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  • By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand…

    use the device to teach your kids arithmetic and make learning fun, manage household finances, chart the stock market, track your recipes and record collection, and control your home. Apple even adds that you will be able to compose music electronically. Reading this list makes me realize how we take for granted all of the applications that we have for technology today when people barely had access to any of it 40 years ago. The Killer App The first “killer app” that would be offered on the Apple

  • Brice Johnson ’99 finds vocation in Red Cross leadership. Two neighborhoods in St. Paul, Minnesota share streets and a zip code. Interstate 94 runs down the middle, and since the freeway’s construction in the 1950s, the life expectancy between Summit Hill and the historically Black…

    you just want to root for him.” Johnson and Kechely were not only housemates while at PLU, but also wrote and played music together in the folk-rock band Six Hours Later. Johnson wasn’t on the football team, yet both he and Kechely were influenced by the leadership of football coach Frosty Westering, whose book “Make the Big Time Where You Are” outlines his influential approach to team-building, motivation and value-setting. Born and raised in Keizer, Oregon, Johnson was a communications major who

  • Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…

    was as depressing as this. To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all. [1] Professor Emeritus Doug Oakman and his students in 2015 Words. Words are the heart of the Humanities. Whether they are in English, Spanish, Latin, or Greek. Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Chinese. Words are like images. Words are images. Words become music to the attentive ear. So there is a natural affection between the Humanities

  • A pair of nursing students in grey scrubs knock on the door, wash their hands, and greet little Jillian, who rests in a bed connected to beeping monitors. The child opens her eyes and whimpers, then coughs. As the students listen to Jillian’s lung sounds,…

    Bird ’21 While many of us are familiar with low-fidelity manikins used in CPR classes, high-fidelity manikins can be programmed with hundreds of interactive scenarios and medical conditions. For example, a manikin with asthma might display rapid breathing, wheezing and color changes. Nursing major Linda Awuah ’21 remembers the first time she heard a manikin make a little “oh” sound when touched. “It sounded real. I wasn’t expecting it at all.” A manikin can show signs of dehydration or suffer a

  • Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a…

    in Germany, and the nearly five in New York City. No question growing up in the Pacific Northwest in particular, and the American West in general, have greatly defined my work. I’m fortunate to be extremely fond of the place I’m from. The mountains, waters, trees, and even vast horizons east of the mountains have always been dear to me and important to the work. Other art of any discipline greatly informs my work, as well- whether film, music, other painters… Seeing the contents of so many

  • HM King Harald V to Speak at Commencement, Receive Honorary Degree TACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 10, 2015)— As part of his official visit to Washington and Alaska in May, His Majesty King Harald V of Norway will speak at Pacific Lutheran University’s Commencement ceremony, where he’ll…

    Harald made his first official state visit abroad, traveling to the United States in connection with the 50th anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. •  In March 1968, it was announced that King Olav had given his permission for the Crown Prince to marry Miss Sonja Haraldsen from Vinderen in Oslo. The couple had known each other for nine years before their marriage was approved. The wedding was held in Oslo Cathedral on Aug. 29, 1968. Read Previous PLU Alumna and Gospel Music Superstar

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 19, 2017)- Noelle Green ’18 says equal access to education means equal access to facilities across campus. Leaders at Pacific Lutheran University agree. The institution recently invested more than $630,000 to improve accessibility for students such as Green, who was diagnosed with…

    . “It’s a step in the right direction,” Green said of the recent upgrades across campus. In addition to the elevators, which will be completed by January 2018, a wider restroom door and new ramp provide better access to the Kreidler Hall lounge where commuter and military-affiliated students gather. Paving between Mary Baker Russell Music Center and Hong Hall, as well as miscellaneous spots around campus, offer smoother access to sidewalks (funds from ASPLU were included in this project). And

  • Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…

    pandemic she returned to Oslo and took a year of PLU classes remotely. It seemed like a typical distance learning story, until she began experimenting with her mother’s 25-year-old sewing machine. PLU Innovation Studies minor Mariken Lund in Olso, Norway. “I saw this old machine sitting in the closet and wondered if I could sew a skirt with it,” Mariken recalled. “After some training videos and a little effort, I was making clothes and having fun!” During the 2020-2021 school year, Mariken also worked

  • Commencement 2009 This year more than 650 students will make up the graduating Class of 2009 at PLU on May 24 at the Tacoma Dome. Here in their own words are a few insights from graduating students about their time at PLU and the next…

    is an important distinction because while students are away from the PLU campus we are required to be active and engaged in the communities that surround us in the world. As stewards of the world, armed with new knowledge about people, places and cultures, that information that we learn is brought in to the classroom as a great tool for discussion and collaborative learning. Taking classes in the liberal arts is a gift—we are required to expand our interdisciplinary knowledge. No PLU graduate

  • veteran: vet-er-an (n) \ ˈve-tə-rən a veteran – whether active duty, retired, discharged, or reserve – is someone who, at some point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount “up to and including their…

    I volunteered to serve because of 9/11. On September 11, 2001, I was attending high school in a city where many of the inhabitants commute into New York City for work, a beautiful city that looks right across the water into Manhattan. My dad worked in the city and the majority of girls attending this small, private school had at least one parent working in the city as well. I was standing by the window during the break period between classes, waiting to start History class (of all things), when