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Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240
Cone Section, Latin American Studies Association, Memoria de género en el Uruguay: el cuerpo como bisemia, Montevideo, Uruguay (July 19-22, 2017) 34th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Uruguayan Memory on Screen, New York (May 27-30, 2016) 113th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, The Consumption of Chinese Identity Through Argentinian Film, Portland, OR (November 6-8, 2015) 11th Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura
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The Outdoor Experience community promotes engagement and exploration with the outdoor environment. The community emphasizes the seven Leave No Trace Principles to ensure residents within the
Might Enjoy: Hiking Skiing Ultimate Frisbee Disc Golf Spikeball Knot-Tying Bird-Watching Gardening Biking Kayaking Outdoor Photography Fishing Nature Walks Swimming Outdoor Rec (OR) is more than a trip–it’s an experience. Lutes from all corners of campus come together to journey outdoors with one another. Whether it’s hiking in the Cascades, kayaking on the Puget Sound, or exploring states near and far, an OR trip is friendship, adventure, laughs, and memories all wrapped up into one incredible
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In April 2023, PLU religion professor Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen , Ph.D., attended the Natural History Museum Late Night with PLU students at the University of Oxford. At Late Night events, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum host tours and various evening activities offered…
contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts. After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to
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Globally, Pacific Lutheran University alumni come face to face with the international conflicts that are defining the modern era. Some by accident, others by choice.
mayor of a town, a brigade commander of an Iraqi army unit and a local police chief. All had their own areas of responsibility, he said. “But me as a 22-year-old lieutenant? Luckily, I had my political science degree and I have my training,” Calata said. “But how do you expect a 22-year-old kid to go into a place as old as the Bible and say ‘here, I’m going to fix your ancient problems.’” Dom Calata '08 Calata said he often thought back to the way Boice and his other ROTC instructors drew upon their
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Former PLU President Eugene Wiegman passed away on July 1 at the age of 90. Dr. Wiegman will be remembered for his remarkable career in education, government, advocacy and ministry—and his unceasing kindness and compassion. “Dr. Wiegman was a pure joy to talk with and…
founding of Community Health Center, a clinic that serves patients with or without the ability to pay. Now known as Community Health Care, the first location was near East Tacoma’s Salishan neighborhood and today there are nine regional clinics throughout Pierce County. One of Dr. Wiegman’s proudest moments came in March 2007 when he received the Humanitarian of the Year award from Community Health Care, an organization he cared so deeply about. Dr. Wiegman would go on to be ordained as a Lutheran
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“Capturing astronomy images is rewarding but can be challenging,” said professor of physics Katrina Hay. “It requires long exposures or stacked images, focusing in cold dark conditions, climbing a ladder to access the telescope, tracking objects as they move across the sky, and merging several…
. Ordaz captured images of globular clusters, constructing diagrams based on temperature and luminosity to estimate the age of these ancient clusters.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while interns discuss celestial image processing. Kop is making light curves, showing how the brightness of several variable stars changes over time. Ordaz captured images of globular clusters, constructing diagrams based on temperature and luminosity to estimate the age of these ancient clusters.STUDENT VOICES: Kop and Ordaz
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Professor Emeritus of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics
: "Discovering Roots: Ancient, Medieval,and Serendipitous." The College Mathematics Journal 2005: 35-43. "More Meaning from the Geometric Mean." Mathematics Teacher Vol. 96, no.2, 2003: 142-146. "The Magic Calculator and The Sine Addition Formula." Electronic Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics 1998: http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/EP-11.html.
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After a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The program took PLU students all over the world, with courses designed and…
Study away returns to PLU Posted by: vcraker / March 2, 2022 Image: Lutes from the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean course in Greece (Photo by professor Antonios Finitsis) March 2, 2022 After a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The program took PLU students all over the world, with courses designed and taught by PLU professors offered
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Prof appears on Discovery Channel this week Classics professor Eric Nelson will once again be featured in prime time, this time talking about torture, animals and the environment, all in the time of the Caesars. Nelson will be featured this week on a Discovery Channel…
the idea that Romans or the ancient Greeks would torture someone by strapping them to a wheel and pushing them off a cliff. “Probably didn’t’ happen,” he said, “The Greeks were famous for strapping someone to a wheel and torturing them, but not for rolling them off a hill.” Interestingly, the Greeks and Romans essentially didn’t have prisons. If you were convicted of a crime, the way you would die – by crucifixion, in the Coliseum or the mines – or by beheading (for Roman citizens)– came about
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Editor’s Note: Dr. Michael Haglund gave the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture during the Homecoming 2013 festivities in October. Neurosurgeon, alum follows his heart and passion to Africa By Heather Perry ’13 May 18, 1980 is the day Mt. St. Helens blew its top , but Dr.…
professor Jerrold Lerum. What started as a medical mission morphed into a Ugandan East African Neurosurgery Training Program in August 2009, with Haglund (left) and Dr. Michael Muhumuza of Mulago Hospital serving as co-directors. Haglund said Lerum told him his 3.0 GPA as a biology major after his freshman fall semester wouldn’t be good enough to get into medical school, and that motivated Haglund to switch to a chemistry major to prove him wrong – which he did. Haglund understood the motivating factor
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