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. They raised money to rappel down the Hotel Murano in downtown Tacoma, along with dozens of other participants. It was the first year of the Habitat Challenge. Elliot Stockstad, director of development for the organization, said 71 people raised money to support the nonprofit’s mission of providing affordable housing for low-income residents in the community. “We’re having a great time down here today,” Stockstad said from the rooftop of the Murano. “We have a crowd down there going wild.” PLU’s
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Pacific Lutheran University’s holiday event roundup Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / November 28, 2017 Image: Pacific Lutheran University’s Celebration of Light, which explores religious and cultural aspects of the holiday followed by singing and lighting the trees around Red Square, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 28, 2017 By StaffPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 27, 2017) - Looking to get the festivities started early? Check out this roundup
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New J-Term job shadow program connects PLU students and alumni Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 10, 2020 Image: Kelsey Horne ’10 and Natalie Nabass ’20 at the Korean Women’s Association in Tacoma. (Photo: Molly Ivey ’20/PLU) February 10, 2020 By Ernest JasminGuest Writer for Marketing and CommunicationsTACOMA, 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
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Alternative Transportation Drives Lute’s Work Alternative Transportation Drives Lute’s Work https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/01/kristina-walker-alt-transportation-banner-v2-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Debbie Cafazzo Debbie Cafazzo https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/02/debbie-cafazzo.jpg January 7, 2019 February 26, 2019 LUTHERAN HIGHER EDUCATIONService Kristina Walker ’02 first discovered the wonders of Copenhagen — its
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PLU will launch into Earth and Diversity Week with the Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture and the Steen Family Symposium Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus… April 9, 2024 Equity, Faith, JusticeEvents, Performances, AthleticsNews
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discovered the wonders of Copenhagen — its dedication to sustainability, manifested in hundreds of kilometers of bike routes —when she was a PLU study-away student. “They have the best bike network in the world,” she said of Denmark’s capital city, where cycling is part of the culture. During commute times, Copenhagen’s bike lanes can fill up as quickly as vehicle lanes in other cities. When she returned to Denmark in 2018, it was as executive director of Downtown on the Go, a nonprofit organization that
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The People’s Librarian: Brian Bannon’s passion for democratizing information led him to the New York Public Library In 1997, Brian Bannon was a PLU senior. An exemplary student, he wrote for The Mast, and was a double major researching social justice through the lens of queer rights movements. One afternoon, Bannon found himself in the office of history professor Beth Kraig, discussing… September 12, 2023 Alumni, Internships, CareerResoLute
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Uncomfortable Truths: Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies class examines the past to change the future Posted by: Zach Powers / January 17, 2023 Image: Holocaust survivor Peter Metzelaar speaks with PLU students in a course titled “Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies.” (Photo courtesy of Professor Lisa Marcus) January 17, 2023 By Anneli HaralsonMarketing & Communications Guest Writer“There is nothing comfortable about studying genocide,” Beth Griech-Polelle, a Pacific
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racing started in her family’s backyard with a retired sled dog named Salt. The 7-year-old Husky was the first member of a backyard sled dog team that was initially assembled so Moderow’s sons could have fun racing in their hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. Adopting Salt sparked an epic journey of Iditarod racing for Moderow, who completed PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop Master of Fine Arts program in 2013. Now, that journey has culminated in a memoir about her experiences. Moderow’s recently released
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Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies Program to Continue Through Endowment Audun Toven, associate professor of Norwegian, advanced Norwegian-American relations throughout the Northwest, encouraged countless PLU students to study away in Norway, played a leading role in hosting Norwegian guests at PLU and was presented with the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by Norway’s ambassador, His Excellency Knut Vollebaek. Toven always dreamed of having an endowed faculty position in Scandinavian and
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