How Football led Jahleel Barnes to PLU, and to the Seahawks At the age of 23, Jahleel Barnes ’13 is well on his way to making a significant dent in his bucket list: Visit New York City: ✓ Attend a Super Bowl: ✓ Work for an NFL team: ✓ Finish college and work in his […]

Choir of the West member recalls bus trip to the 1939 World’s Fair in San Francisco Editors Note: When Lorna Vosburg Burt ’40, ’69 read our story on PLU’s annual Christmas Concerts in the winter 2013 edition of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West...

And One, Adam Utley ’04, Performed at TEDxTacoma Drastic budget cuts have wreaked havoc on arts programs in schools across the nation. But in Tacoma, a collection of passionate people at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts has come together to keep the performing arts alive and well. Five...

Biology Graduate Spends a Year with Lutheran Volunteer Corps Between PLU and Med School Anthony Markuson ’13 traveled the world as a Pacific Lutheran University student and moved across the country as a new graduate—and, always, everywhere, a little bit of PLU goes with him. Markuson, who majored...

Juggling has become more than an act for Curt Malloy ’88. Malloy began juggling during his freshman year at Pacific Lutheran University to distract himself when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. “I found it therapeutic that I learned how to juggle,” Malloy said. The two wrote a peer-reviewed...

A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class just this year: an “Up Close With the Masters” session with Vladimir Feltsman, one of the best-known concert pianists...