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Timely Research PLU faculty members engage in research critical to today and tomorrow Posted by: nicolacs / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Veronica CrakerResoLute Assistant DirectorTranslating the EnlightenmentThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at Little

September 8, 2014 Professor Claire Todd and team of six students hiked up to a glacier at Mount Rainier to study the changes in the glacier due to climate change. (John Froschauer, Photo) Students hike up the flanks of Mount Rainier to study glacial runoff and the connection to climate change For one Lute, summer research is a prequel to Antarctica By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications This is one group of Lutes that really rocks. While most students may have spent their summers

Timely Research PLU faculty members engage in research critical to today and tomorrow Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Veronica CrakerResoLute Assistant DirectorTranslating the EnlightenmentThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at

know what further information and resources our students need in regards to these important issues,” Lader said. At last week’s Take Back The Night event, Lt. Col. Kevin Keller, head of PLU’s ROTC program and professor of military science, said this issue has affected his family personally, and he is frankly embarrassed and dismayed by recent headlines of the rising rate of rape and sexual assaults within all branches of the military. “We need to get out of the ‘man box’ that society has put us

Hollywood,” he said. “They’ll call me up and say (for example) ‘I need to know all about tyrannosaurus rex.’ I’ll ask them if they need to know North American or Asian T-Rex, and from there we’ll narrow it down and figure out who in the field they should talk to.” Foss is passionate about his work in D.C. and enjoys living with his family in nearby Virginia. Yet, as it did throughout his PLU schooldays, his heart often pangs for the outdoors and the great expanse of the Pacific Northwest and Mountain

family to finish college, but the summer before she entered seventh grade, her little brother died. “Everything got foggy,” Mattich said. But AVID was clarifying. Alex Mattich ’16 hopes to get back to Ferrucci Junior High as an AVID tutor. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) “In my junior-high years I was very vulnerable,” said Mattich, who was in Ferrucci’s first AVID class. “Steve Leifsen and Ron Baltazar took me under their wings and understood where I was coming from and helped me find my inner self and

done giving back to their country. It’s an outlet, I think, for the veterans to pass along what they have learned and to feel like they are the future of this country’s Army and making us better prepared to lead soldiers."- Jessica Mason '18 Mason helps organize monthly meet-ups for participants, where they talk about four-year plans, balancing school life with social life, homesickness during deployment, and how to keep up with your family during field training. For veterans, Farnum said, the

, happy family. We completed the 3,000-mile journey by returning along the Pacific Coast Highway, singing in Lutheran churches, visiting towns and having picnic lunches on warm beaches. All too soon, we were back in Washington. Home again at PLC, all we could say was, “Wow. What a trip!” Read Previous Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Read Next Cosmosis: combining the art of music with the inquiry of science LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the

PLU Honors Dia de los Muertos Posted by: vcraker / October 31, 2022 October 31, 2022 Día de Los Muertos is a joyful celebration that gives us a chance to honor our loved ones who have passed and to connect with our community. This year, Ash Bechtel ’24 shares what Dia de los Muertos means to her and how the PLU community helps her celebrate. Interested in joining a club or group that keeps you connected to your culture? Find one on the PLU Clubs and Orgs page. Read Previous Around the PNW: Rock

“Spectrums of Color,” a series of three vignettes focused on people of color with neurological disorders. With this production, Watts places both herself and other people of color like her in the faces of those willing — and not so willing — to learn about the autistic experience. Watts always had a hunch that something was different about her, and so did her family. “My mom knew something about me was different,” Watts recalled, “Around the time children develop language and such, I was quiet.” Growing