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When we first catch up with environmental advocate Andrew Schwartz ‘07, he’s preparing for a massive road trip with his wife, Emily, and 8-month-old daughter, Maja. They’re headed east to visit Emily’s family in Illinois. But the 36-year-old Schwartz’s life has also been a journey,…
preparing for a massive road trip with his wife, Emily, and 8-month-old daughter, Maja. They're headed east to visit Emily's family in Illinois. But the 36-year-old Schwartz's life has also been a journey, of sorts, from suburban Oregon to changemaking on the global scale—with a few stops along the way—fueled by hope and faith.Schwartz grew up in Corvallis, Oregon. His mother, Elaine, attended PLU, as did his grandfather and grandmother on his mother’s side (Rudy and Ruth Johnson). His grandfather went
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 1, 2015)- Howard Carter may have discovered King Tut’s tomb in 1922, but the Valley of the Kings in Egypt has yet to be fully explored. In February, Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Donald Ryan, traveled to Egypt to…
PLU Archaeologist Visits Some VERY Old Friends Posted by: Zach Powers / May 1, 2015 Image: Left, the shaft of a tomb is opened for investigation by the PLU archaeological expedition. Center, Ryan near Tomb 60. Right, the expedition works outside a tomb under a canopy. (Photos Courtesy Denis Whitfill, PLU Valley of the Kings Project) May 1, 2015 By Evan Heringer '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 1, 2015)- Howard Carter may have discovered King Tut’s tomb in 1922, but the Valley
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The Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a member of the Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles, CA. They have a number of summer enrichment/professional development opportunities for students interested in exploring careers in the health sciences and biotech/pharma research. The programs include Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Occupational…
Keck Graduate Institute Posted by: nicolacs / May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 The Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a member of the Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles, CA. They have a number of summer enrichment/professional development opportunities for students interested in exploring careers in the health sciences and biotech/pharma research. The programs include Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Explore Health Professions, Exploring Biotech Industry, Exploring
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The Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a member of the Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles, CA. They have a number of summer enrichment/professional development opportunities for students interested in exploring careers in the health sciences and biotech/pharma research. The programs include Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Occupational…
Keck Graduate Institute Posted by: nicolacs / May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 The Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a member of the Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles, CA. They have a number of summer enrichment/professional development opportunities for students interested in exploring careers in the health sciences and biotech/pharma research. The programs include Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Explore Health Professions, Exploring Biotech Industry, Exploring
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As a professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dr. Collin Brown teaches Norwegian language and Nordic studies at Pacific Lutheran University. However, his love for his work runs so deep, he also started and manages a club called “The Dead Languages Society.” As…
’ Society meets every Friday at 3pm. At each meeting, we study an ancient piece of text written in a dead language. Members often volunteer to read the text aloud in the best way that we can manage, usually with help from Professor Brown. We discuss grammatical concepts of older languages such as Old English and Old Saxon, the origins of particular modern words and where they derived from, as well as translate these texts into modern English as best as we can. Brown’s path to creating the Dead
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Did you know that PLU has an observatory ? See how students and professors spent this summer learning about the stars. “Capturing astronomy images is rewarding but can be challenging,” said professor of physics Katrina Hay. “It requires long exposures or stacked images, focusing in…
assembling the 3D-printed Bahtinov Mask, unique for PLU's telescope. The mask makes focusing the telescope on a star easier before image capture.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while interns discuss celestial image processing. Kop is making light curves, showing how the brightness of several variable stars changes over time. Ordaz captured images of globular clusters, constructing diagrams based on temperature and luminosity to estimate the age of these ancient clusters.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while
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In April 2023, PLU religion professor Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen , Ph.D., attended the Natural History Museum Late Night with PLU students at the University of Oxford. At Late Night events, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum host tours and various evening activities offered…
contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts. After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to
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Former PLU President Eugene Wiegman passed away on July 1 at the age of 90. Dr. Wiegman will be remembered for his remarkable career in education, government, advocacy and ministry—and his unceasing kindness and compassion. “Dr. Wiegman was a pure joy to talk with and…
founding of Community Health Center, a clinic that serves patients with or without the ability to pay. Now known as Community Health Care, the first location was near East Tacoma’s Salishan neighborhood and today there are nine regional clinics throughout Pierce County. One of Dr. Wiegman’s proudest moments came in March 2007 when he received the Humanitarian of the Year award from Community Health Care, an organization he cared so deeply about. Dr. Wiegman would go on to be ordained as a Lutheran
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“Capturing astronomy images is rewarding but can be challenging,” said professor of physics Katrina Hay. “It requires long exposures or stacked images, focusing in cold dark conditions, climbing a ladder to access the telescope, tracking objects as they move across the sky, and merging several…
. Ordaz captured images of globular clusters, constructing diagrams based on temperature and luminosity to estimate the age of these ancient clusters.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while interns discuss celestial image processing. Kop is making light curves, showing how the brightness of several variable stars changes over time. Ordaz captured images of globular clusters, constructing diagrams based on temperature and luminosity to estimate the age of these ancient clusters.STUDENT VOICES: Kop and Ordaz
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After a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The program took PLU students all over the world, with courses designed and…
Study away returns to PLU Posted by: vcraker / March 2, 2022 Image: Lutes from the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean course in Greece (Photo by professor Antonios Finitsis) March 2, 2022 After a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The program took PLU students all over the world, with courses designed and taught by PLU professors offered
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