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Together, senior Dylan Ruggeri ’23 and junior Kenzie Knapp ’24 created an innovative climate science musical performance on PLU’s campus in 2022. Both students are majoring in environmental studies and theatre, and the duo drew on their passions to create art, transforming audience perspectives on…
periods at my Oaxaca study abroad in January 2022. Ruggeri: Over the summer of 2022, we found music composers and designers and figured out how to make the show happen. Knapp: We had 15 actors and 10 crew members and couldn’t have done this alone. We had the support and passion of the crew, and the cast was unbelievable. We had seven weeks of auditions and rehearsals and performed right after that. Ruggeri: We worked together to determine the resources required to make an independent show at PLU
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Together, senior Dylan Ruggeri ’23 and junior Kenzie Knapp ’24 created an innovative climate science musical performance on PLU’s campus in 2022. Both students are majoring in environmental studies and theatre, and the duo drew on their passions to create art, transforming audience perspectives on…
. Ruggeri: Over the summer of 2022, we found music composers and designers and figured out how to make the show happen. Knapp: We had 15 actors and 10 crew members and couldn’t have done this alone. We had the support and passion of the crew, and the cast was unbelievable. We had seven weeks of auditions and rehearsals and performed right after that. Ruggeri: We worked together to determine the resources required to make an independent show at PLU. Independent student shows outsource everything, even
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The 2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 27 from 9 .a.m to 1 p.m. at Pacific Lutheran University. The conference will be available online and will offer limited in-person attendance. Registration is currently open . This year the conference…
greatly appreciate the Mayer family for their support of the Powell-Heller Conference and the Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars Fellowship. Read Previous PLU Professor Op-Ed: “Misuse of Holocaust imagery further divides us in pandemic” Read Next When the pandemic cut her Peace Corps service short, Margaret Chell ’18 enrolled in medical school COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window
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PLU students spend 96 hours figuring out halfpipes and VHF signals By Chris Albert Pro snowboarder Shaun White is entering a halfpipe going for maximum vertical air. For hours Dan Case ’11 and his team study the YouTube video of White during a 96 hour…
February 22, 2011 PLU students spend 96 hours figuring out halfpipes and VHF signals By Chris Albert Pro snowboarder Shaun White is entering a halfpipe going for maximum vertical air. For hours Dan Case ’11 and his team study the YouTube video of White during a 96 hour Mathematical Contest in Modeling. “We’d pause it over and over again to see how to make a model out of it,” Case said. Four teams, totaling 11 PLU students, spent 96 hours competing in the Math Modeling Contest. (Photo by John
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He was working by age 8, picking cherries and apples under the Yakima Valley sun. In the spring he worked as a smudger. He’d sleep overnight in an orchard and when the alarms rang he’d sprint to light the smudge pots that warmed the trees…
,” Belton explains. “It doesn’t ask how much money are students borrowing to make that happen? How much money are we getting or are students getting from federal and local sources to afford the institution? It doesn’t do any of that. And it certainly doesn’t look at equity. “At some point, a few of us finally started questioning if it should really all be about the discount rate.” Members of the president’s council and enrollment management team started asking questions about their process and renewed
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Pacific Lutheran University is partnering with SkillUp Online, a private education company headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in North America (Bellevue, Washington) and Europe, to provide a range of affordable, online, continuing education technology and soft-business skills courses to local, national, and global communities.…
SkillUp Online’s Founder, CEO, and former Director of Online Training at Microsoft, JPS Kohli, who adds, “SkillUp Online’s mission is to inspire individuals to embrace lifelong learning. I believe this aligns perfectly with PLU’s ethos of helping students discern their life’s vocation through coursework, mentorship, and practical experience.” PLU and SkillUp Online instructors will have opportunities to contribute courses to the overall continuing education catalog that the partnership offers. Since
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 10, 2020)- Pacific Lutheran University’s Office of Alumni and Student Connections recently launched the J-Term Job Shadow Program, aimed at exposing students to professions they are interested in pursuing after graduation. From January 21 to 24, 40 students visited PLU alumni at…
place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Lutes celebrate another impactful Bjug Day of Giving: a PLU tradition in support of students October 29, 2024 Angela Meade ’01 Vocal Competition Returns to PLU for Fourth Year October 28, 2024
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Regan Zeebuyth ’01 has always been curious. Curious about words, about ideas, and about systems. He’s always trusted that curiosity to guide him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major…
first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Lutes celebrate another impactful Bjug Day of Giving: a PLU tradition in support of students October 29, 2024 Angela Meade ’01 Vocal Competition Returns to PLU for Fourth Year October 28, 2024
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This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here on the Provost…
Why Having a “Philosophy of Enrollment” Matters Posted by: Thomas Krise / March 8, 2016 March 8, 2016 This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here on the Provost webpage.) SEMAC is a university standing committee with the responsibility to lead the development and the
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The plant Arabidopsis thaliana produces seeds so minuscule that 5,000 can fit on a thumbnail. This past summer student-researchers Bryan Dahms ’13 and Ben Sonnenberg ’14 counted more than 30,000 seeds as part of a study. (Photo by John Froschauer) Planting the seeds of knowledge…
pathology) compared to animal pathology,” she said. “And it’s incredibly important. How do we make the plant healthier overall, no matter what the fungus or infection?” Laurie-Berry is very familiar with Arabidopsis thaliana. She has worked with the plant since her time as a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Two summers ago, she secured a grant from the MJ Murdoch Charitable Trust to study the plant’s signaling responses to the plant hormone jasmonic acid, or jasmonate. It’s a
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