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Jazmyn Caroll ’15 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Esme BurlingJazmyn Caroll ‘15 found comfort in the cozy spaces of the PLU Diversity Center, but she found a home in The CAVE, the commuter student lounge.Jazmyn saw the CAVE grow in her time at PLU when it moved from a dorm building to a room in the Anderson University Center. The CAVE is a “home away from home” for commuter students and offers them a chance to be more involved with campus life. Both the Diversity

Sakai 2.9: A Look-Ahead to New Features Posted by: Jenna S / April 22, 2014 April 22, 2014 by Layne Nordgren and Sean Horner  New in Sakai 2.9 In a previous blog post and a corresponding email sent to all PLU employees last month about the Sakai upgrade to version 2.9 on Fri., June 6, we had alluded to forthcoming details about the new Lessons tool and other new features to expect from Sakai 2.9. Those details are now available. You can refer to them in the Sakai support site on a new page: New

PLU hosts Tamana Girls’ High School Band in friendship concert Posted by: Mollie Smith / May 19, 2016 Image: Tamara School Band, of Kumamoto, Japan, in a workshop at PLU with Ed Powell and Ron Gerhardstein and translated by Miho Takekawa on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. The band visits the US every other year with it’s sister school Graham Kapowsin. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 19, 2016 On June 5 at 3pm in Lagerquist Hall, Pacific Lutheran University will host a friendship concert featuring Graham

little bit cumbersome, but really worth it, even though I was not able to bring a spare change of clothes. After several stages of repacking, I was able to fit everything else into one checked bag. Airline regulations are changing so much lately that I wanted to make sure that I had everything checked conservatively. It would be awful to show up to the airport and have to leave half of my gear behind. I am writing this post from our final class period on campus prior our departure. All of us met

February 24, 2012 The Role of Water Among Women in Shillong, India By Katie Scaff ’13 Water is a prime resource, a basic human need, and a precious asset, according to Sister Helen Puwein, a native of Shillong, India and head of Bellefonte Community College. “Every living thing needs water,” Puwein said. Puwein spoke about the unique societal role of women in the state of Meghalaya in Shillong, India and the need for clean water in a talk last Friday. Sister Helen Puwein speaks to the role of

February 26, 2012 Alum introduces a little titration magic, of sorts, into the PLU chemistry labs With a click of a mouse, magic – chemically speaking – seemed to happen in a lecture room at the Morken Center recently. Students and professors gathered around a new spectrophotometer developed by MicroLab Inc. Results of labs that used to take hours were available in minutes, if not seconds, using the new instrument, six of which (valued at a total of $10,000) were donated to PLU’s chemistry

March 4, 2013 ASPLU Lute Vote wins grant from Washington Secretary of State By Katie Baumann ’14 In an exciting turn of events, the Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) project titled Lute Vote has been awarded the “Laying the Foundations: 2013” grant from the Washington Secretary of State. Part of a coalition of campuses across Washington state striving to increase civic engagement on campus, ASPLU Diversity Director Karter Booher and his team set a goal of registering

October 11, 2013 Assistant Professor Brian Maeng works with a student in class. Maeng teaches Operations Management and Management Information Systems at Pacific Lutheran University. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU’s School of Business ranked as one of the best in the U.S. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business is one of the nation’s most outstanding business schools, according to The Princeton Review. The company features the school in the new 2014 edition of its book, The Best 295