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  • Seattle, a route along the lake that helped her young children gently doze off so she could quickly snag a book and indulge in new poems. It’s where her husband and children have gone each year before Christmas to find Mom the perfect gift. And it’s the only place where she has long sated her deep love for poems and bookstores, simultaneously. So, when she learned that the owners were set to sell the poetry-only shop they started two decades earlier, Swift’s reaction was nearly reflexive. Master of

  • February 21, 2008 MFA students earn top honors Amy Andrews remembers it was a Saturday when the phone rang. Her daughter was practicing piano and her husband was hiking the trails of a nearby nature park. When she answered the phone, Lee Gutkind, editor of the journal Creative Nonfiction, identified himself and said he was calling about the first-ever “Creative Nonfiction MFA Program-Off” contest. He was calling to inform Andrews she’d won the grand prize. “I was very composed,” she said. “I

  • Give To What You Love - The Well Project Imagine you are a present PLU student and want to blend your heart for serving others with a unique experience that allows you to integrate your coursework, passion, and care via an international experiential learning project. You see the PLU Well Project offered through PLU’s award-winning School of Business. This unique field experience will happen in a community that has requested collaboration, and the project will work under the direction of the

  • February 15, 2012 PLU Professor Lenny Reisberg uses a smart board during instruction for a course he teaches. (Photo by John Froschauer) Technology opens the door By Chris Albert As the snow and ice closed campus during the end of January, the challenge of getting to class was much more than battling an early morning alarm clock. PLU Professor Lenny Reisberg’s J-Term course was supposed to begin that week and only last a total of two weeks. If it was held in any other class it may have spelled

  • Welcome Note Setting The Course On Campus Discovery Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Homecoming 2016 Connection Events Lute Recruit Alumni Profiles Class Notes Family and Friends Mike Benson Submit a Class Note Calendar Highlights Podcasts Featured / January 20, 2016 By Sandy Deneau Dunham IN LATE AUGUST , PLU debuted “Open to Interpretation,” a podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses

  • PLU debuts inclusive space for prayer, meditation Posted by: Kari Plog / August 31, 2017 Image: Alaa Alshaibani ’17 prays in the new Multifaith Meditation and Prayer Space. (John Froschauer/PLU) August 31, 2017 By Brooke Thames '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 31, 2017)- The Rev. Jen Rude, campus pastor, says interfaith work lies at the heart of what it means to be a Lutheran institution of learning. The new Multifaith Meditation and Prayer Space is one in a series of

  • Hazel Ali Zaman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Work Phone: 253-535-7507 Email: zaman@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 146 Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Social Work and Social Research, Portland State University , 2024 M.Ed., Elementary Education, Portland State University, 2017 B.S., Child and Family Studies, Portland State University, 2016 Selected Publications Anderson-Nathe, B., Zaman, H. (2024). Professor Drag. Queering Professionalism: Problems, Potentials, and

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  • 2019-20 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture``Imagining the North``Dr. Rikke Platz Cortsen will provide an overview of the trends in contemporary Nordic comics and harkens back throughout the history of the medium in this part of the world looking at the aesthetic qualities and social themes currently shaping the field of Nordic comics.Dr. Rikke Platz Cortsen is Danish lecturer at University of Texas, AustinOctober 15, 2019, 7:00 PMUC- Scandinavian Cultural Center Bjug Harstad Memorial FundDonateDr

  • Hong Kong and Chengdu who had done study away in Chengdu and they were very eloquent about how much their experience in Chengdu helped them decide on career paths and lifelong learning. After a little culture shock, our current students here now say they’re very happy and engaged and diving into the fascinating life of this capital of the famous Sichuan province: home to one if the great cuisines of the world and full of people noted all over China for being laid back and friendly–in a very PNW

  • 2016 Lemkin Lecturer Dr. Gerhard WeinbergDr. Gerhard Weinberg, Professor Emeritus of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will be speaking at PLU on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm in the Regency Room. Dr. Weinberg is a leading world scholar on the topics of Nazi Germany, WWII, foreign policy, and the Holocaust. He was born in Nazi Germany into a family of German Jews, he and his family escaped to London. Later, Dr. Weinberg joined the U.S Military. He earned his Ph.D. in 1951 at the