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  • PLU graduate studies the Kindertransport By Barbara Clements Their faces stare out from yellowed passport photos. Some are smiling. Some scared. Some of carrying suitcases. Many are only holding their younger siblings or nothing at all. This photo is of the first transport from Berlin…

    nationality, most of the children never saw their parents again. Brade first became interested in this subject while working on her capstone (senior) projects at PLU. In her research she came across a book written by a Kindertransport survivor. After eventually finishing up her masters, Brade plans to continue into doctorate study at Chapel Hill. And after that? “Teaching history,” she laughed. “And I’d really  like to do it at PLU.” Read Previous PLU ROTC awarded prestigious MacArthur Award Read Next

  • Nobel Prize laureate Edmond Fischer talks to PLU chemistry and biology students about the joys and frustrations of research work last Friday, May 6. (Photo by John Froschauer) Nobel laureate talks about the unpredictability of biochemistry…and it’s just plain fun. By Barbara Clements For Nobel…

    . “That’s the funny attribute of a Nobel Prize,” he said. “It catches you off guard. We wouldn’t have changed anything (in our research) even if there had been no prize at the end of the work.” But, as a matter of fact, there was. Fischer quickly warned the students that just because a Nobel might now be on a resume, to not assume that research grants would come flowing into the doors of the lab. In fact, it usually becomes harder to get the money for projects, he said. “It is more difficult,” he said

  • Pacific Lutheran University Introduces New Director of Military Outreach PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University welcomes its first-ever Director of Military Outreach, Army veteran and Tacoma resident Michael Farnum. PLU has a long history of collaboration with and service to the local and regional…

    private agencies committed to protecting endangered species. • been an active volunteer with the Washington State Veterans Conservation Corps on environmental-restoration projects through the Puget Sound region, including an award-winning project restoring sections of the Duwamish River. Farnum and his wife, Gena, have three children. Read Previous PLU President and Mrs. Krise Announce Endowed Internship Fund Read Next Best-selling Author, and Alum, Comes to PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 14, 2015)—If you were to mix Indiana Jones with Steve Irwin and sprinkle in extensive knowledge of Shakespeare and the English language, you just might get Pacific Lutheran University Professor of English Dr. Charles Bergman. From climbing into wolf dens in Alaska,…

    For more on Bergman’s articles, photography or upcoming projects: Visit his website.The talk itself is somewhat of a “swan song”: After 38 years and a notoriously adventurous career at PLU, Bergman will begin phased retirement this summer. He is far from done with his work, however. Currently, Bergman is especially interested in two remarkable birds: parrots and penguins. “Parrots? Because they’re so smart, and they are animals in the vanguard in showing us how much more they are than we give them

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 19, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University students may soon see their professors, dressed in commencement regalia, coming to classes with a special invitation to join one of the most prestigious honor societies in the nation. This week, PLU joined the ranks of schools…

    scholastic projects. DeLaRosby said students have control over how much work they invest in their membership with Phi Kappa Phi. “When I joined I never thought I’d use it for anything other than just being a member,” DeLaRosby said. But several years after joining, DeLaRosby reached out to Phi Kappa Phi to help fund his dissertation research.  The scholarship DeLaRosby received was the Love of Learning award in 2013 for a pilot study investigating characteristics of successful college students who were

  • Kathryn Einan ‘22 is a self-proclaimed “book nerd.” Einan is a triple major in Literature, History and Nordic Studies with a minor in Chinese. She has a deep love of learning and hopes to become a teacher one day. “There are so many interesting things…

    favorite. She has a special passion for classic literature, including authors like Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Einan worked with Associate Professor of English Adela Ramos on projects about books by Jane Austen. Einan and Ramos worked on online posts reviewing Jane Austen themed adaptations, merchandise, games and spin-off books. Einan recently completed her capstone about female mobility in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Ramos remembers meeting Einan for the first time in her Jane Austen Communities

  • April Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan. A political science and communication double major who recently earned an MBA at PLU, Nguyen followed the advice of a career adviser into a series of contract jobs in human resources. Not because she has career aspirations…

    are interested in the program.  “I love that I get to see everybody through the application process,” she says. She takes pride in paying attention to the smallest details and her growing abilities as a project manager — abilities that have clearly not gone unnoticed by her supervisors, as she has been asked to work on a wide variety of additional projects. She’s become a key utility player for the academy, serving as the program’s point of contact with Salesforce, helping launch a new website

  • Jon Grande ’92 was an intern at Microsoft the summer before he enrolled at PLU. His supervisor was a young marketing manager named Melinda French. He remembers advice Melinda — now Melinda French Gates — gave him a few weeks before the fall semester began.…

    in what is now Microsoft Studios (where his projects included favorites like Halo, Mass Effect and Age of Empires), before stints with multiple gaming start-ups as well as industry heavyweights like Electronic Arts and Big Fish Games. “Lots of people play games; not a lot of people can tell you why games are fun or how good games are made,” Grande says. Eventually, he gravitated toward the emerging field of free-to-play games. Those are the games you can download for free and choose to spend

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? This is the question that almost every student gets asked, especially once they hit their senior year of high school. When I was a senior, I had no idea what to answer. There were so…

    knew exactly what they wanted to do. I entered college undecided because I knew that I had time to explore and change my mind. I wanted to leave college with a major that allowed me to help others on a daily basis, but I was unsure about what that major would or could be. In my first year seminar class, our TA spoke about a friend who came into college undecided. After multiple major changes, she ended up getting a sociology major; something she hadn’t even heard of prior to entering college. Funny

  • On Thursday, April 11th from 9-10pm, the MBR Amphitheater will transform into a glowing globe. As part of Reconciliation Day, students are encouraged to place a candle on a conflict or peace-building effort that is taking place in the world. Alongside peers, faculty and fellow…

    part of Communication and Theater week, a week of programs that provides opportunities to learn about faculty and student work; celebrate student accomplishments and provide opportunities to network with internship and employment partners. The week has a wide variety of events, all of which are free and open to the public. Read Previous New exhibit exposes ecological change through art Read Next New documentary addresses Islamophobia in America, premieres Thursday, April 11, 2013 LATEST POSTS Meet