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he’s passionate about educating people and giving people the opportunities that come with education. “It looks appealing and it speaks to me in so many ways,” Akuien said. He hopes to return to Sudan as an educator. He hopes to make his country great. “If you know where you’ve gone, you know where you’re going and you know where you’ve got to go.” His earliest memories are of being carried by a cousin with a group of refugees through thousands of miles of harsh wilderness and a homeland ravaged by
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“Empty Bowls” gives back to the community Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 6, 2012 November 6, 2012 Wednesday, November 28, PLU artists, chefs and gardeners will come together to give back in the fourth annual “Empty Bowls” event. PLU and the greater community are invited to purchase a bowl of soup from 4-6pm in the Anderson University Center. Costing $10 per meal, 100 percent of proceeds will benefit local food banks. More than a dozen students have crafted bowls to donate to the project
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management, risk taking and, most of all, patience.”Spring also works at Springtide Press, runs the Elliott Press at PLU and is part of the creative duo the Dead Feminists broadsides, a series of letterpress prints highlighting historical feminists. Her work is included in collections around the globe. Spring is currently taking a year of absence from PLU and plans to return in Fall 2015. Along with her fellow award recipients, Spring will be honored at the annual Tacoma Arts Month Opening Party, which
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Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture Posted by: halvormj / July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University Center. Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard, where he teaches the history of the
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Inaugural Christmas Music Scholarship Concert premieres Saturday, December 13 Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 13, 2014 November 13, 2014 New concert fills need for additional campus performances Pacific Lutheran University’s annual Christmas Concerts are a beloved seasonal celebration on campus and across the Northwest. This year, more than 150 students will perform the world premiere of Oregon composer Robert Kyr’s Christmas Oratorio in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma, and hundreds will try
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people have that keep them connected and being a PLU alum is one of those connecting points. “You already have something in common,” Thompsen said, “you’re already on the inside.” The PLU Scandinavian Alumni group has an active presence on Facebook with 180 members and growing. They sponsor two annuals events in Norway each year and keeping track of what’s going on, with the group and with PLU, is as easy as logging on to Facebook and Liking the group’s page . They have an annual meeting, which PLU
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great honor for a small school like PLU. MediaLab documentaries have been nominated for student Emmy awards twice before in the past five years. The documentary “Illicit Exchanges: Canada, the U.S. & Crime” went on to win the student Emmy in 2009. Students from universities, colleges and technical/vocational schools in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington state are invited to participate in NATAS Northwest chapter’s annual recognition of college student television production. Read Previous
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Spring 2014: 43 (In addition, 60 other students participated in off-campus Spring Break programs supported by the Wang Center.) Peter Rise’s photo of the tuxedoed residents of Petermann Island, Antarctica, won third place in Natural Landscapes & Seascapes. The annual Wang Center Photo Contest is an opportunity for students to reflect on their Study Away experiences and to share the world’s images, from their perspective, with the PLU community. These student photos, and their powerful stories, bring
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Rachel Carson Science, Technology & Society Annual Lecture is on March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center. PLU dean of natural sciences Matt Smith in the KNKX studio on campus at Pacific Lutheran University. More from DCHAT Dean of Humanities Kevin O’BrienInterim Dean of Education and Kinesiology Terry BergesonSchool of Business Dean Chung-Shing Lee Stay Connected with PLU Audio Subscribe on ItunesFollow on Soundcloud Read Previous ‘Learning from Standing Rock’ event at PLU to
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PLU helps celebrate Tacoma Pride Week by raising the rainbow flag on Red Square Posted by: Marcom Web Team / July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsOn Tuesday, Pacific Lutheran University celebrated Tacoma Pride Week with its second annual pride flag raising. Hosted by the dCenter, the online/campus hybrid event featured five student speakers, who spoke about what pride means to them, especially in 2020.“Although this is only our second flag-raising
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