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  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 13, 2017)- Hop on my pink tour bus and let me tell you about the craziest days I experienced this past January — or the days we called the Choir of the West Southwest Tour (for hashtag purposes, #COWthwesternTour). Over 11 days,…

    performances. A choral exchange is exactly what it sounds like: at each high school or college we attended, we met the choir, sang a few songs from our program for them, and listened to them sing something for us. After this was Sascha Julian’s cue. Julian is a former member of COW, a recent graduate of PLU and now an admission counselor for the university. Julian got to hang out with us on tour and at each exchange. She quickly set up admission tables (or her “pom-pom” tables, as she dubbed them) near the

  • Pacific Lutheran University Assistant Professor of Biology Lathiena Nervo was recently named one of Cell Mentor’s “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America.” A developmental biologist in her second year at PLU, Nervo is equally passionate about teaching, biological research, and increasing diverse representation in science.…

    of teaching, increasing representation in my field, and conducting research.Coming to PLU from the East Coast is a big switch. What made you pick PLU? One of the things that really struck me when I researched the biology department and interviewed here was the curriculum. It’s essentially the curriculum I wish I had as an undergraduate, where students are really able to create their own focus. The way the program is organized gives students a lot of freedom to choose what direction they want to

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 2, 2017)- “What makes an American an American?” This is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all…

    award.Task Force working with and for Undocumented Students The Task Force working with and for Undocumented Students advocates for undocumented students by coordinating campus trainings, connecting the community to on- and off-campus resources, and eliminating barriers to student success. Upcoming workshops Thursday, Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. in AUC CK East The PLU community is invited to learn about strategies of support and best practices to work with and for undocumented students. Please RSVP to undocu

  • Major in Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies 36 semester hours GSRS Core  16 semester hours GSRS 201: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies (4) Offered every semester GSRS 301:

    Cinema” HIST 289 when taught as “Women in World History” KINS 315: Body Image RELI 330 when taught as “Sex and the Bible” RELI 366 when taught as “Race, Gender, American Christianity” RELI 368: Feminist, Womanist, Latinx, and Queer Theologies RELI 390 when taught as “Women in the Ancient World” PSYC 375: Psychology of Women SOCI 210: Gender and Society SOCI 494: Gender and Violence GSRS Approved Elective Courses - Critical Race Studies Distribution COMA 304: Intercultural Communication ENGL 216 when

  • Q&A With Professor Michael Stasinos and Associate Professor Bradford Andrews By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, WA (Jan. 16, 2015)—In a groundbreaking merger of art and anthropology, Pacific Lutheran University Art Professor Michael Stasinos has been developing important historical illustrations…

    more of the retouching adjustments like that. For example, in one of my early paintings done for Bradford, my last feedback on it from Bradford was no ancient people would ever lay down their bows on the ground because they wouldn’t want them to get wet, so then I took the other references and I drew them and Photoshopped the painting so that in the very last version, the bows appeared to be leaning against the wall (below). Usually the finished version would only be a digital copy as an

  • Join the Computer Science Department to hear the senior capstone presentations. Student presentations will take place Friday and Saturday. All talks are scheduled in Morken 203.

    football or fantasy basketball, and will play a head-to-head weekly game using the scoring statistics of professional sports. Users have a designated salary cap to spend on their desired players for a game. After players have selected their teams our application will use actual game results to determine the winner of head-to-head matches, and post the results. 9:35am – HouseMe Matt Dennie (BSCS) HouseMe helps students find off campus housing near universities. We simplify the process of renting a place

  • The purchase card is a Visa credit card issued by Bank of America. It is a fast, flexible purchasing tool, which offers an alternative method of procurement and provides an extremely efficient and

    Business Office to determine if Use Tax needs to be assessed, which cuts down on the emails that are sent out asking for receipt information. It will aid the Business Office during the annual audit when certain documentation is required the the external auditors. This will take us one more step towards going paperless (but we are not there yet – please don’t shred your p-card documentation!) Attaching receipts will be required in the near future, so now is a good time to get accustomed to doing it

  • Bestselling author and Ojibwe Indian David Treuer delivered the 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin lecture.

    -arching killing apparatus has helped to overshadow the individual identities of these individuals. Lack of adequate documentation has heretofore presented a major obstacle: many patient files have been lost or destroyed, while German privacy laws have ensured that the bulk of these records remained inaccessible to researchers. Utilizing patient files from the Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren, formerly a notorious “euthanasia” facility near Augsburg, this presentation will offer a much-needed perspective

  • Bestselling author and Ojibwe Indian David Treuer delivered the 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin lecture.

    -arching killing apparatus has helped to overshadow the individual identities of these individuals. Lack of adequate documentation has heretofore presented a major obstacle: many patient files have been lost or destroyed, while German privacy laws have ensured that the bulk of these records remained inaccessible to researchers. Utilizing patient files from the Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren, formerly a notorious “euthanasia” facility near Augsburg, this presentation will offer a much-needed perspective

  • Tutoring program touches refugees The makeshift classroom buzzed with life as dozens of Somali Bantu children worked with PLU student-volunteers to solve math problems, sound out words and learn their colors. Jessica Baumer ’09 tried to get 13-year-old Murjan Jatar to focus on completing his…

    were placed near the same grade level as children their age, even though they lack many basic skills, Greenaway said. Ashley Mitchell ’08, a social work major who tutors twin 15-year-old boys, said the biggest barrier she’s come up against is teaching reading comprehension. “The biggest obstacle has been that they’re given chapter books, but they don’t comprehend what they’re reading,” Mitchell said. “They were forced into this age group, but they are not equipped for high school.” Other tutors