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  • MBA grads hit it off with giving kudos online By Barbara Clements Who doesn’t like props? That’s what Ryan Hart thought last year when he wrote a business plan for a local business award Website. Hart, 25, who completed his MBA at PLU, decided, why…

    review and learn from business practices there. Both Pogue and Hart went to China during their MBA experience. Their class visited a Toyota plant, a builder of some of the biggest yachts in the world, a steel plant and a beer factory. No word on whether free samples were given out at the last stop. “I would suggest taking that trip as soon as possible during the program” Hart said. “That international experience is amazing.” Read Previous Determination pays off Read Next Homecoming week: Meant to

  • 2012 Northwest Horn Symposium PLU and SOAC will host the 2012 Northwest Horn Symposium from March 30-April 1. The weekend, filled with master classes, guided warm-up sessions, presentations, and performances, will draw horn players from across the region. Three performances are connected with the symposium,…

    experience was tremendously valuable in that I interacted with people who were experts in their field and who were inspirational in their level of playing ability,” Gina Gillie, symposium organizer and PLU assistant professor says. “Last year, I attended the symposium as an educator, and it was a valuable experience for me to listen to other pedagogical methods, observe teaching styles in master classes, and to take a lesson with the President of the International Horn Society, Frank Lloyd, as well as a

  • PLU Peace Scholars leave for Nobel Peace Prize Forum Juniors Andrew Larsen and Amy Delo will be attending the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize forum this year in Minneapolis. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Dr. William Foege ’57 is a keynote speaker at the event By Barbara Clements…

    spent the past year in Serbia studying peace and conflict resolution, and would like to work with youth when he leaves PLU. Delo is a political science and global studies major and is considering going into the Peace Corps or furthering her education through graduate studies in international relations. They also will hear PLU alum Dr. William Foege ’57, who led the fight to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Anna McCracken ’14, a

  • By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communication Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 24, 2014)—Longtime teacher (and former PLU student and instructor) Andrew Milton has released his first book, centered on the regulations and social expectations that are harmful to our schools. Milton has been…

    . He earned his undergraduate degree in political science at UC-Davis; received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oregon; and got his teaching certification at PLU, through the Alternative Route to Certification program (ARC). After receiving his certification, Milton went on to teach at many different levels. He is currently an eighth-grade English teacher in DuPont, Wash., and an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Troy University. Milton’s teaching career took a

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — The Mayer family has a long, storied history of philanthropic endeavors with Pacific Lutheran University. Natalie Mayer wanted to build on that good work by endowing a lecture series that addressed what she saw as a growing need —…

    endeavors with Pacific Lutheran University. Natalie Mayer wanted to build on that good work by endowing a lecture series that addressed what she saw as a growing need — the spike in racist and anti-Semitic acts across the United States.The inaugural Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture, taking place on May 2, hosts language scholar and international expert Dr. Lid King, who will discuss how hate speech has flourished on the internet and detail how we must work to build a counter

  • Angela Tennant ’12 Degree: Bachelors of Fine Art – Theatre, Acting Directing with an English Literature minor Organizations: Alpha Psi Omega (Member and Historian), Vpstart Crow (President), CLAY CROWS Improv (Member), SOAC Advisory Board Where are you now?  “I currently reside in New York City. Upon graduation…

    city, it’s impossible to truly prepare yourself for living in NY, but I believe the [International Honors] classes I took at PLU gave me a foundation for looking at the world from various perspectives, something that’s unbelievably important in a city with so many different people crammed into a tiny island!” What is one piece of advice you would give graduating SOAC students about the future? “To graduating SOAC students: You’ve begun your training to become an artist. Don’t be afraid to go and

  • PLU’s Division of Humanities concludes the 2020-21 school year with relief and gratitude. Dean Kevin O’Brien working from home. Also pictured is Pancake, one of two cats he adopted during the pandemic You can probably imagine the reasons for our relief. This was the third…

    syllabi. You’ll read about how students made distance learning work, how faculty continued campus programs, national leadership, and international scholarship.  You’ll read how classes were adapted to ensure that students were cared for and supported in English, Languages, Philosophy, Religion, and the MFA. All these stories are honest about the challenges we faced and the real loss of these last years, but they also reveal how much great work continued.  As you read about this work, please know that

  • Originally published in 2014 One of the things that studying Indigenous stories and situations has shown me is that knowledge isn’t neutral. Our systems of knowledge grow out of our ways of being in the world and are all culturally-specific—that is, they are all created…

    colleagues and Indigenous scholars from other nations. Currently, I am involved in two major research projects: a place-based study on competing and collaborating stories and perspectives with Dr. Kikki Jernsletten, a Sámi colleague in Norway, and a project on Indigenous aesthetics with an international group of Indigenous scholars including Sámi, Cree, Maori, and Native Hawaiians. Both projects involve developing critical scholarly approaches deriving from Indigenous ways of knowing.This research focus

  • Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…

    gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with many front-end and back-end technologies.” Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team during the summer following his sophomore year. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project, but it was very rewarding, too,” Gavidia says. During the fall of his junior year

  • Douglas McGrath’s Emma (1996) stresses the importance of kindness and familial harmony, themes which are absent from Autumn de Wilde’s cool rendition, Emma . (2020). In the novel, Emma learns to be kind and caring to others as well as be considerate and helpful after…

    family scenes. Rather than centering on the community connections, De Wilde’s centers on the heroine’s development and portrays her becoming somewhat kinder. But the warmth that sustains McGrath’s movie proves unnecessary for de Wilde.In de Wilde’s adaptation, gone are the bright and warm lightings, which are replaced with a dark setting. The holiday reds and greens are dimly lit by candlelight in the dining room. Familial warmth is visually and thematically gone. In McGrath’s Emma, the rooms are