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Alumni Kevin Anderson ’80, Holly Foster ’96, Andrea Sander ’05, and Stephen Alexander shares their thoughts on vocation during the Meant to Live conference’s alumni panel. (Photo by John Froschauer) ‘Follow your bliss’ By Chris Albert The resounding advice from a panel of social sciences…
panel was asked if a PLU and a liberal arts education was worth the financial investment. Without hesitation each said “yes.” “I couldn’t do what I do without it,” Anderson said. Read Previous Gordon Campbell ’75 tells Lutes to follow their passion. Read Next Do you like cookies? Cocoa? Coffee? Music? Do you like Christmas and cool Christmas videos? 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
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KPLU names new general manager Erik Nycklemoe has been named General Manager of KPLU/Pacific Public Media , succeeding Paul Stankavich, who will retire at the end of January 2013 after leading the station since 2007. “The quality of applicants was extremely high, reflecting the high…
strategies and pursuing partnership opportunities. He will begin at KPLU on February 4. While at American Public Media Group, Nycklemoe also assumed interim leadership roles including managing director of music programming, where he envisioned and helped to launch Minnesota’s first statewide used instrument campaign for schools. Nycklemoe presided over the purchase of more than 20 stations and translators in four states, developed enterprise and company performance metrics and dashboards, and led the
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A mock-up of one of the panels in the exhibit Us Local People: Sámi Vuoiŋŋa and Resilience . (Courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Center.) Scandinavian Cultural Center Exhibit Kicks Off Months-Long Human-Rights Inquiry at PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham, Content Editor Pacific Lutheran University’s renowned…
Trondheim in 1917. PLU’s opening celebration will include music, film and food, as well as a talk by Professor Troy Storfjell, a Mark Sámi. The free exhibit, on display through April 1, includes artifacts, multimedia clips and a full-sized Sámi reindeer tent. Visitors also can learn about ongoing threats to Sámi life and culture, especially transnational mining ventures, and get a unique look at how today’s Sámi are fighting back, and at the experience of Sámi immigrants to the United States. SCC
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ELCA’s First Female Bishop to Speak at PLU The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton will speak at PLU on Nov. 1. (Photo courtesy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 21, 2014)—The Southwestern Washington Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and…
Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Ordained June 4, 1981, Eaton served as assistant pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church in Worthington, Ohio; interim pastor of Good Hope Lutheran Church in Boardman, Ohio; and pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod in 2006 and re-elected in May 2013. Eaton’s
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2015)—Internationally known mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe gave more than just singing lessons to five lucky Lutes. When Blythe visited campus on Feb. 23 to deliver a master class, she held nothing back: If something was wrong with a student performer’s shoes, posture,…
nothing back: If something was wrong with a student performer’s shoes, posture, grammar, pacing or pitch—she called it. Blythe is recognized as one of the best in her generation. She has visited the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera and is performing in Semele with the Seattle Opera through March 7. Vocal Studies professor James L. Brown told PLU’s The Mast that Blythe “is an advocate for opera and a champion of the whole gambit of vocal music.” Fifty Lutes applied to perform
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program at Pacific Lutheran University, has won a 2017 Grand Prize Award from the National Broadcasting Society – Alpha Epsilon Rho, for the documentary film Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers. Changing Currents ,…
composed by Music major Melody Coleman, ’17 and was narrated by Communication major Terran Warden ’18. Changing Currents explores the many challenges facing waterways across North America, more than half of which are contaminated and unfit for drinking, fishing or swimming. During production of the film, the researchers conducted dozens of interviews, meeting with average citizens, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water utility experts, members of Native American and Canadian
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 4, 2017)- MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a 2017 Emmy Award nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences — Northwest Chapter for the documentary film “Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.“…
Lovrovich ’18. The film contained an original soundtrack composed by music major Melody Coleman, ’17, and narration by communication major Terran Warden ’17. MediaLabLearn more about the applied research and multimedia programChanging Currents explores the many challenges facing waterways across North America, roughly half of which are contaminated and unfit for drinking, fishing or swimming. During production of the film, the researchers conducted dozens of interviews, meeting with average citizens
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Dear Campus Community: I am happy to share with you the news that the Board of Regents of PLU voted on Saturday to elect Mr. Allan Belton—who currently serves as senior vice president and chief administrative officer—to the post of acting president, effective June 1.…
the close of the academic year. Please join us for sweet treats, music and fellowship. Red Square on Tuesday, May 16 from 4:30-6:00pm.Allan’s financial acumen and extensive background in managing large, complex organizations will provide stability and continuity of university leadership, while Joanna’s academic background and her 19 years of service to PLU will infuse the work of the academic division into our strategic plans, including partnering with Provost Rae Linda Brown on academic program
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TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 16, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University is proud to welcome back one of its own, internationally known soprano Angela Meade ’00, to host a special operatic competition and performance to award cash prizes and a trip to a national destination among six…
scheduled for Thursday, January 17th at 7:30pm in Lagerquist Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on the PLU Campus. The event is free and open to the public. The six finalists will compete before a live audience. The judges will include: Meade, PLU faculty member Marlette Buchanan and Leah Crocetto. The timing of this event was selected because while Meade is often performing at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC or at one of many famous opera venues both nationally and internationally, she is making
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Close to 50,000 Jewish refugees fled to Argentina during the rise of Nazism and World War II. In fact, between 1933 and 1945, Argentina received more Jewish refugees per capita than any other nation in the world, except Palestine. But to most – outside of…
where she explored how curators decide which stories to tell. She thought of the work being done by Urdangarain and Kaufman and the relatively little known Holocaust museums in South America.Hispanic and Latino Studies @ PLUThe politics of migration in Spain, Spanglish and Latinx music, gender inclusive language in Argentina, indigenous struggles in Mexico—these are just a few of the exciting topics students explore in the PLU Hispanic and Latino Studies Program. Upon returning to PLU, Dieringer and
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