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  • Associate Professor Emily Davidson receives 2023 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / January 25, 2024 Image: Emily Davidson smiles as she receives the 2023 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. (PLU Photo / Emma Stafki) January 25, 2024 By Jeffrey RobertsPLU Marketing & Communications The Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching recognizes a member of PLU’s faculty who embodies a commitment to excellence in their ability to communicate knowledge and inspire students

  • Rerun: Advice for first-year students—communicate with your professors We are a little over a week away from welcoming our new Lutes to campus. Experience the energy, spirit, and tight-knit community that makes PLU a truly special place. Student-athlete Ahi Holden ’24 offers some tips for succeeding during your first year of college. From… August 21, 2023 AthleticsCommunityCurrent StudentsInvolvementKinesiologyLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationParentsStudent Life

  • January 11, 2008 Bob Dylan, odd instruments inspire Reid A swish of the paintbrush or the swirl of oils on canvas, it was the early colors in Clement Reid’s life that shaped his love of music. His mother, Dorothy, was a commercial artist in the 1930s through the 50s, with her work appearing in the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Throughout her life, and before she died last summer, she did many abstract paintings, cut glass works and a bit of photography, Reid remembered last week when

  • Staff Seminar Testimonials for 2023-2024A. Bryant (Senior Admin Assistant in the Office of the Provost) What gets you up in the morning? Helping people and coming to work. During the pandemic, feeling very isolated stuck with me so seeing people is great. How does your work at PLU impact the PLU community? Our office helps facilitate faculty jobs and makes sure their needs are taken care of. It is contributing to the well-being of the people I work with. How do you think you are currently still

  • to PLC as faculty member and Dean of Women. She quickly becomes one of PLC’s most influential people and later is the first woman to have a campus building named for her. 1944 As most men are fighting in World War II, the PLC student body is almost all female. The student body elects its first female president, Agnes Mykland, followed by Eunice Torvend in 1945. 1982 Dr. Mary Lou Fenili is appointed as the Vice President for Student Life. She is the first female officer at PLU. 1983 Funding for

  • April 3, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL9LZl3j4SQ&feature=youtu.be Choreography and Costumes Avelon Ragoonanan ’15 creates all aspects of a diverse dance for Dance 2014 Story and Photo By Shunying Wang ’15 “There is a witch doctor who raises spirits to dance.” Avelon Ragoonanan ’15, one of this year’s dance choreographers for Dance 2014, described the story concept behind the costumes for his choreography. “The witch does a ritual, gets them to come alive and then transforms them into

  • . Through PLU and specifically through the NAIS program I was able to explore topics that have always been of interest to me, namely topics around Indigenous peoples and issues. The NAIS program also gave me the space to explore and understand my own indigeneity, both on a personal and a scholarly level, which has helped me grow immensely. Because of this and because of the support and encouragement from the faculty within the program I realized that my future endeavors belonged where my passions belong

  • Broadway performer Jay Paranada ‘06 to speak at spring commencement ceremonies Pacific Lutheran University alumnus and stage actor Jay Paranada ‘06 will deliver the commencement addresses at the virtual ceremonies for PLU’s classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 29. Paranada majored in sociology at PLU, and also studied at the University of York in England… May 4, 2021 News, Announcements, Accolades

  • April 25, 2008 One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American out of 257 who stayed in Rwanda through the genocide that claimed one million lives in three months – would not see his family until after the horror had ended. It was tempting to get on the convoys to the border of nearby Burundi, he told a packed audience

  • education, however, does not stop at graduation. The education continues, as graduates plug into a network of people who share a common bond – those who know what it means to be a Lute. To follow are five profiles of recent PLU graduates who have taken their degrees, entered the workplace, and made a connection with a fellow Lute. There, they have found colleagues, mentors, friends – all of whom share a unique understanding of the value of the PLU experience. Maura Gannon ’10 Major: Education Employer