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May 16, 2008 University Center earns LEED silver The renovated University Center has reached silver-level certification in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.“It makes you feel good; we’re not creating more problems for the world,” said John Kaniss, construction projects manager who oversaw the renovation. Even before the project began, PLU decided the $14 million renovation would comply with LEED standards. The university is proud to

the trash and figure out how much of it could have been recycled or composted. They also had to figure out the latent energy content of the trash, say if it were burned. The goal of the trash sort, which has been a regular feature of this class for about a decade, is to put the students on notice on just how much trash doesn’t need to end up at the landfill, said Barbara McConathy, PLU’s environmental services coordinator. “I think I want students to know that every bottle helps,” McConathy said

kitchen of Chef Thomas Keller’s acclaimed Bouchon Beverly Hills for the first-ever nationwide ment’or Young Chef Competition. This is a Really Big Deal. Bigger than a standing soufflé. Bigger than a perfectly poached egg. Consider: •    only 16 young chefs nationwide were invited to compete; •    invited guests are paying $75-$125 to watch the competitors cook; •    the competition is spearheaded by international chefs extraordinaire Jérôme Bocuse, Daniel Boulud and Keller; and •    the first- and

and food security. She hopes to use her passions for those interests to become an advocate for the issues, not just administer them as a physician, and said she was inspired to activism after volunteering. “Through volunteering, I have witnessed firsthand the terrible structural violence within homeless communities, where young children and adults have died from very treatable ailments simply because they did not have access to basic healthcare,” Bozich said. She hopes that pairing her two majors

Lutheran University, premiered to a full house in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 28.The evening began with an introduction of the production team: Joanne Lisosky, professor of communication; Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment in the PLU Office of Admission; Andrea Capere ’14; Princess Reese ’14; and Shunying Wang ’15. (Maurice Byrd ’14 also is a member of the team but was not present at the premiere.) Cunningham, who also served as the

Sights, sounds and tweets from move-in day at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / September 2, 2016 September 2, 2016 By Rustin Dwyer (Videography) and John Froschauer (Photography)PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 2, 2016) The air on campus at Pacific Lutheran University was thick with excitement and optimism on Friday morning as hundreds of first-year Lutes moved into the residence halls they will call home for the next nine months.Instagram Hongerlie RA and RHC Crew 2016-2017! ❤️✨