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  • No Labor Lost https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/exhibitions/no-labor-lost/

    by Norwegian American farmers called the Non-Partisan League. There is not all that much written about Scandinavian-Americans and the Labor movement, but there are however a few very well known Labor rights advocates in the U.S. The Swedish born Joe Hill wrote the most famous songs of the Wooblies, and the Norwegian longshoreman Andrew Furseth organized shipping unions along the West Coast. But there were also Scandinavian-Americans that did not want to get involved in an activity that some

  • Norway and PLU Exhibit https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/exhibitions/norway-plu-exhibit/

    in England during WWII, and Crown Princess Märtha and her three children lived in the United States during that time.) Cultural ExchangesPacific Lutheran University has sent performers to Norway on a regular basis. The Choir of the West’s 1937 tour to Norway was followed by a 1963 tour that marked a high artistic attainment, as demonstrated by the reviews in many Scandinavian and German newspapers. The Choir of the West has returned to Norway several times since then, and the Choral Union Alumni

  • When Two PLU Historians Sit Down to Chat https://www.plu.edu/history/news/when-two-plu-historians-sit-down-to-chat/

    love of History started early, listening at the dinner table to her parents’ wide-ranging conversations on civil rights protests and other 1960s events. (It turns out this was a memory we both shared – only instead of the Pacific North West, my dinner-table eavesdropping took place on a dairy farm in south-eastern Australia!). Beth found herself attracted to the human stories of the past – especially, she says, to questions of authority — although answers were often lacking in the monotonous, dry

  • Archives https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/

    Sociology major Allen Tugade ’24 has been a dynamic researcher and student leader at PLU As a student, Allen Tugade ’24 engaged in academic and applied sociological research on the student population of Pacific Lutheran University. Tugade was a member of Choir of the West and a well-known student leader on campus, serving as a Wild Hope Fellow and with… May 28, 2024 Research & Academics

  • Archives in Research & Academics https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/topic/research-academics/

    Sociology major Allen Tugade ’24 has been a dynamic researcher and student leader at PLU As a student, Allen Tugade ’24 engaged in academic and applied sociological research on the student population of Pacific Lutheran University. Tugade was a member of Choir of the West and a well-known student leader on campus, serving as a Wild Hope Fellow and with… May 28, 2024 Research & Academics

  • Find your PLU Admission Counselor https://www.plu.edu/admission/counselors/

    Gerhardstein Waterville School District Mary Gerhardstein Wellpinit School District Mary Gerhardstein Wenatchee Community College Shaun Antrim Wenatchee School District Mary Gerhardstein West Valley School District (Spokane) Mary Gerhardstein West Valley School District (Yakima) Mary Gerhardstein Whatcom Community College Shaun Antrim White Pass School District Max Boekenoogen White River School District Mary Gerhardstein White Salmon Valley Schools Mary Gerhardstein Wilbur School District Mary

  • Zach Powers ’10 – Resolute Online: Spring 2017 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/author/powerszs/

    and resource management chops on the American West, serving as a National Park Service paleontologist and museum curator at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon, and later as a regional paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management headquartered in Utah. Along the way, he earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Northern Illinois University. In 2012, Foss relocated to Washington, D.C., to assume his current role, one he likens to an orchestra conductor. “I don’t get to play

  • Kari Plog ’11 – Resolute Online: Spring 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2016/author/plogkr/

    . Her team collects and identifies the insects, working in and outside the lab studying the spread of West Nile virus. Blakney said it was PLU’s commitment to global citizenship, social justice and environmental conservation that helped her discover her vocation in public health. “It’s easy to get lost in numbers and statistics,” she said. “Having had that encouragement at PLU to think about social justice and environmental concerns helps humanize the numbers.” Blakney long assumed she would go to

  • Capstone Symposium 2018 https://www.plu.edu/math/capstone-symposium/capstone-symposium-2018/

    Drawings Meghan Gould Art is a central part of many cultures’ rituals and storytelling traditions. One such artistic custom is sand drawing, with groups ranging from northern Africa to India to Oceania incorporating the artwork into their cultural practices. In this paper, we closely examine a particular type of sand drawing from Angola, known as sona, and its inherent graph theoretic properties, specifically as they relate to the properties of a special type of graphs known as Gaussian graphs. We

  • Past Speakers https://www.plu.edu/natural-sciences/rachel-carson/past-speakers/

    , biologists, and engineers with participants from all over the globe. Graduates are applying biomimicry in their work in different settings and places including Fortune 500 corporations, the EPA, South Africa, Spain, Columbia, Mexico, Turkey, as well as the US. As senior editor, Dayna compiled a decade of experience in biomimicry into a practical how-to guide Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Knowledge and Best Practices (2013). All of this has helped fertilize the movement of biomimicry as a