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Senior Exhibition Opens April 23 in the University Gallery Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 21, 2014 April 21, 2014 ART IS THIS, the 2014 Senior Exhibition at Pacific Lutheran University, will begin with an opening reception on Wednesday, April 23 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in PLU’s University Gallery. It is featured as the last event in the 2014 SOAC Focus Series on Entrepreneurship. Visitors will see a wide variety of media from graduating artists in the Department of Art and Design. Works will

PLU interns combat climate change one tree at a time Posted by: nicolacs / November 8, 2022 Image: Image: Autumn Johansen ’23, Dalen Todorov ’23, Zoee Kooser ’22, Elijah Paez ’24 and Dr. Lowell Wyse, the Tacoma Tree Foundation executive director. November 8, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsA group of PLU students interning with the Tacoma Tree Foundation spent the summer increasing the number of trees in the city to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and heat during the

October 13, 2008 Caring for God’s gift of biodiversity Conservation of the Earth, its animals, plants and resources isn’t only the right thing to do, but it’s how God intends for men and women to tend to His creation. That will be the gist of a lecture – The Difference Nature Makes: What We Can Learn about Christian Ethics from Earth’s Biological Diversity – which will be given on Tuesday night by Kevin O’Brien, assistant professor of religion. The lecture is free and begins at 7:30 p.m. in the

March 30, 2011 Port of Tacoma CEO sees strength in community Northwest native and Port of Tacoma CEO John Wolfe ’87, prides himself for being part of an organization that creates jobs. Established by the citizens of Pierce County, Wash., in 1918, The Port of Tacoma is among the largest container ports in North America. But Wolf sees the port as so much more than that – as a catalyst for community vitality, and a creator of economic growth for both the county and the state.“At the end of the day

February 1, 2013 Maura Gannon ’10 Erin Jones ’01 chats with Maura Gannon ’10 in her classroom. Maura Gannon ’10 Major: Education Employer: Federal Way School District PLU Connection: Erin Jones ’01, director of equity and achievement at the Federal Way School District Sometimes the connection occurs in the job search, but other times, that key link with a fellow Lute may occur after a career is launched. That was certainly the case with Maura Gannon. During Gannon’s School of Education

New PLU Kinesiology Club Uses Some Muscle to Meet Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll Posted by: Sandy Dunham / December 2, 2014 December 2, 2014 By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communication Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 2, 2014)—One of the newest clubs at PLU this year—the Kinesiologists of the Future Club or, as it’s known on campus, KFC—is kicking off with a bang. Since it is the Kinesiology club, founders Kevin De Jong and Jordan Zepernick, both seniors, knew they wanted to do an

roles and will be able to be completed before June 1, 2015. Funded by the student green fund, the proposal process is open to any member of the PLU Community including current students, faculty, staff and recent graduates. Past projects have varied in cost and this year organizers say they hope to fund a variety of small and/or large projects, depending on nature of the proposals they receive. “The greatest thing about sustainability at PLU is that it can be whatever we want it to be – we are not

MediaLab Documentary “Waste Not” Receives More Awards Posted by: Sandy Dunham / February 25, 2015 February 25, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 25, 2015)–The awards for MediaLab’s 2014 original documentary, Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food Equation, keep rolling in. The documentary has won three additional awards in the past week.Waste Not, which focuses on global food waste and hunger, received second place in the long-form video category in the

Take Back the Night on April 30 Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 28, 2015 Image: Participants in the 2014 Take Back the Night event at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 28, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ’18PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (April 27, 2015) — Take Back the Night, an annual internationally recognized protest against rape and sexual assault, will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in Red Square at Pacific Lutheran University.The event offers a chance to learn about

made and what they might have done differently to achieve a different outcome.When we study what motivated individuals to make the choices they did, we can then challenge ourselves and our students to consider what other options were present in that historical moment. We can then postulate what types of options are now available to us under similar conditions. If we want a different outcome, then we must decide to take actions that differ from what was done in the past.  For some, asking tough