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Refresher: This coursework will focus on helping RISE Summer Academy students be better prepared to enter medical school. The coursework will be taught by College of Medicine faculty. Cultural Engagement and Community Building: This will include meetings with the WSU Health Sciences Spokane Native American Health Office, AIAN clinical faculty, and visit(s) to an area tribal clinic. Medical Student Mentors: RISE Summer Academy students will have medical student mentors to help guide them through the

the minor but is also a general education course open to all PLU students. Professors from the history, English, German, religion, social work and Hispanic Studies departments worked together to create the course to allow students to investigate the intersections of dehumanization, violent oppression, cultural destruction, and war. “We wanted to highlight the interdisciplinary and global focus of Holocaust and Genocide Studies beyond studying the history alone,” remembers PLU English professor and

if we could do a real exchange.” And thus, a “real” exchange was implemented. The Trinidadian students would live with the PLU students, take courses alongside them, be immersed in the cultural life of the islands and complete a service-learning project. At the semester’s conclusion, the most promising student would receive a four-year scholarship to PLU, funded jointly by PLU and Trinidad’s Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs. Hughes jumped at the chance. “I learned

year from PLU with a degree in elementary education. Once Meyer returns from her fellowship she plans to pursue a job teaching ELL. “I know that this assignment will allow me to grow into a more effective instructor by helping me develop a greater sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity, which is an especially necessary trait for teachers of English,” she said. This won’t be her first time in southern Africa. She spent a J-Term in Namibia. “I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to

Students create Munch-inspired art in conjunction with PLU-sponsored exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum Posted by: Kari Plog / April 15, 2016 Image: Emily White ’17, paints one of two pieces she plans to submit to a student exhibition opening April 23 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University. The work was inspired by Edvard Munch, a Norwegian artist who will be featured at Tacoma Art Museum through July 17. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 15, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU

alumni, who are also Lutes, will speak on a panel at 3:45 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center before the evening lecture, which features Shamil Idriss, president and CEO of Search for Common Ground. PLU’s new program will help ensure that Lutes interested in service work will meet all the necessary requirements to apply for service with the Peace Corps and other international or domestic service programs. And this is just the next step for PLU and the Peace Corps. More than 260 Lutes have served

: Assessing the Development of Community in Mixed-Income Housing Severtson Fellowship Salishan is a public housing development on the eastside of Tacoma that historically had high rates of poverty and reputation of crime. Despite these challenges, the community came together across language and cultural barriers. Tacoma Housing Authority received a grant to redevelop Salishan to replace outdated, poorly constructed housing and create a mixed-income community. The community continues to undergo changes in

other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it was just one of the questions students tackled in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory. “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens of black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence. Smith co-taught the class with PLU’s Center for Gender Equity Outreach and

important, research is important, service is important. That is true here. It is not true in a lot of places.” Young believes the solution lies in the way we approach teaching future scholars. “Our mechanisms for deliberations are really broken,” Young says. “We’re given a platform and we’re given cultural authority because of our expertise and we’re only using it with each other and not really to better our world or our local community.” Young explains that it is difficult for scholars to get exposure

conferences, festivals and special events. The ensembles tour regularly both domestically and internationally, with their last international tour to China in 2009. In addition to performing, the PLU students will visit an animal sanctuary in Melbourne featuring Australia’s unique native animals, view the famous Penguin Parade, be hosted by members of the Bairnsdale Sunrise Rotary club for three nights where they have entrance to an Indigenous Cultural Centre, see the Australian War Memorial in Canberra