Athletes make impact in the classroom
Attaway Lutes: Peer Tutors On any given weekday afternoon you will find James Crosetto and Lexie Miller engrossed in athletic endeavors. Look for Crosetto on the tennis courts hitting reaction volleys or working up a sweat while playing a challenge match against a men’s tennis…
Home sweet home, Morken
Senior capstone: ‘the toughest class they will ever take’ If Tosh Kakar has his way, James Crosetto, Jeremy Ellison and Seth Schwiethale will have spent most of their senior year trapped in a project room just off Morken 212.It is a state-of-the-art room adjacent to…
Climbing the wall
Something I Thought I’d Never Do: I never thought I’d become a rock climber Stretched out against a mock rock face at Tacoma’s Edgeworks Climbing Indoor Rock Gym, Kristi Reidel ’09 considered her next foothold, as she step-by-step scaled a 30-foot vertical wall with routes…
Recognized for top study away programs
PLU recognized for first class global studies Pacific Lutheran University has received the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on and off campus to engage the world and the international community. PLU is the first and…
From the grill to the gas tank
Sludge from the grill to be recycled The gooey mess which sloughs from the grill at the UC may look like something that you’d rather just toss and forget about. But to Wendy Robins and Colin Clifford, it’s pure gold. Or more specifically, the yellow…
NMR opens doors for undergrad research
NMR is no longer under wraps It looks like a rather fat, squat water heater. A water heater with a $743,000 price tag. But to the professors of PLU’s chemistry department , the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is a dream come true. It’s easy to…
Gates Foundation grant helps study away programs
Making study away possible A new $2 million scholarship fund will increase study abroad opportunities for low-income students at Pacific Lutheran University. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university a $1 million challenge grant to initiate the endowment fund a year ago. Since…
Professor talks about illegal animal trade
Illegal animal trade Charles Bergman approached a man known to provide parrots on demand in the Texas border town of Brownsville. He asked if the man knew where he could get 25 of the colorful, highly intelligent birds. At first the man didn’t buy the…
Diplomat explores Jewish-German relations
Diplomat explores Jewish-German relations By Chris Albert More than 150 people showed up to hear the Consul General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations today. Before a crowded room last week in the UC, Schuette said he would dive…
Learning perspectives
Learning perspectives About a dozen students silently sit in a semicircle around a Makah woman, as she shows them how to make a cedar bracelet. Students mimic her as she holds several foot-long strands of cedar bark strung out from her mouth to her hands.…
Present for historical moment
Present for historical moment PLU Senior Morgan Root spent last week in Washington D.C., experiencing the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The following is her account of the historic occasion. There is absolutely nothing like watching the president of the United States be sworn into…
Corbitt wishes to leave audiences ‘inspired and hopeful’
Corbitt wishes to leave audiences ‘inspired and hopeful’ As director Kristina Corbitt walked into the room where she was supposed to be meeting her cast and crew for a rehearsal, she was shocked to find the room dark.“There was only one other person, sitting on…