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  • By Michael Halvorson ’85, Professor of History.  When Dwight D. Eisenhower was a young officer in the U.S. Army, he was responsible for protecting his troops during the 1918 Pandemic that threatened military bases in the U.S. This is one of the fascinating stories about…

    Colonel (temporary) making the 28 year-old Eisenhower among the youngest Lieutenant Colonels in the Army.  Eisenhower continued to hope for a chance to command troops in Europe. II For millennia, hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese had darkened the skies over western Kansas during their migrations along the Central Flyway to and from Canada and the Gulf of Mexico.  This feathered cloud also rained billions of bird viruses in their poo on Kansas farms, towns, fields, ponds and pig wallows along

  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 22, 2015)— With Commencement on May 23, Pacific Lutheran University sends its largest class ever out into the world—more than 800 Lutes are eligible to graduate, with 755 expected to participate in the Commencement ceremony. Judging by the accomplishments of the Class…

    will start making an immediate impact on the world—mostly because they already have done so much at PLU. Here’s a look at just a few outstanding members of this year’s graduating class.Greg HibbardMajors: Geoscience and Economics. Hometown: Olympia, Washington. Accomplishments at PLU: NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, two-time Capital One First Team Academic All American (first male student-athlete in PLU’s history to receive this honor twice), 2014 Football Team Captain, football player all

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 22, 2016)- It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan. An estimated two million people died as a result of war, famine…

    . I’m a second-class citizen here with the set of struggles that come with that. To this day I experience racism essentially wherever I go in America. People making assumptions about me before they even meet me. Having this color of skin is a death sentence here when it comes to leading a normal American life. I can’t even go down the street on a nice day a lot of times without someone thinking I am a dangerous person. This color of skin isn’t associated with good things in America. Though David

  • The following is a wonderful sermon from Interim Campus Pastor John Rosenberg given at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Browns Point on Sunday, May 29th. Is PLU Lutheran Enough? Now That’s a Good Question (   ) Pastor John Rosenberg’s sermon at Grace Lutheran Church in Corvallis,…

    for granted or aren’t aware of it. But it is an incredible gift for which we should be grateful and which we should seek to use on behalf of a world in desperate need of it. Remember that the Lutheran Reformation began in a university. Martin Luther was a teacher committed to making sure people could read and write and study the Scriptures in their own language so that they could learn for themselves about the same steadfast and loving God that Solomon prayed to.  That commitment to critical study

  • In their own words By Chris Albert Soon new PLU graduates will go out into the world. In the following, some Lutes share their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences have been and what’s the next chapter in their lives. More…

    American Heart Association’s annual Heart Ball, Diabetes Walk, Breast Cancer Walks, making blankets for the fallen policemen, and several dinners for the homeless in Tacoma. I didn’t think I would get the chance to travel while attending PLU. I guess the stars aligned just perfectly enough for me to get the opportunity to travel to Chengdu, China, to study Traditional Chinese Medicine this J-Term 2011. Most of all, I have been blessed to make some of the most amazing, smart, talented, and kind friends

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19 The Innovation Studies program at Pacific Lutheran University is interested in the diverse environments innovation can be found in, including the entertainment industry. The popularity of HBO’s blockbuster show, Game of Thrones, highlights an important place to study innovation principles. Spoiler…

    moving past the familiar terrain of the books. In addition, the show runners Benioff and Weiss have failed to maintain the creative storytelling that was consistent in the books. Rather than remain a core focus on the sociological, Thrones became focused on individual heroics and villainy, making it more difficult to kill off major characters. Rather than subverting expectations in a way that was emotionally succinct and logical according to the rules of the Game, unexpected things have happened

  • Global health: Why does it matter? If public health was a fashion show, global health would be the new black. It’s hot. But what is global health, exactly? And why does it matter? Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody…

    broadly creative definitions of global health – such as “domestic, for-profit” global health for local biotech firms making drugs or devices with potential application overseas; “domestic non-profit” organizations working with immigrants (or Native Americans) as well as “international for-profit” firms with business links to Washington. “A key challenge in our report was to define and operationalize the concept of global health,” the UW authors acknowledged in their introduction to the report. Their

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    chose six films out of 27 on offer from the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation. Our criterion in making the selection was to bring a diverse set of films to campus that would not only feature the languages and cultures studied in the Department of Languages and Literatures, but also would speak to issues of interest to many on campus: migration, human rights, environmental degradation, collective memory. We reached out to faculty members from art history, nursing, marriage and

  • In 2022 — when polarities abound and institutions and individuals alike have been called to reflect, redefine and transform — what does it mean to call the work of equity “innovative”? As a concept, innovation can be used interchangeably with words like ingenuity, progress, newness,…

    beliefs, practices, imaginings that people have attempted to erase or eradicate. That’s a different way of thinking about the work.  Maya: Which I think, like Tyler said, is resurfacing, returning, unearthing and making space for things to breathe after having been buried.Narrator: (With a sigh of appreciation into the thoughtful silence following that evocative image, remembering Maya had focused her studies at PLU “around inequality and its intersections with our natural environment.”) Whew. Tyler

  • Originally published in 2003 The daily headlines reflect the relentless march to war and violence: probable war in Iraq, continuing strife in the Middle East and the “war” on terror. Like other members of faith communities across the globe, I find myself wondering how I,…

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