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archaeologist first and a cancer survivor second,” Hunt told the crowd. Of course, we know there’s much more to Hunt’s story than that. Certainly TED audiences will be impressed and inspired—but they heard only the first 27 years of it. Katie Hunt has a lot more story to live. Read Previous PLU’s New Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor Read Next Musical Memories 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

, set high standards and help students believe in themselves. Excellence in that endeavor takes time and practice. We constantly strive to improve our approach: To be creative, never boring or routine. Read Previous Meet Mike Snyder, PLU’s New Director of Athletics and Recreation Read Next PLU signs partnership MoU with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

community members and Parkland youth to meet, talk about personal experiences and begin the process of building relationships and understanding others. She founded the Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management and now is its student president. In the spring of 2013 she received a Kurt Mayer Holocaust Studies Fellowship and spent the summer conducting research on issues in Israel/Palestine; she was accepted to participate in a peace conference hosted by the Kroc Institute at the University of

laboratory. This past spring the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education was established and fully funded by the Benson Family Foundation, and throughout the year, progress continued on funding fully the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. Another key to advancing our quality initiative is to continue to seek funding from non-traditional sources.  Already this year we have secured more than $2 million in federal and state support so that both the safety and quality of living in Hinderlie

as “innocent” and “pure” icons in art but the impressionistic nature of children shows that they have been used in history as pawns and even catalyst themselves of conflicts. I have extended my research to include and compare historical altercations outside of the United States that have heavily involved civilian children such as the Holocaust in Germany and the conflict in Derry, Ireland. To be able to process and get perspective when studying such dark history, I try to never forget to escape