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  • On Thursday, February 11, around 1,200 people received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at a one-day event in Pacific Lutheran University’s Olson Gym and Field House. Co-hosted by the Tacoma–Pierce County Health Department, PLU, MultiCare Health System, and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, the…

    activities centered around our community.” Organizers worked with member organizations of the Tacoma–Pierce County Health Equity Action Network to register the South Sound community members who received a vaccination dose at this event. Among the organizers of the event was PLU alumnus and longtime adjunct business professor Bradd Busick ‘99, MBA ‘09, who serves as vice president and chief technology officer for MultiCare. “It’s really awesome and special for me as an alum to not only watch PLU open its

  • Join Pacific Lutheran University on March 16, 2023, from 4 to 6 p.m. for the annual Koller Menzel Memorial Lecture. The night will feature a bioethics discussion with University of Washington professor Tim Brown and Stanford University professor Hank Greely. The two esteemed speakers will…

    lecture focuses on creative writing or ethics, the special interests of PLU student Heather Koller, who died of bone cancer in June 1994, shortly after graduation. The Lecture was endowed in 1994 by Heather Koller’s parents, Carol and Brant Koller, and sister Jennifer. Later, the lecture’s title expanded to include retiring professor Paul Menzel, Koller’s mentor and friend. Past lecture guest speakers have explored the morality of war, global poverty, and choosing death.  Please join us in the

  • Like many students, Emily Peterson ’14 began her time at PLU unsure of what, exactly, she wanted to do. “I wanted to work for the United Nations,” she says. “Although at the time, I didn’t know what it was, to be honest, when I was…

    Organization (WHO) and United Nations. Peterson and her team help run campaigns, design programs and special projects, and monitor and track global policies. A recent project included work with 11 partner companies to negotiate global incremental, voluntary sodium reduction targets in breakfast cereals. The process took two years of negotiations over targets. After obtaining the agreement, the targets could be presented to the WHO’s director general. The U.S. and the E.U. might develop rules for sodium

  • The annual dance concert, Dance 2015 , once again leaps onto the stage of Eastvold Auditorium on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 at 7:30pm. This year’s concert will be Associate Professor and Dance 2015 Director Maureen McGill’s last show after 35 years. Dance 2015…

    , special guest Sarah Shartis and choreography by McGill. Inspired by the theme of Military loss, McGill‘s choreography is driven by her latest book, Baby It’s You, Messages From Deceased Heroes. The book is a collection of real experiences from military widows, mothers, family members, friends and surviving heroes. In many of the love stories in the book, the other side brings messages of hope and inspiration, demystifying death and after-life experiences. The book will be released this summer by Ozark

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June. 23, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) is one of two Tacoma-area museums selected for a service project by Registrars to the Rescue (R2R), an initiative of the Washington Museum Association. Curators with R2R will visit the SCC on June…

    of textiles.” In its fifth year, R2R partners with Seattle-based Art Work Fine Art Services, a full-service company of experts who handle artwork, to bring together a team of trained museum professionals to volunteer on a special collections project in Washington state. The program aims to help meet the needs of the museums throughout the state by extending the experience of trained museum professionals to cultural centers, heritage organizations and local museums.Scandinavian Cultural CenterThe

  • By Damian Alessandro. Innovation .  If you read the popular press, you’ll see that this word is constantly thrown around in professional settings. But what does it mean? For some, innovation is all about progression and disruption. One of the defining ideologies of our time,…

    and in the world today. Read Previous Enhancing Your Major with Innovation Studies Read Next Where History and Innovation Meet LATEST POSTS INOV 350: Innovation Seminar in Spring 2025 November 21, 2024 Have you considered an Innovation Studies minor? September 16, 2024 COMA 248 Upcoming Workshop: A Special Session with Professor Jasinski September 12, 2024 Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 15, 2024

  • “James and the Giant Peach” premieres this February When James Henry Trotter is forced to move-in with his horrible aunts, he finds comfort in a magical peach and a group of extraordinary friends who lead him on an adventure through the Atlantic Ocean, above the…

    production quality was incredible and so, so special to the children,” Wee commented. “Even more so, showing these children their voices and their words are important enough to be performed by these people does wonders for their self-esteem.” According to Wee, James and the Giant Peach encompasses the perfect mix of action and imagination, and offers themes suitable for both child and adult audiences. “You want the story to be interesting, you want the villains to be disturbing, and you want the hero to

  • By Barbara Clements Looking back, Svend Rønning ’89 can’t remember when music wasn’t  part of his life. His mother was a piano teacher; his grandfather played the violin. In fact, he still occasionally uses a bow that his grandfather bought from a Sears and Roebuck…

    .” Ronning feels blessed he’s been able to do both. Read Previous Finding a special place at PLU Read Next Organist off the Grid LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media

  • New director joins Campus Safety The new director of Campus Safety is Tony Berger, who began transitioning into the role Dec. 17.“I’ve been adjusting well,” Berger said, noting the quiet time around the holidays has made the transition less stressful. “I’ve been gliding into the…

    roles, including patrol deputy, juvenile investigations deputy, special assault detective, supervisor of the domestic violence investigations unit, and, for the last six years, supervisor of the crime analysis and information unit. Berger quickly notes that his most recent position bears no resemblance to the work portrayed on CBS’s hit drama C.S.I. His team gathered, analyzed and disseminated information about external cases or crime trends, and also scrutinized the effective use of internal

  • Alum to address changing face of global health Epidemiologist William Foege will speak on campus Feb. 22 at the Wang Center for International Programs’ symposium “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations.”The symposium will highlight the work of non-governmental organizations that are searching for global…

    1957 PLU graduate, Foege’s talk, titled “From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: The Changing Face of Global Health,” is slated for Friday, Feb. 22 at 11:15 a.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall. Foege is widely recognized as a leader in the successful eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. He has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. A strong proponent of