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Dance Team Winter Showcase features student choreography on the highs and lows of life Posted by: Kate Williams / October 15, 2018 Image: PLU Dance Team Winter Showcase in Karen Hille Phillips Center Friday December 1st, 2017. October 15, 2018 By Kate Williams '16Outreach ManagerThe PLU Dance team opens with their upcoming show on Saturday, November 10th in the Eastvold Auditorium. The winter show will center around original works created by members of the PLU Dance Team that portray various

others, and, yes, even a connection with the environment. In her studies of Muslim, Buddhist, and Christian faiths and cultures, Robinson-Bertoni has found that some people feel called by God or some other spiritual power to maintain the environment. She notes that this is happening all over the world in various religions. Robinson-Bertoni highlights this in her classes: “People in very different circumstances and in completely different places on the planet say, ‘I feel called by this larger thing

Lucia. The tradition, most strongly celebrated in Sweden, honors a young woman who stood up for her beliefs and her family in the face of persecution. At PLU, the Lucia is chosen based on an essay and interview process where they show dedication, a sense of service and optimism. This year, the celebration takes place at 6:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center, followed by a reception at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15-16: Women’s basketball PLU hosts the Pacific Northwest Tournament in mid-December

cultural values that are different from their own, and learn to recognize when they are acting/reacting on the assumption that their values are “right.” (In other words, to recognize when they are being ethnocentric.) These anthropological learning objectives are congruent with PLU’s Wild Hope Project, in that they give students the chance to discover the kind of “big enough questions” that will continue to have an impact in the student’s life beyond the classroom, today and in the future. Both courses

of the body, whether theirs or someone else’s, in both good and bad ways,” she says. In recent years, religious beliefs have argued for or against COVID-19 vaccination or for or against end-of-life decisions.  PLU students planning on going into health often enroll in this class. “If you can understand how religious ideals shape decision making, it can help you be more sympathetic to patients in moments of crisis,” Llewellyn Ihssen says, and more empathetic versus simply dismissing decisions

calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so that they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.” That’s an interesting prayer for a number of reasons. In my role as University Pastor, I’m often called upon to pray at official functions, so I find myself paying close attention to prayers and borrowing from the good ones. I’ve discovered that you can tell a great deal about people’s beliefs by

Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County Posted by: mhines / June 13, 2024 Image: PLU Computer Science major Stuart Gavidia poses for a portrait for his Senior Spotlight, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at PLU. Gavidia interned at Amazon and Pierce-County, and is already working part-time as a software engineer. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) June 13, 2024 By Mark StorerPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterStuart Gavidia is a first generation

Lutes win a national Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence award and seven regional awards Posted by: Todd / May 19, 2013 May 19, 2013 It is a great time to be a student journalist at PLU. On May 1, 2013, PLU’s student newspaper the Mooring Mast was notified of a national, first place, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence award for in-depth reporting for small universities. This followed the Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards, where students took home

Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ – five Lutes, one stage, hitting the high notes in fun Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / December 13, 2011 Image: Five Lutes took the stage in the summer of 2011 for Seattle Opera’s production of ‘Porgy and Bess.’ (Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera) December 13, 2011 Amy Van Mechelen ’08 had just finished up her master’s degree in music at Colorado State University and had moved back to the Tacoma area. She auditioned for the chorus of Porgy and Bess,and didn’t think

Award-winning science journalist, microbiologist, and author Bryn Nelson to speak at Rachel Carson Lecture Posted by: nicolacs / January 22, 2024 Image: The Annual Rachel Carson Lecture will take place on February 21, 2024, at 7:00 P.M. in the Anderson University Center (Chris Knutzen Hall) with guest speaker Dr. Bryn Nelson. January 22, 2024 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsPLU’s College of Natural Sciences is excited for Bryn Nelson to deliver “From Revolting to Revolutionary: How