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happened. “Drive to 125 has continued to be relevant for all of the teams throughout the year,” Thomas said. “Just as Spring sport teams were supporting and tracking the Fall teams’ wins during their season, Fall teams are now supporting the Spring teams and making note of where we are in the count. Every PLU student-athlete can take pride in being part of the success in the Drive to 125.” All team victories—for all of PLU’s 19 varsity athletic programs—counted toward the goal, and the whole campus

the 16th best nursing school in the west by Nursing Schools Almanac and Forbes ranked the university one of its “300 Schools Worth the Investment.”PLU named the leading distributor of creative arts scholarships among West Coast collegesPLU Included on Best-of Lists for Value and Business Schools About PLUPacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. With distinctive international programs and close student-faculty research

university’s profile for academic excellence, raised the endowment to a record level, and expanded support for student access and diversity through significantly enhanced alumni fundraising activity,” Krise said. About Pacific Lutheran University Pacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement through distinctive international programs and faculty-mentored research opportunities for its 3,100 students. Founded in 1890 by Norwegian pioneers

part of the Murdock College Science Research Program, is to support and recognize undergraduate research in the natural sciences at four-year institutions across the Pacific Northwest. The award is given to exemplary senior faculty members who run established, productive and nationally recognized research programs, and comes with $15,000 in funding. “To be recognized by your peers and in a large setting like this, you know, the whole Northwest, it really made me feel humble,” Waldow said. “There

studying abroad or internships or even applied research,” Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, interim dean of interdisciplinary programs, said. “Some students opt for this because they have a dream job in mind — one that doesn’t fit in a more traditional major.” Every year, one to three PLU students graduate with an individualized major that they designed. Lindhartsen says he found the entire process fairly straightforward as his advisors were always on hand to support him.  “Without doing a degree that created

, new awareness programs like National Estate Planning Awareness Week, Make-a-Will Month, and digital tools like FreeWill have broadened the audience for planned giving.  FreeWill, a trusted free digital platform for creating wills, enables individuals to easily include PLU in their estate plans. This has led younger alumni and friends, even in their 30s, to plan their estates with PLU in mind.  Jennie: FreeWill users are typically younger and may not fit the traditional planned gift donor profile

. Her choreography has been commissioned by many festivals and programs throughout the region. She is also the owner and founder of Seattle Ortho Arts Physical Therapy, a physical therapy clinic for performing artists. With her professional focus on the health of the body, Alana’s master class will focus on alignment and joint health specifically for dancers.Ashley RodbroAshley Rodbro is the Associate & Resident Director for Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway. She was previously the Resident

students participate in Code.org’s computer science learning programs. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Steinglass will deliver the 14th annual Benson Lecture in PLU’s Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center). Her lecture will explore historic inequities in the high-tech workforce and her organization’s social innovation strategy to promote computer science. Both events will make connections to PLU’s new Innovation Studies program, which launches this year with exciting new courses and an

demonstrated that we can quickly offer flexible dining programs that prioritize physical distancing and full implementation of public-health directives, while still providing students with a variety of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritional choices that taste great. Athletic program planning. We are partnering closely with the Northwest Conference and member schools to adjust practice and competition schedules and travel plans as needed to ensure the optimal student-athlete experience and full

O’Connell Killen The capacities for such discrimination do not come at will or on demand. Even more, they do not develop if one endures humanities courses only for some other end. They begin as part of insight. Insight arises when one has been grasped by a question or problem, lured into savoring an idea, stunned into stillness by language or art. Insight, especially powerfully transformative insight, is more than cognitive or intellectual, it involves one’s entire being. Transformative insight tends to