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. There are nine student choreographers this performance: Sara Stiehl – senior dance team captain from Colorado who choreographed four of the dances, Mamie Howard – a junior from California directs the PLU Lute Nation step team and created a video of the history of African American women in America and choreographed a dance to accompany the video, Alumna Emily Fahey choreographed a piece to the poetry of Dylan Thomas, First-year Jonathan Adams created a hip-hop dance about domestic violence, other
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PLU Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian Lizz Zitron. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender was named one of 2014’s best books by Publishers Weekly and Hudson Booksellers and also has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award and for YALSA’S Best of Fiction for Young Adults award. The fantasy novel tells the story of 16-year-old Ava Lavender, who inherits a rich family history and a legacy of heartbreak. A young man becomes convinced that Ava is an angel when he discovers that
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was. We discovered the ‘lost tomb’ with a broom in about the first 30 minutes of our expedition.” The rediscovery of Tomb 60 proved to be one of the most important archaeological finds in recent memory, as one of the tomb’s mummies is believed to be Egypt’s female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. Given its special place in the history of archaeology, Ryan believes that excavating in the Valley of the Kings is a very special honor. “We are learning a lot from looking at these undecorated tombs and we were
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Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus and longtime professor will be talking about, what else, religion and politics for his farewell lecture as the chair of the Lutheran Studies department. Torvend was appointed chair in 2011 by the Board of Regents, which created the department in an effort to study Lutheran history and heritage. Torvend will
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a lot of Native Americans who were just great people and they really influenced him a lot in positive ways.” "It’s amazing that I got this scholarship. It means that I can go to school next year."- Katie Dean '21 For Price, one of the most important qualities of future recipients of the endowment he dreamed up was a sense of pride for their tribal history. “He wanted this student to be proud of their heritage and uplift it,” Farnum said, noting that natives and their culture have been
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a trailer. Read Previous Student Care Network proactively supports students Read Next Black History Month at PLU 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 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in
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universities across the U.S. Eight Namibians who were part of this sponsored program graduated from PLU. Laura Sorgenfrei ’08 with her grade 1 support class at Van Rhyn Elementary in Windhoek, Namibia. In the years since, this history of educational exchange has continued via USAID grant-supported teacher development programs, study away programs and Fulbright scholarships. Yet the Uukumwe Project is unique—not only for its focus on teachers, rather than students, but also because for every American
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possible. The resolution of Congress which first proclaimed Armistice Day, described November 11, 1918 as the end of “the most destructive, sanguinary and far-reaching war in the history of human annals.” That resolution expressed the hope that the First World War would be the war to end all wars. It suggested that those soldiers who had died had therefore not given their lives in vain. It is a tragic fact that these hopes have not been fulfilled, that wars still more destructive have followed; that
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take their own peer reviews and writing process more seriously.A History of American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press) will be marketed as a textbook. And so, in Fall 2013, I provided an online draft of the text for my Pragmatism and American Philosophy class. It provided important background information for the figures we studied and the texts we read. The students provided valuable feedback on how the book read and what they got out of it. They, of
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