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  • The Pacific Lutheran University Wind Ensemble is traveling across the mountains to eastern Washington to perform in various venues this March. The 50-student ensemble will perform in Yakima, Spokane, Richland, Pasco and Portland, Oregon, and will finish with a homecoming concert in Lagerquist Concert Hall…

    Concert Hall Read Previous PLU to present US premiere of St. Matthew Passion as part of larger “Passion Week” event Read Next Pacific Lutheran University Choirs and Orchestra close “Passion Week” with North American premiere LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s

  • Join us Saturday, November 9 at 8 PM as the Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union presents Mozart’s Requiem in Lagerquist Concert Hall. PLU’s Choral Union is one of the outstanding community choruses in the United States. The choir was established in 1984 to create a…

    . Read Previous Shining a Light on Female-Identifying Jazz Composers Read Next Dr. Edwin Powell Selected to Join WMEA’s Hall of Fame LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed

  • Hearty congratulations to our own Dr. Edwin Powell, Director of Bands and Professor of Music, on his selection for the 2020 class of the Washington Music Educators Association Hall of Fame . Honorees are selected every other year by their teaching peers and inducted at the…

    contributing author for the immensely popular textbook series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, by GIA Publications, and is published in the NBA Journal, Voice Magazine, and the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Powell instructs students from Japan's Tamana School Band during an exchange trip to PLU and Graham-Kapowsin High School in 2016. Read Previous PLU’s Choral Union presents Mozart’s Requiem Read Next Regency Voices on KING FM’s NW Focus Live LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio

  • A group of PLU students interning with the Tacoma Tree Foundation spent the summer increasing the number of trees in the city to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and heat during the summer months and improving the livelihoods of those who live in urban areas. The…

    summer months and improving the livelihoods of those who live in urban areas.The team consisting of Dalen Todorov ’23, Elijah Paez ’24, Autumn Johansen ’23, and Zoee Kooser ’22 began distributing trees near the Tacoma Mall before moving into the Parkland area. “The reason that it is so important to focus on areas like Parkland is that there are significant disparities in tree canopy cover when it comes to race and income demographics,” environmental studies major Paez said. “Poor health is correlated

  • Prominent sociologists visit PLU to discuss self-injury Renowned sociologists Patricia and Peter Adler are scheduled to give a public lecture on self-injury from 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 7 in room 201 of Xavier Hall at PLU. The Adlers are prominent sociologists with decades of experience conducting…

    April 25, 2012 Prominent sociologists visit PLU to discuss self-injury Renowned sociologists Patricia and Peter Adler are scheduled to give a public lecture on self-injury from 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 7 in room 201 of Xavier Hall at PLU. The Adlers are prominent sociologists with decades of experience conducting in-depth studies of social groups including drug dealers, pre-adolescent cliques, resort workers, and collegiate athletes. PLU is one of only two northwest campuses they are visiting to

  • “The Other Side of Immigration” examines the impact migration has on the families that stay behind. “The Other Side of Immigration” By Katie Baumann ’14 PLU welcomed Roy Germano to campus this fall as part of the 2012 Department of Language and Literature Film Festival…

    immigration: What happens to those the migrants leave behind? Representing the Hispanic Studies Program in the Film Festival Series, “The Other Side of Immigration” explored a side of one heavy topic many people may have not considered. “(In) the towns where I shot the film, people are living on three dollars a day if they don’t have a family member in the US, and four dollars a day if they do have a family member in the U.S.,” Germano said. Examining life in the Mexican countryside, Germano’s film

  • KPLU names new general manager Erik Nycklemoe has been named General Manager of KPLU/Pacific Public Media , succeeding Paul Stankavich, who will retire at the end of January 2013 after leading the station since 2007. “The quality of applicants was extremely high, reflecting the high…

    Public Radio in Washington, D.C. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University Divinity School. “This is an exciting and important opportunity in a wonderful part of the country,” Nycklemoe said. “Seattle/Tacoma is one of the best public media markets in the country–with amazingly supportive audiences. I can’t wait to start working with the staff and supporters to build KPLU so it can even more fully realize its public service

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0AIF4hW6o Learning to Brew By Chris Albert The summer after graduating, Ken Thoburn ’09 hung out at backyard BBQs , sipping on home brews he and his friends had made. Everyone kept saying, “Guys, you should start a brewery,” Thoburn recalled. That’s when the Chinese…

    September 5, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0AIF4hW6o Learning to Brew By Chris Albert The summer after graduating, Ken Thoburn ’09 hung out at backyard BBQs, sipping on home brews he and his friends had made. Everyone kept saying, “Guys, you should start a brewery,” Thoburn recalled. That’s when the Chinese Studies major and some friends, who also had recently graduated from local colleges—and also had not planned on selling beer—took their backyard beverages to brand-new heights

  • Daffodil Royalty Blossoms at PLU Five members of the 2014 Pierce County Royal Daffodil Court are all new Lutes this fall. From left: KayLee Weist, Nina Thach, Marissa Modestowicz (queen), Ji Larson and Kaetlynn Brown. (Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) 5 Members of the 2014 Court…

    had been dead-set on PLU,” said Larson, who plans to major in Chinese Studies. Weist, a Nursing major, said she wanted to be a Lute to “impact the community I’m currently serving in.” All five already have made a big impact as part of the Royal Daffodil Court, made up of high-school seniors from around Pierce County who develop public speaking skills, self-confidence and poise through their interactions with the community. “I’ve gotten to spend time with countless people from all walks of life

  • PLU Associate Professor of Sociology Teresa Ciabattari has been selected for the Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau’s 2015-16 roster. By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 26, 2014)—Pacific Lutheran University Associate Professor of Sociology Teresa Ciabattari has been selected for…

    . She found PLU and has never looked back, calling the university “a nurturing environment where my professional goals and academic programs are appreciated and rewarded.” Ciabattari, whose research is focused on family dynamics, has published several articles concerning work-life balance among low-income women, housework patterns in marriage and remarriage, and other family-related topics. Ciabattari also serves as the Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at PLU. “In my teaching and