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Theatre (acting and technical). SOAC artistic achievement awards are offered in amounts ranging up to $10,000 per year and are in addition to academic scholarship students may receive. About PLUPacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. With distinctive international programs and close student-faculty research opportunities, PLU helps its 3,300 students from all faiths and backgrounds discern their vocations in life. Founded in 1890

transitioned to distance learning in early March, the channel began publishing its programs April 6 and will continue through the end of the spring semester. Mindful Mondays, hosted by Counseling, Health & Wellness Services’ Tammara Bode, is focused on centering the mind with course- and vocation-related exercises from the PLU Counseling Center. PLU Reads, hosted by Assistant Professor of Education Wendy Gardiner, is for the younger members of our Lute community while families are home together for “Stay

organize, communicate and use information and data,” she explains. “We can also bring new or innovative approaches to the way we do our work by bringing people together across traditionally unconventional lines and supplying them with quality data and information so that new ideas, new approaches, and new programs can emerge, and informed decisions can be made.” For McConnell, it makes a lot of sense that a place like PLU would be home to such a creative and forward-thinking role. “PLU has always been

information.As a software developer and technology author, I have been very impressed with the comprehensive collection of Alexa toolkits and developer resources that have been made available for innovators to experiment with. A toolkit (or SDK) allows programmer’s access to Alexa’s features and lets them create Alexa ‘skills’. A developer can also integrate Alexa directly into an existing product via the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) interface. I have spent many hours using SDKs over the years to write programs

who grow up in low-income families to enter the teaching field. That’s one reason Teach 253 programs are housed at two of Tacoma’s most diverse high schools: Mount Tahoma and Lincoln. But the program is open to any student at the schools. “Who better to teach Tacoma kids than Tacoma kids? We want them back,” said Lisa Egenes, instructor for Teach 253 at Lincoln. “We want to get kids excited to think about the impact they could have on teaching,” added Mary Jo Larsen, PLU’s assistant dean of

members and community. We can’t offer that.  Instead, we think about what we can uniquely do on campus.PLU Campus MinistryPLU Campus Ministry seeks to welcome and affirm every member of the PLU community as we collectively respond to the spiritual call to justice and transformation.What are a few examples of programs or activities that have come from that thinking? A lot of our students are ripe with questions at the intersection of faith and daily life. They want to reflect on how their faith and

. “Seeing Miss Melannie Cunningham, PLU’s director of multicultural outreach and engagement, with natural hair, in a place of power, made me feel it’s not impossible to achieve greatness,” she says. “I don’t have to worry that my hair will hold me back.”Major in social work at PLUAre you interested in working with children with emotional and behavioral issues? Do you believe everyone is entitled to access to health care? Are you frustrated by what you hear about social welfare programs? Are you

programs for Windows, the Mac, smart phones, and other devices (does anyone remember programming printers?). I will tell you that it takes a long time for a company to build-up the tools and infrastructure to get engineers excited about a new technology. Not so with Amazon Alexa. The software development tools are readily available now for experimenting with Alexa and making a connection in your favorite programming language. (The top four used now are Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python.) Take a look at

(so well represented here today), and in the fine and performing arts. It also includes a suite of select graduate and professional programs that all seek to build our students’ capacity to serve the world— nursing, marriage and family therapy, finance, education, creative writing, and business. So, you see, the world needs more PLU. Lives of Service and Care As a community and as individuals, PLU people care about the development and success of our students and of each other. We have high

Women’s Center, I had very few connections to the PLU community. After becoming a part of the WMGS program and attending the reception at the Women’s Center this year, I finally feel like a real member of the PLU community, and have made great connections to the staff and other students through the various programs put on by the center. I have never felt so welcome and accepted at any space at PLU as I have at the Women’s Center.” Chynna Boonlom ’17 Current volunteer, member of SAPET and co-leader of