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, Dorcas said. Each team member learned when it was time to step back and trust the work by another team member. As an executive team, members acted as a CEO, CFO, controller, vice president of marketing, vice president of production and finally, vice president of sales. “We needed to learn how to mesh,” Fisher said. As their faculty advisor, the students credit Brown with unmatched guidance. But being the group’s counselor also meant letting them work out their own leadership role and strengths. “It
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organizational culture. They frequently are transformational experiences, epiphanies of sorts that truly shape students’ lives going forward. For employers, an internship is a form of extended interview, as they look to hire the best and brightest graduates. We feature two senior business majors who enjoyed particularly satisfying internships during summer 2012. — A Business major with a concentration in marketing, Zachary Grah ’13 spent the summer working as a network-planning intern at Alaska Airlines
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March 23, 2014 PLU’s MediaLab Documentary Wins 2014 National Broadcasting Society Award Film premieres on campus April 10 By PLU Marketing & Communications and Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s MediaLab has won a 2014 Grand Prize Award from the National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho for its documentary film Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis. Tapped Out, which premiered publicly in Seattle in October 2013 and will debut on the PLU campus at 7 p.m. April 10
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April 20, 2014 Pacific Lutheran University Introduces New Director of Military Outreach PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University welcomes its first-ever Director of Military Outreach, Army veteran and Tacoma resident Michael Farnum. PLU has a long history of collaboration with and service to the local and regional military community, and Farnum, 46, brings his own vast experience—with the military community and with PLU—to his new position in the Office of Admission. Farnum
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May 26, 2014 5 New Fulbright Scholars Bring PLU’s Total to 100 2014 graduates, from left, Tommy Flanagan, Brianna Walling and Lillian Ferraz are three of PLU’s five new Fulbright Scholars. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Lutes Will Travel the World to Teach and Study Under Prestigious Program By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications This year, Lutes will go to China, to Turkey and to Germany, Taiwan and Argentina, as five Pacific Lutheran University graduates were accepted into the
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June 3, 2014 MESA at PLU Celebrates 30 Years of Success Students gather at PLU for the 2014 MESA Day engineering competition. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) June 17 Luncheon Celebrates Achievements and Looks Toward the Future By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications When the MESA program was established at Pacific Lutheran University in 1984, it served about 20 students. Today, 30 years later, the program has worked with more than 14,000 students, said JR Nobles, director of Tacoma
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September 9, 2014 PLU Highly Ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Colleges 2015’ Guidebook By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications U.S. News & World Report released its influential “Best Colleges 2015” guidebook Sept. 9—and Pacific Lutheran University is impressively cited three times in the Western region category, as the: • 17th best university in the Western region; • fourth best university for veterans; and • 10th best value. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best
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September 28, 2014 Going for a Grammy! Micah Haven ’09 is in his fifth year as band director at Meeker Middle School in Tacoma. (Photo: Tacoma School District) Micah Haven ’09 is 1 of 25 semifinalists for the 2015 Music Education Award By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications When you think Grammys, you might think Béyoncé and Macklemore—but you might not think Lute. It might be time to rethink the Grammys. Micah Haven, a 2009 Music Education graduate of Pacific Lutheran University
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October 2, 2014 PLU Line Cook is Set to Sizzle at National Competition Jason Sipe, an MBA student and line cook at the Anderson University Center, has been selected to compete in the first-ever ment’or Young Chef Competition. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Taylor Lunka ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Most days, MBA student Jason Sipe works as a line cook at PLU’s Anderson University Center. But on Oct. 30, he’ll take his considerable culinary skills to the swanky
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PLU’s Melannie Denise Cunningham is Keynote Speaker at Tacoma’s MLK Day Celebration Posted by: Zach Powers / January 9, 2015 Image: [Photo by Jawara O’Connor] January 9, 2015 By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 9, 2015)—Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruiting for Pacific Lutheran University, will deliver the keynote address at the City of Tacoma’s signature January event—the 27th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration. Expected to
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