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  • Degree Designers: Students match passion with purpose through individualized majors Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 Image: Nicole Query ’22 in the Robert A.L. Mordvedt Library. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) June 5, 2022 By Veronica CrakerResoLute Assistant EditorThe 253 PLU Bound scholarship recipient from the Key Peninsula near Tacoma began his first year intending to major in music education. But best-laid plans often go awry. Lindhartsen soon realized that wasn’t the path for him. He

  • : Bachelor in Music Composition “Since graduation, I’ve moved to Ohio to start graduate school. I am currently at Bowling Green State University, where I have started my Master’s in music composition. Besides my own studies, as a teaching assistant I’ve started working with nearly 130 students in a couple world music classes. School has just begun and I’m starting to get busy, but everything is going well so far!” Jenny Kimura ’17: BFA Studio Arts, Minor in Printing and Publishing Arts, Minor in Latin

  • night, not only as fun but a kind of a ride through the history of rock music. His band played to the sound of the blues greats like Muddy Waters, while “American Standard” covered hits from the 1960s and 70s, and “My Name Ain’t Skip” captured early alternative rock with covers and original pieces. “It was really kind of fun to watch,” Anderson said. For the PLU alumnus, it was also a step back in time. Anderson used to play acoustic songs on campus in the 70s. “So that was kind of a full circle

  • The Seventeenth Dale E. Benson Lecture Glory M. Liu, Johns Hopkins University Glory M. Liu, Johns Hopkins University. Image Credit: Nicole Marie Photograph On Thursday October 19, 2023, the PLU community welcomed Glory M. Liu of Johns Hopkins University to present the 17th Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place in the Regency Room of the Anderson University Center. There was also a pre-lecture conversation with Dr. Liu and students in Xavier 201, hosted

  • history and memorialization of the former “Kibbutz Grochow” in Warsaw Grochow, today a neighborhood in Warsaw, was the place of the essential Zionistic training farm of the HeChalutz movement. In my presentation, I will introduce the Kibbutz Grochow project, run by the Anski Association in Warsaw, commemorating the former kibbutz. Cieśla will present the history of Grochow and address how to commemorate such sites. Convener: Beth Griech-Polelle, Associate Professor of Holocaust History and Kurt Mayer

  • and social delights. Of course, new technologies also introduced convenient medicines; unprecedented ways to enjoy music and the arts; and more hygienic, varied and nutritious food and drink, but, for better or for worse, overall sensation became mechanized, commercialized and, to a large extent, democratized through cheap accessibility. Cross, who holds degrees from Washington State University, Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin, presents a history of consumerism and consumer

  • hymnody. An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church USA, she has presented workshops on hymnody for both scholarly and pastoral groups. She will lead a workshop on congregational water music. Samuel TorvendProfessor of Church History Pacific Lutheran University In addition to his work at PLU, Dr. Torvend serves as Associate Priest for Adult Formation at Christ Church Tacoma. He is the author of Still Hungry at the Feast: Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction and a member of the Ecology

  • Christmas at Pacific Lutheran University. PLU is pulling out all the stops for the 2015 Christmas Concerts in celebration of PLU’s 125th Anniversary. Lutes are invited to be a part of history in the making by purchasing a ticket to the 125th Anniversary Gala Concert on Friday, December 11. Attendees will enjoy a pre-concert reception with plentiful hors d’oeuvres and champagne before the concert. This special one-night-only performance will be recorded and broadcast on Christmas Eve and Christmas 2015

  • Previous A new space for neurodiverse students on campus Read Next Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in

  • ages music venue in South Tacoma that aims to “empower young people through art, music and the free exchange of ideas.” Insider tip: If you volunteer at a Real Art Tacoma show, you’ll get a free ticket to a different show of your choosing.5 Deep dive into visual art at Third ThursdayOn the third Thursday of every month, admission is free to the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Washington State History Museum and LeMay –  America’s Car Museum (all within a stone’s throw of each other