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her love for the people, language and culture of Japan. But because the professor who taught Japanese at PLU had retired, she pursued an Education degree. Now a resident of Federal Way, Wash., Kullberg lived in Stuen Residence Hall all four years at PLU. The art building was visible from her window, so she watched art students go to class, never considering herself “good enough” to take an art class herself. Her own artistic epiphany came later, after graduating, marrying, moving back to Oregon

concerns for the first time during an already difficult period of transition. Amid those staggering statistics, Riano said she wishes the Counseling Center was used more broadly by students at PLU. She urges all students, with struggles of varying degrees, to use the valuable resource. Counselors are available to listen and address chronic mental illness, while a campus psychiatrist provides medication management. “There’s no way that somebody is going to get through four years of college without being

PLU alumna collects, studies mosquitoes in the pursuit of improved public health Posted by: Kari Plog / March 9, 2016 March 9, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 9, 2016)- Mosquitoes are pests to some, but for Rebekah Blakney ’12 they carry a wealth of information that can unlock solutions to global health issues.Now with the outbreak of the Zika virus, that’s as important as ever. Blakney isn’t at the forefront of Zika research, at least yet, but she’s

God’s grace and abundance. All of creation “is a robust form of communication between the creator and the creation,” Torvend said. In many places in the world, water has become the new oil, as different interest groups fight over it, with devastating results, noted Kevin O’Brien, assistant professor of Christian ethics. The war in Darfur has its roots in a water fight between farmers and wandering tribesmen, he noted. “Lack of water has already caused tragedy in the world, and Christians should pay

March 14, 2008 Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software, Rhino for short. Created by Seattle-based Robert McNeel and Associates, the software is the newest addition to the art department. In February, McNeel employee and 1985 PLU graduate Dale Fugier donated 30 software licenses and several rendering packages

challenges. Bellah’s topic was that of his next book, the namesake of the lecture, in which he explores the advancement of modern society in relation to the rises and falls of past societies. Those societies have experienced a hard ceiling, said Bellah, produced by “the paradox of development – the very success of pre-modern societies leads to overpopulation, famine, plague and war.” Bellah explained the tendencies for societies to rise and fall using the social development index developed by historian

‘In Flux’ shows snapshot of art students in transition Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 31, 2016 March 31, 2016 Like with most things senior year, Jasper Sortun’s capstone project came to her all at once, in a moment of inspiration, after her original plan fell through. Sortun, along with 24 other seniors will be spending many hours in the coming weeks prepping for the 2016 Senior Exhibition, In Flux. Everyone is invited to see the fruits of their labor at an opening reception on Wednesday

The Pragmatism of the Liberal Arts Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Roberta BrownOriginally published in 1999My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our bikes to hers. We read books on her neatly made bunk beds and I spent the night there as often as possible.  In junior high, Sally lugged her books

PLU and Friends of 88.5 finalize sale of KPLU Posted by: Zach Powers / August 31, 2016 August 31, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (August. 31, 2016)- The sale of KPLU from Pacific Lutheran University to Friends of 88.5 FM was finalized on Tuesday, August 30.Friends of 88.5 FM, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization formed to preserve the local National Public Radio affiliate, officially took ownership of KPLU at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday. In a sale approved

, the first onslaught of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Hrivnak was part of an Air Force medevac unit charged with caring for U.S. casualties. It wasn’t the first time Hrivnak had been in a combat zone. He had been in peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans and the first Gulf War. But this time, the experience hit him differently. In the first Gulf War, he had memories of a quick deployment, and few casualties. That first medevac mission in 2003, when his senses were muddled, and then came