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interacts with these families. The Diversity Center, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is a place for people of all identities to feel safe and cared for. It’s been a special space for Lucas since before he even knew he was going to be a student at PLU. “I was doing a student tour and visited the campus and I went to the Diversity Center. There I met Angie Hambrick, who was at the time its director, and she started getting me connected immediately.” His initial tour of the Diversity

perform works from Clifton Williams, Franz Biebl, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Ticheli, and Percy Grainger. “The program was picked for a variety of audiences,” explains Ron Gerhardstein who is Associate Director of Bands at PLU.  “Most important are the high school students at our different stops along the route. I chose music that would appeal to them, including selections they might have played before (Clifton Williams – Caccia and Chorale, Frank Ticheli’s Amazing Grace, and Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s

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

March 14, 2008 Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software, Rhino for short. Created by Seattle-based Robert McNeel and Associates, the software is the newest addition to the art department. In February, McNeel employee and 1985 PLU graduate Dale Fugier donated 30 software licenses and several rendering packages

February 16, 2010 Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chaser,” Reed Timmer, comes to PLU By Brielle Erickson The annual Meant to Live program is right around the corner here at Pacific Lutheran University, and this year’s two-day event is sure to have something for everyone – including those who might want to explore their more adventurous sides. The Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chaser” Reed Timmer is the keynote speaker for Meant to Live. The keynote address of this year’s Meant to Live program will be

March 18, 2013 PLU chef prepares to blow his competition’s taste buds away PLU chef Chuk Blessum will compete in the National Association of College & University Food Services March 21. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) By Katie Baumann ’14 For the fifth year in a row, Pacific Lutheran University is sending one of its own talented chefs to compete in the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) Pacific Regional Culinary Competition. In the past four years, PLU has taken

May 13, 2014 Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and Communications It’s that time of year again: What do you do with that couch, or mattress or lamp you no longer want? And what about that unopened box of gluten-free

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

PLU nursing students help vaccinate nearly 1200 people at on-campus event Posted by: Zach Powers / February 11, 2021 Image: PLU’s Olson Gym (pictured) and Field House were used for a vaccination event on Thursday that administered around 1200 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) February 11, 2021 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing and CommunicationsOn Thursday, February 11, around 1,200 people received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at a one-day event in