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Molly Lindberg ’17 was an unlikely passenger in the boat on the River Thames in Oxford, England.
school, she helped her Seattle-based club team qualify for nationals. But once she enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University, Lindberg gave up the sport to focus on academics and other extracurricular activities. Oxford to VersaillesMolly Lindberg '17 had the opportunity to race with one of the women's rowing squads at Versailles in France, after the team was down a rower. “It definitely helped me (having prior experience),” she said of rowing in Oxford. “I was surprised how quickly it came back to me
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Sarah Seder’s passion for dance has taken her all over North America. Now, she returns home to the Seattle area bringing with her unique experiences, a vast repertoire of skills, and an effervescent personality. She will lead PLU students through Ballet 1, Contemporary Dance 1…
high school dropout prevention programs. I also enjoyed taking courses in theatre, film, photography, and music as well as performing in dance, music, and theatre productions. After I graduated, I returned to the Seattle area and co-founded a flamenco dance company called Barrio Flamenco. I performed with Barrio Flamenco from 2007-2008. In 2008, I co-founded Seattle-based Sapience Dance Collective and co-directed the company until 2016. We produced annual shows, created Converge Dance Festival, an
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Three distinct stories of multiculturalism in Norway share one common desire: belonging despite difference.
country. Sámi students Mathilde Magga '20 (right) and Elle Sina Søerensen '20 study in Magga's room at PLU in December 2017. “We were children, so we didn’t understand the politics,” Magga said. “Children pick up what their parents talk about.” The children who targeted Magga — in an incident she says started as a typical fight between middle-school girls — picked up negative attitudes toward their victim based on her identity as a Sámi. “One girl said I was weak because I was Sámi,” recalled Magga
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Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…
, 2016. Brown comes to PLU from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, where she most recently served as associate provost for undergraduate education.During her eight-year tenure at LMU, Brown led the internationalization of the curriculum and restructuring of the study away program, including the establishment of a mission-based program in Cordoba, Argentina, and undergraduate research initiatives with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Beijing Center. She also established LMU’s
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 13, 2016)- Grace Zimmerman ’18 was already thrilled to pursue a study away experience in Namibia. But her excitement compounded after learning she received a competitive scholarship, one of more than 2,800 awarded by the federal government to students such as herself…
always been a goal coming to PLU that I would study away. With nursing, it didn’t really seem possible, but then I found out about the Namibia trip.” Zimmerman received a Pell Grant, which is need-based financial aid. The Gilman Scholarship, which is awarded up to $5,000 to Pell Grant recipients, funds additional study-away costs beyond what’s covered by other financial aid. Those additional costs may include airfare, meals and other out-of-pocket expenses. The scholarship aims to diversify the types
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PLU professor adds ‘board game inventor’ to his résumé.
encouraged him to join her in setting a personal goal to accomplish within a year, while Ciscell was in graduate school at Colorado State University. Within that year, after what Ciscell calls a “very scientific” data-collection process of playing his game about 100 times with friends-turned-critics, “Atlantis Rising” was finished. Ciscell used his contacts from gaming conventions and sold the game to the first company he pitched it to, New York-based Z-Man Games. The company hired a designer from the
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Every year since 2011, PLU has sent two Lutes to Norway as part of its summer Peace Scholars program. The Lutes learn about peacebuilding and dialogue, bringing what they learn home to apply it on
connect people from all walks of life, from around the world. He’s grateful to have met them. “Countries are no longer these arbitrary spaces on a globe,” he said. “They now have faces and people connected to them.” Applications for the program are accepted each year until February; participants are selected in the spring based on their motivation and purpose, depth of understanding and intellectual curiosity of peace, as well as openness to new ideas and perspectives. “We are looking for students who
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
other Lutes. A display outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) The local prize — believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States — is for everybody, Heavey said, just as the Oslo-based Nobel Peace Prize is for the world. The 2005 founding of Tacoma’s peace prize coincided with the Puget Sound region’s centennial celebration of Norwegian independence, the anniversary of Norway’s split from its union with Sweden. The timing was perfect, as the
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 28, 2016)- There were lots of tears as band members from Tamana Girls High School in Japan said farewell to their new friends from Graham-Kapowsin High School, located about 13 miles southeast of Pacific Lutheran University. Miho Takekawa, percussion instructor at PLU…
study and perform together at the university. Learn more about PLU musicVisit the music department's website for more information about programs, facilities and more.Tamana and G-K are a perfect match, Takekawa said, mainly because both schools are located in rural areas (Tamana is based in Kumamoto on Japan’s southernmost island). Members of the all-girls high school stayed with host families, all households that G-K band students call home. The Japanese students attended classes at the Graham high
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 26, 2016)- Roche Harbor, Washington, sits on the northwest side of San Juan Island at the edge of the Canadian border. For one week over the summer, Roche Harbor served as a site of discovery for a handful of Lutes interested in…
Island at the edge of the Canadian border. For one week over the summer, Roche Harbor served as a site of discovery for a handful of Lutes interested in archaeology.A group of Pacific Lutheran University students ventured into the woods as part of an archaeology field method workshop, facilitated through the Seattle-based Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Amanda Taylor, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, runs PLU’s side of the project and leads students in the research component
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