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  • The value of a college education increases when graduates have a better understanding of religion’s diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life.

    diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life. The study of religion will help you speak to why religion gives meaning and purpose to billions of people on the planet. At PLU, students can take classes in environmental ethics, the religions of Asia, feminist theology, Luther, Native American traditions of the Pacific Northwest – to name just a few.  PLU students study religion in Tacoma and Seattle as well as far off destinations such as Hawaii, Rome, or Trinidad-Tobago. Our graduates

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  • SEATTLE, WASH. (April 16, 2015)- Ordinarily, it takes many years for a Theatre Major to earn the opportunity to write, compose or star in a high-profile musical production. However, one Lute is dramatically defying that expectation. Justin Huertas graduated almost six years ago, in 2009,…

    traditional musical theatre, Lizard Boy is a “somewhat-autobiographical solo-show-with-three-actors” that follows a boy with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the PLU Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “I have a lot of my

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 12, 2016)- Jane Wong knows good poetry when she hears it. The published poet, who is a visiting assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was impressed with her students’ prose and wanted to share them off campus. “They are real…

    . They’re not just students,” she said. “They’re legit — and you can already hear that.” Wong hosted the poetry reading at Northern Pacific Coffee Co., headlined by five students from her “English 327: Intermediate Poetry Writing” course. The Dec. 5 event, titled “Poetically Speaking,” featured poets Emily Khilfeh ’17, Lucas Bentley ’17, Noah Gerlach ’18, Binyaamem Novus-Khan ’18 and Kylie Ada ’19. The evening opened with Novus-Khan’s shocking poetry — complete with Christina Aguilera sound bites — and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 9, 2016)- Mosquitoes are pests to some, but for Rebekah Blakney ’12 they carry a wealth of information that can unlock solutions to global health issues. Now with the outbreak of the Zika virus, that’s as important as ever.  Blakney isn’t at…

    contributing to work that aims to educate and inform people about infectious diseases.   The third-generation Pacific Lutheran University graduate conducts backyard surveillance of mosquitoes in Atlanta, where she works as a field manager at Emory University. Her team collects and identifies the insects, working in and outside the lab studying the spread of West Nile virus. Blakney said it was PLU’s commitment to global citizenship, social justice and environmental conservation that helped her discover her

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 14, 2016)- Laurel Minter, a Los Angeles-based, award-winning screenwriter and film director, will offer a beginners’ screenwriting workshop at PLU later this month. The workshop will educate students on how to craft screenplays using tools that most professional screenwriters use. The focus…

    . “It will be really helpful because there are not really a lot of resources on campus to help people with screenwriting,” said Emily Khilfeh, Showrunners’ head writer and director of photography. “I am really excited to learn about it. It is really different than other kinds of writing.” Showrunners at PLU, now in its fourth year, is a recent addition to the Center for Media Studies, located within the School of Arts and Communication. Showrunners, a student-run program focusing on quality TV

  • MS program in Environmental and Green Chemistry at George Washington University Posted by: alemanem / February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 This unique 2-year program was created  purposefully to combine both environmental and green chemistry in order to train students to both evaluate and proactively address sustainability challenges. The program includes unique coursework in green chemistry, such as Design of Safer Chemicals, Green Industrial Chemistry and Sustainable Energy,  as well as a

  • April 22, 2014 PLU Alumni Embark on a Central American Adventure of Environmental Education Nathan Page ’13 and Brett Rousseau ’12 enjoy a brief vacation in Montezuma, on the southern end of the Nicoya Peninsula. (Photos courtesy of Page and Rousseau.) By Katie Baumann ’14In the heart of Central America, two Pacific Lutheran University alumni are continuing their global educations in an environmentally focused way. Follow the Travelers Read the “fantastic four” blog here. Nathan Page ’13 and

  • City of Tacoma environmental scientist Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 loves asking questions Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 27, 2022 June 27, 2022 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterFrom an early age, Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 always thought he'd be a wildlife biologist. He'd pore over issues of National Geographic and One World magazines his dad purchased, studying photos and text of exotic animals. Chontofalsky is now an environmental scientist with the City of Tacoma, analyzing

  • City of Tacoma environmental scientist Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 loves asking questions Posted by: Zach Powers / June 27, 2022 Image: PLU biology alumnus Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 has been a scientist at the City of Tacoma for 19 years. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) June 27, 2022 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterFrom an early age, Tom Chontofalsky ‘03 always thought he'd be a wildlife biologist. He'd pore over issues of National Geographic and One World magazines his dad

  • Apple news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Innovation and Resilience By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I… May 7, 2018 AppleClayton ChristensenCorey BrownDamian Alessandrodisruptive innovationHoward SchultzStarbucks