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  • The University Gallery’s upcoming exhibit provides audiences with a view of the natural world through the eyes of two Washington artists. The University Gallery presents the work of  Cynthia Camlin and Elise Richman in “Each Form Overflows its Present.”  The new exhibition features the ever-changing natural world…

    and in Tacoma’s Woolworth Windows. Camlin is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Western Washington University, with work featured at both the Tacoma Art Museum and the 2012 Neddy at Cornish exhibition. Join us for an opening reception from 5-7pm on March 13. Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm. Read Previous Mobile Hot Shop visited PLU in February – Gallery Read Next Peace and Conflict students shed light on Reconciliation Day LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka

  • “Killer Drones: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” A screening of “Killer Drones: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” will take place at 7 p.m., Nov. 8 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. The film will be followed by a short response by Pauline…

    Naval Post Graduate School and research associate at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Strawser has taken the, some may call, controversial position on the use of predator drones: “Strawser has plunged into the churning, anguished debate by arguing the US is not only entitled but morally obliged to use drones.  ‘It’s all upside. There’s no downside. Both ethically and normatively, there’s a tremendous value,’ he says. ‘You’re not risking the pilot. The pilot is safe

  • Peace forum livestreamed at PLU Three speakers at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum will be livestreamed at PLU on March 8,9 and 10. Discussion by faculty will follow. March 8: The first lecture will be by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the father of the micro-credit…

    the Anderson University Center. She is the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Prize. Faculty-led discussion will be led by Professor Giovanna Urdangarain (Hispanic Studies). Discussion will also be led by the student organization Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management. For those who can’t make it to the PLU campus, the Peace Forum is being Livestreamed. Read Previous PLU students to take part in Nobel Peace Prize Forum Read Next MediaLab returns with a new

  • All effective writers at all levels of accomplishment seek out peer review. You probably know this from experience.

    schedule this when you have a conflict (a conference?) and don’t want to waste class time. Begin small peer group activities early in the semester to help students get to know one another and to begin to feel comfortable working with and responding to each other. Place on your syllabus words that help students expect and value peer review.  Example: Week 4 (10/15):  Bring to class 3 copies of your preliminary draft for Peer Review.  Example: Grade Distribution (10%) Quality of participation and peer

  • It was reported in 2010 that more than half of Americans had never met a Muslim. Yet hate crimes against Muslims rose 50 percent that year–the same year Florida pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Quran. Pacific Lutheran University’s award-winning MediaLab production team addresses…

    comedians Dean Obeidallah and the Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi who explore how comedy might be used as a strategy to mitigate the swelling tide of anti-Muslim sentiment. Audience members, both in the theater and online, are encouraged to participate in this global conversation. During the event, lend your voice to the conversation on Twitter with #beyondbombers. After the documentary stay for a panel discussion that will further dissect the thoughts presented in the film. Read Previous Peace and Conflict

  • noun : a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject From the Greek symp-po-sium : a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet

    are now 193 counties following a labyrinth of political systems and economic models, and a global population that now exceeds 7 billion. Just as the symposium reaches out to challenge the assumptions and understanding of the PLU campus community, so too is it intended to reach out to the broader Puget Sound Community. Previous symposia have been Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference, Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility

  • Riley Dolan, ‘19, a double major in Hispanic Studies and Political Science, interned with the U.S embassy program during the summer of 2017.

    how people were interacting with these monuments,  How accessible are they? What information do they convey? And then the big question was, how do these monuments portray the conflict that occurred?”One of his findings was that “the government-funded urban monuments have this general ‘moving on from the conflict’ mentality. An example is a monument in Guatemala’s National Palace that is dedicated to ‘the anonymous heroes of peace.’ Then, in stark contrast, in some of the rural villages that I was

  • by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer A new semester is about to begin and that means it is time to update your course syllabi (or syllabuses, if you prefer).  There isn’t one specific syllabus format endorsed at Pacific Lutheran University, so I have created an outline…

     Instructional Technologies blog *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous My First MOOC: A New Year’s Resolution Revisited Read Next Flipping vs. Blending – What’s the Difference? LATEST POSTS Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners March 31, 2020 Rethinking Assessment at a Distance March 18, 2020 Engaging Students During Remote Learning March 16, 2020 How to Create a Basic Online Lesson March 6, 2020

  • PLU Debate Season Starts Oct. 8 TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 11, 2015)—Just weeks before its own academic season kicks off with a high-profile event, PLU’s TOH Karl Forensics Forum partnered with the local nonprofit Climb the Mountain to present the first annual Climb the Mountain Speech…

    Kueter from 15 Now Tacoma, the group that penned and petitioned for the initiative; opposing the resolution is Tom Pierson, President and CEO of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. Founded in 1947, PLU’s debate team is one of the oldest and most-decorated forensics programs in the country, with a long history of intercollegiate competition. Regionally, nationally and internationally active, the program attends 10 tournaments per year and hosts two other annual events on PLU’s campus: the T.O.H. Karl High

  • In recognition of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, throughout the 2016-17 academic year a wide range of academic, community and artistic events at Pacific Lutheran University will address questions and concepts relating to Re•forming. UPCOMING EVENTS Second Annual César Chávez & Dolores Huerta…

    ‘19 along with Washington State Senate Democratic Caucus Communications Specialist (and former PLU debater) Aaron Sherman ’11 and University of Washington-Tacoma Assistant Professor of Security Studies and Conflict Resolution Ben Meiches.  Sponsored by the PLU Speech and Debate Team. Opening of “Nordic Explorers: A Legacy Beyond the Horizon” exhibition Oct. 5 | 7 p.m. | Scandinavian Cultural Center Special guest lecture by Norwegian journalist Ragnar Kvam, about people who pushed themselves to new