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The project started during the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election. Jessica Spring, visiting instructor of art and design and Elliott Press manager at PLU, discovered a quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she felt summed up the election cycle nicely: “Come, come my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving.” She asked friend and fellow letterpress artist Chandler O’Leary to draw a pair of spectacles to pair with the quote. Instead, O’Leary
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students from across the country together to learn, mingle and share ideas. This year, I was lucky enough to be a speaker for the national convention alongside professionals, professors and select students. The conference, which ran from March 12-15 in Times Square, drew about 2,500 people from schools nationwide. Attendees came to hear the research and scholarship presentations of 250 speakers. In Fall 2015, I submitted a proposal to speak about convergence, the merging of media and technologies to
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Shamil Idriss, 2017 Featured Speaker Shamil Idriss is President and CEO of Search for Common Ground, a global conflict transformation organization with offices in 35 countries. Prior to this position he was appointed Deputy Director of the UN Alliance of Civilizations by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, served as Senior Advisor at the World Economic Forum and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders. As CEO of Soliya from 2008-2014, Mr. Idriss led a campaign
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team from Pacific Lutheran University is installing a life-changing well. Unfortunately, the parachute also cuts the breeze and traps the heat from the pumps. Still, shade is shade, so four of the students doggedly work through the afternoon as the drill grumbles and chews its way through 150 feet of mud, rock and clay to an aquifer beneath the village, which is about three hours from Managua and on the edge of a smoldering garbage dump. Branden Stallard ’16 and Rachel Espasandin ’14 get soaked in
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September 17, 2013 A group of six students from Taiwan University visited PLU as part of their country’s Young Ambassadors program. (Photo by John Froschauer) Classroom diplomacy By Chris Albert During a history class at PLU, six students from Taiwan University immersed themselves in discussion with PLU students, debating issues in the Eastern Pacific that continue to face world leaders and learning how diplomacy works. The class was broken into three groups, representing Japan, Taiwan and
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necessary skills. For example, if you are thinking of majoring in nursing because you heard there is a high demand for this well paying job, and you like to help people, but you’ve done average or less than average work in science and math courses in high school and/or college, you may need to ask yourself if nursing is a realistic choice. Don’t Rush! Making a hasty decision about your major may be more time consuming and expensive in the end if you go through too many changes later. In order to make a
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PLU’s Parkland Literacy Center supports local k-12 students, receives new grant Posted by: Zach Powers / October 3, 2023 Image: An education major with an emphasis in special education, Kaila Harris ’24 is a tutor at the Parkland Literacy Center. October 3, 2023 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer For the past four years Pacific Lutheran University student workers and volunteers have made the Parkland Literacy Center a beacon of community and learning support. Operated by
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Charles Bergman: A Most Adventurous ProfessorDr. Charles Bergman begins his phased retirement in Summer 2015 after thirty-eight unusually interesting and accomplished years at PLU. His teaching, leadership, and writing have garnered the highest recognition from within and without the university. The true measure of his achievements, though, must be taken from more than his specific awards. Peering more closely, one sees the truly remarkable character of his life: wildly adventurous, yet so
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PLU Raises Black Lives Matter Flag on Red Square Posted by: Zach Powers / September 5, 2020 Image: Andre Jones ’22, speaking during the ceremony raising the Black Lives Matter flag. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) September 5, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsMembers of the Pacific Lutheran University Black Student Union led a ceremony raising the Black Lives Matter flag on Red Square on Friday evening. Organized by BSU student leaders, the ceremony featured Black
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on College and University Campuses organized by the Centers for Disease Control.Warwick, who has worked with the Department of Justice since 2006 with PLU’s Campus Grant Project and over the past three years as a private contractor to review grant submissions, was recommended by the DOJ to take part in this meeting of experts who will compose a set of guidelines for funding future grant projects out of the CDC. “The purpose of this Think Tank is to pull together 40ish professionals (including law
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