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  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019 ) — Judging by its accomplishments, Pacific Lutheran University’s Class of 2019 is poised to make an immediate impact on the world — mostly because they already have done so much at PLU. Here’s a look at just a handful…

    situations that will help you grow to your greatest potential and accomplish your goals.”Nelago NuunyangoMajor: Political Science, with a minor in Literature Hometown: Epato village, Namibia Selected accomplishments: Graduation Honors (magna cum laude); PLU Q Club Scholarship; PLU Academic Scholarship; First in Family Scholarship; Donald R. Farmer Award; Lutheran Leadership Award; Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society; Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Post-graduation plans: Pursuing graduate study in

  • The college experience is about education in the classroom, but it’s also deeply rooted in building tools and traits that translate into rewarding professional careers after graduation. For some PLU student entrepreneurs, those budding careers get started while they’re still on campus. An app to…

    hours at a time. Need to use your phone during that time period? You’ll have to answer a set of trivia questions to gain access — and a procrastinating student trying to complete a homework assignment or prepare for a test can set up those trivia questions to match the area of study they’re working on. “Being on the phone kind of prevents you from being present,” Mbugua said. “The struggle is, how do you have a healthy relationship with your phone rather than it being addicting?”His app aims to

  • A year of achievement and a Decade of Change Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great joy for me to welcome each of you to University Fall Conference as we prepare to launch the 2010-2011 academic year, the 121st year in the life of…

    news! Fulbright Fellowships have become a PLU hallmark as between 1975 and 2009, 80 students had been named U.S. Student Fulbright Fellows. Three more students were added to that prestigious company last year. Eric Buley will be an English teaching assistant in Venezuela, Nicole Paso will continue her study of the early Reformation church and state-sponsored social welfare in Germany, and Kelly Ryan will be working with the Nansen Dialogue Network researching grassroots reconciliation in Macedonia

  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019)— With Commencement on May 25, Pacific Lutheran University sends its next class out into the world—more than 800 Lutes are eligible to graduate, with 700 expected to participate in the Commencement ceremony. Judging by the accomplishments of the Class of…

    Scholarship; PLU Academic Scholarship; First in Family Scholarship; Donald R. Farmer Award; Lutheran Leadership Award; Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society; Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Post-graduation plans: Pursuing graduate study in international relations; founding an organization to promote immigrant voter participation in Washington state “I’ve never been a traditional student,” said Nelago Nuunyango, “but I’ve seen traditional students struggle.” One of nine children of a subsistence farmer in

  • Originally Published in 1990 It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’ état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of…

    verité dans l’art” suggest that twentieth-century poststructuralism and the study of narrative have roots in Romanticism —in particular, in what Morse Peckham has termed “negative romanticism.” Vigny thus deserves to be considered a forerunner of the narrativist philosophy of history which has come into being in recent years. Though expressed in terms foreign to the contemporary debate, Vigny’s preface anticipated some of its insights, earning denunciation by the intellectual forebears of those

  • The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…

    Tahle Oestby was born in Bergen, Norway in 1992. She has always enjoyed making art, and especially drawing has been a favourite from an early age. Tahle majored in Studio Arts at Waldorf High School and went on to Rome, Italy to study philosophy and art history, as a part of a Norwegian university program. In 2014 Tahle went to Atlanta, Georgia to study Studio Arts at Oglethorpe University, but after one semester, she transferred to Pacific Lutheran University to pursue a degree in Graphic Design