Associate Professor Claudia Berguson says PLU’s link to Norway informs the values carried through its mission. The university’s heritage isn’t just a relic of the past, but an identity inherited for the present and the future.

The people at the center of three distinct stories of multiculturalism in Norway share one common desire: belonging despite difference. Read about three Lutes and a museum director on the ground in Oslo who are dedicated to that deeply rooted truth.

Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war. Learn how he joined forces with a cohort of other Lutes to launch a unique organization honoring local peacemakers.

More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs. A ResoLute writer and photographer traveled to Norway in the fall to get a glimpse of our roots — våre røtter — through the eyes of students.

When Hilde Bjørhovde ’80 returned to Norway, fresh out of PLU’s journalism program, her home nation had one television station. Now, she’s a senior reporter at the country’s leading newspaper, which finds itself at the center of the digital media revolution.

Sirine Fodstad ’97 spent nearly two decades traveling the world for work. But her story starts and ends in Norway, where she is the global human resources director for the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.