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2010 PLU Athletic Hall of Fame THE 2010 PACIFIC LUTHERAN ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME CLASS, consisting of three national championship teams and three outstanding athletes who wore the black and gold, will be the 21st in the hall’s history. The list of inductees includes the…
doubles championships at the NAIA District I meet, once again making it to the NAIA national tournament, before bowing out in the second round. Women’s Soccer: 1988 NAIA National Champions Pacific Lutheran University has been blessed with several teams that have completely outshined and dominated competition nationally. Few, though, have equaled the successes reached by the 1988 women’s soccer team, finishing the season with a 21-2-0 record. Led by four-time All-American Sonya Brandt and her 29 goals
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Thomas W. Krise arrived as Pacific Lutheran University’s 13th president on June 1. He was chosen for his passion for a liberal arts education, as well as being a strategic thinker and first and foremost a teacher and an academic. (Photos by John Froschauer) What’s…
accomplishments there, Krise was the founder and first director of the Air Force Humanities Institute at the academy. Thomas Krise enjoys some Caribbean steel drum music and ice cream and strawberries at PLU’s summer Strawberry Festival. Coincidentally, Krise went to high school in the Caribbean and is an expert in early Caribbean and American, 17th century literature. Given this eclectic and wide-ranging background, it should not be surprising how vast, and expansive, his interests are. Both he and Patty
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I appreciates PLU’s values of vocation, asking big and difficult questions, and for being a caring community that encourages everyone to succeed.
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Raphael Lemkin’s dedication to the punishment and prevention of genocide, primarily through international legal intervention, was founded on a belief in the fundamental rights of all peoples.
possess meaning in one’s own conception of the world in order to possess meaning in a different conception. However, my argument is that recognizing such a scenario is impossible if we formally follow the rules of logic, which incur particular meanings at the expense of all other interpretations. 14 Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide” The American Scholar 15, no. 2 (1946), 227. 15 Lemkin, “Genocide,” 230. 16 Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide as a Crime under International Law” The American Journal of International Law
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Raphael Lemkin’s dedication to the punishment and prevention of genocide, primarily through international legal intervention, was founded on a belief in the fundamental rights of all peoples.
possess meaning in one’s own conception of the world in order to possess meaning in a different conception. However, my argument is that recognizing such a scenario is impossible if we formally follow the rules of logic, which incur particular meanings at the expense of all other interpretations. 14 Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide” The American Scholar 15, no. 2 (1946), 227. 15 Lemkin, “Genocide,” 230. 16 Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide as a Crime under International Law” The American Journal of International Law
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfe90PTrXY Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address By President Thomas W. Krise Before we get started, I’d like to have a word with the brand new freshmen and transfer students. You are, after all, MY class. We all become Lutes together today. I have proof that…
here today is proof of the soundness and longevity of that well-established tradition. Our founders also looked to the superb American system of higher education—with its firm commitment to academic freedom, its rigorous questioning of all received opinions, and its belief in the primacy of reason. All of these – academic freedom, rigor, and reason–—are rooted in the great reform and revolution sparked by Martin Luther’s protest. Of course, the Reformation was as much about education and
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PLU Student-Faculty Research on Health Care and High Technology A conversation with 2016 Benson fellows Marc Vetter and Matthew Macfarlane The following excerpts were gathered from a May 26, 2017 conversation between Benson Family Chair Michael Halvorson and the 2016 Benson research fellows Marc Vetter…
your research topic and the questions that you pursued with your faculty advisers. Let’s start with you, Marc.” Marc: “Well, I became interested in the topic of Native American health care in America through a high school connection. I grew up near PLU, and a friend’s Dad worked as a physician for the tribal health authority affiliated with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. The Puyallup Tribe is part of the Salish speaking peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This is very established tribal community
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Ash Bechtel has always wanted to be in healthcare, but she wasn’t sure which direction to take — nursing or medical school. So, Ash counseled with family and academic advisors before deciding to pursue a biology major that would lead her to becoming a doctor.…
during her junior and senior years after serving as Resident Assistant (RA) in the Spanish Wing in Kreidler. Part of the draw to becoming an RA was that Ash knew she could connect with the Hispanic community in new ways. This wasn’t just about service; it was also about exploring her own identity as a Mexican American and understanding more fully the issues impacting minority students. This experience launched her into becoming student body president, where she was a champion for change on campus
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Makaela Whalen ’23 has a passion for the environment and animals. Her desire to find a meaningful vocation that feeds those passions resulted in her pursuing a degree in either environmental or animal law. “As long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to…
long offered a pre-law advising program, but continued interest in the program prompted the university to create a formal minor to meet student needs. The curriculum utilizes the American Bar Association’s guidance on undergraduate preparation for law school.“That event was so cool, and it went quite smoothly,” Whalen said. “A lot of the representatives were like, ‘yeah, we’ll definitely do this in the future,’ and one of the law schools even offered to come down and do one in-person.” Whalen also
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Thanks, to a $213,500 three-year research award from the National Science Foundation, four undergrad PLU students spent 10 weeks this past summer participating in intensive lab research. “The first week or two of working in the lab was very stressful. I, like my coworkers, lacked…
. Currently, most lithium-ion batteries use an organic liquid (made of compounds that contain carbon atoms) to move ions, and they work well in smaller electronics, as well as new electric vehicles, but can become dangerous. Study Chemistry at PLUThe Department of Chemistry has an outstanding curriculum, excellent faculty, great facilities, and is accredited by the American Chemical Society. Its faculty and staff will be happy to help if you need more information about the department or PLU.These liquids
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