept of Psychology faculty, Dr. Corey Cook, presents research at the 1st national discussion on sexual assault and sexual harassment at America’s colleges, universities, and service academies. A PLU psychology professor may be shaping future sexual harassment/assault prevention…

    assault at America’s institutions of higher learning. These destructive behaviors violate the safety and security of our young men and women.” Organizers of the event asked Dr. Cook to present his research on threat perceptions of heterosexual men. Specifically, Dr. Cook investigated the extent to which women perceive heterosexual men as posing sexual approach threats (e.g.,unwanted/unreciprocated sexual interest of a target). His results suggest that in addition to heterosexual men being widely

  • PLU chef Erick Swenson ’91 checks on a tray of shrimp from the oven. Food For Thought By Katie Scaff ’13 Twenty years ago, you’d never find pav bhaji – a curry dish served on dinner rolls – alongside the burgers and fries in the…

    cook for themselves. Some, like applied physics and computer science double major Tim Hurd ’13, who has lived off campus for more than a year, find themselves reinventing the meaning of cooking. Hurd draws his food-spiration from a book his grandma and mom bought him in high school. The book, “A Man, a Can, a Plan,” epitomizes a man’s approach to cooking, with dense laminated cardboard pages and recipes that require a large number of canned and pre-prepared food items – but for Hurd it’s perfect

  • Sarah Johnston has a passion for helping people to live their best lives both physically and mentally. She shares about how her life goals changed over the years at PLU, and what she looks forward to learning in the MSK program. What is one fun…

    you to join the MSK program at PLU? I did not want to end my time at PLU during the COVID-19 pandemic.  I was determined to end it on a high note and thus decided to pursue the MSK program! However, I am thankful for the time away from school because it gave me the time to rethink my options.  I was planning on taking a gap year and do something related to Occupational Therapy.  However, I was not finding anything that really sparked my interest.  Then I said to myself why not continue your time

  • During his senior year, computer science major Adrian Ronquillo ’22 filled out 203 job applications. Despite already having a job offer from a tech company he was interning with, he wanted to see what other opportunities were available to him. One of those applications included…

    available to him. One of those applications included a position at Netflix, the popular streaming service based out of Los Gatos, California. “I was like ‘I’m definitely not going to get this,’ but I was doing the shotgun approach, so I really didn’t care,” Ronquillo said. About a week later he received a notification that his resume had been processed and he was invited to take a technical assessment. One application and many hoops later, Ronquillo was hired at Netflix as a user experience developer

  • Sometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions. Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I…

    Communications and psychology double major Alex Reed ’23 explored film and storytelling at PLU Posted by: nicolacs / May 19, 2023 May 19, 2023 By Lisa PattersonMarketing & Communications Guest WriterSometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions.Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I started looking at colleges,” she said

  • Sometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions. Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I…

    six LGBTQ students on campus, as well as several coming out scenes in popular TV series from the last couple years (for example “Heartstopper,” “Queer as Folk” and “Sex Education”). In the wake of groundbreaking queer representation on TV, I’m investigating the questions: What’s still missing from the mainstream coming out narrative? And how could these stories be better told to more accurately depict people’s real life experiences? My goal in creating this documentary is to prompt a conversation