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  • First, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we definitely care about you and your growth as a learner, a person, and a historian. Whether you are starting…

    knew (and still do not know!) about topics like the Reconstruction era, American slavery and its legacies, the New Deal, and more. There’s always more to learn and read.” And last but definitely not least, this summer Carli took part in the Auschwitz Jewish Center fellowship which lasted about three and a half weeks. Here’s her report! “Along with ten other fellows, we began with a training in New York before departing to Poland, where we spent time in Krakow, Warsaw, the town of Oswiecim [named

  • In 1997, Brian Bannon was a PLU senior. An exemplary student, he wrote for The Mast, and was a double major researching social justice through the lens of queer rights movements. One afternoon, Bannon found himself in the office of history professor Beth Kraig, discussing…

    wonderful that private institutions like Harvard, Princeton and Yale have amazing libraries, but in order to get behind those walls you need to be affiliated with those universities,” he explains. “At NYPL, we spend millions of dollars a year the way that museums do, acquiring collections in order to make those collections available to everyone and anyone with a library card.”"I needed to protect libraries, but I had to feed the beast of the city. Once I was able to look at things through the lens of

  • dCenter ’emerged’ as a resource for students, fun place to hang out For many, like senior art major Chelsea Putnam, PLU’s Diversity Center is a place to foster one’s individuality.“I really wanted to learn and gain my own individuality with this place,” said Putnam. Initially…

    diversity ends up in 10 years will be greatly influenced by the campus community’s understanding of diversity,” Johnson said. “I think that 2020 is going to play a large role, as well as who makes up our campus community.” Read Previous “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion” Read Next ‘Porgy and Bess’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first

  • Former Governor Christine Gregoire talks about personal responsibility during PLU’s Earth Day celebration. (John Froschauer, Photo) Get involved, take personal responsibility and, by the way, vote, former governor says during Earth Day lecture Barbara Clements, Director of Content Development Turn off the tap. Scoop your…

    of their particular turf, and the temptation to put all the blame on another group. “We have to stop blaming the other guy,” she said. While she was governor, Gregoire created the Puget Sound Partnership to try to cut through some of the red tape and interagency squabbles that were hindering its protection. Her goal, and the partnership’s, is still to make the Sound, all of the Sound, “swimmable, fishable and diggable” by 2020. “The challenge for us all in 2014 is to change our day-to-day

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 19, 2016)- With thousands of Lutes — whether current students, alumni, family or friends — on campus for Homecoming this weekend, it was difficult to find a corner of campus unoccupied by the joy of being at Pacific Lutheran University. The PLU…

    music, paired with a lot of nostalgia that spanned generations. More than 350 Choir of the West members, from the class of 1953 to the class of 2020, gathered Sunday afternoon to perform in a 90th anniversary celebration in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “You wouldn’t find that any other place besides PLU,” said Richard Nance, director of choral activities at PLU and conductor of Choir of the West since 2007. While onstage, Nance shared that the most “rewarding” part about this gathering was watching

  • Kate Hall ’17 remembers the job interview that landed her in a communications role at ESD 113. It was memorable — but not necessarily in a good way. “I was so nervous,” she remembers. “My internet died during the Zoom interview.” She was prepared to…

    that landed her in a communications role at ESD 113. It was memorable — but not necessarily in a good way.“I was so nervous,” she remembers. “My internet died during the Zoom interview.” She was prepared to just chalk it up to experience. But a short time later, she got the call every job seeker hopes for. “I started on my 24th birthday. It was a great birthday present,” Hall says. That was in 2020. She’s now a communications specialist at ESD 113, a Washington state agency that helps ensure that

  • Originally Published in 2014 Sometimes being sick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, what it means to be sick —or to be healthy for that matter— might surprise us. As the growing field of Religion and Healing shows, our understanding of what…

    healing in different ways, and all are linked by their foundation in the Christian religion. Professor Suzanne Crawford O’Brien at the 2020 Wang Symposium Looking at religion and healing from a comparative perspective, Crawford O’Brien’s course (RELI 230) invites students to consider how illness, healing, and wellness are understood and experienced in traditions outside of mainstream Christianity. This course explores how wellness has to do with the ability to maintain a working identity: a self that

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 4, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University has a proud history of producing Fulbrights. The 2018-19 recipients are continuing that tradition by delving into indigenous studies research and education — a field that’s gaining ground at the university. Kaja Gjelde-Bennett ‘17 and English…

    construction: a month-long stint in January 2020, followed by a six-week stay in June/July 2020. These divied-up teaching and research projects are becoming more commonplace as the Fulbright Commission accommodates the increasing demands placed upon faculty members that make a full academic year abroad impossible. “I’m spending time and working in a country that is completely new to me — that’s been really exciting,” Call said. “I’m not really a world traveler. My work tends to be pretty focused in the

  • In high school, Peyton Noreen ’23 loved participating in theatre productions. Noreen’s passion for the stage wasn’t something they were ready to give up on when they enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University. It’s why they chose to major in theatre and why they’re spending the…

    really rooted in the idea of introducing newer theater artists in training to theater practitioners who are already in the industry and have experience. There were two internships that I was looking at … the directing one and the teaching intern one, which is the one that I got. Both of them were really exciting to me, and they were also paid internships, so that was a big part of it too. What was the application process like, and what do you believe helped you stand out and land the internship? I

  • Originally published on the PLU Library blog . Reposted with permission. During J-Term 2021, students in Assistant Professor Kate Drazner Hoyt’s Media Literacy COMA 388 explored topics such as: the role that the press plays in sustaining democracies; the different forms of online misinformation and…

    is one step towards training the public to consume media smartly, and gives them a helping hand to reference when they are unsure.Read full project briefMax Tucker: Lexicon App Artist Statement: Lexicon is an App idea created to improve media literacy and to function as an information resource tool. Lexicon functions as a media library that constantly updates articles and information. These articles are rated through a process of trust factors, as outlined by The Trust Project, and are rated