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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 26 , 2020 ) — Pacific Lutheran University President Allan Belton recently submitted a Nobel Peace Prize nomination of Dr. Donald Mott to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Dr. Mott is the founder and leader of the China Network Partners (CPN), a group…

    from the Children’s Therapy Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash., and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. Members of this core group routinely donate their expertise and free time to plan hands-on rehabilitation training courses and use their own vacation time to travel to China to implement these programs. CPN has also brought Chinese healthcare workers to Tacoma to learn firsthand from children’s rehabilitation programs. The next class of Nobel Laureates will be

  • As a child, chemistry major Yaquelin Ramirez ’22 often went to work with her mother at a Federal Way nursing home. The time spent watching her mom help the residents sparked something inside of her — a desire to pursue a career where she helps…

    inside of her — a desire to pursue a career where she helps others needing medical care.“I would always interact with the patients and they really enjoyed it too,” Ramirez said. “ Since then, I had it in the back of my head that I maybe wanted to do something like that, to help people”  At first, Ramirez wanted to be a doctor, but admits that idea quickly changed after taking a chemistry class during J-Term from professor Dr. Andrea Munro.“I originally came in thinking I wanted to do pre-med, so

  • Pacific Lutheran University has announced it will offer a pre-law minor in Fall 2022. The university has long offered a pre-law advising program, but continued interest in the program prompted the College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social Sciences to create a formal minor to…

    PLU launches pre-law minor for fall 2022 Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 31, 2022 Image: Michael Artime lecturing in a political science class at PLU (PLU photo/Silong Chhun) May 31, 2022 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has announced it will offer a pre-law minor in Fall 2022. The university has long offered a pre-law advising program, but continued interest in the program prompted the College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social Sciences to

  • The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music and the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies will host the PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival on Tuesday, March 21. The public is invited to the festival’s evening concert showcase featuring Aubrey Logan, the PLU…

    , all students with an ID and 18 years and younger Tickets are also available through Eventbrite and, if still available, at the door. Read Previous Beautiful mutants: a PLU biology class harvests for the future Read Next Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024

  • Anni Lange ’00 is vice president of marketing and communications for Sound Physicians , a national medical group headquartered in Tacoma. Lange oversees all aspects of marketing and communications including brand management, marketing operations, sales and recruitment marketing and internal and external communications.   Lange majored…

    regularly sees friends from her time at PLU but is also continually impressed by the informal alumni network around the South Sound. A brief interaction often leads to a PLU connection, and which Lutes she might know from different years. At Sound Physicians, Lange has worked with other PLU grads, including a current member of her team. “We talk regularly about how our small class sizes gave us direct access to professors in a way peers didn’t have,” Lange says. “The interactions give you confidence as

  • 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. The award was presented to Emily Davidson, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies . The university sponsors…

    and amplifies marginalized voices.” Her dedication to fostering a supportive community is evident in the words of her students. One student noted, “In our class for heritage speakers, she told us over and over again that even if our Spanish is not ‘academic,’ or we have a different vocabulary, or a different accent, our Spanish is still legitimate and powerful. She helps us feel empowered and reclaim our heritage.” Another noted that Davidson’s “radical self-acceptance fostered a fiery passion for

  • So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer…

    to bits of advice as workshops he held in January at Pacific Lutheran University. His main points: Follow your passion and take risks. On the first point of following his passion, Hobson told the class that during his sophomore year at PLU, his father nearly died of an aneurysm, and Hobson, who was an music education major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love

  • In this Tony-winning musical, Sweeney Todd returns to London after 15 years in prison on a trumped up charge. His wife is gone and his daughter has been adopted by the very Judge who imprisoned him. As Sweeney seeks justice, he partners with Nellie Lovett,…

    corrupted upper-class society itself. In that regard, it is as much a story about social inequality as it is about a murderous barber.” Sweeney Todd runs March 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. and March 17 at 2 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $10 – General admission $5 – 60+, military, alumni and students free – 18 and younger Read Previous Upcoming Student Series Production, Blood Wedding Read Next Dance 2019

  • We’re in a brave new world of all-online scholarship application and adjudication process. Students entering PLU in fall 2021 as a first-year or transfer student with an interest in the Dance minor can still apply for an Artistic Achievement Award in Dance. Read more in…

    choreographer; original choreography is strongly encouraged when possible. Do my audition videos have to be unique just for this scholarship? No, they do not. We can accept clips from performance videos, class work, or improvisation in your dance genres. Where do I upload my video submissions? We strongly prefer videos uploaded to an outside video host, such as YouTube or Vimeo. Many services are free when you sign up with your email address. In the online application, we have an info box to paste the link

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — In a parking lot outside Stony Brook University Hospital, two tents allow physicians to triage up to 100 patients per day. They discern between the “worried well” and those showing more severe symptoms of cough, fever and low oxygen…

    there’s need, such as the emergency department, ICU or inpatient care. College Days Chrissy grew up on Vashon Island and played basketball at PLU — where she met Sean, who grew up in Longview. Both majored in biology while at PLU, and Sean took a virology class that’s been popping up in his mind lately. After graduating from PLU, both went to Denver, where Sean attended medical school at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Chrissy received her Masters in Public Health from the