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told her mom: “I’m going to be a neurosurgeon!” In the following years, her decision was cemented by books she read in middle school classrooms, biology classes she took in high school, and eventually, the teachers and mentors she met at Pacific Lutheran University. Now, the Bonney Lake, Washington native has graduated and earned a prestigious Fulbright research grant — a national award that only 20 percent of applicants receive after a rigorous, year-long application process. In January, she will

about her, reflective of her roots as a farm girl. And you would have been quite wrong. Karen Phillips, who passed away in 2010l at age 78, was all of those things and much, much more. She was modest and shy, but well known for her charming smile and distinctive laugh. Her friends say she had a keen intellect and was a voracious reader of everything from faculty authors to newspapers and periodicals. And, they say, she was just plain fun to be around. She was a deeply religious Christian and member

Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Posted by: Ava Edmonds / October 18, 2023 Image: Margaret Murdoch ’24 spent the summer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center researching acute myeloid leukemia cells. (All photos provided by Murdoch.) October 18, 2023 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsMargaret Murdoch ’24, a biology and religious studies major with a minor in gender and sexuality studies, spent their summer in Seattle alongside some of the nation’s best

Willamette University, Seattle University and Gonzaga University. In the Spanish Worlds division, Matt Aust and Kaitlyn Hall won third and second speaker, respectively, while in English Worlds, Tori Sullivan took sixth speaker and partner Mariah Collier won fourth speaker. PLU debate continues their competitive season at the Pan American Championships  March 9-13 in Los Angeles, Calif. Additionally, PLU will host the United States Universities Western Regionals Championships March 25-27, 2017.  Read

where six women gather and lead the audience through both good and bad life events of the next three years. Audience members may have seen the film adaption starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Dolly Parton, which was produced in 1989. “This play is well known and cherished by American audiences, “ Director Lori Lee Wallace says. “I think the challenge of producing this play is breathing fresh life into it in order to give the audience a unique experience.” Staging the play in the Studio Theater

attend (with one exception) and will be performed in Lagerquist Concert Hall: Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble, Saturday, December 4 at 1pm in person and live streamed PLU Ringers, Sunday, December 5 at 7pm in person and live streamed The PLU Ringers and guest artists present an evening of Christmas music playing for the first time on their new bells. The program includes traditional favorites, an African American spiritual, and music that traces its origins as far back as the 1500s. Chamber Music

Post-American World.”Wheat and oil prices reached record levels, straining the budgets of U.S. families with both higher energy and food costs this last year, he noted. Conflicts are still occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, and new outbreaks of hostilities are occurring in former Soviet states. “And natural disasters remind us that the planet is fragile and the forces of nature far exceed our own,” Anderson said. Yet, Anderson said he was proud of the graduates who go out into the world to take

book has stayed on the New York Times best seller list for 18 weeks, Young told a packed audience last month at the Garfield Book Company that God is using the book, and the story, in ways he never dreamed of. Drawing on pain he experienced in his own life over an 11-year span between 1994 and 2005, Young told the rapt crowd at the book signing that he picked a large African American woman to be God to blow away preconceived notions. “I don’t want my kids growing up thinking that God is Gandalf

available. If eligible, students would receive a credit of up to $1,000 toward the program fee. To learn more about the award, and to download the application, click here. This January will be a great time to study away, as it will be the fourth time PLU students have been studying simultaneously on all seven continents since we were the first American university to do so in 2006. All J-Term study-away programs are four credits each, and are lead by PLU faculty. Program fees generally include program

March 4 as part of PLU’s Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education.Several hundred people gathered in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to watch the film, which tells the story of an American couple, Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, who dared to venture into Nazi Germany in 1939 to save the lives of 50 children. Pressman happened to stumble upon the incredible story when he met his future wife and granddaughter of the Kraus’, Liz Perle, on the streets of San