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Technical College, he went to work for the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, where he learned about cooking in volume. From there, Swenson was hired by PLU in 2007, just before the remodel of the University Center. “Coming in here I got to be part of a team that opened up a completely new restaurant. We were looking at cuisine I never even dreamt of,” Swenson said. “We get the opportunity to make high volume burgers and chickens strips as well as authentic pho and going out to the president’s house to do small

, Relay For Life was started in Tacoma in 1985. In 2016, more than 5,000 community-based Relay For Life events will be produced in more than 20 countries. PLU’s rendition of Relay For Life features a 6-hour team walk around the university’s upper campus. Festivities will began at 5:30 p.m. in Red Square with a performance by the PLU Jazz Ensemble and the opening ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. Teams will then walk until midnight, while simultaneously enjoying student performances ranging HERmonic and

PLU Hosts Free Resource Summit for Veterans Communitywide Posted by: Sandy Dunham / November 24, 2014 November 24, 2014 Event Details What: PLU’s Veterans Resource Summit. When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6. Where: Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building, on the PLU campus. To RSVP: Click here. PLU Hosts Free Resource Summit for Veterans Communitywide By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 24, 2014)—Pacific Lutheran University is holding

representations of racism and how to fight it. PLU students also cultivated a handbook called “AWAKE: A Handbook on Fighting Racism” that will be distributed to all participants by the end of February. Kamari, reflecting on what he learned over the four-week course, sat in the high school cafeteria days before the big performance diligently tracing block letters that spelled “equality” on a giant puzzle piece for his group’s project titled “Keep an Open Mind.” “We’re making a puzzle that represents what would

her graphic design work in the documentary. Since the first premiere last November, the Waste Not team has shown the documentary in two Tacoma schools, including Annie Wright Day School and Lakes High School, and at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, Minn., where they continued to spread awareness about food waste. To learn more about the film, visit the teams’ website: wastenotdoc.weebly.com. Read Previous Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food Read Next “What We Art

traditional fixtures; contactless entry into dorm rooms—no more room keys! new furniture for lounges and study rooms; fully-renovated bathrooms with toe-warming heated floors and increased privacy; and brand-new kitchens with open floor plans on second and third floors. A timeline of the summer remodel is available here. Ordal Hall also will include the First in the Family Community, a wing that aspires to assist first-generation students in their transition from high school to college. The First in the

Zoom for Staff Accounts Update Posted by: berlinma / August 31, 2020 August 31, 2020 First, thank you for your patience as the Information & Technology Services team has been working to complete our Zoom license expansion. We’re still finalizing some details but wanted to update staff about the progress and notify them of possible changes to their accounts. If you did not have a Zoom account associated with your PLU email address, a Basic account has been created for you. Login to Zoom (plu.edu

December 1, 2012 Tim Hurd ’13: ‘A man, a can, a plan.’ Hurd and other members of the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team grab dinner after practice at Uni Teriyaki. “Nothing is very consistent with my meal patterns,” Hurd said. He’ll eat whatever he has around the house if he needs a snack, but he eats out most of the time because he doesn’t have the time or skills to cook for himself. On the rare occasion he does cook for himself, he relies on a cookbook his mom and grandma bought him called “A Man, a

management, teamwork, and persistence, all of which have shaped how I conduct my nursing practice. How did it feel to be on a record-setting relay team this year? It’s hard for me to even express what it means to be part of the winning relay teams from this year’s NWC Championships. I am so grateful I got to swim with some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met, and that goes beyond just the other three swimmers that were on each relay. Our whole team is full of hardworking, dedicated women who I

Marketing & Communications In 1898, Pacific Lutheran Academy was in serious trouble. Following the financial crisis known as the panic of 1893, the economy had crumbled, and unemployment had soared. Contributions to the new school had fallen off considerably, and debt from its first building (considered rather extravagant by some) seemed insurmountable. PLA, in other words, needed to strike gold. Perhaps literally. Concluding that extraordinary times did indeed call for extraordinary measures, the Rev