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  • Jillian graduated with a BA in Economics and a BBA in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. She is starting work at Ann Clark Ltd as their Digital Marketing Analyst.

    undergraduate education thinking I would only major in Political Science. However, I found that I needed to add in my interest in mathematics.  I took Economics 101 with Professor Karen Travis and was instantly hooked.  Two years later I completed an econometrics capstone project, which was incredibly challenging, but also extremely rewarding.  Ultimately, my degree gave me the analytical background and writing skills necessary for examining tough legal subjects and helped me better transition into legal

  • THE PLU ATHLETICS MISSION STATEMENT spells it out. The “S” in Lutes stands for service — giving back and making an impact in the lives of others. It’s a value that two Lute football teammates put into action this past year. Just a few months…

    more than 165 college athletic programs to register 159,000 potential donors that have led to 880 successful transplants. McAdams worked with PLU baseball Coach Nolan Soete ’06 to organize the inaugural drive at PLU. Alapai and Bainter were two of an astounding 355 Lutes registered at that first PLU event. It’s incredibly rare for a registrant to be matched with a patient. Only 0.5 percent of people who are registered are chosen throughout their lifetime. Yet, within a year, Alapai and Bainter

  • As I travel around talking to prospective students and their families, donors, and friends of PLU, I am often asked, “what is a Lute?” From time to time, I blog about examples of students and alumni that uplift what it means to be a Lute.…

    little or no ambition and minimal work ethic. (I am a pastor and my wife is employed by our local police department) I’m not talking about the troubled and disenfranchised, I am referring to the rank and file young adults who lack motivation. I hope that this doesn’t come across wrong but we recognize that with very few and rare exceptions the players in your program are not placing all of their “eggs into the NFL basket” but are taking advantage of an opportunity to play the game that they love so

  • News for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Winners of the Inaugural Angela Meade Vocal Competition Internationally known soprano, and PLU alum, Angela Meade ’00 offered a rare opportunity for PLU students considering a career as professional vocalists. Meade along with her husband John Myers, also a professional opera singer, established the endowment that made the competition a reality. After an… January 22, 2019

  • The Thorniley Collection of Antique Type, a massive donation to PLU’s Publishing and Printing Arts Program, has elevated the university’s letterpress resources.

    British Empire, including British North America where they were used to print the Declaration of Independence. Some of the collection’s oldest type was cast in unusual sizes, pre-dating the industry’s effort to standardize toward the end of the 19th century. Notable wood typefaces include Art Gothic, which debuted in 1887 with mixed reviews, and Mikado, some of which is celluloid and especially rare since the enameled pieces were only manufactured for roughly 15 years. Also included in the wood type

  • Campaign ends, surpasses goal by $22 million A performance in the Studio Theater in Eastvold Hall, which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. By Greg Brewis The university’s most recent fundraising campaign was launched amid buoyant economic times, in…

    has also pledged support for a new Rieke greenhouse/laboratory that will support both teaching and research. Early in the campaign, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer was brought online in Rieke. Faculty and student researchers use it to study the bonding of atoms in a molecule to gain a better understanding of chemical compounds. Funded by the campaign and the National Science Foundation, the facility is one of the first of its kind located at a West Coast undergraduate university

  • Aaron Coyner, Senior Capstone Seminar The use of solid polymers in lithium ion batteries has the potential to provide a safer, more reliable alternative to liquid electrolytes.

    phthalate. The compounds of interest have been shown to cause negative health effects at low levels of exposure. The perfume industry is currently regulated only voluntarily, giving perfumes the potential to contain these harmful ingredients. Two internal standards were used in a gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy analysis to determine the concentrations of analytes in the samples. Nitro musks are not present in the selected perfumes, but the polycyclic musks Galaxolide and Versalide were present in

  • Bach, J.S. Chorale Preludes: “Gottes Sohn Ist Kommen” Chorale Preludes: “Der Tag, Der Ist So Freudenreich” Chorale Preludes: “Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme” Chorale Preludes: “In

    1965-19701965-66Bach, J.S. Chorale Preludes: “Gottes Sohn Ist Kommen” Chorale Preludes: “Der Tag, Der Ist So Freudenreich” Chorale Preludes: “Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme” Chorale Preludes: “In Dulci Jubilo, Nun Singet” Thompson, Randall Howl Ye, For the Day of the Lord is At Hand Ye Shall Have a Song Christiansen, F. M. From Heaven Above to Earth I Come Tchaikovsky, P. I. O Praise Ye God Burt, Alfred Star Carol Schumann, Georg Yea, Though I Wander Willan, Healey Hodie, Christus Natus Est

  • Healthy watersheds have lots of different plants in riparian zones, which provides shade and prevents flooding and erosion.

    By: Aminda Cheney-Irgens, Gretchen Johnson, Henry Kouba, and Jack Mahr As a resident and/or property owner in a watershed or near a body of water, you may be asking yourself, how do my actions impact the watershed and community around me? We have created this blog post to help you understand how you can impact and improve the safety of the watershed and community around you. Follow along with this Google Earth story map as you read through the blog!First, take a look at the three pictures below

  • Mention the word “vocation” to a group of people, and you’re likely to get a wide variety of definitions.

    Lutheran colleges and universities – “Educating for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care: for others, their communities, and the earth.” Not only do we encourage our students to discern where and how best they can serve the world (their vocations), we ourselves serve the world through the provision of this education. At their best, then, Lutheran schools are organized around this calling, a calling committed to the promotion of human well-being in a world marked by much ignorance