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President Loren J. Anderson enters the Tacoma Dome on May 27, 2012 to give his last commencement speech. (Photograph by John Froschauer) President Loren J. Anderson’s final commencement address to the Class of 2012 “GRATITUDE . . . WONDER . . . AND COURAGE” Distinguished…
, it is is time to turn our faces to the future, and the exciting news has been rolling in daily: Four of you have earned Fulbright Fellowships, others of you are off to medical, dental, and veterinary school programs, and an impressive number of you have garnered spots in the most prestigious graduate programs in your field. Jessica was accepted by seven universities and, in the end, turned down Harvard Divinity to accept a full scholarship to Yale. Kristin, on the other hand, turned down Yale
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It’s the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016. The ceremony will mark the culmination of several years of hard work, community involvement and the pursuit…
major Todd Hoagland '16. (Photo: Angelo Mejia '17) By Genny Boots ’18 Juggling academics and athletics can be a tricky balance for student athletes. Todd Hoagland knows that life well, having worked hard on and off the field. He finishes his standout college soccer career and his undergraduate degree in sociology in a few weeks, and heads to a graduate program in the fall. Hoagland will be attending Seattle University to earn a master’s in criminal justice in hopes of working in the FBI crime
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The Wang Center Research Grant Program is designed to support students, faculty, and faculty-student teams that seek to conduct original research in an international setting.
: Researching Educational and Community Development in the Esmeraldas Province Sarah Sandgren, Domestic and International Policy in Ecuador: Following the Government in the First Year, Post-Election Melissa Severson-Hampton, Proponents of Change: Norway’s Shifting Perspectives on Language Faculty Projects Amy Beegle, Afro-Peruvian Jazz Performance and Transmission in Peru Peter Davis, A Field-Based Geologic Investigation of Panama’s Dulling Subduction Zones Steven Thomson, “Children of the Village”: On
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Spring, 2022 This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge…
example, Religion professor Doug Oakman demonstrates that humanistic contemplation is advanced not only by his own field of Biblical studies, but also the study of sociology, philosophy, poetry, and linguistics. Keith Cooper, Professor of Philosophy, served as Dean from 1995-2001. Photo from University Archives, 1993. Along similar lines, Philosophy professor Paul Menzel demonstrates the power of a collaboration between patients, doctors, and philosophers to reflect on the complexities of
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 Welcome! We, Rose McKenney and Adela Ramos, are excited to share with you the work of the 2020 class of Environmental Studies students.
the link between human health and time spent in the outdoors. I will show how it could be connected to identity with help from the disciplines of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies. I utilize theories of intersectionality, critical race theory, and feminist anthropology to better understand the United States’s outdoor culture and how it distinguishes who is and isn’t allowed to be considered normal for existing in that space. I go over various health benefits provided by the environment
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8:15 a.m. | March 8 | Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts Who: Bob Ferguson Title: Washington State Attorney General Bio: Bob Ferguson is Washington State’s 18th Attorney
Reference Group since 2002. In the field of interreligious encounter, Younan has been active since his work as co- founder of the Al-Liqa’ Center for Religious Studies in Jerusalem in 1982. Since 1991, with the Jonah Group, Younan has launched several long-running, informal dialogues providing space for joint reflection by local Christians and Jews. Younan is also a founding member of the Council for Religious Institutions in the Holy Land (CRIHL), an organization of interfaith trialogue with membership
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Will students avoid difficult or challenging courses with this design? We do not feel that an effective course is necessarily one that is “difficult.
lab requirement for the “physical and natural world” course? This course will require some form of applied experience. This may be a traditional lab section, a field experience, or some other application of scientific thinking in the form of data collection and analysis, experimentation, etc.Questions about the Culminating Experience RequirementQuestions about the Culminating Experience RequirementWhat are the expectations or requirements for the culminating experience? While there will be broad
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The official news stories of Pacific Lutheran University.
soccer team, and prepared for a career in the medical field. D’Onofrio recently sat down with PLU News to discuss his PLU experience. How did you learn about PLU?… continue reading view all Research and Academics latest from Student Life, Resources, Community Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 During the 2023-2024 academic year, 2,345 students received PLU-funded aid, with the average PLU student receiving
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 22, 2018) — It’s official. The Class of 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University is wrapping up the final list of “lasts.” There are the lasts that students (soon to be alumni) are likely happy to bid farewell: the last final, the last…
there are the not-so-easy lasts: the last Dining Dollars purge with your friends at Old Main Market, the last hammock or Foss Field lounge session with your roommate, the last pre-finals therapy-dog (and goat) session in Red Square. But with Commencement 2018 right around the corner on May 26, many firsts await, too. Haley Bridgewater — the student speaker for this year’s ceremony — is ready to honor the past and the future. “In writing my speech, I did my best to encapsulate a typical experience at
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Important text: None Major holidays: Human Light Major figures in this tradition: Enlightenment Scholars, scientists Place of worship: None Brief Summary: Humanists believe in the importance of
those who were born into a low caste in a Hindu country, because there was no caste system. One didn’t necessarily have to wait multiple lives to achieve nirvana; in theory, anyone can. Major Values: Moderation, wisdom, compassion, harmlessness To learn more: Crash Course Buddha and Ashoka https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/home Khan Academy, Buddhism https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/ Books available at the PLU library: Click here for the library guide to Buddhism Buddhism
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