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  • Jason Edwards ’84, ’89 Teacher, Climber and Guide Biography Biography Jason is a school teacher, Emergency Medical Technician, and highly regarded mountain climber and Alpine guide, who has lead successful ascents of mountains across the globe. These include volcanoes, peaks and mountains from Antarctica, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to Australia, Nepal, Russia, and Tanzania. He has made four successful ascents of Mt. Everest, with his 2001 Everest expedition being one of the most

  • NIEHS Scholars Connect Program (NSCP) Posted by: nicolacs / December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020 The NIEHS Scholars Connect Program (NSCP) is designed to provide a unique opportunity for highly motivated science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) focused undergraduate students to solidly connect with NIEHS and receive training in biomedical research. Students in NSCP have an opportunity for hands-on mentored research experiences, as well as professional and personal development. NSCP is

  • PLU Alumna Wins the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Sincerest congratulations to Molly Loberg, PLU alumna ’98, who recently won a highly esteemed prize for her first book! Molly was a History/German major who went on to win a Fulbright for study in Germany and then earned her Ph.D. in history from Princeton! “Molly… February 10, 2020

  • PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Pacific Lutheran University’s own Cassio Vianna , Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies , has been awarded a grant from the City of Tacoma. This grant, part of the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) , encourages artistic engagement in the city by… April 18, 2024 FacultyMusic

  • SOD Awards Spirit of Diversity Awards Friday May 10, 2024 @ 5:30pm Doors open at 5:15pm for drinks & cupcakes, program starts at 5:45pm Anderson University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center Join us for an opportunity to celebrate students, faculty, and staff who have contributed to the mission through diversity, justice, and sustainability leadership, learning, and care. Graduating Students Students of Color, Queer Students, & First in Family Students The Spirit of Diversity Awards is

  • April 25, 2011 Robert Lynam ’12 and Bridgette Cooper ’11 had a front-row view this year on how laws in Olympia are really made. (Photo by John Froschauer) Learning from the floor: PLU students head to Olympia, join the front lines of public policy. By Chris Albert Under the Capitol dome in Olympia, Wash., Robert Lynam’s office is pretty much a glorified closet. Remove the computer, phone and a tattered Seahawks poster, and it would be a closet. But if you ask Lynam ’12, he’d tell you there’s no

  • , although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study. Through The Alumni & Student Connections Economics Mentoring Program, McDaneld spent his summer interning with Russell Investments as a data analyst with the global data operations team. Russell Investments is a global investment manager operating in 31 countries. McDaneld shares with us his experience interning with

  • office after dropping out of the University of Oregon in 2010. The decision to enlist, she says, was “a bit of a last resort” to get her family and friends to stop asking what she was doing with her life. “There I was signing my life away feeling relieved that this will get me at least four years to become someone others weren’t worried about all of the time,” she says. Three years later, Raven Lopez ’22 realized that after one year at the University of Arizona, she wouldn’t be able to afford college

  • the world and documenting its beauty, weathered a terrible storm that day in 2008. He made his way up the mountain at Haleakala National Park in Hawaii, scouting a location for his sunrise photoshoot. Legend says, as Ebi tells it, a demigod lassoed the sun there and released it only after it promised to move more slowly across the sky. So, perhaps Ebi has that demigod to thank for the perfect shot that is circulating as part of a series of 16 stamps depicting national parks. Of course, Ebi’s

  • To Do List for Graduate-Level Students Congratulations on your decision to attend PLU! Before you enter this exciting PLU adventure, there are a lot of items to take care of. The list below can be overwhelming but trust us; your transition to new life in the U.S. and at PLU will go a lot smoother if you take care of the following items before you depart your home country. Please let us know if you need any assistance or have any questions! Accepting Admission Respond to Admission Offer Log into