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Virtual STEM Career Fair with the US Dept of State Posted by: nicolacs / October 27, 2022 October 27, 2022 The U.S. Department of State is excited to host its second virtual STEM Diversity Career Fair on Thursday, November 17, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  This year’s event will again focus on STEM careers in the Foreign and Civil Service as well as student programs and professional fellowships within the Department. We seek architects, engineers, IT professionals

Studio Theater production plays with theatricality and scholarship Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016 Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies get a second look in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Pacific Lutheran University. The Shakespearean-inspired production runs in Studio Theater on March 10, 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30pm and March 20 at 2pm. Constance, a quirky professor, attempts to go against the grain and prove her controversial theory about the heroines of

Elise Rodrigues ’15 voted Eatonville School District Teacher of the Year Posted by: Kate Williams / September 14, 2018 September 14, 2018 By Kate WilliamsOutreach ManagerAfter her first year in the Eatonville School District, and only second year of teaching, students chose band teacher Elise Rodrigues ’15 as the Teacher of the Year for the 2017-18 school year. Elise is a recent Music Education graduate from PLU and described by her mentors as an all-around excellent musician, teacher, and

May 9, 2008 Norwegian film takes top honors At the second annual Hong International Film Festival, the Norwegian film took top honors. In fact, it swept all five award categories. The festival featured 10-minute films created by students in 300-level foreign language courses in their target language (with English subtitles). This year showcased 12 films in German, Spanish, French and Norwegian around the theme “Ways of Seeing.” “It’s basically a way to get student to look at what could be

March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life

September 1, 2009 11:15 a.m. – Mr. MacDougall’s seventh grade language arts class “I can wait.”With those three words, silence drops on the class of Joel MacDougall ’97.The 25 students know that for every second they continue to jabber, that time will be taken from lunch break or added to the last hour of the day. When they quiet, MacDougall, 34, reviews the basic concepts of “Where the Red Fern Grows.” What is the name of the two dogs? The main character? What gave Billie the idea to buy dogs

2016-17 Spotlight Series: Re•forming Posted by: Zach Powers / September 26, 2016 Image: (photo by

PLU receives funding from Pierce County Connected to support mental health services Posted by: bennetrr / September 29, 2020 Image: Health Center location, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at PLU. (Photo/John Froschauer) September 29, 2020 Pacific Lutheran University has been selected for a second time to receive funding from Pierce County Connected, a collaborative philanthropic fund led by the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and United Way of Pierce County in response to COVID-19. PLU will receive

him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major in communication. Even when it nudged him out of a burgeoning early career in public relations and into the world of corporate internal communications.Zeebuyth’s curiosity eventually led him to join the communications team at Starbucks, where he served in six different roles over a 10-year span, starting as a project manager and departing as a director of communications. It’s

PowersResoLute EditorI had two internships during my time at PLU. One led to a full-time offer and I stayed there for almost seven years. Getting that second internship was about my talent and also about the right place, right time, right skill set, right newsletter subscription. Not the picture of efficiency. At Seed, we built a better model.We put as many college students as we can through professional interviews (180 last year) with direct and immediate feedback. We connect students to interns and