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Dr. Edwin Powell Selected to Join WMEA’s Hall of Fame Posted by: Reesa Nelson / November 5, 2019 November 5, 2019 By Reesa NelsonMarketing & Communications ManagerHearty congratulations to our own Dr. Edwin Powell, Director of Bands and Professor of Music, on his selection for the 2020 class of the Washington Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. Honorees are selected every other year by their teaching peers and inducted at the annual WMEA conference. Dr. Powell was surprised to receive the
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PLU documentary explores benefits of and barriers to higher education Posted by: Todd / November 10, 2015 November 10, 2015 MediaLab, PLU’s award-winning film production program, is no stranger to documentaries. For the past many years a team of students have gotten together, and decided on a topic they thought they could shed some light on through stories and film. This year, the team chose a topic very close to home – higher education.“We thought it was an interesting issue to tackle, because
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1997 Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and author of I Will Not Be Broken. such as this that we all carry around with us, he noted recently. It’s a date, a time when life changes, and it’s up to us to decide how to respond to the event and make critical choices that will shape our future. One individual, White noted, “can make changes that have ripple effects around the world,” if there is enough determination behind that passion to make a change for the better
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4 Reasons to Choose PLU’s Master of Science in Kinesiology Posted by: chaconac / September 26, 2022 September 26, 2022 Ranked by Niche as the top Kinesiology department in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest, the Master of Science in Kinesiology at PLU brings a tradition of excellence into the graduate degree.The program combines a rigorous academic experience with real-world, relevant and impactful applications designed to intentionally address critical gaps in kinesiology training and
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BBC Science NewsFarmers 'at war' with countryside crime gangsWhy are the Boeing Starliner astronauts still in space?China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks Resting cuckoo bees win insect photo competitionChimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plantsMonkeys got along better after hurricane - studyKey oil project must count full climate impact - courtHow Hollywood star Sheen helped uncover a dark secretCrossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change
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By Ashley Carreño-Millan '20Division of Humanities Communities of alumni, students, Parkland residents, and more all gather together to talk about philosophy, not to debate with one another, but to learn. Professors Sergia Hay, Mike Rings, and PLU alumni Matthew Salzano presenting on their SOPHIA group at a conference in March 2018. The SOPHIA (Society of Philosophers in America) organization connects people globally and locally. Some of the events organized by SOPHIA are hosted by two PLU
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- MediaLab, the applied research and media production program at Pacific Lutheran University, has received a prestigious national award for its most recent documentary film. These Four Years, which premiered in Seattle in November 2015, has earned a Grand Prize in…
exciting to see our hard work paying off,” said DeFord, a senior communication and German double major who will graduate in May 2016. “We are honored about the recognition and hope that These Four Years can be helpful to students and families.” These Four Years focuses on the value of higher education and the college experience. Specifically, the filmmakers sought to understand the effects that higher education, or the lack thereof, can have on professional opportunities and personal well-being and
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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.
information about all the laureates. (Photos by John Froschauer, PLU) Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey '74 was in the middle of a war. “I was a Coast Guard reservist,” he recalled of his deployment to Kuwait in 2003. “In the desert.” Heavey — who was elected president of the Sons of Norway in Tacoma just before he left — couldn’t believe he was on the ground at the age of 52 aiding the Iraq invasion, the beginning of an armed conflict that eventually
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Thomas Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen.
what the United States Congress decides to create for DACA recipients. In the meantime, PLU community trainings will continue and the task force is dedicating to addressing undocumented student needs. But despite this shaky time, task force members remain hopeful. “I don’t think that I can allow myself to have anything but hope,” Juliano said.“I feel like it is my job to be able to help a student find hope in these tough times and kind of try to frame it as a lifetime of opportunities and a short
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nail-polish remover – and they demonstrate how slight differences in the origin of the cacao beans, or even the processing temperature, change the mouth feel and flavor of the chocolate. Students aren’t the only ones who learn during these demonstrations. Lytle found he enjoyed chocolate even more after learning about how subtly complex it is. “It’s so much more rich than I thought,” he said. “One more reason I love chocolate.” The sessions can be quite a challenge to put on, but Lytle and
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